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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 – MESA, AZ – Motivational trainer Robert Johnston, Choctaw, recording artist and speaker Marcus Guinn, Osage and Potawatomi, and peer trainer Leslie Locklear, Lumbee, are teaming up to offer free leadership training for up to 80 American Indian and Alaska Native youth from September 30 to October 2 in Anchorage, Alaska. United National Indian Tribal Youth, also known as UNITY, in partnership with the Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is hosting the “Today’s Native Leaders...
SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 SACNAS Distinguished Awards. This year’s two awardees have exemplified the SACNAS mission by showing unparalleled dedication to excellence in science, mentoring, and teaching. These outstanding individuals were nominated by those who have been touched by their work and selected by a committee of their peers. Awards will be presented with special tributes throughout 2016 SACNAS: The National Diversity in STEM C...
ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has confirmed four new reports of zebra mussels in state lakes: Lake Sallie in Becker County; Lake Andrew in Douglas County; Lac qui Parle in Chippewa, Lac qui Parle and Swift counties; and Big Birch Lake in Todd and Stearns counties. “New zebra mussel infestations are often discovered at the end of the boating and fishing season, when docks and lifts are being taken out of the water,” said Heidi Wolf, DNR invasive species unit supervisor, in a release. “It is important to caref...
CROOKSTON, Minn. -- A 60-year-old Crookston woman faces felony charges after allegedly throwing a cup of coffee on a city police officer who was attempting to assist her at a mental health hospital. Joan Marie Helsene-Sydow has been charged with fourth-degree assault of a peace officer, a felony, and disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, in Polk County District Court. According to the criminal complaint, police officer Donald Rasicot was called to Northwestern Mental Health Center at about 12:25 p.m. Monday on reports of a client who was out of...
Community Meeting - October 5, 2016 6-8 PM - Little Rock Center Join us for a meal and let's visit....
TULSA, Okla. — Prosecutors charged a white Oklahoma police officer with first-degree manslaughter Thursday, less than a week after she killed an unarmed black man on a city street and just days after police released graphic videos, saying in court documents the officer "reacted unreasonably." Tulsa officer Betty Shelby fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16. The affidavit filed with the charge says Shelby "reacted unreasonably by escalating the situation from a confrontation with Mr. Crutcher, who was not responding to verbal c...
A driver who killed a bicyclist on a rural Minnesota road was convicted this week of careless driving. The McLeod County attorney last year charged Emily Givens, 26, of Hutchinson, with criminal vehicular homicide, alleging that she was reading a text message when she hit and killed Penny Verdeck, 40, on April 26, 2015. In a ruling this week, Judge Timothy Looby said prosecutors couldn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Givens was distracted by a text message. He found her not guilty of a misdemeanor charge of using a cellphone while d...
WASECA, MINN. – Torrential rains that saturated already sodden ground in this southern Minnesota city overwhelmed storm and sanitary sewers, washed out roads and turned the city's ice hockey arena into a wading pool on Thursday. School was canceled, the city library closed and athletic fields turned into lakes — navigable by kayaks — after more than 10 inches of rain fell over a two-day period ending early Thursday — most of it overnight Wednesday. "It's pretty much going to be a swimming day," said Waseca High School sophomore Brandon Dahnert...
What began as tweets and an ethics complaint against a Minneapolis City Council member has devolved into a behind-the-scenes political battle between Alondra Cano and some of her colleagues. Cano, who has been the subject of an ethics complaint over her use of city e-mail for political purposes, sent a pointed letter Sept. 10 to Council President Barbara Johnson and two other members. In it, she threatens to release evidence about other council members’ political internet use if the council holds a public vote affirming the ethics complaint a...
SAN FRANCISCO — Computer hackers swiped personal information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts in what is believed to be the biggest digital break-in at an email provider. The massive security breakdown disclosed Thursday poses new headaches for beleaguered Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer as she scrambles to close a $4.8 billion sale to Verizon . The breach dates back to late 2014, raising questions about the checks and balances within Yahoo — a fallen internet star that has been laying off staff and trimming expenses to counter a steep dro...
The NFL announced Sunday's game in Charlotte between the Vikings and the Carolina Panthers will go on as scheduled despite the violent protests in North Carolina's largest city. But the nation's latest police shooting and the ensuing carnage there had some Vikings players, at least for a few minutes, worrying about something other than stopping Cam Newton's designed QB keepers or finding holes in Carolina's zone coverages. Terence Newman was standing at his locker at Winter Park when a pair of reporters approached him to ask him if he was...
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman shot down the City Council’s maximum tax levy of $114.7 million Thursday, calling the additional $1.8 million increase over what he proposed “misguided.” The mayor vetoed the tax plan the day after council members approved a 2017 levy that would allow the city to collect up to 8.6 percent more in taxes than it did this year. They said it was time to fund deferred parks and recreation maintenance and add firefighters. Coleman said that spending is premature, given that the city has put money in the 2017 budget to st...
Seeking to expand access to one of the few drug treatments for opioid addiction, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson took several steps Thursday to increase production of the drug, reduce prices and remove insurance barriers. Joining attorneys general from 34 other states, Swanson sued Indivior, a Virginia-based drug manufacturer, to halt practices that have prevented the development of a generic version of its drug Suboxone. Separately, Swanson wrote to Minnesota’s major health insurers, asking them to eliminate prior authorization r...
East-metro law enforcement leaders, sounding an alarm over the growing number of predatory internet crimes, issued an appeal Thursday to parents to step up inspections of their children’s activities on social media. The prosecutors and sheriffs of Ramsey, Washington and Dakota counties said technology has opened dark corners of the internet to more and more children whose vulnerability is being exploited for sex and for money. “Every parent in America needs to be aware of social media. There are a lot of parents, unfortunately, who are clu...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's advisers are urging him to keep his cool during next week's presidential debate and resist attempts by Hillary Clinton to provoke him with questions about his business record, wealth or controversial comments about minorities. The focus underscores the campaign's concern that too many Americans still don't believe the Republican has the temperament to be president, which could be a difference-maker in a close race with Clinton. "He can't let Hillary get under his skin," said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker a...
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - With fewer than a dozen people at Thursday's gathering, Take 'Em Down Nola leader Malcolm Suber said hundreds will join his effort on Saturday to tear down the iconic Andrew Jackson statue in Jackson Square. "We're not vandalizing. We're removing an eyesore," Suber said. Ahead of the protest, Suber also sent a message to the New Orleans Police Department. http://www.ksla.com/story/33162092/group-promising-to-tear-down-iconic-andrew-jackson-statue-saturday...
The leaders of hundreds of Native American tribes will meet with President Barack Obama at his eighth and final Tribal Nations Conference at the White House next week, while thousands of activists are encamped on the North Dakota prairie protesting a $3.7 billion oil pipeline. The conference, designed to improve the relationship between Washington and the tribes, offers the last chance for this administration to hear from tribal leaders about the shortcomings of the current consultation system, which has been a source of conflict over the...
With helicopters and small planes buzzing the Dakota Access Pipeline showdown in Standing Rock, N.D., Big Brother is probably watching. But Little Brother is certainly watching back with camera phones, digital cameras and consumer drones. Now, a social media expert at the camps in the Standing Rock Sioux Nation has video evidence that appears to show pipeline construction crews working on Saturday in violation of a court order. http://navajotimes.com/reznews/crews-appear-working-inside-dapl-buffer-zone/...
A sea of thousands of Native Americans from over 200 indigenous nations has descended onto the Great Plains to stand at the forefront of a new but familiar battle against fossil fuels. Led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (Hunkpapa Lakota Nation), these nations are fighting against the 1,172-mile Dakota Access pipeline, which would transport oil from the Bakken oil fields to pipelines in Illinois, and is set to come within a half-mile of the Standing Rock reservation, threatening its water supply. The fight is calling into question yet a...
Driving to the camp at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, where Native American activists have been living in order to halt the construction of the Bakken Pipeline for months, you come across everything all at once: the field dotted with tipis, trailers, and tents; the mud roads lined with flags from dozens of tribal nations flapping in the wind; people riding horses and trucks laden with supplies. The activists are here to fight a major pipeline that they say will poison their drinking water and pollute tribal lands that have long...
The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation, generated waves of criticism by standing against the Standing Rock Sioux and supportive allies last week when it endorsed the Dakota Access Pipeline – a project opponents say threatens tribal sovereignty, regional water resources, and sacred burial grounds while also undermining efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. Yet while a public statement by AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka stirred widespread backlash, what has not been seen by the general public is an i...
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A joint task force of North Dakota and federal officials is investigating a clash between Dakota Access pipeline protesters and private security guards earlier this month, a county sheriff announced Tuesday. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department is heading up the probe of the Sept. 3 incident on private land, after which private security guards and protesters reported injuries. Tribal officials say about 30 protesters were pepper-sprayed and some were bitten by dogs at the construction site near the Standing Rock Indian Res...
Several Manitoba First Nation leaders say they hope to forge a better relationship with the Progressive Conservative government when it comes to building the East Side Road. The group of chiefs, elders and band councillors from Berens River, Bloodvein, Little Grand Rapids, Pauingassi and Poplar River First Nations met with the government on Thursday to discuss the future of the project, which has been in question since the Manitoba East Side Road Authority was dismantled earlier this year. Responsibility for the East Side Road has been...
On Friday, September 23, 2016, a group of Native Americans will be protesting at the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, in response to that organization's legal challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). Event organizers, known as Defend ICWA, say the protest will fall on the third anniversary of the surrender of Baby Veronica to her adoptive parents, a case that made global headlines after the Cherokee girl's biological father fought to maintain custody in a protracted legal battle that went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The protest...
Vyola Ortner, 95, has strong opinions and few regrets. She’s petite and spry, with cat-eye glasses and thinning auburn hair combed into a clip behind her head. Recently, at her Palm Springs home, she wore a lime-green jacket over an equally bright blouse. The shade matched almost exactly the color on her kitchen walls. Ortner is the oldest living member of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, an indigenous Southern California tribe with more than 450 members. She chaired the tribal council during the turbulent 1950s, making regular t...
