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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The federal government is set to announce that Native Hawaiians are eligible for form a sovereign government that would have the same rights as Native American tribes. The U.S. Department of the Interior is scheduled to make the formal announcement in Washington at 4 a.m. Friday, Hawaii time. The proposed rule would make Native Hawaiians eligible for federal recognition. The department alerted stakeholders about the new rule, but also asked them not to comment until after the announcement. http://w...
A Pine Ridge woman accused of abusing her children and involuntarily killing one of them pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the offenses in federal court in Rapid City. Mona R. Goggleye, 31, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for the death of her 4-month-old daughter in May. According to her charging document, Goggleye accidentally suffocated the infant sometime between May 6 and 7 while sleeping beside the child after excessively drinking alcohol. The act was committed “without malice” but with “knowledge that her conduct was a threa...
MIAMI – An automatic aid agreement contract with the Quapaw Tribe Fire/EMS and the City of Miami has been approved by the city council. Miami Fire Chief Robert Wright presented the aid agreement. “I would like to upgrade our mutual aid agreement to an automatic aid agreement which will help us in a least three different ways, one being manpower on initial response, another being how quick we can get to the northeast part of town with their assistance, and third, it will help our ISO rating,” Wright said. http://www.miamiok.c...
The most valuable square of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians’ checkerboard-shaped reservation is Section 14, a one-mile stretch of desert just east of downtown Palm Springs. It’s home to the tribe’s namesake hot spring, which is central to the tribe's traditional life and attracted the desert’s first wellness resorts in the 1880s. Today, the land holds a sprawling casino, hotels, condos and the Palm Springs Convention Center. But for two decades in the middle of the 20th century, Section 14 is where Palm Springs’ simmering racial te...
A federal grand jury has returned a 20-count indictment charging eight current and former Omaha Tribal Council members and one tribal employee with various offenses related to illegal payments they made to themselves from federal funds. Nebraska U.S. Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the indictments Thursday and said they were the result of an investigation by the FBI and Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Maurice Johnson, attorney general for the northeast Nebraska tribe, declined to comment,...
On the Spokane Indian Reservation, in eastern Washington, a group of about 40 public school teachers gathered last month, in a field of reeds that stretched as high as their heads. Before harvesting the reeds, or tules, to make mats, they prayed. Later, they left tobacco as a gift. By learning the rituals of the Spokane tribe, the teachers of the Wellpinit School District hope to connect the culture to their lessons to get their students — almost all of whom are indigenous — to be more engaged. In Washington and across the U.S., Native Ame...
Sierra and Carmen Thompson laid eight posters of colorful photographs — their photographs, taken with high-end cameras — on the floor of the American Indian Community Housing Organization lobby in Duluth on Thursday afternoon. Sierra, 10, said she had taken pictures before, but never with a professional camera. "It was really cool," Sierra said. "It had all these cool buttons." http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4121300-workshop-gives-native-american-youth-chance-be-digital-storytellers...
A remote Manitoba First Nation has declared a state of emergency after a fire destroyed the community's only grocery store along with its band office Thursday, said Shamattawa Chief Jeffrey Napaokesik. Napaokesik called it a "total loss." "If we don't have supplies tomorrow there [is] going to be in a panic. It's an emergency right now." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/shamattawa-emergency-1.3775345...
The federal government stopped keeping track of how many fires occur on First Nation reserves six years ago, raising questions about how officials determine where to target funds for firefighting and prevention. The information came in response to a written question submitted by Conservative MP and former firefighter John Brassard, who wanted to know more about the tragic deaths of nine people in a house fire last March on Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario. Brassard submitted written questions to the government, known as order...
A First Nation leader who represents the northern Ontario community of Kashechewan is "shocked" to hear about fraud charges against a former co-manager of the reserve. "To have something like this happen to the people in Kash is a blow to their whole community," Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief, Derek Fox, said. "I'm sure that they feel betrayed and a huge loss of trust for this person." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/first-nation-leader-reacts-kashechewan-fraud-charges-1.3773020...
TOPEKA - The former head of an American Indian reservation's volunteer fire department is accused of setting fires the tribe was paid to fight. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas says former Kickapoo Tribal Volunteer Fire Department chief Stephen Ramirez of Horton was charged Wednesday with four federal counts of wire fraud. Former volunteer firefighter Arlene Negonsott also was indicted on the same charges. Prosecutors say Ramirez recruited Negonsott to set fires on the Kickapoo reservation from July to November 2015 that the fire...
OKMULGEE, Okla. — Earlier this month, the Lighthorse Tribal Police Department requested that Muscogee (Creek) Nation employees use the post office box inside the MCN building, instead of the blue boxes located on the complex. LTPD Chief Robert Hawkins said that someone attempted to cash a fake MCN check at an Osage Nation Casino. Hawkins said even though the check had an account number and routing number the check was not cashed. He said the check had a fake name. http://mvskokemedia.com/lighthorse-investigates-mail-theft/...
