Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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LAPWAI, Idaho – Charges are expected to be filed Monday against eight Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee members arrested in early August during protests of an Omega Morgan megaload shipment....
Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett speaks to Tulalip Court leaders about the implementation of VAWA 2013 in Indian country. September 5, 2013. (by Charlie Galbraith, Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs) Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/08/health-innovation-and-promise-vawa-2013-indian-country-151193...
The centuries-old practice of harvesting wild rice at the end of summer is open only to Fond du Lac band members this year on the reservation’s five ricing lakes....
Peggy Flanagan, the new executive director of Children’s Defense Fund-Minnesota, can put a real face on childhood poverty: her own....
If Michigan State University didn’t know it had a raging bigot in front of one of its classrooms, it wasn’t listening to what its students were saying about professor William Penn. From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130908/OPINION01/309080001#ixzz2eOQt2rPB...
TERREBONNE PARISH, La. - R.J. and Jay Paul Molinere, two of the stars of the Louisiana-based reality show “Swamp People,” were arrested Friday on battery charges, stemming from a fight at a convenience store nearly a month ago, the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office said....
Chapel Hill, N.C. — Saturday marked one year since a University of North Carolina student was found beaten to death in her Chapel Hill apartment, and her family and police continue to hope for a break in the case....
FARGO – Two sides of Valentino “Tino” Bagola were on display Thursday as jurors viewed videotaped interviews in which he confessed to killing a brother and sister....
Gabriel Jacobs spends most of his day bumming for change downtown Toronto on Young St....
MANISTEE, MICHIGAN – On September 10, BeDaBin Behavioral Health of The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians and Centra Wellness Network will be holding a suicide awareness and prevention walk in observance of World Suicide Prevention Day....
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN – Bowing to pressure from several Republican university professors, William Penn, a tenured English professor at Michigan State University, has been relieved of his teaching duties by the University for making comments that attacked Mitt and Ann Romney and Republicans....
Pell grants help low-income students get a postsecondary education. The federal funds are a mainstay for students attending tribal colleges and an important source of funding for American Indian students at other institutions of higher education, including four-year colleges, two-year community colleges, for-profit online schools and career training institutions. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/07/feds-consider-axing-pell-grants-tribal-college-students-lose-most-151190...
The stated mission of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cooperstown, New York, is “to preserve history, honor excellence and connect generations.” It fails on all three counts where Native American players and history are concerned. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/07/baseball-hof-will-finally-start-honoring-games-native-pioneers...
In Indian Country, few jobs garner the same level of respect and admiration than wildland firefighter....
The families of two missing aboriginal women are raising awareness once more on the fifth anniversary of their disappearance from Maniwaki, Que....
MISSION, SD – The White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. announces the release of two reports on violence on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation. The reports are entitled, “Not Our Tradition: A Report on Violence on the Rosebud Reservation” and “Report on Results of Youth Victimization Survey for the Rosebud Reservation” These two reports publish findings from a series of surveys distributed by the WBCWS last year that gathered baseline data to more effectively respond to victims of violent crime on the reservation, with a focus on domestic...
RAPID CITY- The recent rash of unprecedented payouts from different lawsuit settlements in Indian country has brought about more confusion than the economic relief and sense of justice anticipated....
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in an effort to win U.S. backing for the Keystone XL pipeline, has sent a letter to President Barack Obama proposing joint action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector...
The voice on the other end had an ominous sense of urgency. He opened with, “We're running. I can't take this shit anymore.” As per our last conversation I knew that he was talking about running for council, but “this shit” could mean any number of things these days. Unfortunately in that instance it meant another suicide on our little reserve. Another young girl takes her life in the early hours of the morning, the third in the last year or so. And before those, a father shot to death (father to one of the suicide victims), a promisi...
PINE RIDGE | A hearing is scheduled for later this month on a challenge to last month's vote legalizing alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
Government investigators say more than half of Americans Indians and Alaskan Natives — “hundreds of thousands” of them — will be eligible for benefits tied to Obamacare, but federal officials are not doing enough to link them with coverage options that kick in next year. Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/5/american-indians-need-more-obamacare-benefits-educ/#ixzz2eOWXjMxq Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter...
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Automatic federal budget cuts ordered this spring were problematic in parts of Minnesota. On the White Earth reservation, they were devastating....
A Blackfeet Nation leader who has been indicted in federal court led the effort to arrest tribal members who were protesting outside of tribal headquarters....
A group of protestors in Browning are accused of assault and other disorderly crimes after attempting to overthrow the current Blackfeet tribal government earlier this week....
No nurse was assigned to keep a continual eye on patients in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency room on the day Brian Sinclair arrived for care, even though authorities had committed to ensuring such a process would be in place, CBC News has learned....
