Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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BEMIDJI – In October 1850, the United States government failed to supply promised provisions to the Ojibwe Anishinaabe settled on Madeline Island in Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands. U.S. government officials told the approximately 3,000 band members that they had to trek to Sandy Lake, Minn., to receive their allotments. But on arrival, they again found few supplies to sustain them. During the long walk, according to Wisconsin history.com, an estimated 400 Ojibwe died of malnutrition and exp...
NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. wrestles with its biggest whooping cough outbreak in decades, researchers appear to have zeroed in on the main cause: The safer vaccine that was introduced in the 1990s loses effectiveness much faster than previously thought....
A furnished, three-bedroom mobile home provide by the Federal Emergency Management Administration arrived Tuesday on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
There's only one week left for survivors of Indian residential schools to file abuse claims with the federal government — and the offices receiving the claims have been extra busy....
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. — When he was named the new director of social services for the Spirit Lake Nation last month, Mark Little Owl put himself on the department’s on-call list, available anytime to handle a crisis....
POLSON – One after another, members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes emerged from Eagle Bank on Wednesday with a broad smile and a thick envelope....
The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma will share about half of a $4.4 million trust fund settlement on a per capita basis....
A six-year battle over illegal music file-sharing was revived Tuesday when the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case of Jammie Thomas-Rasset back to court in Minneapolis....
FARMINGTON — A Crownpoint woman pleaded guilty to child abuse Tuesday and is expected to be sentenced to three years’ probation....
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The high school dropout rate for American Indians is almost twice the national average. Educators in Flagstaff, Ariz., have tried to turn that trend around. And they’ve had some success at a place you wouldn’t suspect -- the Coconino County Juvenile Detention Center. Most of the kids who wind up there are Native American. Incidentally, we weren’t allowed to show faces of most of the kids because of their age....
Norma Jo Tibbitts was just 9 years old when she learned to make bread from her Auntie Norma on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. She has been cooking ever since....
CHAPEL HILL - As mourners gather in slain UNC’s 19-year-old student Faith Hedgepeth’s hometown for her funeral, the Chapel Hill community continues to grieve....
Chapel Hill, N.C. — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees is pledging $25,000 for information leading to an arrest or arrests in the slaying of 19-year-old Faith Danielle Hedgepeth....
A Lodge Grass man will spend nearly 20 years in federal prison following his conviction for sexually abusing two children. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/lodge-grass-man-gets-nearly-years-for-sex-abuse/article_470d6ca5-d51a-5993-9cc6-475ebe38c8af.html#ixzz26LyhNAUJ...
LONGMONT, Colorado (September 13, 2012) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) today announced it has received a one-year grant of $300,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Advocacy and Outreach (OAO) for First Nations’ Navajo-Hopi Technical Assistance Project. The USDA grant, provided under the Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Program, will allow First Nations to continue and expand an effort it initiated in 2011 on the Navajo Western Agency. In 2011, First Nations sough...
