Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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A shake up in the Eastern Band of Cherokee came yesterday when a group called the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for Justice & Accountability (EBCIJA) filed suit in Tribal Court. The group is seeking to have a resolution overturned that was passed by the last Tribal Council giving themselves significant pay raises. EBCIJA alleges that the resolution violates the Cherokee Code and was therefore an illegal action under tribal law. Not only does the suit say the pay raises were illegal, it accuses the former Chief and Vice Chief of conspiring...
FLANDREAU - The Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe is blazing the trail for recreational marijuana use. The tribe is the first in the country to legalize marijuana in a state where the drug is illegal. In less than 90 days the tribe is getting ready to open the doors to their dispensary and lounge, where it will be legal to buy and use marijuana. The tribe is getting ready to go where no other tribe has gone before, by legalizing marijuana use on the reservation. http://www.ksfy.com/home/headlines/Flandreau-Tribe-prepares-for-medi...
Warning: Contains descriptions of sexual violence against women Overt and unnecessary sexual violence, particularly against women, is apparent in all forms of entertainment. Even during its formative years, the gaming industry was no different. In fact, 'erotic' games were an entire genre unto themselves and some publishers were even established with the sole purpose of creating games that were designed to be titillating. The problem was that many of them were disgusting and highly offensive. Here are a few choice examples: Custer's Revenge:...
Lawrence - On a breezy fall afternoon at the southeast corner of Haskell Indian Nations University, pinwheels spin above the bones of more than 100 Indian children buried in orderly rows beneath faded white headstones. The graves belong to infants, kids and teens who died long ago, most within the first 15 years of the school’s founding in 1884, when its mission was to destroy tribal identity and force Indian assimilation to the ways of white America. It was set to do as Army Capt. Richard Henry Pratt proposed when such schools were e...
SIOUX FALLS, SD - The website is down; the employees let go and reservation schools across South Dakota are wondering after the GEAR UP program was dismantled. The state is waiting for word from the federal government on the future of the Native American education program. While GEAR UP federal grant money came to the state and flowed through Mid Central Education Cooperative, many schools hired outside contractors to run it in their buildings. http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/possible-grant-money-shortfalls-concern-re...
NESPELEM--The Colville Business Council's Management and Budget Committee approved two recommendations concerning payouts to come in the fall quarter, today in committee, Oct. 7. Approved was a $350 elder stipend to be distributed on or before Nov. 2 as well as a $200 per capita payment to be distributed on or before Dec. 7. M&B approved a recommendation stating there will be no hold with the December per capita payment. The two recommendations move to Special Session tomorrow, Oct. 8. http://www.tribaltribune.com/news/artic...
