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WASHINGTON, DC – On Wednesday, November 13, President Obama will host the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the Department of the Interior. The conference will provide leaders from the 566 federally recognized tribes the opportunity to interact directly with the President and members of the White House Council on Native American Affairs. Each federally recognized tribe will be invited to send one representative to the conference. This will be the fifth White House Tribal Nations Conference for the Obama Administration, and continues t...
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today recognized more than 900 Champions for Coverage nationwide. These organizations and businesses have volunteered to help Americans without affordable insurance learn more and get coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace, which opens for business tomorrow and will give consumers a whole new way to shop and purchase affordable, high quality health coverage. “A network of volunteers on the ground in every state – health care providers, business leaders, faith leaders, com...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Court of Appeals is expected to rule Monday on a challenge to a state law against "advising" suicide....
WASHINGTON — Hours before a threatened government shutdown, the Senate has the next move Monday on must-do budget legislation that has fueled a bitter congressional dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law....
Faced with a steady and apparently rising stream of homes that are overflowing with garbage, filth and just plain stuff, Minnesota cities are marshaling resources against the threat to public health and safety....
Block clubs are going virtual. More and more neighbors who in the past would have organized community meetings to share news of the latest garage break-in or bike theft are now turning online to discuss crime....
Imee Clark lost her administrative job of 10 years in 2009 after Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines acquired Northwest Airlines. The veteran worker has applied for countless jobs and earned several software certifications only to be told by prospective employers that she lacks sufficient experience....
If Republicans in Congress and the Democratic White House do not resolve their differences in time, the federal government will begin a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, with all but essential services curtailed or closed entirely....
WASHINGTON — OK, gridlocked politicians we're used to. But why padlock the Statue of Liberty?...
Do no work on the seventh day of the week. Do not steal. Honor your parents. All good advice that has stood the test of time....
Nothing, it seemed, could get Cody Cifani to cut back on his daily energy drinks. Then the Texas 15-year-old had two espresso shots, followed by three Monster drinks, to pump himself up for his job at a car shop. Instead of the expected rush, he felt sick....
It will take years to know if the right decision was reached in the case of Baby Veronica, the 4-year-old returned to her adoptive parents this week, over the objections of the biological father she lived with since she was a toddler....
A group of Anishinaabe horseback riders launched a protest in the shadow of Enbridge Energy’s Superior refinery Sunday against the company’s proposed Alberta Clipper Pipeline. If approved and constructed, the pipeline would become North America’s largest conduit for bitumen from Alberta’s tar sand formations. The project would boost the capacity of an existing line from 450,000 to 570,000 barrels per day. Yet protestors expressed concerns about potential damage the new line could cause, citing...
What does it say about safety in Indian country when a television plot featuring meth distribution incorporates tribal land? Breaking Bad might give Indian country the new name of "Broken and Bad" after the brutal television series, featuring tribal lands, exemplified a continuing public safety crisis. Season 5, Episode 13, entitled “To'hajiilee,” aired on September 8, 2013 and marks the beginning of the end for the wildly popular AMC series. It's also one more example of how the media persistently depicts Indian country as the place to go to...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz – Navajo Nation Division of Health program director Mae-Gilene Begay said it took over a year just to get two positions for the Navajo Birth Cohort study....
Officials for the Navajo Department of Transportation are continuing to have problems in spending tribal road funds, according to a recent audit....
Tribal members living on tribal land cannot be prosecuted by the state for failing to register as sex offenders, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Monday....
A new national study by a nonprofit organization says Alaska is second worst in the country in its rate of women killed by men. Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/09/28/3099095/new-study-finds-high-rate-of-alaska.html#storylink=cpy...
The Justice Department will sue North Carolina on Monday over the state’s new voting law, according to a person briefed on the department’s plans, the latest move by the Obama administration to counter a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that officials have said threatens the voting rights of minorities....
For many Americans, the jury’s still out on Obamacare. Its impact on any one person will depend on many factors: Young or old, rural or urban, healthy or sick, rich or poor, and even where you work – a large corporation or a mom and pop restaurant....
KAMIAH, ID - As a form of protest, several students walked out of class in support of a Kamiah High School administrator....
Mary Fay Houston (Dowlin), center, a teacher at Camas Prairie School on the Flathead Indian Reservation, stands outside the school with two others in 1916. Houston was a student at the University of Montana in the teaching program at the time and rode a horse 20 miles to get to the school. For her long ride, the mothers of some of the school children gave Houston a pair of beaded leather gloves....
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced on Friday, Sept. 27 that federal disaster aid has been made available for the Santa Clara Pueblo and ordered federal aid to supplement the Tribe’s efforts in the area affected by severe storms and flooding during the period of July 19-21. ....
Santa Clara Pueblo has been declared a disaster for devastating storms and flooding that occurred in July, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced on Friday September 27. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/29/fema-declares-disaster-santa-clara-pueblo-over-devastating-july-floods-151486...