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NEW YORK – “Such a nasty woman.” Like many people, 23-year-old Emily DiVito was multitasking while watching last week’s presidential debate. But when DiVito heard Donald Trump say those four words to Hillary Clinton, she shot up. “The interruptions were so absurd, but that was particularly biting,” she said. http://www.startribune.com/trump-s-nasty-woman-remark-still-echoes/398126751/...
MANDAN, N.D. — The Latest on the protests in North Dakota over the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline (all times local): 6:35 p.m. Officials say Dakota Access pipeline protesters created two separate roadblocks in southern North Dakota, one of which has been taken down. http://www.startribune.com/the-latest-authorities-2-roadblocks-near-pipeline-protest/398122521/...
WASHINGTON — Hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton's top campaign official show her aides considered inserting jokes about her private email server into her speeches at several events — and at least one joke made it into her remarks. "I love it," she told a dinner in Iowa on August 14, 2015, noting she had opened an online account with Snapchat, which deletes posts automatically. "Those messages disappear all by themselves." The crack scored a laugh from the audience, but the issue was plenty serious. About a month ear...
PHILADELPHIA – A couple of bloody plush toys still littered the locker room Friday as a reminder of the danger in the Vikings feeling too fat and happy. Before dismissing his 5-0 team for the bye week, coach Mike Zimmer scattered stuffed animals of the feline variety throughout Winter Park. Their throats were slashed, with some of the white stuffing within seeping out, and were then splattered with red paint. Hanging on the larger cat in the locker room was a sign that read “Fat Cats Get Slaughtered.” http://www.startribune....
A Census test planned for 2017 on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation has been postponed due to funding concerns by the U.S. Census Bureau. Instead, the Census Test will be considered for 2018 when the bureau conducts its final test that year prior to the 2020 Census. U.S. Census Bureau Director John H. Thompson announced the change in plans in a blog post on the bureau’s website Tuesday. http://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/standing-rock-census-test-set-for-postponed/article_bee67219-f989-55b5-abe8-2ebee...
The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has donated $10,000 to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota to support its fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Cherokees say they presented a check last week in addition to providing three truckloads of firewood for those camping out to protest construction of the pipeline. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cherokee-nation-donates-north-dakota-pipeline-fight-42999192...
CANNON BALL, N.D. | A peaceful protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline ended in the arrests of 83 people in North Dakota on Saturday morning amid a chaotic scene in which police in riot gear used pepper spray to break up and subdue a group of 200 to 300 protesters. It is the highest number of people arrested in a single day in North Dakota during the last several months of protest actions against the oil pipeline, bringing the total number of arrests up to 222. http://www.yesmagazine.org/how-far-will-north-dakota-go-to-ge...
Monday was a cold, windy, autumnal day in North Dakota. We arrived outside the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan to produce a live broadcast of the “Democracy Now!” news hour. Originally, the location was dictated by the schedule imposed upon us by the local authorities; one of us (Amy) had been charged with criminal trespass for Democracy Now!’s reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline company’s violent attack on Native Americans who were attempting to block the destruction of sacred sites, including ancestral burial grounds, just north o...
Mni Wiconi, the Lakota phrase for “water is life,” has become a rallying cry for thousands of people from across the nation who are united in protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline being built in North Dakota. But in South Dakota, those Lakota words have a more practical meaning beyond the spiritual weight they have taken on in recent months for the Native American-led protesters who call themselves “protectors of the water.” Mni Wiconi is also the name of a massive, tribal-owned water system that provides millions of gallons of drin...
CANNON BALL, N.D. - In response to the 127 people arrested this weekend during protest actions against the Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II released the following statement. The militarization of local law enforcement and enlistment of multiple law enforcements agencies from neighboring states is needlessly escalating violence and unlawful arrests against peaceful protestors at Standing Rock. We do not condone reports of illegal actions, but believe the majority of peaceful protestors are reacting...
BISMARCK—The ongoing Dakota Access Pipeline protest movement has the potential to impact tribal and state government relations far into the future, according to state officials. Scott Davis, executive director of the North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission, said earlier this month it's been a delicate balance keeping various stakeholders informed and on the same page. "This has probably been the most challenging time in my position. It's been stressful," Davis said. http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/north-dakota/4143130-s...
NORTH DAKOTA — Activists and law enforcement clashed this weekend in North Dakota over construction of Dakota Access Pipeline, leading to dozens of arrests and a temporary road closure as protesters set up camp near the pipeline’s proposed path. About 300 protesters trespassed Saturday on private property three miles west of State Highway 1806, along the pipeline right of way, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department said. At least 127 were arrested on various charges, including reckless endangerment, criminal trespass, engaging in a riot, assau...
If Hillary Clinton pulls off a victory in Arizona next month, Democrats believe it will be due in part to one of the red state’s key voting blocs: Native Americans. The campaign has worked for months to win support in Navajo Nation, the Native American territory with the largest population of not just any in the state, but the country. On Friday, Clinton secured the endorsement of the territory’s president, Russell Begaye, in what has been an aggressive effort to engage the 100,000 Navajo Nation members who live in Arizona and could sway the...
CHINLE, Ariz. — Authorities say a Navajo Nation patrol officer has been killed in a car crash between Chinle and Tsaile. The Navajo Nation Police Department has identified the officer as Leander Frank. They say Frank had been dispatched to a call Tuesday in the Tsaile area. http://navajopost.org/tribal-officer-killed-head-crash/...
Kelvin Redvers’s work to create a forum for speaking out about suicide among aboriginal youth started last summer when he visited the hamlet of Fort Resolution, in the Northwest Territories, where his mother grew up on the shores of Great Slave Lake. Called the We Matter campaign, the video series is designed to use the power of social media to reach into the small native communities and lonely rooms scattered across the country where so many young aboriginals are struggling with feelings of desperation. http://www.theglobea...
An Ottawa Police sergeant has been charged after racist comments about the death of artist Annie Pootoogook were posted from a Facebook account under his name. Sgt. Chris Hrnchiar has been charged with two counts of discreditable conduct. A hearing is set for Nov. 1. Potential resolutions from the hearing could include suspension, demotion, reduced pay or education involving restorative justice. Henchair, who worked in the police forensics unit, has not been suspended from work. http://www.metronews.ca/news/ottawa/2016/10/23...
Ontario’s human rights watchdog is sounding the alarm about violations that take place in the province’s jails. Renu Mandhane singled out the use of solitary confinement across the province. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/10/20/ontario-human-rights-commissioner-raising-alarm-over-violations-in-provincial-jails/...
A police search got underway Sunday for a northern Alberta woman who hasn’t been seen in 10 days.RCMP said 22-year-old Christine Cardinal, from Saddle Lake, was reported missing Saturday by her family.She was last seen on Thursday, Oct. 13 at around 8:30 a.m., about one kilometre north of the Bison Auto gas station in Saddle Lake. Cardinal was last seen wearing a grey sweater and black shorts with no shoes. She is described as being an Aboriginal woman who is 5’9″ tall and 123 pounds. She has long black hair, brown eyes, a scar on right bicep a...
On the back wall of the classroom at Sapa O'Chau, a bootstrap operation in Sapa town, far northern Vietnam, where hill tribe children study to be tour guides, colored-pencil drawings depict young girls with tears streaming down their faces. Some are shackled with metal cuffs; others are trapped in cages or giant jars. The most common scene shows a girl in a forest, trailing a male figure grabbing her by the wrist. "They may pretend to be your friend so they can take you away," a tiny scrawl reads. "You must be very careful." The students drew...
STILLWATER – Now in its second year of funding, the Stillwater Native American Parent Advisory Committee (NAPAC) recently began its monthly educational series last weekend with a presentation highlighting the successful careers of local Native Americans. Each presentation is designed for family education, and in the past has featured native artists, cultural experts and business owners to share their knowledge with students and parents in the Stillwater community. NAPAC is sponsored by Stillwater area public schools through a grant provided b...
Credit scores on American Indian reservations increased in 19 states between 2002 and 2012, a meeting on mortgage lending in Indian country heard. Miriam Jorgensen, research director at the Native Nations Institute, the University of Arizona and also the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, presented data to a Center for Indian Country Development conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. that showed credit scores at reservations in one state, Wisconsin, approached the “very good” level of 740 and above. Read more at htt...
Renee Davis was five months pregnant when she was fatally shot by King County sheriff’s deputies checking on her welfare Friday night, according to her foster sister, Danielle Bargala. Davis, 23, had struggled with depression, and had texted someone earlier that night to say she was in a bad way, according to Bargala. That person had alerted law enforcement, leading the deputies to arrive at Davis’ house on Muckleshoot tribal lands shortly after 6:30 p.m. Bargala, a Seattle University law student, said Saturday that she and other family mem...
SISSETON, S.D. (AP) — A Sisseton woman will spend five years on probation after admitting that she defrauded a federal program aimed at helping tribal governments consolidate their land. Sixty-two-year-old Sharon Nelson has also been ordered to pay nearly $6,650 in restitution. Nelson earlier pleaded guilty to theft of government property. Authorities accused Nelson of defrauding the federal Land Buy Back Program for Tribal Nations. The program allows tribal members to sell their land to the federal government, which in turn, moves the land i...
BISMARCK -- Law enforcement officers used pepper spray Saturday as 200 to 300 protesters gathered during the early morning hours at a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site in Morton County. "We want to use the most nonlethal method possible," said Rob Keller, a spokesman for the Morton County Sheriff’s Department. The confrontation off N.D. Highway 1806 south of Mandan lasted more than five hours and resulted in 83 arrests. Among those detained were two legal observers, according to Bruce Ellison, a attorney with the protest camp. As of 6 p...
STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, North Dakota — As reports of police abuse at Dakota Access Pipeline protests accumulate, a civil liberties NGO warns that activists’ constitutional rights are under attack. “In Standing Rock, the cops are out of control,” warned Cooper Brinson, staff attorney at Civil Liberties Defense Center, in a report published on Thursday. Citing reports of humiliation, beatings by police, and unnecessary strip-searches of arrestees, Brinson wrote: https://www.mintpressnews.com/north-dakota-police-contro...
