Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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WASHINGTON — Today, the Washington Post published a letter to the editor by the Center for Native American Youth’s founder and chairman, former US Senator Byron Dorgan. In his response to George Will’s September 3rd editorial, published online as “The Blood-Stained Indian Child Welfare Act,” Dorgan addresses misleading, unfair, and harmful information about the purpose and impact of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Below are except’s from Senator Dorgan’s response, which can be read in its entirety in print today or online here. “The Indian C...
MACKINAW CITY, MICHIGAN—Each Labor Day some 40,000 people walk across the Mackinac Bridge, a bridge that spans five miles to connect Michigan’s two peninsulas under the Straits of Mackinac. The Labor Day walk is the region’s busiest time of the year. Under the Straits of Mackinac lies two twin pipelines owned by Enbridge called Pipeline 5, which are 62-years-old. Using 1950s technology, the pipelines had a life expectancy of 33 years. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/american-indians-join-flotilla-protest-of-enbridge-pip...
On Sunday, the university issued a statement on Facebook stating that Chiitaanibah Johnson was not disenrolled in the course by the professor, Maury Wiseman. The statement read: Sacramento State was very concerned upon learning about this incident and the allegations surrounding it. The University would like to make it clear that our student, Chiitaanibah Johnson, was not expelled or disenrolled from this history course. Under University policy, a professor cannot unilaterally disenroll a student from a class. President Robert S. Nelsen is...
Residents of an Alaska Native village could be the nation's first "climate change refugees," Dave Malkoff reports for the TODAY show. Malkoff traveled to Kivalina to learn more about the dangers facing the community of about 400 people. Their home is falling into the ocean due to rising sea levels and melting ice, both of which are being blamed on climate change. "It's a sad thing," an elder told Malkoff. The changing climate has hurt hunting, fishing and other activities in the village. http://www.indianz.com/News/2015/0188...
FORT WALSH, Sask. – One of Canada’s worst mass murders occurred in what is now a remote area of southwestern Saskatchewan, but experts say it barely registers as a footnote in Canadian history today. The silence at Fort Walsh Historical Site, 60 kilometres from the U.S. border in Cypress Hills Provincial Park, can be deafening at times. But on June 1, 1873, an altercation erupted just two kilometres from Fort Walsh between a small band of Nakoda (Assiniboine) people and a group of American wolfers. The wolfers would poison buffalo car...
A popular lake in the Minneapolis chain may soon bear two names, at least on signs. A parks panel said “Bde Maka Ska,” the lake’s original name, will join the lake’s official name, Calhoun. But the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board’s effort to honor the lake’s original name does not satisfy activists who called on the board in June to completely remove the current name, which they find offensive. After a lengthy discussion about the history and relevance of the Calhoun name, the board voted Wednesday to add the signs but did not take ac...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A renewed push to help Native Americans with alcoholism is running through the metropolitan courthouse in Albuquerque. Metro court officials are breathing new life into an old program. The Urban Native American Drug Court once ran for about five years. It’s similar to the existing DWI/Drug Court program, because it uses nine months of treatment and supervision instead of incarceration to deter alcoholism. The Native American program has some key differences. http://www.koat.com/news/court-program-assists-n...
EDMONTON - Human remains in a wooded area south of Edmonton over the weekend has brought a search for a missing woman to an end. But the search for those responsible for her death still continues, say investigators with Project KARE, a unit responsible for investigating high-risk missing persons. According to detectives, the remains belong to Amber Alyssa Tuccaro, a woman missing since August 2010. http://www.theobserver.ca/2012/09/04/skull-found-near-edmonton-identified-as-mother-missing-since-2010...
