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California became the first state to ban public schools from using "Redskins" as a team name, nickname or mascot on Sunday in a move applauded by Native American activists. Signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown (D), the California Racial Mascots Act, authored by Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D), outlaws schools' use of the slur effective Jan. 1, 2017. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-redskins-ban_561ae70ee4b0e66ad4c854af...
The trend of cities renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day is spreading across the United States. Berkeley, California, was the first city to do so in 1992. Seattle and Minneapolis followed its lead in October 2014, generating the movement's current momentum. Since then, seven more cities — including Lawrence, Kansas, on Tuesday, and Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday — and one county in Texas, as of Tuesday, have joined their ranks. http://mic.com/articles/126522/even-more-cities-join-movement-to-rename-columbus-day-t...
More cities are recognising Native Americans on Columbus Day this year as they revive a movement to change the name of the holiday and celebrate the history and contributions of indigenous cultures. As the US observes Columbus Day on Monday, it will also be Indigenous Peoples Day in at least nine cities, including Albuquerque; Portland, Oregon; St Paul, Minnesota; and Olympia, Washington. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/11/indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-native-americans...
FLANDREAU, S.D. – The marijuana plants are already growing in a remodeled building on the Flandreau Santee Sioux reservation as the southeast South Dakota tribe shoots for a New Year's Eve opening for its first-of-its-kind resort. The state-of-the-art marijuana growing operation with its 65 strains of plants is in its infancy as finishing touches are being put on the building where it will take about 14 weeks to grow about 80 pounds of pot. That's how much the tribe hopes to sell weekly at its smoking lounge and entertainment resort just s...
Shaun Gindi brought a duffel bag stuffed with 1,000 twenty-dollar bills to open a checking account at his local Chase branch. He was successful. Until the branch closed the account a week later. “I’ve gone through at least eight banks,” said Gindi, 38. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-11/where-to-stash-cannabis-cash-tribal-nations-make-bid-to-bank-it...
ALCATRAZ ISLAND-American Indians and their allies will gather for Indigneous Peoples’ Day Sunrise Ceremony on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay early Monday morning. It is an annual event that provides a strong alternative to those who celebrate Columbus Day. Tomorrow’s celebtation will be the 32nd time in the last 33 years, the American Indian community has journeyed to Alcatraz Island. The only interruption in the long tradition came two years ago when the event was canceled due to the federal government shutdown. Alcatraz Island is...
BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA—Winds of Change magazine has again named Bemidji State University one of the top 200 colleges in the nation for American Indian students. BSU has made the list each year since 2008. The Winds of Change Top 200 Colleges for Native Americans list features schools where Native students attend in significant numbers and where the community, Native programs and support are strong enough for these students to enjoy college and stay on to graduation. The list focuses on a college’s Native community and support system. It also inc...
A group made up of state lawmakers, historians and others is trying to decide how art portraying Native Americans should be used inside the renovated Minnesota Capitol building when it reopens in 2017. The art subcommittee of the Capitol Preservation Committee is scheduled to meet Monday to take up the topic. Gwen Westerman, a Dakota educator and subcommittee member, will lead the discussion. http://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/2015/10/capitol-art-debate-turns-to-native-american-images/...
Windgusts of more than 50 miles per hour caused havoc across parts of Western North Dakota this afternoon. Fires broke out midafternoon in Sterling and Wing. There were also two separate fires in Cannon Ball on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. More than 200 people were evacuated from the town and moved to the Cannon Ball Pit Stop, as the blaze approached homes. Highway 1806 south of Mandan was closed for more than an hour. http://www.kfyrtv.com/news/headlines/Cannon-Ball-Resident-Say-Fire-Destroyed-Homes-and-Church-3319...
A vicious criminal who claims to be a Cherokee wants the tribe to certify him as a Native American so he can maintain his “tribal mullet” hairstyle in jail. Robert Sioleski, 58, who’s serving a 24-year sentence in Sing Sing for throwing acid in his stepdaughter’s face in 2003, has been trying for years to get the Cherokee Nation to recognize him as a citizen. http://nypost.com/2015/10/11/inmate-seeks-tribes-approval-to-keep-tribal-mullet-in-jail/...
At this point, it’s pretty much common knowledge that Christopher Columbus was not, in fact, the first European to come to the New World. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of Norse settlements in Newfoundland, Canada, dating as far back as the ninth century. Meanwhile recently uncovered DNA evidence suggests Polynesians landed on South American shores almost a century before the Nina, the Pinta, or the Santa Maria. Yet to suggest that any of these parties—Columbus or the Vikings or the Polynesians—“discovered” the Americas is not simpl...
The U.S. House yesterday passed the Native American Energy Act, sponsored by Alaska Congressman Don Young. Young says the bill would encourage resource development on land owned by Lower 48 tribes and Alaska Native corporations. The White House, though, has threatened a veto. Young says the bill would cut red tape to help Native people develop their own resources. On the House floor before the vote, the Alaska Republican argued the bill would also deter frivolous lawsuits, in part by shortening the timeline for legal challenges. “The j...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The federal government is sending trailers to South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where residents are still recovering from severe storms last spring. Crews are delivering 50 Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers to the Oglala Sioux tribe to help tribal members affected by storms, straight-line winds and flooding over a three-week period in May. The first two homes were shipped from Alabama and arrived at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City on Thursday. They’ll be sent from there when tribal offic...
MISSOULA, Mont. - For weeks, Lake County commissioners and Polson schools pressed the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribal Council for answers -- would the tribes make up for lost revenue from the sale of the former Kerr Dam? Thursday morning, in a meeting with the tribal council, they got an answer. There will be no payment in lieu of taxes. The $1.2 million that would have gone to public schools and county government operations will have to come from other sources. http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/salish-kootenai-tribal-counc...
A group of about 50 people gathered outside an alcohol distributor in Lincoln this evening. The goal is to shut down white clay, a tiny town in Nebraska, overly populated with bars, right next to an Indian reservation. The rally comes after the release of a documentary called Sober Indian, Dangerous Indian. The film focuses on the alcohol epidemic on reservations and the road to recovery for Native Americans battling alcohol addiction. Friday, dozens came together to say enough is enough- stop selling alcohol there. "Those that don't, or can't...
A 28-year-old woman likely shot and killed her 4-year-old daughter Thursday night on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation before killing herself, according to the FBI. FBI spokesman Frank Fisher told KOB Friday they are assisting reservation police with the investigation. Officers found both bodies with bullet wounds to their heads, according to Fisher, who said they are investigating the case as a murder-suicide at this time. The official causes of death will be determined after autopsies are completed. http://www.kob.com/artic...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Current and former officials of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate are facing federal charges for writing themselves checks for more than $50,000 from a tribal account for expenses that were not justified, according to an indictment filed this week in U.S. District Court in South Dakota. The indictment charges the six officials with conspiracy, embezzlement and theft from an Indian tribal organization in connection with the scheme that authorities say happened between June 2010 and March 2013 on the reservation in South D...
ASHEVILLE — A federal grand jury has indicted a man on a first-degree murder count in connection with a fatal stabbing inside a church on the Cherokee Indian Reservation. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports (http://avlne.ws/1jTN0tW) 22-year-old Forrest Dakota Hill has been indicted in the stabbing death of 25-year-old Tyler Gaddis of Whittier. Gattis was found on March 29 inside Smokemont Baptist Church off U.S. 441 north of Cherokee. A medical examiner's report found Gattis was stabbed 19 times. http://www.thetimesnews.com/...
FLANDREAU, S.D. -- The marijuana plants are already growing in a remodeled building on the Flandreau Santee Sioux reservation as the southeast South Dakota tribe shoots for a New Year’s Eve opening for its first-of-its-kind resort. The state-of-the-art marijuana growing operation with its 65 strains of plants is in its infancy as finishing touches are being put on the building where it will take about 14 weeks to grow about 80 pounds of pot. That’s how much the tribe hopes to sell weekly at its smoking lounge and entertainment resort just sou...
Conservative MP Bob Zimmer is taking heat for suggesting that joblessness is largely the cause of Canada's missing and murdered indigenous women. The incumbent MP for the Northern B.C. Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies riding made the comments at an all-candidates meeting in Fort St. John this week when the moderator asked whether an inquiry was needed into missing and murdered indigenous women. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/conservative-mp-says-lack-of-a-job-cause-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous...
As four weeks of evidentiary hearings began October 5 in a Fairbanks courtroom, April Monroe and other supporters of the Fairbanks Four prayed for justice – not just for the four men they say were imprisoned for a murder they didn’t commit, but also for John Hartman, the teenager who died after an act of random violence on a street corner one cold Fairbanks night 18 years ago. “He was a victim of a hate crime,” Monroe said of Hartman. The person or persons responsible for Hartman’s death have not had to answer for the crime, and because o...
