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A Northern activist arrested last week while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline plans to return home later this week, although he'll have to head back south for his court date, he says. Daniel T'seleie — who has roots in Fort Good Hope and Yellowknife — was arrested on Sept. 14, for allegedly attaching himself to an excavator at a Dakota Access work site. "I don't want to get into too many details because it still is an open court case and I'm going to have to return here to court. But I was charged with reckless endangerment, which is a f...
BISMARCK, N.D. -- A North Dakota legislative committee has approved an emergency request to borrow $6 million to cover the cost of law enforcement related to the ongoing protest of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline from Dallas' Energy Transfer Partners. The state's Emergency Commission, headed by Gov. Jack Dalrymple, voted Wednesday to borrow the funds from the state-owned Bank of North Dakota. The leader of the state's National Guard says North Dakota has spent about $1.8 million to date on law enforcement and other costs related to...
WASHINGTON – Representative Dr. Raul Ruiz (D-California – 36th Congressional District) called for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a meaningful tribal consultation with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Representative Ruiz, who visited the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and the encampment near Cannon Ball, North Dakota two weekends ago, made his plea in terse remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, September 21, 2016. He called for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to cancel their “faulty” permit near tr...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota must allow voters who don't have a state-required ID to cast a ballot by signing an affidavit swearing they are a qualified voter, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland's order, which came Tuesday, weeks before November's general election, essentially reinstates a provision that had been allowed in North Dakota until 2013 when the state's Republican-led Legislature killed it. The state has required voters to provide ID since 2004. Hovland blocked the state's voter identification law i...
The Gila River Police Department will host a car wash for the family of fallen Navajo Nation Officer Leander Frank from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24. The benefit will be held at Wild Horse Pass Casino, 5040 Wild Horse Pass Boulevard, with all proceeds going to the Frank family. Frank was responding to a call when he was involved in a head-on collision Aug. 30 on Navajo Route 64, according to a report by the Associated Press. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/chandler/2016/09/21/gila-river-police-plan-benefit-c...
Attorneys for Scott Tucker want a federal judge to drop four criminal charges against the Leawood payday loan businessman, arguing that state laws regulating interest rates don’t apply to loans that Tucker’s businesses extended to consumers. In a motion filed Tuesday, Tucker’s criminal defense attorneys asked a federal judge in New York to drop four of the nine criminal charges against the businessman and professional race car driver. Those four charges accuse Tucker of collecting on illegal debts through lending companies based on Nativ...
Last May, it looked like voters had stopped the Nestle corporation from putting a water-bottling plant in the Columbia River Gorge. But four months later, activists are raising concerns the project could still happen. Opponents gathered at the Oregon State Capitol on Wednesday, joining a Native American activist who has spent the week there fasting, in protest. The target of their ire: what they see as continued efforts to bring a water bottling plant to Cascade Locks, an Oregon city in the Columbia River Gorge. “They want people to have f...
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s state auditor says Project Extra Mile made a number of unallowable and unreasonable expenses with grant monies in 2015-16, including a $4,600 recognition dinner that was “more of an entertainment-based event than a technical meeting” and too many meals from Jason’s Deli for training events. But interim director Diane Riibe called the report, issued Wednesday by State Auditor Charlie Janssen, politically motivated, nitpicky and factually inaccurate in places. “Nowhere is there fraud. Nowhere is there mismanageme...
For the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the St. Louis River estuary has been described as being as close to heaven as they could get. It's where the river slows and widens before emptying into the Lake Superior in Duluth. "This was sort of a perfect place, a Mecca of sorts is what my uncle called it," said Thomas Howes, the band's natural resources director. "Everything that one needed for a good life was provided by the environment here." http://kuow.org/post/once-nearly-wiped-out-pollution-wild-rice-coming-back...
DULUTH, Minn. — The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is working with several natural resource agencies from Minnesota and Wisconsin to restore culturally significant wild rice to about 250 acres of the St. Louis River estuary. Minnesota Public Radio reported that decades of human activity, including industrial development and logging, almost eliminated wild rice from the region. The rice is often used in the tribe’s cultural ceremonies. http://www.twincities.com/2016/09/21/tribe-agencies-work-to-restore-wild-rice-i...
Santa Clara Pueblo Gov. J. Michael Chavarria holds images of hypodermic needles recently found near a creek on the New Mexico American Indian pueblo after he attended a forum on opioid addiction held at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico, an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction, met with the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday over ways to combat opioid abuse amid high overdose deaths among Native Americans. (AP...
A second set of DNA tests have confirmed that two men were switched at birth at a hospital in northern Manitoba in 1975. Former Manitoba Aboriginal affairs minister Eric Robinson says the men from Norway House learned of the results Tuesday. He says the tests show Leon Swanson is the biological son of the woman who raised David Tait Jr. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/switched-at-birth-norway-house-dna-confirm-1.3772299...
TOWER—Acclaimed native musician Keith Secola will perform at the Great Northern Radio Show at Fortune Bay Resort Casino as part of the season premiere of The Great Northern Radio Show, set for Saturday, Sept. 24. This traveling variety program is produced by Northern Community Radio, an independent National Public Radio affiliate covering a large part of Northern Minnesota. Through comedy, stories and music, the Great Northern Radio Show explores life in small towns and places found off the beaten path. Producer and host Aaron Brown leads a r...
A woman shot Friday at a home on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation has died, authorities said. She was identified Wednesday as the sister of the suspect deputies arrested. An autopsy report shows that Carrie Deatherage, 51, suffered a single gunshot wound to the head, said sheriff’s homicide Lt. Kenn Nelson. She was hospitalized in grave condition and died Tuesday. Her death was ruled a homicide by the Medical Examiner’s Office. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/crime-courts-fire/sd-me-crime-sister-shooting-20160921-...
BILLINGS - Owners of a Billings water pipe manufacturer have been ordered to pay $350,000 in penalties for defrauding a Montana tribe by claiming to be a minority-owned business in order to receive tribal and federal contracts. Montana Waterworks LLC, was created by Tony Belcourt, Kevin McGovern and Kent Boos, who claim a combined 50 years of experience. The company website describes the business as a Montana owned company that represents major manufacturers of pipe, fittings, valves, fabric and hydrants. http://www.ktvq.com...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Billings water pipe supply company has paid a $350,000 fine for a scheme to defraud the Chippewa Cree Tribe. MT Waterworks pleaded guilty in May to criminal charges that it claimed an Indian ownership preference to get federal and tribal contracts. The contracts include more than $3.3 million from the Chippewa Cree Tribe for work on a federally funded water system project. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/2d1PRjj ) U.S. District Judge Brian Morris imposed the fine during the company's Sept. 15 sentencing h...
(WIBW) - A former fire chief for the Kickapoo volunteer fire department is accused of deliberately setting fires in Brown County. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Stephan Ramirez, 26, and Arlene Negonsott, 34, both of Horton, were indicted Wednesday on four federal counts of wire fraud. Prosecutors say Ramirez, who was chief, recruited Negonsott, who was a volunteer firefighters, to set six grass fires on the Kickapoo reservation between July and November 2015. http://www.wibw.com/content/news/Former-fire-chief-volunteer-fire...
TORONTO, September 20, 2016 – eBay Canada has partnered with Canadian Indigenous artists Jordan Bennett and Patrick Hunter for its Fall Designer Collaboration: a collection of four limited-edition scarves. Each piece of wearable art features a print that links designs and symbols from the artist's Indigenous heritage, with a modern aesthetic and colour trends fit for Fall 2016. "We love working with Canadian talent to showcase their work on our powerful platform, while offering our buyers s...
