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The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have a new administration leading the tribe. Following the Tribal General Election on Tuesday, Joseph G. Wildcat, Sr. was elected President. John "Goober" Johnson, Sr. was named vice-president. Henry "Butch" St. Germaine had been the previous President. Elected to the tribal council were Steve Beson, Betty Jo Graveen, Frank Mitchell, Sr. and William "Bill" Stone, Sr. The President, Vice-President and council members will be sworn in on October 10. http://wxpr.org/post/lac-du...
Tribal officials told a congressional panel meeting in Santa Fe on Tuesday that they want more autonomy from the federal government and that their communities are unjustly burdened by red tape that prevents energy development on Native lands. Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources, chaired by Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, joined by Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., and a panel of expert witnesses, said the policies of the Obama administration and Interior Department are stalling energy development for...
OKMULGEE — Facing a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Department of Health closed out fiscal year 2016 by cutting its workforce by 15 percent. A Creek Nation spokesman confirmed that 123 health care employees were laid off Friday, with 55 more transferred to other positions within the tribe as part of a reorganization to balance the department’s budget. A breakdown of the staffing cuts by facility or specialty area was not available as of Wednesday, but Creek Nation spokesman Thompson Gouge said most of the lay...
Majerle Lister is a young Navajo voter who has lived on and off the reservation. There are 22 federally recognized tribes in Arizona including the largest in the country — the Navajo. As the second largest minority American Indians make up 5 percent of state population. While that doesn’t seem like that much, as a block they’ve been the swing vote in close races. Twenty two-year-old Majerle Lister has been watching the presidential race closely. “I’ve always been political,” Lister said. “My grandfather was a chapter house president but...
PINE RIDGE SD (Native Sun News Today) –– Justice for a little boy, who in two years of life experienced more tragic events than many experience in a life time, is happening on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. On Monday, Oct. 3, a hearing for the three judges involved in Kylen’s custody case and many other cases on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation was held at the Prairie Wind Casino. Late Monday evening, Chief Judge Craven, Judge Fenton and Judge Whirlwind Horse were terminated in the hearing. http://www.drgnews.com/three-...
TALLAHASSEE — After losing an initial legal round, the Seminole Tribe of Florida is asking a judge to block the state Department of Environmental Protection from moving forward with controversial new water-quality standards while an appeal plays out. The tribe, in a document filed in the state Division of Administrative Hearings, requested a stay and pointed, in part, to concerns that the new standards would allow higher levels of some chemicals that could affect fish and other wildlife eaten by tribal members. http://www.th...
RED ROCK, Okla. — Hundreds of people are without clean drinking water in a community just outside of Red Rock in northern Oklahoma. On Sept. 23, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality found high levels of silt and dirt from the Otoe-Missouria Tribe’s water plant that officials said could cause viruses if people drink it. Tribal officials told KOCO 5 the high level of turbidity is a result of last month’s flooding in Kansas. http://www.koco.com/article/hundreds-of-residents-outside-of-red-rock-without-clean-drinking...
WINNEBAGO, Neb. | Three members were voted onto the Winnebago Tribal Council Tuesday. Incumbents Frank White and Kenneth Mallory and newcomer Coly Brown will serve a three-year term. White received 182 votes, Mallory had 161 and Brown had 160. Brown ousted former member James Louis Larose who had 156 votes. http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/three-elected-to-winnebago-tribal-council/article_4ba7b6dd-99fc-5556-b733-5278ef6bdb3a.html...
Groomed for a lifetime of victimization,” says Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond. Too often, that is the tragic fate of kids in a child-welfare system that is supposed to protect them. Those who are victimized – abused sexually and otherwise – are most likely to be indigenous girls. But children with disabilities, mental illnesses and substance-abuse issues are also at higher risk. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/failure-to-protect-indigenous-children-in-care-perpetuates-cycle-of-abuse/article32252228/...
First Nations advocates are calling for provincial action after B.C.'s representative of children and youth report found hundreds of B.C. children in foster care were victims of sexualized violence. The report cites at least 233 cases of sexualized violence against young people in care in B.C., although it also says the number could be higher as many cases go unreported. More than 60 per cent of the victims were Indigenous girls, the report found, even though Indigenous youth only make up a quarter of the youth in foster care in B.C....
The Wesley First Nation hosted Stoney Tribal Administration CEO, Ken Christensen last week to present a financial update to the Stoney community. The community meeting, which took place at the Chief Goodstoney Rodeo Centre, was held, presumably, to provide a financial update. Interestingly, the CEO presented an update on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) funding and excluded information on capital (band) revenue. In recent months, Stoney Tribal Administration has laid off many band administration employees. In...
Shoshone business council members tried to fire tribal court employees Monday. The federal contract to operate tribal court ended Friday, so court employees got letters from the Shoshone business council to clear out their desks Monday. Deputy Tribal Prosecutor Wayland Large said “when I got my lay-off notice on Monday was uncalled for and it still needed to be an action item for the Arapahoe business council to do an action not just one council, the Shoshone business council to do this.” http://www.kcwy13.com/content/news/T...
Update: A contract listing a Gear Up consultant's pay rate at $500 an hour was incorrect, according to Attorney General Marty Jackley. The incorrect document was among those introduced by Jackley last week in a court case against the nonprofit's former executive director. South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley hopes to bring several contracts before a Charles Mix County jury as evidence that Mid-Central Educational Cooperative's former executive director Dan Guericke was involved in a money-funneling scheme. http://www....
At 20 years old you can tell Liam Napaokesik is wiser than his age. The brand new teaching assistant at Shamattawa's school is smartly dressed and upbeat but he isn't all that different from the youth he's working with. "It's tough," he says about growing up here. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/finding-hope-after-arson-in-shamattawa-1.3791818...
Kristina Alexis has a dream to go to university to become a lawyer, but the challenge of getting through high school is proving more complicated than she expected. Funding challenges at the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, about 90 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, mean most classes at the Alexis Elementary, Jr. & Sr. High School are split between two grade levels. Concentrating can be difficult when two teachers are teaching two different subjects in the same room at the same time. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/funding-...
Rory Wakemup combines elements of Star Wars with native dress to create fusion artwork costumes that will be used in a performance of the upcoming Indigenous Peoples Day celebration. http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-artist-creates-star-wars-inspired-native-american-art/395905831/#1...
The last time Jason Pruden lived in Lake St. Martin, he was only seven years old. He's now 14 and knows what it's like to lose everything. At a rundown school sprayed with graffiti on Ness Avenue in Winnipeg, Pruden is sharing his experiences of being forced from his home and losing everything with five new tornado-displaced classmates from Long Plain First Nation. He's among 136 students from Lake St. Martin who are still waiting for their community to be rebuilt after the flood of 2011. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manito...
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. -- The lore of Ghost Bridge, also known as Third Bridge, dates back to the time Native Americans lived in the eastern Arapahoe County prairies. And nightly, teens from all over the metro are coming to check out the reported paranormal activity, saying they’ve been warned about the spot. “That it's creepy and I shouldn't go out there, but we did because it was haunted," said Kelsey Stobel, who goes to school nearby. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/reported-haunted-bridge-in-arapahoe-coun...
