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WASHINGTON – Residents in Duluth, Brainerd and the Iron Range: Get ready for a sustained bombardment of political advertising. The Eighth Congressional District race between Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan and GOP challenger Stewart Mills has now drawn the largest flood of outside cash in the country. As of Thursday, more than $9.6 million had poured into television advertisements and mailers in the northern Minnesota district, which has seen congressional representation swing back and fourth between parties over the past decade. h...
Adjusting to Minnesota weather is an acquired skill. So is predicting it. So when Minnesota meteorological sage Paul Douglas heard Thursday that national forecasters had predicted a colder, wetter winter with a swoop of polar vortex, he responded with a pause. Then he said, “Well, it’s a little like predicting now how your fantasy football team is going to be doing in January. You can’t do it.” That didn’t stop him from venturing a prediction: This winter will be “a little more formidable” than last year’s. http://www.startr...
The Minnesota Department of Corrections terminated the top official at one of the state's largest prisons this week for breaking several policies, including one related to sexual harassment and discrimination. In September prison officials suspended Steve Hammer, warden of Stillwater prison, pending an investigation of an undisclosed nature. In a letter dated Oct. 18, Bruce Reiser, assistant commissioner for the department, officially fired Hammer effective Wednesday. The notice does not specify the reason for the termination, except to say...
Mexican immigrants who speak little English. Older adults with memory problems. College students opening their first bank accounts. Small-business owners with several lines of credit. These were some of the customers whom bankers at Wells Fargo, trying to meet steep sales goals and avoid being fired, targeted for unauthorized or unnecessary accounts, according to legal filings and statements from former bank employees. “The analogy I use was that it was like lions hunting zebras,” said Kevin Pham, a former Wells Fargo employee in San Jose, Cal...
Shakopee public school officials are daring to break away from the pack to pilot their own drug prevention and community policing initiative. Shakopee administrators swapped out D.A.R.E., the long-running school standard for substance abuse education, in favor of their own program, COPS, Community Outreach by Police for Students. “We just wanted to really build a program relevant to the needs of our community,” said Nika Summer district teaching and learning supervisor. http://www.startribune.com/shakopee-schools-drop-d-a-r-...
After its acquisition of satellite television service DirecTV, telephone giant AT&T Inc. might be setting its sights on an even bigger prize, Time Warner Inc. Bloomberg News reported Thursday afternoon that AT&T and Time Warner executives have engaged in preliminary talks about a potential merger or other partnerships. Time Warner shares jumped on news of the talks, closing up $3.75, or 4.7 percent, to $82.99. The New York media company owns HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, TBS and Hollywood’s largest film and TV studio, Warner Bros. h...
The stereotype of what an American Indian person looks like is deeply etched into our cultural imagination. We see the familiar image on sports logos, on Land O’Lakes butter containers, in cartoons and on TV. But that contorted idea of a feather-wearing, leather-clad “savage” frozen in time has nothing to do with how native people live in today’s world. With a new multimedia dance piece and companion art exhibition, Minneapolis artist and choreographer Rosy Simas sets out to challenge that narrow perception. Simas says she has often felt in...
BEIJING — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced that his country is separating from the U.S. in a speech before a Beijing economic forum on Thursday, after handing China a major diplomatic victory, agreeing to resume dialogue on their South China Sea territorial dispute following months of acrimony. The rapprochement between the two Asia nations could widen a political rift between the United States and the Philippines, whose recently elected leader has made no secret of its antipathy for America and ordered an end to joint m...
principal figures in the national movement to end discrimination and right centuries of injustices against American Indians has been an Ojibwe man from Minneapolis, Clyde Bellecourt. He is one of the founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which has had a big impact on how America views American Indians and on how they view themselves. The group has played a pivotal role in some of the most famous struggles of the era, including the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., in 1972; the occupation of Wounded Knee,...
CALHOUN COUNTY, IA - Typically we've seen Dakota Access Pipeline protesters arrested for trespassing on other people's land, but in Iowa over the weekend one landowner was arrested on her own property. Cyndy Coppola was arrested on Saturday on her family's farm in Calhoun County Iowa. She says Dakota Access gained rights to be on her property against her and her family's will. They used condemnation court and eminent domain to get easements to the property. On Saturday Coppola and friend Ed Fallon were arrested after they attempted to block...
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II said Tuesday’s decision by law enforcement to remove the traffic checkpoint on North Dakota Highway 1806 is long overdue. “It was always unnecessary,” said Archambault, noting that he’s been asking for its removal since it was set up in September. Law enforcement has said the checkpoint between Mandan and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest encampments was critical to protect motorists driving down the highway as well as protesters camped near the road or walking along it. http://...
The Standing Rock Sioux's tribal council has voted to make tribal land available for those protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline, though an organizer from another tribe says many of the several hundred gathered will remain on federal land without a permit. The council voted 8-5 Tuesday to use the reservation land — which is about two miles south of the large Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires, camp on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers property — so permanent structures can be built to protect protesters from North Dakota's notoriously bru...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Members of the Narragansett Indian Tribe are asking for their tribal identification cards to be considered valid for voting in Rhode Island. The state Board of Elections is scheduled to consider Wednesday whether to issue a directive ordering local election boards to accept the cards. Rhode Island passed a law in 2011 requiring voters to show a photo ID before casting a ballot. http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20161019/rhode-island-to-consider-accepting-voters-tribal-id-cards...
In an “exceedingly rare” situation, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs will not recognize any actions taken by the Nooksack Indian Tribe after late March 2016 because the tribal council hasn’t had a quorum since then. Elections to fill four Nooksack Tribal Council positions were supposed to be held in February and March, as required by the Nooksack constitution and bylaws, but weren’t. That fact was noted by Lawrence Roberts, principal deputy assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, in a letter to Nooksack Chairman Bob Kelly Jr. stamped...
Responding to community fears about on–going drug related violence, tribal leaders on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation vowed Tuesday to step up patrols and prosecutions. The tipping point? The brazen daylight shooting outside a community basketball tournament on Sunday. It was the latest in a string of violent incidents that has sown fear in the community. “Right now everyone needs to go home and lock the doors when it gets dark because you don't know what's going to happen,” said Mona Richards of Pine Ridge Village. “It's scary. It's really...
One person is dead after a weekend shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Oglala Sioux Tribe Spokesman Kevin Yellow Bird told KEVN-TV that a young man was killed during a memorial basketball tournament at the SuAnne Big Crow Center on Sunday. Yellow Bird says no arrests have made in the case. http://www.ksfy.com/content/news/Authorities-investigate-fatal-shooting-on-Pine-Ridge-Indian-Reservation-397389591.html...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- Federal authorities have announced they are investigating a pair of recent murders on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as possibly related. Officials said Wednesday they are investigating the killing of Vinnie Brewer III, 29, of Pine Ridge, on Sunday, in conjunction with the Sept. 29 murder of Chunta Suta Wi Colhoff, otherwise known as Annie Colhoff, 34, also of Pine Ridge. Both killings took place in Pine Ridge village; Colhoff's identity had not previously been released by police. http://journalstar.co...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (KOTA TV) - A day after Oglala Sioux tribal authorities said they would no longer wait for federal help to solve crimes on the reservation, the FBI and other federal agencies weighed-in on two recent homicides there. U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler says the two shootings in Pine Ridge Village are a top priority for federal law enforcement agencies. Sunday, 29-year-old Vincent Brewer III was shot to death at the SuAnne Big Crow Recreation Center. This followed the Sept. 29 killing of 34-year-old Annie Colhoff....
PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION — Rumors are rampant on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after the brutal murder of Vinny Brewer III, 29, during the daylight hours on Sunday, October 16, 2016. Brewer was beat up and then shot by occupants of two cars with Colorado plates that pulled up to a gymnasium parking lot near Pine Ridge Village on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Brewer had just finished playing basketball in a tournament and had gone outside with a cousin and his nephew. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/mexican...
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians can't be sued for allegedly firing an older employee and replacing her with a younger one, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. Christine J. Williams worked for the Alabama tribe's health department for 21 years before she was terminated in 2014. She alleges she was replaced by an "under-qualified" 28-year-old in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. But the law does include tribes in its definition of "employer," the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals noted. That means Congress did not...
Ottawa breached the multi-billion dollar Indian residential school settlement agreement by allowing its lawyers to use legalistic tactics to defeat and limit compensation claims from survivors during private hearings, says Sen. Murray Sinclair, who was chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sinclair said he doubts many residential school survivors would have agreed to the settlement agreement, which was finalized under the Liberal government of Paul Martin, if they knew federal government lawyers would resort to splitting...
There’s been another suicide in Northern Saskatchewan. Four young people now have taken their lives in the last two weeks. As the community grieve, and try to find solutions, two mothers are questioning the mental health support in their communities. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/10/19/parents-questioning-mental-health-services-after-rash-of-suicides-in-saskatchewan/...
Daniel Covarrubias, Christina Tahhahwah, Loreal Tsingine, Rexdale Henry. These names, along with many others, are likely to be unfamiliar to most people in the US, but they are all Native Americans who were killed by law enforcement. As reported by In These Times, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on 47 states between 1999 and 2011 found that Native Americans were even more likely than African Americans to be killed in the hands of law enforcement. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nativ...
LOS ANGELES — Most Americans take safe water for granted: Turn the tap, and there it is. But recent protests against the Dakota Access pipeline on the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota are a reminder that some Americans still worry every day about having enough clean water to survive. As events in Standing Rock and Flint, Mich., capture national attention, long-running water emergencies fester in near-total obscurity elsewhere across the country, many of them on native reservations. Nearly 24,000 Native American and Alaska Native h...
While much of America enjoys the benefits of high-speed internet or “broadband” – such as distance learning, telemedicine, and online business – a stark contrast exists across Indian country. According to the 2016 Broadband Progress Report of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency that oversees broadband regulation, 41 percent of people living on tribal lands have no access to broadband. It’s even worse in rural regions of Indian country, where 68 percent of residents lack broadband. AMERIND Risk, the only 100 percent t...
