Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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September 22, 2011 - A dinner was held on September 15, 2011, for the WWII Veterans of the 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion at the All Nations Indian Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Veterans Gordon Bailey, Norbert Gerling, Joe Cotner, and Bud Helmen were in attendance. As the Waukazo Drum Group sang the Honor Song, the Red Lake Honor Guard presented the colors. The WWII Veterans, all in their nineties, with their hands over their hearts, stood at attention, very tall and erect. These great...
Red Lake Warriors JV Action with Kelliher-Northome on September 22, 2011 P9...
Red Lake Warriors JV Action with Kelliher-Northome on September 22, 2011 P10...
Red Lake Warriors JV Action with Kelliher-Northome on September 22, 2011 P11...
Red Lake Warriors JV Action with Kelliher-Northome on September 22, 2011 P12 Additional Photographs in the PHOTOS section....
For many years, John Eggers, educator and public speaker, has contributed a weekly column to the Pioneer. Now, Eggers has published a book of excerpts and selected essays from his material titled “More Than Just Words.” “I went through all of my writings for the last 20 years, and I picked what I thought people would enjoy reading,” Eggers said. “There are 105 topics.” The books cost $10 and are available at Kat’s Book Nook, Cabin Coffeehouse and Café and Grandma’s attic and at johnrogereggers.c...
TRIBAL JUSTICE NEWS September 2, 2011- September 23, 2011 LEGAL/ PROSECUTORIAL ACTION Navajo Man Pleads Guilty to Sexually Abusing Four-Year-Old Child (U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico) U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales announced that Cassadine McDonald, 26, entered a guilty plea to a three-count information charging him with aggravated sexual abuse under a plea agreement with the United States Attorney's Office. Under the terms of his plea agreement, McDonald will be sentenced to a 15-year term of imprisonment to be followed by...
Three Indigenous peoples of Canada have just returned from speaking in three Japanese communities as part of the screening of Tadashi Orui's film titled "The Scars of Mercury,” hosted by the Kumamoto Gakuen University Minamata Research team. Asubpeeschoseewagong and Wabaseemoong delegates were in Japan for September 6-18, 2011. Chief Simon.R.Fobister says that "We had an opportunity to share our mercury poisoning experience & symptoms of Minamata Disease with the people of Japan. Some were surprised that Minamata Disease was so global. Also, t...
In June 2010 President Barack Obama signed into law The Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act (PACT Act) preventing the illegal sale of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco over the Internet. Since the passage of the law the Seneca Nation has been fighting in court to receive an exempt from the law. The PACT Act also states that tobacco sellers must collect taxes in every state where they sell their product – a task that is nearly impossible to achieve since every state has a different set of laws....
WASHINGTON – The level of violent crime on reservations is still far higher than in other communities a year after broad measures to boost law enforcement took effect, officials told the Senate Indian Affairs Committee Thursday....
LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM, Wash.—Interior Secretary Ken Salazar reaffirmed the Obama administration’s commitment to Indian country September 17, saying one of the president’s “highest priorities” is that Interior work on behalf of American Indian interests and “make sure that they get their rightful place at the table....
Jamaica Plain resident Debra Shopteese became the first Native American justice to sit on the Massachusetts District Court after being sworn-in Sept. 21 alongside Peter Coyne, her colleague on the juvenile court....
Among the turkey legs, curly fries, caramel apples and other fair food, the culinary arts students from Navajo Technical College offered a wholesome alternative for fairgoers during last week's 65th Annual Navajo Nation Fair....
ANCHORAGE—United States Attorney Karen L Loeffler announced that a Barrow woman was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for wire fraud, theft, and misapplication of funds from an organization receiving federal grant funds and money laundering....
A Spokane man linked to a burglary by a pair of shorts left near the scene of the incident has pleaded guilty to theft....
COEUR D’ALENE—Samuel Allman IV, 23, of Spokane, Washington, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Coeur d’Alene to theft from an Indian tribal organization, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced....
Bill John Baker says Chief Chad Smith caused this problem over the freedmen descendants. A Baker supporter, Councilwoman Fishinghawk, started the petition to vote on freedmen. In 2007, a majority of Cherokee citizens voted against continuance of services to those freedmen descendants who were not Cherokee blood — a requirement for any other person to verify their inheritance for citizenship....
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe is calling bunk on a claim by the Benewah County prosecutor that tribal members don't have the right to hunt on reservation land owned by non-tribal members....
An appeal hearing in the case of the ousted chief and council of the Bearspaw First Nation has been cancelled, effectively wrapping up the lengthy legal battle that has divided the small Alberta native band for months. Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Ousted+Bearspaw+chief+councillors+cancel+appeal/5446736/story.html#ixzz1Z3vHe7x7...
A hearing officer has ruled that the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe cannot revoke the membership of an 87-year-old elder, despite the fact that she is not directly descended from a person listed on one of the Tribe’s base rolls....
We still hold certain truths to be self-evident. But other assertions made back in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson and framers of the Declaration of Independence are real head-scratchers. Read more: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_92105d7c-e656-11e0-b1f5-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1Z3wIKtWA...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM. - On Saturday September 24th, Sacred Power Motorsports (SPM) will make its racing debut in the #73 Dodge RAM at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. SPM is the first top level Native American owned NASCAR team that is featuring a Native American driver. The owner of the team is David Melton from the Pueblo of Laguna tribe in NM. David also owns Sacred Power Corporation, the largest...
BANGOR — A federal grand jury has indicted a Bowdoin man for accepting drug company payments – or kickbacks – while working as a pharmacist for the mail-order pharmacy PIN Rx....
MADISON — Federal prosecutors have charged the Menominee tribal police chief’s son with dealing cocaine as part of a drug probe on the tribe’s reservation....
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — The Benewah County prosecutor was incorrect to say the Coeur d'Alene Tribe in northern Idaho does not have the right to hunt or fish on reservation land owned by non-tribal members, tribal officials say....