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OTTAWA — Child rights advocates say they believe shaming Ottawa before the world will lead to concrete improvements for aboriginal children on reserves. Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20111024/advocates-complaints-aboriginal-children-un-111024/#ixzz1bnEeCzEA...
As the federal government's Aboriginal Affairs department shifted its efforts to boosting First Nations' businesses, child rights advocates criticized Ottawa's funding for schools on reserves, alleging officials are shortchanging First Nations youth. Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/Mould+snakes+rats+many+First+Nations+schools+wretched+condition+told/5597414/story.html#ixzz1bnF2au5a...
The ongoing debate among the local American Indian tribes over what constitutes tribal membership is one that inadvertently highlights the single biggest threat to the local tribal communities: time. Read more: http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_ababf468-eebf-58c7-8f6a-69b0a90c137d.html#ixzz1bnFV76v0...
Washoe Tribe Chairwoman Wanda Batchelor will be named American Indian community leader of the year at the 2011 American Indian Achievement Awards Banquet and Silent Auction 5 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Governor's Mansion in Carson City....
SHERMAN - A Native American merchandiser with Coca-Cola has filed a lawsuit claiming he was a victim of discrimination and ultimately lost his job due to that discrimination....
The former president of the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma has been accused in a federal indictment of an embezzlement scheme. Read more: http://newsok.com/former-tonkawa-tribe-president-accused-of-embezzlement/article/3616674#ixzz1bnGskSCV...
THERMAL – At one end of Avenue 54, a road slicing through some of the most fertile land in the United States, resides the California of the popular imagination: a place of Bermuda shorts, putting greens and picture-window champagne dinners overlooking the infinity pool....
OU Health Sciences Center researchers found that reduced lung function might be a sign of diabetes in Native Americans, according to a new published paper....
Begun in 2000, inspired by the Native wisdom of the Seven Generations, Nike’s N7 program is one of the premier national initiatives for keeping Native youth physically active. Supported through a portion of profits from sales of the N7 Collection, as well as by private donations, the program’s namesake fund has generated more than $1 million to help Native and aboriginal nonprofit groups provide access to sport for young people....
ESPNEWS anchor Todd Grisham issued an apology Sunday after referring to a shot of distraught OU football fans following the Sooners' 41-38 loss to Texas Tech as a “trail of tears.” Read more: http://newsok.com/espnews-anchor-apologizes-for-trail-of-tears-comments/article/3616584#ixzz1bnIao3Cv...
A man accused of killing three people on the Crow Indian Reservation denied charges Monday during an arraignment in U.S. District Court in Billings. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_ad1ff112-c6c4-56c7-8cc7-0c547c278b4a.html#ixzz1bnItGtj0...
BISMARCK, N.D. — A woman who falsely accused a federal police officer of sexually assaulting her on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation has been sentenced to about three months in federal prison....
At least two lawsuits against the Boy Scouts of Canada over a scout leader who molested dozens of boys in northern Ontario and Manitoba First Nations communities have been quietly settled out of court, CBC News has learned....