Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Polaris Industries Inc. is recalling several 2015 all-terrain vehicles due to a possible fire hazard caused by an installation error the may prompt the fuel tank vent line to pinch and catch fire, company officials said Monday. The voluntary recall, which affects 53,000 Polaris’ 2015 RZR 900 and RZR 1000 ATV models, was reported to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Transport Canada. The company said if tank vent lines were installed incorrectly and pinched, the tank could pressurize, causing it to expand, leak and possibly c...
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel prize in medicine went Monday to three scientists hailed as "heroes in the truest sense of the word" for saving millions of lives with the creation of the world's leading malaria-fighting drug and another that has nearly wiped out two devastating tropical diseases. Tu Youyou — the first-ever Chinese medicine laureate — turned to ancient texts to produce artemesinin, a drug that is now the top treatment for malaria. Inspired by traditional Chinese medicine, Tu discovered that a compound from the wormwood plant was highl...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a rare personal message, California's 77-year-old governor provided insight into his deliberations before deciding to sign a bill allowing terminally ill Californians to legally take their own lives, reflecting on religion and self-determination as he weighed an emotionally fraught choice. Gov. Jerry Brown, a lifelong Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian, said he consulted a Catholic bishop, two of his own doctors and friends "who take varied, contradictory and nuanced positions." http://www.startrib...
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OK. I have nothing to lose, so I’m going to go all the way out to the edge on this gun issue. In 2005, I watched as my friends at Red Lake were killed, traumatized and besieged by reporters, then forgotten, after a confused and alienated kid drove to the school where I had worked and killed seven people. I am, as I write this, on a plane back to my home in Portland, Ore., 180 miles north of the mass-murder site in the town of Roseburg, where I used to buy car parts when I lived in the Oregon woods many years ago and where I have visited on m...
The White Earth Band of Ojibwe had a deal lined up last year to buy 2,000 acres of forest, grassland and water west of Itasca State Park using a $2 million Minnesota Legacy Amendment grant. Using Legacy money seemed to make sense. The funds are meant to be used partly to protect Minnesota wetlands and wildlife habitat. The band intended to keep the land undeveloped. The Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, which reviews and recommends Legacy spending, backed the deal. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/10/05/land-deal...
ZERKEL, Minn. (AP) — The White Earth Band of Ojibwe is making a second run at a $2.2 million grant to protect around 2,000 acres of wetlands and forests in Clearwater County near Lower Rice Lake, an important source of wild rice for the northwestern Minnesota tribe. On Tuesday, the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council will consider whether to recommend the project to the Legislature. It's one of several projects totaling $291 million competing for about $105 million in funds generated by the sales tax hike approved under the 2008 Legacy A...
In today’s special session, Oct. 1, the Colville Business Council vote to approve an amendment of the Colville Tribal Code that legalizes small amounts of marijuana on the reservation, a change intended to match Washington State’s current law. CBC discussed the amendment in Law and Justice Committee, Sept. 23, voting to move a recommendation forward for the final vote. Previously, the proposed amendment had been published for a 90-day comment period before CBC opted to put forth a referendum vote to the tribal membership. The vote passed by...
ST. PAUL -- The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe wants a say in the permitting process for the Sandpiper pipeline, which it feels is a threat to its environment and culture. The band filed a petition Wednesday to intervene in the route permitting for the pipeline, seeking to become an official party to the legal procedure. "The governments of the United States and Minnesota have an express duty to accord Mille Lacs Band the full status of a sovereign government," the petition said. "No other party to these proceedings can adequately represent the...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The Administration for Native Americans has awarded a $400,000 emergency grant to the Oglala Sioux Tribe to pay for activities and programs designed to prevent youth suicides on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Kevin Yellow Bird Steele, a spokesman for the tribe, told the Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/1VABP5f ) that the money will be used to provide youth activities that promote positivity. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oglala-Sioux-Tribe-receives-400K-for-suicide-6550534.php...
Fifteen years ago in Thunder Bay, a two-week search for 15-year-old Jethro Anderson ended with the discovery of the boy’s body in the McIntyre River. On May 10, 2011, the body of 15-year-old Jordan Wabasse turned up in another river a few kilometres away. The two drownings bookend a morbid pattern in Thunder Bay. Five other young aboriginals from similar backgrounds died in the city over those 11 years, each death claiming the life of a student who was forced to leave home in a remote Ontario community to pursue high school in the p...
WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska has scheduled a swearing-in ceremony after this week's election to fill eight of its nine open council seats. The elected members will take their oath of office at 10 a.m. Wednesday, one day after the election. The ceremony will take place at the Blackhawk Center Gymnasium in Winnebago. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/8-Winnebago-Tribe-council-members-to-take-oath-of-6550913.php...
Senior U.S. District Judge James A. Parker has given preliminary approval to a $940 million settlement with more than 600 tribes and tribal entities in a long-standing dispute over contract payments from the federal government. Ramah Navajo Chapter, later joined by the Pueblo of Zuni and the Oglala Sioux Tribe, filed the lawsuit in 1990 after the Bureau of Indian Affairs failed to pay support costs associated with tribes who were handling services such as law enforcement. Tribes took over many functions previously handled by the BIA following...
The acclaimed Minnesota author David Treuer will speak about his writing career and his nonfiction book Rez Life, in which Treuer provides a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. The event will be held at 2 p.m. on Oct. 20 in the Le Sueur-Henderson High School Auditorium. David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Minnesota Book Award, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation....
In 1862, 38 men of the Dakota Native American tribe were hanged in what’s been described as the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Lincoln ordered the killings after the Santee Sioux uprising the previous summer left 490 white settlers dead. Now, more than 150 years later, Lisa Yankton, a Minneapolis-based poet and member of the Dakota tribe, fears this history will be forgotten. So she’s retelling it through her poetry. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/native-poets-lisa-yankton/...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Havre businessman agreed to plead guilty to bribing a tribal official and conspiring to make false claims in order to take federal stimulus money awarded to the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. Defendant Shad Huston signed the plea deal on Friday, acknowledging that he bribed a Chippewa Cree official and used fake invoices to get paid for work his companies never did on the reservation. http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Havre-businessman-to-plead-guilty-in-tribal-6551227.php...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Sentencing is scheduled for a man convicted of firing a shotgun at a residence during a drive-by shooting on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Michael Mitzel pleaded guilty to three counts, including reckless endangerment and terrorizing. Authorities say Mitzel tried to cover up the August 2014 shooting by hiding the gun and selling the vehicle. http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/10/05/man-faces-20-years-for-drive-by-shooting-on-reservation/...
