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Despite record continental duck populations, the number of Minnesota duck hunters and the duck harvest both fell last year — one of the biggest surprises in the Department of Natural Resources latest survey of small-game hunters. The DNR estimated the number of duck hunters fell about 1,800 to 75,170, and they harvested about 700,000 ducks, a decline of about 83,000 or 11 percent. Last year’s continental breeding duck population was a then-record 49.2 million. http://www.startribune.com/missing-in-action-minnesota-s-small-ga...
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have changed the medical profession—for the worse, says Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF, www.cchfreedom.org), a national organization dedicated to preserving patient-centered health care and protecting patient and privacy rights. For example, says Twila Brase, CCHF president and co-founder, a new initiative at a clinical center at Chicago’s NorthShore University HealthSystem is using the organization’s Electronic Health Records and advanced analytics to pinpoint which patients might be...
Sept. 8, 2015 — In rankings published Sept. 8 by USA Today, college evaluation firm College Factual has named Bemidji State University one of the country’s best values for teacher education. It also rated Bemidji State as one of the top 10 percent of schools nationwide for non-traditional age students. As part of its annual college and university rankings, College Factual placed BSU’s education programs 43rd out of 413 measured programs on its “best value” list. College Factual also ranked Bemidji State 67th in the country for its support o...
Sherman Alexie read hundreds, maybe thousands, of poems last year while editing the 2015 edition of Best American Poetry, an annual anthology that comes out Tuesday. Just over six dozen of them made the final cut, including “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve” by Yi-Fen Chou, 20 brief, cynical lines on the absurdity of desire. But after Alexie had chosen the poem for the collection, he promptly got a note from the author, who turned out not to be the rueful, witty Chinese American poet he’d imagined while...
The Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township has signed a letter of intent with a Denver-based medical marijuana management and consulting company to develop a cultivation facility on tribal land in Washington County. Monarch America Inc. announced last week that it intends to design and manage a “state of the art” marijuana cultivation facility in an existing 35,000-square-foot building on Passamaquoddy Tribal Trust Land in Princeton, Maine. http://www.pressherald.com/2015/09/08/deal-initiated-to-build-pot-facility-on-tribal-...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The focus on a toxic mine spill that fouled rivers in three Western states shifts to Congress this week as lawmakers kick off a series of hearings into how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accidentally unleashed the deluge of poisoned water. Republican committee leaders in the House and Senate said EPA officials were frustrating their attempts to investigate the spill by withholding documents that could explain what went wrong when a cleanup team doing excavation work triggered the release of 3 million gallons of...
Canada is falling behind the developed world in women's equality, as poverty rates climb for elderly single women and for single-parent families headed by women, says an internal report by Status of Women Canada. According to the report, this country is in the bottom ranks in terms of the pay gap between men and women; support for child care and parental leave is well below average; the country registers 57th for gender equality in Parliament's elected members; and it lacks a national strategy to halt violence against women....
This summer a number of tribes, including the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Spirit Lake Tribe of North Dakota, and Blackfeet Tribe of Montana, have resuscitated the penal tradition of banishment to eradicate member drug dealers from their lands and to deter others from selling drugs there. As Ryan Dreveskracht and I explain in our recent law review article: Banishment of the individual was only considered as a last resort, if familial and community penal efforts failed, and reserved for serious crimes . . . In order to effect...
Shotton sued former Connecticut Banking Commissioner Howard Pitkin and Acting Commissioner Bruce Adams, claiming he was fined without any due process or the ability to defend himself. He also claimed the tribe's sovereign status should protect him from prosecution in Connecticut. In a statement, Adams called Heaton's rulling “well-reasoned.” “We look forward to litigating the real issues in Connecticut state court. This case is not about tribal immunity from suit — it is about whether Connecticut has the sovereign power to enforce its laws wi...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (CN) - A South Dakota judge cleared a white man of disorderly conduct charges after he was accused of dousing Native American children with beer and insults at a hockey game. Trace O'Connell, 41, was in a box suite at a Rapid City Rush home game on Jan. 24. Witnesses claimed he spilled beer on a group of 57 Sioux middle school children below his balcony. One chaperone said he told them to "go back to the rez," but the judge found no corroboration for that allegation. The children went to the game from Pine Ridge Indian...
Heat waves, extreme storms, wildfire and other effects of climate change pose major threats to the electric power systems in Native American communities across the country, most significantly in the West and Southwest, according to a new U.S. Department of Energy report. “Tribes are among the communities most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,” Chris Deschene, director of the Energy Department’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, said in a statement. “Tribal lands, which are home to more than 1 million people, have a relat...
Gary Wassaykeesic's 39-year quest to find the man he believes killed his mother came to a surprising end in a hospital room last week in Sioux Lookout, Ont. Sophie Wassaykeesic died in the small northern Ontario mining town of Central Patricia, now part of Pickle Lake, Ont., in 1976. The coroner determined her death was a "self-administered alcohol overdose." But her son has never believed that. Back then, as a grieving 11-year-old, Wassaykeesic said he confronted the man everyone in town said killed Sophie. http://www.cbc.c...
New AP US History Exam Perpetuates Lies About Native Americans Tanya H. Lee American exceptionalism is back. The College Board, having deleted the term in its highly-controversial 2014 revision of the AP U.S. History Curriculum Framework, has reinstated it in the 2015 revision, which came out at the end of July. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/09/08/new-ap-us-history-exam-perpetuates-lies-about-native-americans-161628...
Feeding a caffeine habit is no sweat in our day and age: Just raid the office kitchen for some tea or hit one of the coffee shops that pepper the landscape. But 1,000 years ago, Native Americans in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest were getting their buzz on in landscapes where no obvious sources of caffeine grew, according to new findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research shows that people in the arid region — who had no nearby sources of caffeine — not only made drinks from cacao, the...
When Pedro Menendez de Aviles landed on what later became the Mission Nombre de Dios in 1565, he claimed the land in the name of the Spanish king. His act sparked a protest on that same land 450 years later by a group of people who believe he “committed acts of terror and theft” against the indigenous people of St. Augustine. The group, made up of members of the Resist 450 coalition, lined up Tuesday in front of St. Augustine’s Mission Nombre de Dios and in boats on the Mantanzas River to protest the re-enactment of Menendez’s landing. They sa...
The Chairman of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara nation says the tribe's population is growing in Bismarck. Mark Fox says the tribe opened an outreach office in Bismarck about five years ago. The need was high then. But he says the population has doubled since and he expects it to double again in the next five years. http://www.kxnet.com/story/29984396/three-affiliated-tribe-members-moving-to-bismarck...
LAME DEER, Mont. –– The national shortage of firefighters is troubling news to America. That also puzzles veteran Native American fire fighters, Adam Wolf, Northern Cheyenne/ Omaha and Mario Pretty Boy Jr., Northern Cheyenne/Sioux who now oversee the Northern Cheyenne, BIA Fire and Aviation Department. “Years ago, we would have been front and center,” Wolf and Pretty Boy remarked, recalling when they fought fire. http://www.indianz.com/News/2015/018822.asp...
In more than three decades of field work, Mauri Pelto has taken the measure of Washington’s glaciers during seasons of record-breaking snow and years that broke skiers’ hearts. But he’s never seen anything like this summer. “The best word for it is disastrous,” said Pelto, who recently wrapped up his annual survey in the North Cascades. On mountain after mountain, he and his team encountered bare ice and gushing meltwater on glaciers that would normally be blanketed with snow. On average, Pelto estimates glaciers across the rugged mountain...
