Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Fungal meningitis linked to steroid injections for chronic pain was confirmed Sunday in a third Minnesota woman in her 40s, a state Department of Health spokesman said....
ST. CLOUD, MINN. - Jason Carlson spends little time standing in front of his general biology class. He bounces around the room, checking a student's quiz, peeking in on a group exercise, suggesting a different idea. His students have already heard him lecture -- online....
To most of the Americans running in Sunday's Twin Cities Marathon, the 28-degree temperature at the start of the race wasn't a big deal. They tugged on stocking caps and layered up, knowing they could peel off excess clothing as they navigated the 26.2 miles from the Metrodome to the State Capitol....
For American Indians, Columbus Day is not a typical holiday. We don't celebrate 500 years of being dominated, exploited, enslaved and nearly exterminated by Europeans. But we do celebrate our survival. Diana King is an enrolled member of the White Earth Indian Nation in northern Minnesota. For the last 12 years, she has taught at the Waubun High School, which is located on a reservation. "Columbus Day is a chance to teach about who we once were, what has become of us since Europeans arrived on...
PHOENIX - The head of the U.S. Border Patrol agents' union says the agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two colleagues thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire....
The path beneath our feet in the new Frog Bay Tribal National Park in Bayfield, Wis., is soft and springy as we walk over peat moss and decades of fallen pine needles, leaves and bark that have collected on the boreal forest floor....
As ICTMN reported in December 2011, the 2010 Veteran Homelessness supplemental assessment report to Congress indicated a disturbing statistic that showed that American Indian and Alaska Native veterans who are poor are two times more likely to be homeless than American Indian and Alaska Native non-veterans who are poor. Homelessness among veterans is an alarming and persisting problem. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is striving for solutions. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/05/va-approves...
BROOKINGS — After a night of swallowing Pepto Bismol for a stomach ache, Hepi Flute Player already was feeling queasy early on Sept. 28 when he walked into the first-floor bathroom of Brown Hall on the South Dakota State University campus....
An Amber Alert has been issued for a mother who took her two-day-old infant from the Alaska Native Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon under circumstances police say are troubling. Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/10/02/2648188/police-troopers-investigate-reported.html#storylink=cpy...
The encroachment of sulfide mining industries poses a grave threat to the waters and ecosystems in northern Minnesota. Mining wastes containing sulfates, methyl mercury, and sulfuric acid will turn the pristine environment into a biohazard zone for humans and wildlife alike....
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, whose federal lawsuit against four Nebraska beer sellers and some of the nation’s biggest breweries was dismissed this week, may refile the lawsuit in state court, the tribe’s attorney said....
Jezebel noted today that online fashion retailer Asos has contemporary apparel on its site identified as “Navajo.” Asos carries products made by a number of manufacturers, and a search for “Navajo” on the site generated 372 results. Most of those, granted, were not explicitly labeled Navajo, and in fact “Aztec” is a more popular designation for products intended to be, essentially, “Indian-looking.” Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/05/so-called-navajo-underwear-its-not-just-for-girls-anymore-137935 http://indianco...
(PJMedia) Recently, Native American Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK, member of the Chickasaw Nation) introduced H.R. 2362, the Indian Trade and Investment Demonstration Project. The bill singles out Turkish-owned companies for exclusive investment preferences and special rights in Native American tribal area projects....
The California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center opened its doors at Cal State San Marcos last November. The center released its first report on American Indian education in California at the California Indian Conference being held on campus Friday and Saturday....
This past January, almost exactly 20 years after its publication, Tucson schools banned the book I co-edited with Bob Peterson, Rethinking Columbus. It was one of a number of books adopted by Tucson's celebrated Mexican American Studies program -- a program long targeted by conservative Arizona politicians....
COEUR D’ALENE-- The Coeur d'Alene Tribal Police retired their K-9 after it bit a man in the face during an arrest in September....
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A South Carolina couple has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a ruling sending their adopted American Indian daughter back to her father in Oklahoma under the federal Indian Child Welfare Act....
Two women in Nunavik had an unusual encounter while berry picking on Saturday....
The Oglala Sioux Tribe will propose lifting an alcohol ban on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota as a way to regulate the flow of beer and malt liquor onto the reservation, which has been plagued by alcohol problems for years, officials said Thursday....
The rally, which was part of a nationwide vigil took place on Thursday where protestors called on the government to put an end to violence against aboriginal women....
Demonstrators marched through Calgary Thursday to bring attention to the disappearance of hundreds of aboriginal women....
Lorelei Williams believes people are increasingly “getting the message” about the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women across the country....
The request seemed straightforward: A 440-acre parcel of undeveloped land near St. Louis River, including an 80-acre lake and 83 acres of wetlands, was being marketed for development by a real estate broker....
A former First Nations chief says he will meet with the Iranian regime in Tehran next week as part of an “exploratory mission” to discuss resource development and “human rights abuses” in Canada, sparking widespread condemnation and concerns about Iran’s intentions....
"Small trees had attacked my parents' house at the foundation,” begins “The Round House,” Louise Erdrich's wise and suspenseful new novel. Bazil and Joe, a tribal judge and his 13-year-old son, work to pry loose the stalky shoots squeezing through the cracks between the brown shingles covering the cement blocks of their North Dakota home on the Ojibwe reservation. It seems like a Sunday afternoon worthy of Norman Rockwell, until the simple question: “Where's your mother?” Geraldine was to have made a quick trip to the office where she worke...
