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American Indians, making their presence known as a force to be reckoned with in American politics—especially in an age of close swing-vote elections where every vote matters—are all over the Democratic National Convention, which is scheduled to conclude tonight with the acceptance of the party’s nomination by President Barack Obama. In total, there are 161 Native Democratic delegates attending the convention, according to Holly Cook Macarro, a tribal lobbyist with Ietan Consulting who has sat in on Indian meet-and-greets with Jill Biden and t...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — His re-election in doubt, President Barack Obama conceded only halting progress Thursday night toward fixing the nation’s stubborn economic woes, but vowed in a Democratic National Convention finale, “Our problems can be solved, our challenges can be met....
Minnesota's first electronic pulltab games, intended to pay for a third of the Vikings stadium, are undergoing their final testing in Roseville and at a high-security gambling laboratory in Las Vegas....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Standing before an exhilarated gathering of Democrats to launch his fall campaign, President Obama on Thursday implored voters to bear with him through the nation's continuing struggles and give him another four years in the White House....
The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year -- roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar -- through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential Institute of Medicine said Thursday in a report that ties directly into the presidential campaign....
Tammy Jones knew something was wrong when she found herself struggling to wake her son Casey, 17, for school and found him cranky, stressed and in a bad mood when he ultimately did get up....
OTTAWA -- The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs will lose more than three-quarters of its core federal funding under a new plan by the federal government to streamline its payments to regional aboriginal organizations....
Denise Juneau, the Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday night....
PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION – The failure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services to produce and provide the unmet needs assessment, as promised, has had a direct and negative impact on the ability of the Tribe to adequately provide the necessary services to protect and serve the Oglala Sioux Tribe....
OGLALA — Elders of Oglala District on the Pine Ridge Reservation extended a weeklong sit-in at district staff headquarters begun Aug. 28 into the week of Sept. 2, in protest over the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council’s refusal to impeach and replace the district executive board for alleged mishandling of funds....
Sophia Sarenpa and 7 other Native American Mashkiki Ogichidaag (Ojibwe for “Medicine Warriors”) teens, worked all summer on anti-commercial tobacco smoking public service announcements (PSAs). The teens brainstormed concepts, developed scripts, conducted interviews, handled the lighting and cameras – and premiered their new works August 25th at the Division of Indian Work’s Dakota Lodge, 1001 E. Lake St., Minneapolis....
The Indian Law Resource Center released a new short video this week urging lawmakers to reauthorize a stronger version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to protect Native women from violence....
Tribal Council received an IRS notice Thursday (September 6, 2012) concerning the federal income tax treatment of per capita payments that members of Indian tribes receive from proceeds of certain settlements of tribal trust cases between the United States and Indian Tribes...
PIERRE, SD - The South Dakota Supreme Court says people who allege they were sexually abused decades ago at an American Indian boarding school cannot continue their lawsuits against the religious organizations that ran the school....
Tribal members across the nation won't have to pay federal income taxes on their share of trust fund settlements, the Internal Revenue Service has determined....
FBI Special Agent Chad Coulter came to North Dakota with a history of working drug cases. Teaming up with Bureau of Indian Affairs criminal investigator Gerald White, Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme and Standing Rock Sioux tribe chief prosecutor Grant Walker, Coulter formed a plan to fight prescription drug abuse and distribution on the Standing Rock Reservation....
The tribes with treaty fishing rights on the Columbia River have voted to oppose a Nov. 6 ballot measure that would ban the commercial fishing practice of gillnetting....
FORT THOMPSON — After several years of not serving alcohol, a strip club in Buffalo County is seeking a liquor license....
Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord—all on the state taxpayers' dime....
Here on the west coast, skateboarding has gone from a counterculture to a subculture, and finally to a five billion dollar industry that influences anything from leftist politics to high fashion. While most people understandably think of surfing when they hear San Diego, the roots of skateboarding run deeper here than one might expect....
DENVER — People move to the mountains to be closer to nature. But not this close....