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WASHINGTON – Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D – North Dakota) weighed in the Standing Rock #NoDAPL fight on Thursday. The senator, who is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, played it safe in her statement. She did not address the criminal act by the construction company that desecrated sacred burial grounds last Saturday. Nor did she mention how the security company hired by the Dakota Access, LLC ambushed American Indian land protectors, including men, women and children, with attack German Shepherd and pit bull dogs. htt...
Several Yakama tribal members evicted from housing projects earlier this summer will gather today to discuss their options and voice their concerns. Evictions began in tribal housing projects in June, and more than 270 tribal members were displaced as a result. Many of them, some 130, are living in tents at the tribe's RV park, where they are allowed to use restrooms, showers and laundry facilities, and the tribe is providing meals. Yakama Nation Housing Authority officials say the evictions were warranted because of chronic violations to...
A pair of Native American tribes filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the state of Nevada and Washoe and Mineral counties after being denied voter registration sites and polling places on tribal lands. The basis of the suit is voter disenfranchisement of a protected class under the Voting Rights Act as well as equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs — the Pyramid Lake Paiutes and the Walker River Paiutes — argue that a lack of access to voter registration and polling places on the reservation has ham...
The federal government says an Ontario judge’s ruling which eviscerated the handling of a residential school rape case threatens the multi-billion dollar Indian residential school settlement agreement, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Ontario Superior court Justice Paul Perell ordered Ottawa this past July to enter into compensation negotiations with a man who was raped as a boy by a priest at the Spanish Boys Indian residential school which was located near Spanish, Ont. Perell ruled the officials tasked with determining the l...
A 16-year-old Indigenous youth who committed suicide in a forest was failed by British Columbia’s mental health services, says a new report by the province’s children and youth representative. The boy, who was identified as “Chester” in the report to protect the privacy of his family and community, exhibited signs of serious mental health issues before his 2013 death but received little in any help from the organizations created to provide the help he needed, said the report. The report titled, A Tragedy in Waiting, said little has improve...
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, September 7, 2016, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA), passed the following three pieces of legislation at its business meeting: · S. 2711, the Native American Education Opportunity Act; · S. 2959, a bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund; and · S. Con. Res. 49, the Protection of the Right of Tribes to stop the Export of Cultural and Traditional (PROTECT) Patrimony Resolution. http://...
A controversial Indian education bill cleared a key hurdle on Wednesday after Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) blew up at a committee meeting on Capitol Hill. McCain, who is running for re-election, lashed out at the vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs at the meeting, accusing Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) of not caring about the dire conditions at Bureau of Indian Education schools. Reciting a slew of statistics, he said Indian students continue to suffer at the hands of the federal government. "So the Senator from Montana wants...
A regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations says the government is shortchanging First Nations and Inuit patients. Ontario regional Chief Isadore Day is upset after learning Ottawa spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to deny a young girl braces. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/09/08/ottawa-faces-political-outrage-over-legal-bills-in-fight-over-girls-braces/...
On the Spokane Indian Reservation, in eastern Washington, a group of about 40 public school teachers gathered last month, in a field of reeds that stretched as high as their heads. Before harvesting the reeds, or tules, to make mats, they prayed. Later, they left tobacco as a gift. By learning the rituals of the Spokane tribe, the teachers of the Wellpinit School District hope to connect the culture to their lessons to get their students — almost all of whom are indigenous — to be more engaged. In Washington and across the U.S., Native Ame...
MANKATO — Ron Schirmer, an anthropology professor at Minnesota State University, goes into a speaking engagement with two goals in mind. No. 1, he hopes to not say anything dumb. No. 2, he hopes to leave people with a better understanding of the topic at hand. Schirmer will hope to avoid the first and nail the second during his First Friday at First Presbyterian Church speaking engagement on Native American culture. http://www.mankatofreepress.com/news/speaker-series-focuses-on-native-american-culture/article_ab2e0b8c-7478-1...
Operators of 17 disposal wells in the Osage Nation have agreed to shut down operations following a 5.8-magnitude earthquake over the weekend, a move that will help keep people safe but could affect the tribe’s economy, the chairman of the Osage Nation Minerals Council said. Osage Nation Minerals Council Chairman Everett Waller said he was “very” concerned about the effect the shutdown will have on the local economy, but “the safety of our people is first. It’s an issue of the environment, which we’ve been custodians of for many years. Our...
Indigenous Studies students at the University of Saskatchewan have organized a special panel discussion tonight talking about racism and coexistence. Peace and Coexistence: The Realities of Saskatchewan on Indigenous Territory will feature five experts on racism and Indigenous culture talking about racism after the shooting of Colten Boushie. "We do know there are problems and there have been long existing problems," said organizer Mylan Tootoosis. "One of the goals of the panel is to look at the realities of historical racism in settler...
On August 31, 2016, the Red Lake Department of Public Safety conducted a drug enforcement investigation resulting in the confiscation of 29 packages of high grade marijuana and $800.00 in cash. The marijuana was discovered in a vehicle that was stopped at a local gas station and had an estimated street value between $24,000.00 and $25,000.00. Officers located four occupants in the vehicle and identified one adult male age 47, two adult females, ages 60 and 50 and one juvenile female. The 60...
