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LAS VEGAS — Threatening to upend a fundamental pillar of American democracy, Donald Trump refused to say Wednesday night that he will accept the results of next month's election if he loses to Hillary Clinton. The Democratic nominee declared Trump's resistance "horrifying." Trump had spent the days leading up to the third and final presidential debate warning voters that the election would be "rigged." Asked whether he would accept the outcome if Clinton emerges victorious, he said, "I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense." T...
Sixteen months before a Super Bowl lands in Minneapolis in 2018, the city already has allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars for security, and millions more could be spent on public safety for one of the world's most high-profile events. The law enforcement presence will rival the heavy security that surrounded the Republican National Convention held in St. Paul in 2008 and will dwarf the public safety operations that surrounded the Super Bowl in 1992, the last time it was held here. Minneapolis Police Cmdr. Scott Gerlicher, who is...
The Minnesota Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a felon sentenced to five years in prison for the possession of a small BB gun, ruling Wednesday that the air-powered weapon is not a firearm. Though the decision vacates the conviction upheld by the Minnesota Court of Appeals, it is not broad-sweeping. The ruling only covers Minnesota’s felon-in-possession statues, not someone who chooses to actually fire it. Since 1977, the state’s two appellate courts have repeatedly agreed with the Legislature that a BB gun is a firearm when inv...
Mention the Houston Comets to Maya Moore, and the Lynx forward instantly breaks into a wide smile. "They were my favorite team,'' Moore said Wednesday, after the Lynx's final practice of the season. "Those were the players I looked up to.'' Moore emulated the women who crafted the WNBA's first dynasty as a youth, wearing the same shoes Sheryl Swoopes wore and choosing uniform number 14 in honor of Cynthia Cooper. Though she's all grown up, Moore — and her Lynx teammates — still aspire to be just like those early idols of the women's game. Thu...
ACKERMAN, Miss. — Pulled over for traffic violations, Jessica Jauch was held for 96 days in a Mississippi jail without seeing a judge, getting a lawyer or having a chance to make bail. She was charged with a felony based on a secretly recorded video that prosecutors finally acknowledged showed her committing no crime. Only when she finally got a hearing and a lawyer, who persuaded prosecutors to watch the video, did the case fall apart. Then, the 34-year-old mother sued, alleging violations of her rights to bail, legal representation, a s...
The Navajo Nation is taking a stand against a controversial bill that a fellow tribe has slammed as a "modern day Indian land grab." The Navajo Nation Council last week approved Legislation No. 0364-16. The measure affirms the tribe's opposition to H.R.5780, the Utah Public Lands Initiative Act. Buried within the 215-page package is a provision that affects the Utah Navajo Trust Fund. In a mere three lines, H.R.5780 doubles the percentage of royalties that flow to Utah even though the federal courts have repeatedly chastised the state for...
TAHLEQUAH — The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council approved the leasing of more than 4,000 acres of tribal trust land near the former Chilocco Indian School site to wind farm developer PNE Wind. Chilocco Indian School operated from 1884 to 1980 in Kay County near Newkirk. The ground lease agreement means an additional $1 million per year, on average, for tribal programs and services over the life of the lease. The agreement brings Cherokee Nation in line with other tribes owning land in the area to develop a wind energy project that would be p...
London’s iconic costume store pulled all stereotypical indigenous costumes from its shelves Wednesday in response to complaints that they’re racist and damaging. “It was never our intention to offend anyone,” Dale McCulloch, manager of McCulloch’s Costume Co., said Wednesday. “We’ve been selling this stuff since 1962 and this is the first time we’ve heard of it being an issue.” McCulloch said it was a “no-brainer” to pull about a dozen headdresses and items labelled “native” or “Indian.” “We have a big indigenous customer base here a...
Despite repeated calls to stop selling costumes such as "Reservation Royalty," "Indian Warrior" and "Indian Princess" at their stores, Spirit Halloween says they won't be taking them off shelves anytime soon. "Since 1983, at Spirit Halloween, we have offered a wide and balanced range of Halloween costumes that are inspired by, celebrate and appreciate numerous cultures, make believe themes and literary figures," a spokesperson from the company said in a statement to CBC News. "We have not directed any of our Spirit Halloween stores to remove...
At the Morton County Courthouse in North Dakota on Monday, authorities dropped or rejected multiple felony and misdemeanor charges against water protectors involved in the ongoing resistance to the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, including a felony charge against Marcus Frejo Little Eagle, known by his artist name Quese IMC. "Water is what’s going to bring our people back together," he says. "This destructive unnatural force that is trying to destroy this water is the same force that dismantled our homes back in the day during the I...
NORMAN, Oklahoma—The Native American Journalists Association expresses relief and gratitude that the criminal charges against Democracy Now! journalist Amy Goodman have been dismissed by Judge John Grinsteiner in North Dakota District Court. Goodman traveled to Morton County, North Dakota, to report on a gathering of peaceful protestors who stand in opposition to an oil pipeline installation near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Protestors—engaged in nonviolent, civil disobedience—have been met with an inordinate police presence, arres...
CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA and LOHRVILLE, IOWA – Children participating in anti-Bakken Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) actions in Iowa and North Dakota were targets of similar disturbing attacks this week when men asked the price to buy the children. Water Protectors, the name of a loose collection of groups lead by Native Americans and their allies, is attempting to halt construction of the Bakken DAPL which will run from North Dakota to Illinois. It has fronts in North Dakota and Iowa. Water Protectors in Iowa were heading to an action site o...
Having just flown in from Mexico, my first night at the campground in Standing Rock felt especially cold. Temperatures had dropped to the low 30s and strong winds shook my rented minivan until 4 in the morning. By 6:45 am, the illumination of the yet invisible sun revealed that many of the tents around me had been blown down. The tepees of course were still standing. People all around for as far as I could see were reverently standing and facing east with hats removed in spite of the nip in the air. An elder's voice echoed out from the PA syste...
Those who have finally decided to denounce Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after hearing his latest leaked comments about women have not improved their moral standing. In fact, their tardiness only proves that they don’t care enough about other groups of people who Trump has already degraded relentlessly. And those who think that Trump’s repulsive character is something new in the world of American political culture are fooling themselves. Politicians and leaders in America have been iterating varieties of this behavior since the...
While discussing the long history of Donald Trump’s bigotry dating back to his days as a realtor when his company refused to rent apartments to African Americans, and his five-year charge that President Obama was born in Kenya, Africa, and Trump’s recent efforts to gain support from the Black American community, an African American newscaster put it best when he said, “You don’t get a prize for being the most reformed bigot.” A recent editorial in Native Sun News Today pointed out the many attacks Trump made against Indian Nations for infringin...
It’s roughly a month before the general election and Ronda Metcalf’s ascension to the Washington state House of Representatives from the 39th District now seems not so out of reach. Metcalf, Sauk-Suiattle, faces John Koster, a former state legislator and Snohomish County Council member whose campaign for U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 – in which he was favored to win – was derailed when he referred to sexual assault as “the rape thing” when answering a question about abortion. With his party’s presidential nominee’s offensive comme...
Efforts are underway to remove tens of thousands of litres of diesel fuel from a sunken tug boat near Bella Bella on B.C.'s Central Coast, but local First Nations say the spill has already devastated clam beds in the area. The tug, along with an empty fuel barge, crashed on rocks in Seaforth Channel near Athlone Island, just after 1 a.m. PT on Thursday. Both are owned by the U.S. company Kirby Offshore Marine and were heading south from Alaska. Equipment that will allow crews to safely pump the remaining fuel off the sunken vessel was expected...
On June 11, 1994, Matilda Wilson said goodbye to her daughter Ramona for the last time. She was 16-years-old and her murder is still unsolved. As part of The Current's first public forum in Prince George, B.C., Matilda Wilson joined the conversation discussing the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls along the Highway of Tears. "I'd like to say that this is the best meeting I have ever been to... to get to the issues that are really important, especially for the national inquiry," says Wilson. http://www....
A new investigation by In These Times explodes myths about who is most likely to die at the hands of police by revealing that, compared to their percentage of the U.S. population, Native Americans were more likely to be killed by police than any other group, including African Americans. It also found that cases of African-American police deaths tend to dominate headlines, while killings of Native people go almost entirely unreported by mainstream U.S. media. We speak with reporter Stephanie Woodard, who wrote the article, "The Police Killings...
In March 2016, two Navajo siblings filed suit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—also known as LDS or Mormon Church—in the Window Rock District of the Navajo Nation Court. In their suit, the siblings allege that they were sexually abused numerous times in several homes during their time in the “Indian Placement Program,” a foster care program operated by the church. All names and identifying information of the plaintiffs have been changed to protect their privacy. ‘Wrestling a Shadow’ He had decided to call it quits. Afte...
The Seattle School Board has done what the federal government has failed to do since 2001. Formally recognize the Duwamish Tribe as an indigenous nation that should have a government-to-government relationship with the United States, with whom Duwamish signed a treaty. The school board on October 12 unanimously approved a resolution calling for the federal government to extend treaty rights and benefits to the Duwamish Tribe, referred to in the resolution as the Duwamish Nation, and recognizing the Duwamish as “the original people of our a...
As the culinary craftsman for Tatanka Truck, Minnesota’s first indigenous food truck, Sherman is taking Dakota, Lakota, and Ojibwe-influenced eats, with a fresh spin, to the streets. Born and raised on Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Sherman started cooking around age 13 in steakhouses and tourist restaurants in the Black Hills. After graduating from Black Hills State University, he moved to Minneapolis, became a chef, and immersed himself in the organic food scene. A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, Sherman wanted to write a c...
OTTAWA – A judge is being asked to punish former Stephen Harper confidant Bruce Carson with a $50,000 fine for illegal lobbying. But Carson’s lawyer says his client is on the verge of bankruptcy _ unable to earn a living because of the controversy surrounding him _ and can’t afford to pay. Carson, who once worked as a senior adviser to the former Conservative prime minister, was found guilty last month of three counts under the Lobbying Act. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/10/18/judge-asked-to-fine-former-pm-adviser-50000-but-lawye...
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Indian Health Service (IHS) and the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) today entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the creation of a pediatric specialty consultation service using telehealth for American Indian and Alaska Native children served by IHS. "The Indian Health Service is dedicated to providing access to quality care for its patients, and over the years, IHS investments in telehealth have brought the best care to so...
The Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project, with the help of composer-in-residence Raven Chacon, recently worked with five teenagers from the Santa Fe Indian School. After an intense week-long course, five new compositions have been created. A public concert was held October 6 in connection with SITE Santa Fe’s biennial exhibition: much wider than a line, where the pieces were presented to an enthusiastic audience of approximately 100 music lovers. The compositions were performed by The Huntress Quartet—Chacon’s musician frien...
