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Five former employees of Sage Memorial Hospital in Ganado, Ariz. are accusing the hospital's chief executive officer, Ahmad R. Razaghi, of skimming millions from the .638 hospital since he took over its operations seven years ago....
A long battle over a little girl has apparently ended. Baby Veronica is going back to South Carolina to live with her adoptive parents. The Oklahoma Supreme Court lifted an order keeping the child in Oklahoma, one of many state rulings made after the U.S. Supreme Court said the Indian Child Welfare Act did not apply. The high court ruled that Veronica’s biological father, an enrolled Cherokee, had not established a parental relationship with the girl, and so there was no family connection to preserve. A former judge with the Oglala Sioux T...
MINNEAPOLIS – A little over a week after his misdemeanor trespassing trial ended with a hung jury, charges against Clyde Bellecourt were dropped by the Minneapolis prosecutor's office....
The United Nations Human Rights Council has recommended that Canada convene a national inquiry into the deaths and disappearances of aboriginal women, and Prime Minister Steven Harper’s representative to the body has rejected it. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/22/open-letter-blasts-canadas-refusal-convene-national-missing-women-inquiry-151387...
A Manitoba chiefs organization is in “chaos” as it deals with allegations its grand chief spent a large amount of the organization’s money at a casino, while at the same time its chief of staff is facing a sexual harassment complaint filed with the Canadian Human Rights Commission....
If you are following efforts by the Nooksack tribal government to purge 306 members from its rolls, you probably hold one of two views on the matter. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/28/disenrollment-bad-bottom-line...
Automatic federal budget cuts are hurting the Sioux Falls School District’s ability to serve a growing Native American student population....
The Gathering of Nations powwow, the world’s largest gathering of Native American and indigenous people, has been designated as one of the Top 100 Events in North America for 2014 by the American Bus Association. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/27/gathering-nations-named-one-top-events-north-america-151477...
A growing number of police agencies across Wisconsin are withholding information that once was routinely released, though that problem is less prevalent in the Northwoods....
Lac du Flambeau - Operation Pandora made another drug bust a week ago....
The online hacker group Anonymous has turned its attention to Canada’s missing and murdered women, compiling a map from police reports and online public input that designates each case across Turtle Island for the past 10 years with a glaring red circle. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/02/06/anonymous-creates-map-turtle-islands-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women-147502...
WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday denied an appeal made by several Native American tribal lenders who were seeking to block a civil investigation into their online payday lending practices....
WASHINGTON — Three Indian tribes that run online lending businesses have lost a bid to block a federal regulator from probing their operations....
The United States Supreme Court and Native Americans, the relationship has been good and bad…recent rulings have not gone the way Indian Country hoped. The Supreme Court, friend or foe, it’s the law of the land....
On Sept. 16, Food Safety News published an article by Kelly Damewood entitled, “FDA Finally Addresses Tribes on FSMA,” which stated that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not engaged in formal consultation with tribes regarding their proposed produce safety rules as part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Formal tribal consultation, she explained, is triggered through Executive Order 13175, when an agency’s rules have substantial direct effects on tribes or effects on the relationship between tribes and the gover...
The Southern Chiefs' Organization, which represents 33 chiefs in southern Manitoba, has been rocked by allegations the grand chief made thousands of dollars worth of cash withdrawals at locations in Minnesota, including a casino and an amusement park....
BISMARCK, N.D. | The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has a new chairman....
Two hundred years of tribal law will be upended if a federal judge allows the U.S. government to prosecute a Blackfeet Indian leader and state senator for a victimless crime that happened on the reservation, a Blackfeet attorney said Thursday....
GANADO, Ariz. – Ahmad R. Razaghi, CEO of Sage Memorial hospital is under fire for allegedly taking millions from the community hospital in Ganado. A small town on the Navajo reservation....
Some Wisconsin tribal leaders are calling on the legislature to grant them more sovereign control over enforcing criminal and civil law on their reservations....
An Avon lawyer pleaded guilty Thursday to a violation of South Dakota’s campaign-finance laws....
Aboriginal people need to play a bigger role into HIV research, as they are the most effected by the current epidemic....
Rice is a food staple for a significant segment of the world’s population, but relatively few people know the process rice goes through prior to arriving on the dinner table....
HAVRE — Officials on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation are searching for a missing 24-year-old man....
