Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Lumbee Tribal Chairwoman Sharon Hunt declared an end to the nearly 5-month-old probe by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which included a report citing the misuse of about $114,500 of federal housing money....
WASHINGTON – Hopi Chairman LeRoy Shingoitewa would like to see more money for special-needs students in tribal schools and federal aid for Native language programs....
An ancient spear lodged in a mastodon has proved humans populated North America 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, it was claimed today. Scientists have now accurately carbon-dated the sharp tip, itself carved from mastodon bone, 30 years after it was found in the U.S. state of Washington. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2051804/13-800-year-old-spear-killed-mastodon-proves-humans-America-millennium-earlier-thought.html#ixzz1bheEsBfp...
Patricia Robertson, a/k/a Patricia Cavanaugh, of St. Michael, was found guilty by a 12-person jury of embezzlement from the Spirit Lake Tribe`s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program....
The former coordinator of the Spirit Lake Tribe’s Low-Income Housing Energy Assistance Program has been found guilty of embezzling funds from the program....
The Lakota Peoples Law Project is working to return children to their communities by developing Native services and reforming the Indian Child Welfare Act....
VERONA, N.Y. (AP) – A federal appeals court panel says a tax dispute between the Oneida Indian Nation and two upstate New York counties is no longer a federal matter, but could be fought in state courts....
A member of the group trying to seize control of the Cayuga Indian Nation today denied accusations he had anything to do with the violence that flared at nation headquarters in Seneca Falls on Friday....
Captain Lee Wilkerson, who flies a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker for the United States Air Force, had the same vivid dream three times:...
State police arrested a Seneca Falls man following Friday’s incident in which a truck was driven into the Cayuga Indian Nation's Offices. Read more: http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_012e5224-fd11-11e0-bb22-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1bhkNvJkq...
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. — State police and a lawyer say a series of layoffs and a leadership dispute may have triggered a truck crash and break-in at the Cayuga Indian Nation's office building in Seneca Falls....
The Pala Band of Mission Indians, which recently ousted eight of its members, is reportedly asking dozens of other individuals to prove they belong in the North County tribe, a move that some believe may be politically motivated. Read more: http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_e007b8c3-8d01-5a8c-b9ec-5d7dfbb7b637.html#ixzz1bhkjNkWa...
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest has become a matter of debate in Indian country. Some have chosen to be included under the slogan “We Are The 99%”; others, like me, have not. Many of those who support OWS have come up with their own slogan: “Decolonize Wall Street.” But I simply don’t believe that the indigenous nations on Turtle Island are a part of that 99% equation, let alone that the OWS movement is about decolonization....
Long before Occupy Wall Street began, before the dawn of the Arab Spring or the Civil Rights movement, before America itself was even conceived, this land had already been occupied. When Columbus stumbled upon Haiti the way a drunken sailor meanders across a rising bow, there was already a prosperous society of twenty million indigenous people living here in the ‘New World’....
No matter what the growing “Occupy Wall Street” movement seeks to accomplish, it has struck a nerve. Members of the American middle class are losing jobs, homes and savings because of the greed and carelessness of “too-big-to-fail” banks. Meanwhile “the country’s six largest financial institutions . . . now have amassed assets equal to more than 60% of our gross domestic product” (The Guardian). That wealth is not trickling down. According to a recent international study, the United States has the fourth highest income inequality rate per capi...
Sex offenders in much of Isabella County now have to register and report twice, once to the state and separately to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe....
PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, SOUTH DAKOTA -- On what used to be an open field separating the Oglala Community School from the village of Pine Ridge, new cultural and fitness opportunities have been created....
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A state-of-the-art $109 million health center is set to open in Eagle Butte, S.D., next month, providing members of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe with a major upgrade from the circa-1959 hospital it has long outgrown....
Things have not gone according to plan for quarterback Sam Bradford, Cherokee, or his St. Louis Rams. After winning last year’s NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award, and his help in turning a 1-15 team from 2009 into a 7-9 team in 2010, expectations were very high. So far, things are not going well....
Del Lynn and Deshauna Peshlakai were daddy's girls. "They made me feel like a king," David Peshlakai said Thursday. "I feel like I'm not king anymore. ... There's no way I can go back to how I was before he took them from me."...
