Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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CALEDONIA, Ont. — Protesters calling for action on missing and murdered aboriginal women have closed stretches of two highways in Ontario....
According to a 2010 First People's Council report, my heritage language is the third most endangered indigenous language in British Columbia. It is the language of this land that Vancouver currently resides on -- and today it has less than six fluent speakers alive in the world....
Navajo Vice President Rex Lee Jim is recovering from a deadly spider bite that nearly claimed his life. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/10/02/rex-lee-jim-recovering-spider-bite-scare-reveals-diabetes-157155...
Really? What were they thinking? It’s the question that The Post-Standard’s editorial board is asking some of Liverpool High School’s football fans who made the reckless decisions to wear Native headdress, feathers and T-shirts with “Tribe” on the front of them to their homecoming game. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2014/10/04/papers-editorial-board-says-high-schoolers-went-too-far-offensive-depictions-157182...
A Winnipeg law professor says the city stands as a prime example of the racial tensions that exist between the Indigenous peoples of Canada and police forces....
Working closely with four American Indian tribes and four Canadian First Nations, Les Whitbeck, professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his colleagues have developed a model of adolescent development for indigenous youth, based on data collected during an 8-year longitudinal study of 746 tribally-enrolled kids. “Indigenous Adolescent Development: Psychological, Social and Historical Contexts” (Routledge), the first book based on the research, details the findings from the first four years of this landmark study, when the...
Western science studies the natural world by discipline: geology, botany, physics, astronomy, chemistry, zoology. ... Native American wisdom looks at the world as a whole, with humans as part of the picture....
Catherine Zeta-Jones has been chosen to star as the infamous Colombian mafia leader and drug kingpin Griselda Blanco, who was the most imposing female figure in the cocaine wars of Miami during the 1970s and ’80s. Blanco, whose time in power earned her the nicknames La Madrina, Black Widow, and the Cocaine Godmother, was the only woman to become a leader in the terrifying Medellin drug cartel of Colombia. It has been estimated that she participated in the murders of around 200 people during her time in power. Read more: http...
Timothy Johnson is the first enrolled member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe to play professional basketball. The rookie, who is also part Sioux from Standing Rock, recently joined the Arizona Scorpions, which is part of the American Basketball Association (SoCal). Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/10/03/arizona-scorpions-add-first-san-carlos-apache-tribal-member-roster-157165...
It can be challenging to come up with enough referees in Sioux Falls, the largest city in the Dakotas. But it's exponentially more difficult at the middle school level in less populated communities set on Native American reservations....
After months of investigating,police have arrested two 12 year old First Nations boys in connection with an on ice brawl earlier this year....
Thunder Bay police say a 20 year old student attending Dennis Franklin Cromarty high school in the city is dead following a stabbing outside a theatre Friday....
Sagkeeng First Nation was in mourning, grieving the loss of an aboriginal girl who days before became the latest indigenous woman to go from missing to murdered....
The federal government is spending $1.1 million to fund eight new projects to combat violence against women and girls online, Status of Women Minister Kellie Leitch announced today....
An outreach group is warning sex workers in Newfoundland’s largest city about several reports of gang rapes as police encouraged victims to come forward....
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Peabody Western Coal Co. can give preference to Navajo tribal members when making hiring decisions for mines on the Navajo Nation....
It’s been a tough few years for the Spirit Lake tribe. The reservation has been struggling with its child protection programs and other issues....
The Federal Bureau of Investigation charged three residents of the Wind River Indian Reservation with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Jared Little Whiteman....
The confusion begins with the entrance to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, a soaring, curving stone building at the southeastern corner of the Mall....
A Hamilton oncologist testifying at a hearing into an indigenous child who has quit chemotherapy in favour of traditional medicine says in a similar case earlier this year, another First Nation girl stopped her chemo and has now suffered a relapse....
PLUMMER, Idaho (AP) — A manhunt is on in northern Idaho for a fugitive police say fired shots at officers following a pursuit near Plummer....
Nay Ah Shing is a tribal school that has been a part of our community for several decades though a lot of people don't understand the structure and uniqueness it holds within its walls. There are many similar features to public schools but one big aspect that sets it apart is its focus on Ojibwe language and culture. Structure The administration structure at Nay Ah Shing is different from most public schools in that the head administrator is part of the Mille Lacs Band government. Commissioner...
A first grade teacher is being investigated for allegedly punching a Pit River Tribe first grader at a school in the same Northern California district where there have been multiple reports of institutional prejudice and bullying against Native students, including two racist notes that were posted on high school students’ lockers this March. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/10/02/back-boarding-school-teacher-allegedly-punches-pit-river-first-grader-157157...
ARAPAHOE, Wyo. (AP) — The word was "still." Joan Willow circled the "s'' and the "t'' on the white board in her classroom at Arapahoe Elementary School. Her second-graders checked their answers after a paper-and-pencil spelling test....
MALDEN — A proposal that would have established the state’s first charter school to immerse students in a Native American language will not move forward....
