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Some Minnesotans could be at risk of not getting federal tax credits next year to discount their health insurance costs because they’ve failed to file required paperwork with the IRS. The national issue has captured the attention of some MNsure officials and prompted the state’s health insurance exchange to notify enrollees and insurance advisers about the potential snag. http://www.startribune.com/health-insurance-tax-credits-could-be-at-risk-for-some-minnesotans/337251091/...
WASHINGTON — This year has brought an unusually grim and steady drumbeat of violence throughout the country. A 5-year-old girl killed this month in Cleveland in a drive-by shooting. Seven people slain in Chicago over the July 4th weekend. A young female journalist in Washington, D.C., fatally struck by an errant bullet in May while waiting to change buses. http://www.startribune.com/homicide-spike-draws-alarm-from-obama-administration/337428071/...
WASHINGTON — House GOP leaders struck a budget deal made with the White House just before midnight Monday aimed at averting a government shutdown and forestalling a debt crisis. Speaker John Boehner is making one final appeal to restive Republicans: Pass the hard-won agreement with President Barack Obama before Rep. Paul Ryan assumes the speaker's job later this week. But he encountered immediate resistance when he laid out the plan Monday night. His plan is for members to vote on the deal Wednesday. http://www.startribune...
Red Lake Public Schools Superintendent Anne Lundquist wants to hear from you! If you are willing to share your perspective at a dinner meeting this fall, please contact her at: 679-3353, ext 1001 or alundquist@redlake.k12.mn.us...
And then there were three. Fighting Hawks, Roughriders and Nodaks will be up for a second vote as UND’s future athletic nickname. Results of a five-day public vote released Sunday show 31 percent of voters chose Fighting Hawks over Nodaks, Sundogs, Roughriders and North Stars. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/local/3868580-updated-und-nickname-options-narrowed-3-runoff-vote...
A Saskatoon-based member of a national public policy think tank thinks a court ruling and the recent change in Ottawa may spell the end for the Financial Transparency Act. Ken Coates is the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Senior Policy Fellow in Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues. He said that even though many First Nations objected to the legislation, they complied. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/first-nations-financial-transparency-act-may-fizzle-out-with-court-ruling-says-expert-1.3289015...
On Sunday, October 25, CBS 58 received a statement from the Department of Justice in response to allegations the DEA destroyed a hemp crop on Menominee land. The statement confirmed that a federal search warrant was issued for property located on the Menominee Indian Tribal lands on Thursday. The warrant authorized the search of a dwelling; outbuilding and land totaling approximately 20 acres. The investigation into the marijuana fields revealed that individuals other than Menominee Tribe Members planted and were tending to the marijuana...
The Menominee Tribe and the U.S. Department of Justice are at odds over a raid executed by federal agents last Friday on a field of experimental hemp plants. An attorney representing the tribe says the raid, in which the Drug Enforcement Administration used bulldozers to destroy 30,000 plants on the Menominee Indian Reservation, was unjustified. The U.S. attorney's office, however, said the plants were high-grade marijuana, not hemp. http://www.wpr.org/federal-raid-field-hemp-was-unjustified-menominee-say...
The Menominee Nation of Wisconsin criticized the Drug Enforcement Agency for carrying out a raid of its industrial hemp crop. Chairman Gary Besaw said the tribe was legally cultivating the plant under the 2014 Farm Bill. A provision allows colleges to grow hemp for research purposes. "I am deeply disappointed that the Obama administration has made the decision to utilize the full force of the DEA to raid our tribe," Besaw said in a press release. "We were attempting to grow industrial hemp for research purposes in accordance with the farm...
The scandal of the week at the B.C. legislature concerns deleted emails. Primarily, it revolves around 36 pages of government emails the NDP opposition has been trying for a year to get under freedom of information legislation. They relate to a series of meetings between transportation ministry bureaucrats and remote communities along Highway 16, between Prince George and Prince Rupert. http://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/fletcher-the-myths-surrounding-highway-of-tears/...
In protest over the beer incident, The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council's Education Committee voted this month to bar tribal organizations such as the housing authority from taking part in LNI. Last winter the tribe pressed LNI's board to move its December basketball tournament and cultural expo out of Rapid City. The call came after beer was spilled on Lakota grade school students at a Civic Center hockey game in January. The LNI board voted to stay put but the controversy over the racially tinged incident refuses to die down. h...
It was supposed to be the quintessential rite of passage. In the summer of 2003, John Doe did what a lot of teenagers do: He got a job. As a participant in the Youth Opportunity Program (YOP), the 13-year-old would be paid by his tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, while he got work experience at the Dollar General store on the tribe’s reservation. In exchange, the retail giant would get free labor while training local tribal members and teaching them job skills. But what began as a win-win for everyone went horribly wrong....
The civilian watchdog that oversees the RCMP has completed its investigation into the force’s treatment of indigenous women and girls in northern British Columbia – a probe launched more than two years ago in response to a human-rights report that detailed allegations including excessive use of force, rape and mishandling of missing-persons reports. The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP will send its interim report to the federal force for review in the next few weeks, spokesman Tim Cogan told The Globe and Mail. The...
HOOPA, Calif. - In calls to tribal police and Humboldt County sheriff’s dispatch last March, Judy Surber cried, begged and threatened. Her 29-year-old son had been shot in the chest and head in a small trailer on the remote Hoopa Valley reservation where he, his girlfriend and their 7-month-old son had stopped to give a friend a ride. Roger Surber lay bleeding next to a 73-year-old man with an even graver head wound. Surber’s girlfriend ran, clutching the baby, to find a phone. http://www.bendbulletin.com/nation/webextra...
A roundtable presented by the American Heart Association and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Oct. 14-15 drew representatives from 41 national philanthropic organizations to focus on Native American nutritional health and solutions. As a result of the gathering, the tribe and the heart association will identify strategies to support the development of plans for investing in Indian Country and collaborating on projects. Officials also began planning a second roundtable in the first quarter of 2016. to explore advocacy opportunities and...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Five people died after a whale watching boat with 27 people on board sank off Vancouver Island, and one person remained missing, Canadian authorities said. The vessel made a mayday call late Sunday afternoon on a calm, clear and sunny day off the tourist community of Tofino, a popular destination for whale watchers, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre said. The cause of the sinking remained a mystery. www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Canadian-authorities-Whale-watching-boat-6589852.php...
Albuquerque, NM – October 20, 2015 – The American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving cultural and economic wellbeing for individuals and tribes by supporting post-secondary education, announced today that it has received a grant from Wells Fargo to administer a comprehensive program of support for American Indians and Alaska Natives in higher education. The San Francisco-based financial services firm is providing financial, human and other resources to support AIGC’s efforts to build, promote,...