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CANNON BALL, N.D./WASHINGTON -- Three days after guard dogs attacked Native Americans protesting an oil pipeline project in North Dakota in early September, an unprecedented event took place at the White House. Brian Cladoosby, president of the National Congress of American Indians, which represents more than 500 tribes, spoke to nearly a dozen of President Barack Obama's Cabinet-level advisers at a September 6 meeting of the White House's three-year-old Native American Affairs Council. It was the first time a tribal leader addressed a session...
Something all too familiar is happening in North Dakota right now: Once again, Native Americans are being asked to accept a raw deal. The short version is this: a private energy company, Energy Transfer Partners, is building a pipeline that runs from North Dakota to Illinois like a 1,200-mile zipper that cuts across four states. If completed, the Dakota Access Pipeline will carry nearly half a million barrels of oil each day across the watersheds the Standing Rock Sioux tribe use for drinking water. Now, thousands of Native Americans have...
(MTN News-POLSON) It’s hard to be “different” when you’re in high school. But one 17-year-old Lake County senior is stepping out of the “teenage comfort zone” to make a very adult statement about unsolved murders among Native American women and girls. MTN’s Jill Valley found out how she’s sharing that message through art and activism. Marita Growing Thunder makes most of her clothes — and that sets her apart from other students at Polson High School. http://www.ktvh.com/2016/09/polson-teen-shining-light-important-native-amer...
TRAHANT REPORTS—If Indian country is going to make a difference in this election there are details that need to be completed first. Voter registration is easy. NativeVote.Org has an online set up here that is really easy to use. And the September 26 – 30 is Native Vote Action Week. (Look for hashtag, #NativeVote16 for events and social media posts.) Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/09/26/deadlines-near-registration-early-voting-starts-soon-165896...
Starting Nov. 1, it will be illegal for stores in Cattaraugus County to sell tobacco products to people under age 21. But some are concerned young adults will subvert the new law by driving to nearby Native American territories. County lawmakers voted 14 to 2 to increase the age to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products and e-cigarettes to 21, and the Board of Health unanimously recommended the local law with hopes it would help keep cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes out of the hands of teenagers. http://www....
Today, the White House will host the 8th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference, bringing together leaders from federally recognized tribes to Washington, DC. The President and members of his Cabinet will discuss a range of issues important to tribal leaders, with an emphasis on ways the federal government can continue to strengthen the nation-to-nation relationship and ensure that progress in Indian Country endures for years to come. The Tribal Nations Conference delivers on a promise the President made during a visit to the Crow Nation...
President Barack Obama violated the longstanding, albeit unofficial, rule against presidential headgear on Monday when he accepted a hat and blanket at the White House Tribal Nations Conference. The president was given the hat and blanket by Native American leaders as he took the stage ahead of remarks at the conference. He wore the blanket around his shoulders as a song was played in his honor, but took the hat off after just a few moments. “What an amazing honor and what a kind gesture, for the honor song and the blanket and the hat,” Oba...
President Obama spoke at the annual White House Tribal Nations Conference. Conference attendees included representatives of 567 federally recognized tribes and Native youth. https://www.c-span.org/video/?415843-101/president-obama-addresses-white-house-tribal-nations-conference...
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama addressed tribal leaders on Monday afternoon at his final tribal nations conference of his tenure as president of the United States. The President was honored with a tribal blanket and was given a blanket for the First Lady, who was not attendance. In the end, he told tribal leaders: “I hope I’ve set a direction that others will follow…I’ll see you on the other side.” http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/president-obama-tribal-leaders-hope-ive-set-direction-others-will-follow/...
WASHINGTON — President Obama donned a Native American hat and blanket at his eighth and final White House Tribal Nations conference, symbolically wrapping himself in the mantle of what one tribal leader has called the "first American Indian president." "To blanket is to remember those we honor, those we lost, and those who are going to build our futures," said National Congress of American Indians President Brian Cladoosby before wrapping Obama in a black-and-red blanket named, "Rhythm of the Land." Obama, grinning, called the blanketing c...
As the 8th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference (WHTNC) kicked off Monday in Washington DC, the White House released a massive plan of continued action, entitled “An All-of-Government Approach to Serving Indian Country.” The White House Tribal Nations Conference is the result of the promise President Barack Obama made during a visit to the Crow Nation in May 2008 to host an annual summit with tribal leaders to ensure tribal leaders a seat at the proverbial governmental table. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymed...
President Barack Obama signed a bill promote Native tourism into law on Friday. S.1579, the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act (NATIVE Act), does something rather simple but supporters say it will help draw more people, and their dollars, to Native communities. It requires federal agencies to update their existing management plans and tourism strategies to include tribes, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. "This bill will empower Native communities to tell their own stories and build their own economic...
The United States has reached a settlement with 17 additional Native American tribes that had alleged the federal government mismanaged assets and natural resources held in trust. The latest settlements will resolve the “vast majority” of the outstanding claims, according to a press release. So far the payouts total more than $3.3 billion and cover claims by more than 100 tribes. Some of the resolved claims had dated back more than a century. http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/latest_us_settlement_with_tribes_puts_total_...
The new board of commissioners and new management at the White Mountain Apache Housing Authority are stirring things up, in a very positive way. Under the direction of Executive Director Victor Velasquez, the Housing Authority has successfully completed its 2015 audit on time with no findings. This is the first time in 10 years that the Housing Authority has accomplished this. In fact, the Housing Authority has worked diligently in the last two years to complete five audits (for 2011-2015) so that its audits are current and in compliance with...
It was another entry for Bronson Koenig's photo album already brimming with basketball-related moments, none more memorable than his buzzer-beater against Xavier in the NCAA tournament. But this snapshot was different on many layers and maybe even more meaningful for Wisconsin's 21-year-old senior guard. This was about "selfless" — a Koenig quality — not selfies. "I saw that (photo)," he acknowledged. "I thought that was really inspiring." http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2016-09-26/wisconsin-basketball-bronso...
Ottawa police’s Major Crime Unit is now treating the death of Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook as “suspicious.” Staff-Sgt. Bruce Pirt said Monday there were some aspects to Pootoogook’s death that demand closer inspection. “We are treating it as suspicious,” said Pirt, who is with the Major Crimes Unit. “There are elements that are suspicious, so we are going to have a closer look.” http://aptn.ca/news/2016/09/26/ottawa-police-now-treating-annie-pootoogooks-death-as-suspicious-reviewing-surveillance-footage/...
Inusiq Shoo said he cried “a little bit” when he heard the news his cousin, famed Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook was the woman whose body was found Sept. 19 submerged in the waters of the Rideau River near downtown Ottawa. Shoo said he was on the computer at the Rideau branch of the Ottawa public library Friday when his friend came over to tell him about a story that just popped up on Facebook from Nunavut newspaper Nunatsiaq News saying Pootoogook was dead. “I was shocked,” said Shoo, during an interview at a men’s shelter in Ottawa Friday ni...
