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FARGO — The Native American Commission here voted unanimously Monday to recommend that the City Commission replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day as a holiday on the second Monday in October. The vote on the resolution got hung up on wording some members of the commission felt might be opposed by members of the City Commission, which has final say. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/region/3844611-native-american-commission-passes-resolution-replace-columbus-day-fargo...
In an Inside Higher Education article Haskell Indian Nations University President Venida Chenault is extensively quoted on professors who fake being Indian to land a position at a college seeking a diverse faculty. Haskell a federally funded four-year institution in Lawrence has a 100 percent Native American student body and half its professors are also Native, the other half is not. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article36194157.html#storylink=cpy...
Eighteenth century Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra will be canonized by Pope Francis this week. Hailed by the church as “the evangelizer of west in the United States” and reviled by descendants of the indigenous people living along the coast, Serra’s ascension to sainthood is a controversial move. The expulsion of the Jesuit order from the Spanish colonies by King Carlos III brought Serra to Baja California. In 1769, the government, fearful of intrusions by Russian traders to the north, dispatched the Franciscans to what we now call Calif...
WASHINGTON - When Pope Francis canonizes 18th century missionary Junípero Serra as a saint Wednesday in Washington, he will give Hispanic-Americans a saint of their own – and put a halo on one of the most controversial figures in California’s Native American history. The pontiff arrived in Washington on Tuesday afternoon and was greeted at the airport at Joint Base Andrews, Md., by a beaming President Barack Obama and the first family. Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article36085623.html#s...
DES MOINES, Iowa – Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton declared opposition to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline on Tuesday, ending a long and politically uncomfortable silence on an issue that has become a touchstone for environmentalists and liberal voters. “I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I believe it is – a distraction from the important work we have to do to combat climate change,” Clinton said at a community forum here. The debate over Keystone “interferes with our ability t...
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office chopped down dozens of marijuana plants growing at the Pinoleville Rancheria Tuesday after serving search warrants at two properties reportedly owned by the tribe, one at 650 Pinoleville Drive and one at 2150 North State Street. MCSO spokesman Capt. Greg Van Patten said the response was a culmination of months of investigative work, which included flights over the property on Pinoleville Drive, which as of mid-summer he said had more than 400 plants. http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/gene...
The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office was chopping down plants at the Pinoleville Rancheria Tuesday after serving search warrants at two properties believed to be owned by the tribe. The first was at 650 Pinoleville Drive, the second was at 2150 North State Street, where MCSO Capt. Greg Van Patten said a "very sophisticated" honey oil lab was discovered. Van Patten said the grows are illegal because they are for "financial gain." Several months ago the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office began receiving information about a marijuana c...
Six years ago, teenage girls on Fort Berthold, a Native American reservation in North Dakota, started showing up at school with unusual things: manicured nails, fancy makeup, iPods, brand-new cell phones. In a place where the poverty rate is often more than three times the national average and the unemployment rate hovers near 40 percent, no one could figure out how the girls were able to afford such luxuries. Around the same time, the number of teenage runaways on the reservation, home to the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Mandan, Hidatsa,...
Once again Congress is finding it impossible to pass spending bills — and time is running out. The federal government appropriates money and runs its programs from October 1st through the end of September. The House and the Senate are supposed to enact appropriations and then pass on that legislation to the president for his signature. That is how it is supposed to work. But the entire process is chaotic. Think of Congress this way. There are really three-parties in the House and in the Senate; Republicans (the party in charge), Democrats a...
A trial next month in Washington state will lay out the twisted details of a Bakken oil patch operator who was allegedly obsessed with killing people whom he believed had wronged him in oil and drug business deals. The trial of James Henrikson is scheduled to start Oct. 5. Henrikson, formerly of Watford City, is sitting in a jail cell in Yakima, Wash., on 11 charges of murder for hire, murder conspiracy and solicitation and heroin dealing. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/trial-expected-t...
Raymond Lee Fryberg Jr. “slipped under the screen” when he was allowed to purchase firearms despite a tribal court order barring him from possessing the weapons, assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce Miyake said Tuesday during opening statements in Fryberg’s federal trial. On government forms, Fryberg repeatedly stated that he wasn’t the subject of a protection order, despite pleading no contest to violating the 2002 order in 2012, Miyake said. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/attorney-father-of-marysville-school-shoot...
Early in the new year, the Regina Police Service issued a brief news release indicating a 29-year-old woman had been found injured in a downtown hotel and died a couple of hours later. Nine months later, Regina police remain silent on the matter. However, CBC's iTeam has learned her name was Nadine Machiskinic, a mother of four who worked in the sex trade and struggled with addictions. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/nadine-machiskinic-hotel-laundry-chute-death-1.3237631...
A federal court judge in Great Falls is weighing opposing legal arguments on whether tribal officials must comply with subpoenas demanding access to tribal government documents, or whether Indian tribes are immune from court orders to produce evidence because they are sovereign nations. This dispute came to a head based upon a lawsuit filed by Terryl Matt, a Cut Bank attorney and enrolled member of the Assiniboine Tribe of Montana. Matt is suing the Bureau of Indian Affairs for more that $5 million in compensation for alleged damages that...
Buffy Sainte-Marie has won this year's $50,000 Polaris Music Prize. A jury of 11 music critics, bloggers and broadcasters named the album Power in the Blood the best Canadian record of the last year. The folk icon beat out nine other finalists for the award including rap superstar Drake, former Polaris winner Caribou and Toronto rockers Alvvays. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/polaris-music-prize-ceremony-2015-1.3237137...
When Buffy Sainte-Marie's name was announced as the winner of the 2015 Polaris Prize for her album Power in the Blood on Monday night, it opened another door for indigenous musicians to walk through. "For two years in a row this accolade has been awarded to two outstanding female indigenous artists, who persevered and captured the attention of the nation's music industry, proving that music has no boundaries," says Jacquie Black, manager of the Indigenous Music Awards. Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq won last year. http://www...
David Reginald Brown, Sr. Born: Fri., Sep. 23, 1932 Died: Tue., Sep. 22, 2015 Celebration of Life 1:00 PM Sat., Sep. 26, 2015 Location: Brown Family Burial Grounds David Reginald Brown, Sr., age 82, of Red Lake, passed away on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at the Sanford Hospital in Bemidji. He was born on September 23, 1932 in Red Lake the son of Julius and Susan (Dickenson) Brown. David worked as a correctional officer all his life. He worked in New Mexico, Michigan, and in Red Lake before he...
