Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Last month, in a ceremony presided over by Vice President Joe Biden, B. Todd Jones became the first permanent director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in six years. It was an occasion some thought might never happen. Under withering attack during the nomination fight, Jones considered throwing in the towel. The ATF, of which he was acting director, was caught in political crossfire over gun control. And there were personal attacks on Jones, both in his role at...
Officials in Bennett County say the county might go broke if residents vote down a measure to raise property taxes....
A sea of people that organizers estimated at 70,000 braved pouring rain and chanted their way through downtown Vancouver on Sunday in Canada’s first reconciliation walk....
LEITH, N.D. - More than 300 protesters marched up this small town’s gravel road Sunday, chanting and carrying signs to rally against a visit by a leader of a white nationalist group and efforts to turn the town of 16 into an all-white enclave....
Haida artist, Gwaai Edenshaw, blushes when he talks of his submissions in the First Nations erotic art exhibit opening this month at the Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver....
Fremont County residents got a Saturday morning jolt when a 4.9 magnitude earthquake shook the area....
Three FBI agents arrived at Sav-Rx Inc.'s Fremont, Neb., headquarters at 4:15 p.m. on a Thursday as James R. Barta, the pharmaceutical company's president, was preparing for a meeting....
GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Roger Yankton Sr. has withdrawn his lawsuit in U.S. District Court seeking relief from a restraining order that had been issued against him by the Spirit Lake Tribal Court....
Big Tobacco companies are required to pay New York State $92 million even though the state failed to collect taxes on Indian reservation cigarette sales since 2003, according to Buffalo News. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/21/court-rules-big-tobacco-must-pay-new-york-92-million-151350...
This after the UN's Human Rights Council is conducting a thorough review of Canada's records....
Earlier this week, the federal monitoring team overseeing Seattle police reforms release the stark findings of a survey measuring public perception of our local boys in blue....
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — When Annette Lee dims the dome and brings up the stars in St. Cloud State University's planetarium, she adds a new layer of understanding to the night sky as she describes astronomical phenomena, traces Greek and Roman constellations with a red light and then overlays images corresponding to Native American constellations....
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act on Friday, mandating logging on 50 percent of the U.S. Forest Service’s available timberland and erecting barriers to legal challenges of timber sales....
Native Americans have long been noted for their athletic prowess, but relatively few make it so far as to be a professional in their sport. From professional fighters to snowboarders, here are some Native athletes to put on your radar. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/21/top-5-professional-atheltes-you-didnt-know-were-native-151382...
HELENA — One of the six people charged with embezzling money from and doctoring contributions to a $9.3 million federal program for troubled youth in the Blackfeet Indian tribe has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors....
BISMARCK (AP) — Federal jurors convicted a man of manslaughter Friday for the stabbing death of another man on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation but acquitted him of a more serious charge of second-degree murder....
Though the phrase “human trafficking” often evokes images of women being stuffed into wooden crates and being shipped halfway around the world, a masters student at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Christine Stark, says trafficking is more prominent in the U.S. than many realize, particularly for Native American women in northern Minnesota....
In a close vote along party lines – 217 to 210 – the Republican U.S. House on September 19 approved $40 billion in cuts to SNAP, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/20/house-approves-40-billion-cut-food-stamps-over-10-years-151360...
Of Churchill Elementary’s 530 students, some 20 percent are Native American and almost half of the overall student population is living in poverty. Those could be some pretty challenging statistics when it comes to student achievement, but the school has found a way to help overcome those challenges. See more at: http://www.pinejournal.com/event/article/id/30394/group/News/#sthash.1c2ca1yt.dpuf...
Few people can say they’re All American athletes by their twelfth birthday. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/18/hes-all-american-kinda-kid-151336...
FARGO -- It was a tale of two confessions as lawyers argued Thursday for and against the guilt of Valentino Bagola in the stabbing murders of two children....
Known as one of the single largest loss of life in Washington D.C. since 1982, the resulting 13 casualties from the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard includes Kenneth Bernard Proctor, who was a member of the Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians. At just 46 years old, Proctor was also the youngest victim of the tragedy. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/19/piscataway-indian-man-among-victims-navy-yard-shooting-151347...
About 8:00 am, Navajo police were summoned to the Prosecutors Office in the Window Rock Police Station because of the suspicious package was discovered. The package was wrapped in duct tape and was the size of a shoebox....
