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Gov. Mark Dayton continued his push for clean water Tuesday at the State Fair by calling on Minnesotans to take a "stewardship pledge" as part of the state's "Year of Water Action." Dayton asked Minnesotans to use water efficiently; learn about what they can do to protect and preserve water; make informed consumer choices; and, talk to each other about water protection and preservation. The state's 40th governor has made clean water a legacy-defining issue since seeing a 2015 report from the state Pollution Control Agency that detailed the...
Public access to a popular lake near Bemidji has been temporarily curtailed while the state attempts to remove a tenacious and annoying form of nonnative algae. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has temporarily closed public access to Turtle Lake while it conducts aggressive treatment on an expanse of starry stonewort that covers nearly three-fourths of an acre of the lake's surface. Starry stonewort is a grasslike algae that can produce dense mats on the surface of a lake. They can choke out native plants, create a wall...
A Montreal teacher's decision to hand out construction paper headdresses on the first day of classes points to the need for improved awareness and curriculum within the Quebec education system, a First Nations educator says. "This is one small part of a larger conversation that needs to happen," said Orenda Boucher-Curotte, co-ordinator of the First Peoples' Centre at Dawson College. "I'm slightly concerned that people who don't understand how this is offensive are then going to teach children about Indigenous people." http:...
For over two weeks, hundreds of people have been camped out in protest near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, halting construction of what would be a 1,170-mile oil pipeline. The Dakota Access Pipeline would carry 470,000 barrels of oil a day from the Bakken to connect with other pipelines in Illinois, but tribal members say it would threaten both their water supply and ancestral burial grounds. The protests, which have now drawn thousands of participants, are the latest event in a long history of battles between Native American communities, on one...
Native American protesters blocking the construction of an oil pipeline from North Dakota southwest to Illinois are stopping critical energy infrastructure that would bring a cleaner burning fuel to the market, a top oil official said Tuesday. American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard told reporters that protesters blocking the Dakota Access pipeline are hurting their own interests. He said the pipeline would bring natural gas to the market, a fuel that he says is responsible for making U.S. carbon emissions the lowest they...
Freedmen is another term for descendants of former slaves. And in the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, the question of their status within the tribes has been debated for decades. In the Cherokee Nation, there are two open court cases that will determine the freedmen’s tribal citizenship. And a similar debate is happening in the Seminole nation. In this third and final story in our series about the Freedmen, Invisible Nations’ Allison Herrera explains why the Seminole freedmen feel especially angry about the actions of their tribal cou...
PHOENIX - Over the objections of a tribe, the state Court of Appeals has allowed a non-Indian family to adopt the child of a Native American mother. In a unanimous decision, the judges said the trial court correctly considered all the issues, including the interests of the child who had been with the adoptive family as a foster child since a week after she was born. The ruling was hailed by the Goldwater Institute which has been trying for years to void the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which generally requires the fate of children with...
In 1794, President George Washington said: “Make the most you can of the Indian hemp seed and sow it everywhere!” Well, we would if we could! While more than 30 countries have been growing hemp and profiting richly from the sale of hemp products for many years, its commercial cultivation has been banned in the United States since 1957. But the winds are shifting. With the passage of the Farm Bill in 2014, industrial hemp now can be grown legally by higher education institutions and state departments of agriculture for research and pilot pro...
More than 20 years later, Hezekiah Allen remembers the Blackhawk helicopters hovering over his childhood home, the armed soldiers barricading the road to the family’s northern California pot farm, the neighbor who hang-glided to escape from the Feds. More than once, Allen came home from a friend’s house to find his mother and stepfather had been arrested again. Allen eventually entered the family business and was himself arrested in 2009 for cultivation and intent to sell. The charges, dropped for lack of evidence, didn’t impede his ambit...
The Manitoba government is affirming its participation in a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The province says in a release that an order in council has been passed which gives the inquiry commissioners the authority to examine work and analysis on the issue already completed in Manitoba. Included in the material are inquest reports, child welfare reviews, a report on the vulnerability of marginalized Indigenous girls. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-all-in-inquiry-mmiw-1...
A Window Rock, Arizona district court judge last week handed down sentences to 11 defendants for the criminal misuse of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Navajo Nation’s discretionary fund. Four more individuals are scheduled for sentencing by the end of September. All 15 defendants – two former Navajo Nation Council speakers, 11 former council delegates and two legislative staff members – pleaded guilty or no contest to charges that included conspiracy, fraud, bribery, submitting false vouchers and conflict of interest. All of the c...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed information on a shooting incident during a traffic stop on the Pine Ridge Reservation. According to the Bureau's Minneapolis office, which oversees federal investigations on the reservation, an Oglala Sioux Tribal police officer stopped a suspected stolen vehicle late Monday afternoon. A suspect in the car fired at the officer. The officer was not hit and did not return fire. The driver then fled the scene. According to the FBI, two suspects are in custody. Oglala Tribal police are seeking...
Enrolled members of Alaska’s largest tribal government are getting enhanced photo IDs. They can be used for border crossings and some other situations where official identification is necessary. But many other tribes can’t afford them. http://www.ktoo.org/2016/08/30/enhanced-ids-help-some-tribal-members-cross-borders/...
WASHINGTON – A divided federal appeals court Tuesday overturned the assault conviction of a Gila River Indian Community man, saying the tribal court failed to tell him he could get a trial by jury – if he asked. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Fortino Alvarez’s treatment by the tribal court fell short of the “fair treatment” required under federal law and his convictions for a 2003 assault on his girlfriend had to be reversed. But Judge Alex Kozinski went on to pointedly criticize the behavior of the tribe’s c...
The federal government has dropped its appeal of a ruling that gave an aboriginal man no jail time for trafficking in a large amount of cocaine, an amount that would usually bring a prison sentence of two to five years. Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has promised to try to reduce the numbers of indigenous men and women in federal prisons. The proportion currently sits at 25 per cent, although indigenous people make up just 4 per cent of the Canadian population. Federal law since 1996 has required aboriginal offenders to be given special...
Fewer beds remain empty each night in Canada's emergency homeless shelters as users stay days, sometimes weeks, longer than they did a decade ago, even as their overall numbers decline. Within that population of almost 137,000 shelter users are nearly 3,000 veterans and up to 45,820 are Indigenous people, a group over-represented in homeless shelters compared to their percentage of the general population in every community looked at in a newly released federal study. The findings of the federal review of 10 years of data from more than 200...
WELLPINIT, Wash. - Fire victims from the Cayuse Mountain Fire have been left with virtually nothing, and many of them won't have the help of homeowners or renters insurance to get them back on their feet. The fire destroyed 14 homes. Now the Spokane Tribe of Indians is left to figure out what can be done to help the victims. Most people think it will never happen to me. http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/spokane-tribe-working-to-get-firedisplaced-homeowners-back-on-their-feet/41443426...
The planet is warming at a pace not experienced within the past 1,000 years, at least, making it “very unlikely” that the world will stay within a crucial temperature limit agreed by nations just last year, according to Nasa’s top climate scientist. This year has already seen scorching heat around the world, with the average global temperature peaking at 1.38C above levels experienced in the 19th century, perilously close to the 1.5C limit agreed in the landmark Paris climate accord. July was the warmest month since modern record keeping began...
An inquest is not required into the death of Delaine Copenace, 16, who disappeared and was later found dead in Kenora, Ont., this spring, according to the regional supervising coroner. Dr. Michael Wilson informed Copenace's mother, Anita Ross, and Grand Council Treaty 3 of his decision in a letter sent earlier this month. Ross was seeking an inquest in hopes that it would answer outstanding questions about how her daughter's body came to be found in Lake of the Woods weeks after she was last seen within a short walk of her home....
The man accused of dismembering a Calgary woman and discarding her remains in several locations was released on bail for a second time after being re-arrested for breaching his release conditions. Joshua Jordan Weise is charged with indignity to human remains in connection with Joey English's death in June. He is suspected of disposing of English's body "in multiple locations," including a park in Crescent Heights. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/joshua-weise-joey-english-bail-dismemberment-park-1.3740003...
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A former official from the Chehalis Tribe has been sentenced to a month in jail and more than $37,000 in restitution after pleaded guilty to allegations that he defrauded a tribal housing program. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 55-year-old Hector Ray Canales Sr. was the chairman of the board of the Chehalis Tribal Housing Authority. He acknowledged that in 2009 he applied for down-payment assistance, knowing that he didn't qualify because he already owned a home. As a result, he wound up receiving $37,400 from the p...
Navajo Division of Public Safety, Tribal Police Officer Leandro Frank was killed in a head-on crash while responding to a call in Apache County, Arizona. He was traveling on Route 64, between Tsaile and Chinle, when their vehicles collided. Officer Frank was killed in the crash. The occupants of the other vehicle were injured. http://lawofficer.com/2016/08/tribal-police-officer-killed/...
BEREA, Ky. (WKYT) - Berea Police are conducting a death investigation after a woman's body was found inside a church on Saturday night. Police and EMS were called to the Oklevueha Native American Church of the Peaceful Mountain Way on Saturday night for a report of an unresponsive person, but when they arrived at the church on Chestnut Street, the woman was dead, said Lt. Jake Reed with the Berea Police Department. Madison County Coroner James Cornelison identified the woman as Lindsay Poole, 33, of Anderson, South Carolina. Investigators have...
