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WASHINGTON – Minnesotans who crammed into and outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday said Pope Francis’ historic message to Congress urging political civility and aid to the world’s downtrodden was encouraging in times of domestic and international turmoil. On the west lawn of the Capitol, tens of thousands of people gathered in the predawn darkness hoping to glimpse the pontiff and watch the speech on Jumbotron screens. http://www.startribune.com/a-papal-message-finds-its-mark-among-minnesotans/329326161/#1...
Both of Minnesota’s medical marijuana producers offered patients a price break this week. Minnesota legalized marijuana as a medication in July and set up a strictly limited, tightly regulated system designed to be as clinical and nonrecreational as possible. But that doesn’t mean that the state’s two designated medical marijuana companies aren’t competing for your cannabis business. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-pot-producers-offer-patients-a-price-break/329327691/...
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah woman who unexpectedly gave birth on a cruise ship months before her due date says she wrapped towels around the 1 1/2-pound boy and, with the help of medical staff, managed to keep him alive until the ship reached port. Emily Morgan, of Ogden, said Thursday that doctors didn't expect her son Haiden to live, but thanks to strong lungs, a makeshift incubator and an early arrival in Puerto Rico, the baby made it. He's now receiving care at a neonatal intensive care unit in Miami. http://www.startribun...
Hidden behind laptops, sporting business-casual attire and ready to dive into projects for area companies, about 180 Minnetonka High School students could easily have been mistaken for interns at a Fortune 500 company — or even industry professionals. Instead, the students were part of the Vantage advanced professional studies program, which gives business-minded high school students hands-on experience with the kind of projects that companies wrestle with every day. http://www.startribune.com/vantage-program-gives-minneto...
It’s becoming much more common for non-physicians to provide care at the doctor’s office. Use of nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other “non-physician providers” increased more than 40 percent between 2010 and 2014 at certain physician-owned surgical practices, according to a national survey released Thursday. http://www.startribune.com/clinics-turn-to-more-non-physicians-to-boost-efficiency/329355181/...
With the fresh approval of its appellate court, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe has reopened enrollment cases and notified 233 members – living and dead – that they now face disenrollment. Attorney Paula Fisher, who has defended Tribal members facing removal in the past, said members have 30 days to request a hearing or face disenrollment. The latest letters cap a lengthy legal battle in which the Tribe has sought to remove several families, including deceased ancestors, who trace their lineage to the original Tribal rolls through aunts,...
Pope Francis landed in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to commence a six-day tour of the United States. Junipero Serra landed in San Diego, California in 1769 on a mission from Spain, to commence construction on the first of 21 Catholic missions in the state. Through his directive, the Spaniards built the missions throughout California, plundering the land of its indigenous people and killing thousands of them. By 1900, 131 years after Serra's arrival, almost 95% of California's indigenous population had been decimated — down to 16,000 people from...
Mendocino County lets approved medical-marijuana growers cultivate, at most, 25 plants per parcel of land, but the Pinoleville Pomo Nation says that limit, and other constraints on big profit-making pot operations, don’t apply to the 250-member sovereign tribe. On Tuesday, the county sheriff set out to prove they were wrong. Deputies seized around 400 plants from an indoor location on tribal land north of Ukiah and dismantled a laboratory where highly concentrated honey oil, used in marijuana edibles, was manufactured. The lab was located on...
NESPELEM—In the upcoming special session, Oct. 1, the Colville Business Council will vote on an amendment of the Colville Tribal Code that would legalize small amounts of marijuana on the reservation, a change intended match Washington State’s current law. CBC discussed the amendment in Law and Justice Committee yesterday, Sep. 23, voting to move a recommendation forward for the final vote next week. http://www.tribaltribune.com/news/article_ee297a1a-6309-11e5-858d-bb165f80b772.html...
An apparent murder and suicide of six people in South Dakota is being linked to millions of dollars in federal education funds. Authorities believe Scott Westerhuis shot his wife and four children before setting their home on fire and turning the gun on himself. The deaths occurred last Thursday in the city of Platte. The incident came one day after the state Department of Education refused to renew a $4.3 million education grant to a company where Westerhuis served as the business manager, the Associated Press reported. The money came from...
Police Chief Karl Jegeris says this year's 6 murders has already tied the highest number for a single year in the past 20 years, and there's still 3 months to go. Police say 5 out of 6 homicide victims this year in Rapid City have been Native American. They have made arrests in the first 4 cases this year, and in each case both the victims and the suspects are Native American. http://www.blackhillsfox.com/home/headlines/RC-homicide-victims-racially-disproportionate-329331071.html...
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A federal court judge in Great Falls is considering legal arguments over whether tribal officials need to comply with subpoenas demanding access to tribal government documents, or if tribes are immune from court orders to produce evidence because they are sovereign nations. The dispute comes from a $5 million lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs over alleged damages, the Great Falls Tribune reported (http://gftrib.com/1KCNZVX). Terryl Matt, a Cut Bank attorney and enrolled member of the Assiniboine Tribe of...
HOOPA, Calif. - The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office decided to revoke the peace officer powers from officers at the Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Department on Wednesday and in doing so are adding more deputies to the area of Eastern Humboldt County. The sheriff’s office said in a release on Thursday that roughly twenty years ago its department Hoopa Valley Tribe entered into an agreement that the Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Department would maintain the state standards to enforce state law. Due to the lack of qualified officers to fulfill...
A remote Ontario First Nation's chief and council seized an illegal alcohol shipment, burned the booze and gave the alleged bootleggers 24 hours to leave the community on Monday. "If I know something is coming up here, I will stand up for my community, and I know my council will be right there with me," said North Caribou Lake First Nation chief Dinah Kanate. "There's so much destruction caused by alcohol in our community." http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/northern-ontario-first-nation-seizes-booze-kicks-bootleggers-out-1.3...
Eighteen-year-old Alex Gervais was moved a total of 16 times within the B.C. foster system, and was still in government care when he fell to his death from a fourth-floor hotel room where he had been sent to live alone and unsupervised. "This is a tragedy," said Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/teen-in-b-c-provincial-care-dies-in-fall-from-hotel-window-1.3240959...
Some Native American students in our area are getting help to move on to college or careers after graduation. The White House announced winners of $5.3 million in federal grants Thursday. Six tribes in Oklahoma will received some money in the program, including the Cheyenne Arapaho Tribe which will work with El Reno Public Schools to help their students. "This is one of those areas that we can use all the help we can get. We want our kids to graduate from here with the goal in mind," El Reno schools superintendent Craig McVay said....
Fort Hall Tribal member Cash Blair was left fighting for his life last Saturday after a hunting accident left him critically wounded miles from help. KPVI News 6 worked closely with Portneuf Medical Center to bring KPVI this story. KPVI visited with Cash Blair on Thursday morning. He tells KPVI that he might not be talking to KPVI without the quick work of everyone involved in saving his life. http://www.kpvi.com/content/news/local/story/Local-Man-Left-Fighting-For-His-Life-After/-jkn3bJulU--VtnaCeNhWA.cspx...
There was a moment in Jeremy Thompson’s life when he realized he had to make a decision. A teenager raised in the proud traditions of the Onondaga Nation, he was at a crossroads. On one side, he had lacrosse. On the other, he had the drugs, the alcohol, the youthful escapes so many teenagers embrace. Thompson had started down the path most traveled, the path that too often robs Native American youth of their potential futures. He knew he was letting his family down. His father recognized his pain, and asked his oldest son to take a walk with...
They asked about the free throws, because everyone does. So Rick Barry, 71 years old but still not about to flinch at a challenge, called someone from the stands, walked to the line, squatted a bit, closed his eyes, stationed the witness from the audience under the basket to make sure the eyes stayed closed, dribbled four or five times, and flung the ball underhanded toward the rim. http://www.nba.com/2015/news/features/scott_howard_cooper/09/23/nba-great-rick-barry-brings-life-lessons-to-south-dakota-reservation/...