Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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As if long-term displacement from flooding wasn’t enough, aboriginals stuck in hotels in downtown Winnipeg for months have now been branded “dangerous” by Air Canada, which suggested in an internal memo that their presence was the reason it has decided to put personnel up in hotels closer to the airport....
St. Paul, Minn. — Organizers of a new traveling exhibit on tribal treaties in Minnesota say they hope the project sparks discussions about treaty rights. "It's more than an exhibit ... It's a conversation, one that Minnesota's not had for one hundred years or more," said David O'Fallon, president of the Minnesota Humanities Center, at a celebration of the exhibit in St. Paul on Thursday night. The exhibit, "Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations," was the result of a two-year collaboration between Dakota and O...
I hope we have all been following the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) action that is unfolding before us. Why are they protesting? Hopefully OWS is not only due to the rich-poor gap -although, that is reason enough. The main-stream media is describing this movement as having no discernable organization or purpose. Protesters are simply making statements against corporate greed....
The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwa Indians approved the opening of an urban office in Minneapolis. With over 640 members residing in the Metro and surrounding counties the tribe determined the need to not only extend services to its membership but also access and network business, philanthropic and economic development opportunities....
DENVER – A Towaoc man faces felony charges for assault on a police officer. A grand jury on Wednesday indicted Edwin Lehi Jr., 18, on one count of assaulting a federal officer. Lehi has not yet entered a plea. The charge carries a maximum prison sentence of eight years....
Atlantic Canada's 4,500 First Nations students need an action plan to ensure access to quality education and to improve high school graduation rates....
What became of Columbus Day? A generation ago, Columbus Day (Oct. 10) was one of the major holidays of the year. It was the one day off from school in October. It was commem- orated in the way that we recognize our favorite holidays – with a sale. Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/10/07/1855192/the-real-columbus-is-more-interesting.html#ixzz1aMJB597o...
SPOKANE- The man arrested by authorities in connection with a triple homicide on the Crow Indian Reservation was charged with three counts of First Degree Murder in U.S. Federal Court Thursday afternoon in Spokane, Washington....
The tragedy of a triple slaying on the Crow Indian Reservation is "snowballing" across the victims' large and tightly knit families ahead of funeral services set for Saturday, the chairman of the Montana tribe said....
Two Seattle police officers have agreed to cooperate in the FBI's investigation into the fatal shooting of woodcarver John T. Williams by a former officer, but only after they were subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury, according to police officials....
A man accused of firing at authorities on the Hopi Reservation after a domestic dispute with a woman, her father and infant son surrendered after exchanging gunfire, authorities said. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/10/07/20111007Hopi-shooting-suspect-charged-abrk.html#ixzz1aMKTOUBm...
BRANTFORD, ON, CANADA - Mass graves of Mohawk children have been uncovered by ground-penetrating radar at the Mohawk Institute, a residential school for Mohawk operated by the Church of England and the Vatican before its closure in 1970....
WASHINGTON - The White House released President Barak Obama's Presidential Proclamation declaring Monday, October 10, 2011, as Columbus Day. The Proclamation reads in part: "In commemoration of Christopher Columbus's historic voyage 519 years ago, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30,1934, and modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), as amended, has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as "Columbus Day."" Monday is an official national holiday. Many federa...
The Native American Community Clinic (NACC) and the Indian Health Board (IHB) have teamed up to reopen the Running Wolf Fitness Center in a new location at the Phillips Community Center, located at 2323 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis. Both organizations received grants from Ucare and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Tribe to re-open the community gym....
DENVER - The American Indian Movement of Colorado and Transform Columbus Day Alliance are co-sponsoring a Columbus Day Parade Protest on Saturday, October 8....
A concerned Northwestern tribal member sent me an e-mail some months ago. She suggested that people in her community were mostly trying to survive, but were not living as individuals or as a community. She asked how is it possible to move beyond survival mode and create communities where people are living or flourishing. By living, she probably meant having the time and energy to realize the central values of culture, community, and individual life....
Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, made an initial appearance in federal court in Spokane, Wash., on Thursday. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_cfdce8fe-51e0-5ecf-8cf2-f0be64d6a4c8.html#ixzz1aMNb2M9n...
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and Amnesty International have officially opted out of participation in hearings before the provincial Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, scheduled to begin on October 11....
WASHINGTON - Ironically, during the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing called "Internet Infrastructure in Native Communities: Equal Access to E-Commerce, Jobs and the Global Marketplace" yesterday, the webcast being fed via the internet failed for almost an hour....
Native Brief: WASHINGTON - Tribal leaders from American Indian and Alaska Native nations will be in Washington on Tuesday, October 11 to show unity for Native concerns pending before Congress....
Quick community action in concert with Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) presence helped diffuse a volatile situation on the Red Earth Cree Nation reserve in Saskatoon earlier this week, and on October 6 Chief Ian McKay said tragedy had been averted....
On the eve of what most Americans celebrate as “Columbus Day” I found myself turning to the History Channel to watch “Who Really Discovered America?” I was instantly upset by the summations of world experts on how other cultures, civilizations if you will, came to settle or exist in North America. My husband, a Caucasian, said, “It’s so ridiculous how Europeans always try to prove they were there first.” I began to put things into perspective. I began to remember a time when I didn’t care where someone came from....
About 65 people attended a forum Tuesday hosted by the Farmington Community Relations Commission to discuss inebriates in the town's area....
What should Native American agriculture look like in 25 years? That’s the question being asked of young Native American men and women who would like to enter the 2011 Native Women & Youth in Ag Annual Writing Competition....
An Air Tindi plane with four people aboard crashed outside the First Nation community of Lutsel K’e in the Northwest Territories, killing two, on Tuesday October 4. The two survivors were from the 400-population community....
