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A Winnipeg photographer has used a 175-year-old photo technique to capture the strength of Manitoba's Indigenous women and girls. Jon Adaskin's photo series, Dignity, went on display at the Haberdashery on Albert Street this week. Adasking photographed 20 Indigenous women and girls who had loved ones who had either been murdered or gone missing. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-photographer-captures-strength-of-indigenous-women-and-girls-in-new-exhibit-1.3791172...
OKMULGEE, Okla. (KTUL) -- The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has laid off more than 100 health care workers since Friday. Workers from the tribe's six clinics were let go and the home health program is slated to be phased out over time. MCN is also closing its 22-bed rehabilitation center in Okmulgee with plans to send long-term patients to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Medical Center, previously known as Okmulgee Memorial Hospital. http://ktul.com/news/local/muscogee-creek-nation-turns-to-layoffs-to-make-up-for-budget-shortfall...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Justice Department sided with two Nevada tribes' interpretation of a key part of the U.S. Voting Rights Act and a judge said she will issue a ruling Friday in the native Paitues' legal battle with state and county officials over minority access to the polls. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du listened to arguments during a daylong hearing Tuesday in Reno on whether to grant the tribes' request for an emergency order establishing satellite voting sites on their Pyramid Lake and Walker River reservations in northern Nevada's h...
WASHINGTON — Federal officials signed an agreement with Navajo leaders Sept. 27 giving the tribe the authority to implement a single set of standards, assessments and accountability measures for tribal schools that are scattered over three states. Before the agreement between Navajo officials and the secretaries of Education and the Interior, the tribe’s 66 Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools were subject to regulation by Arizona, New Mexico, Utah or the BIE. “You’re not dealing with the complexities of three different states and three d...
LAS VEGAS (CN) — A federal judge ordered payday lenders that refused to settle with the Federal Trade Commission to pay $1.3 billion for defrauding consumers. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro on Friday granted the FTC motion for summary judgment against AMG Capital, Level 5, Black Creek, Broadmoor, and Scott Tucker, who "controlled, founded or was president" of the payday lenders, and ordered them to pay $1,301,897,652. Tucker and his companies challenged as hearsay much of the FTC evidence against them, including emails written by Tucker, a...
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A Los Angeles federal judge’s ruling against CashCall Inc. over alleged predatory lending practices is a win for consumers, an expert in responsible lending says. “The court’s decision is a huge victory for consumers in helping enforce laws that are in place to protect against high-cost lending practices,” Diane Standaert, director of state policy at the Center for Responsible Lending, told Legal Newsline. http://legalnewsline.com/stories/511012850-cfpb-s-victory-over-cashcall-a-win-for-consume...
Veteran reporter Connie Walker says there needs to be more discussion on how Indigenous people are portrayed in the media. Walker, a CBC national reporter, will be speaking at the Reconciliation and the Media conference in Saskatoon later this week. "I think that there's nowhere more important to have that conversation than in provinces like Saskatchewan where there is this really big Indigenous population, First Nations specifically," she told CBC Radio's Morning Edition. "There is this history of under-representation in the media, or...
GREEN BAY (WTAQ-WLUK) - The village of Hobart says the Oneida Nation used land not in trust for its Big Apple Fest - and claims some of land that is in trust status was placed their improperly. Those are two of the claims in the village's response to an on-going dispute about if the village can require the tribe to have a special events permit. Hobart maintains that the tribe is required to get a special events permit for its Big Apple Fest. The tribe maintains that because the activity was on land held in federal trust, the village's...
More than 250 B.C. foster children were victims of sexualized violence over the four years documented in a disturbing new report — an increasing trend that demands improved response and treatment, the children’s representative says. “The fact that response is so poor and the reported level is coming up, suggests there’s some need to make some investment here,” representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond said Tuesday while releasing her latest report, Too Many Victims. “B.C. should not tolerate or accept sexual victimization of children. T...
Indigenous girls in the B.C. child-welfare system are as much as four times more likely to be victims of sexual violence than non-indigenous girls, according to a watchdog report that describes a failing, ad hoc approach to preventing and responding to the sexual victimization of children in care. B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth said in the review there were 145 incidents of sexual violence against 121 children and youth in care disclosed between 2011 and 2014. Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said she was s...
The Indian Health Service has a new partner as it tries to fix alarming deficiencies at its hospitals, which have come under federal scrutiny in the past year. The CMS said Tuesday it had awarded a contract for quality improvement at IHS hospitals to HealthInsight, a not-for-profit, community-based organization, to "support, build and redesign if needed" the infrastructure of hospitals run by the IHS. “IHS hospitals—and our staff members across the country—are focused on continuous improvement. (HealthInsight) will provide training for our s...
It looks apocalyptic as Nancy Thomas walks the edge of the pit where Shamattawa's band office and only store once stood. It's been days but the smell of smoke lingers from the devastating blaze RCMP say was lit by kids. "There'll be more," Thomas says. "There's even little kids that are threatening other people that when they sleep they're going to set the fire while they're sleeping. So people are afraid." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/shamattawa-arson-help-kids-1.3789731...
The second of three suspects in the savage beating deaths of two homeless men learned his fate on Tuesday. Nathaniel Carrillo was sentenced to 26 1/2 in prison with 18 1/2 years suspended. Carrillo was charged after two members of Navajo Nation, Allison Gorman and Kee Thompson, were both brutally murdered in Albuquerque more than two years ago. Carrillo agreed to a plea deal this past July. http://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/nathaniel-carrillo-homeless-men-beating-death-allison-gorman-kee-thompson-gilbert-tafoya-alex-rios-2...
