Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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About 300 Occupy Vancouver demonstrators marched through Vancouver's downtown core demanding global financial and trade reform Saturday, but only a tiny fraction of the protesters could agree to mount an additional march Sunday targeting the Catholic Church. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Residential+school+survivors+target+Catholic+Church/5632056/story.html#ixzz1cRrQQjUL...
An average of 700 Native American children in South Dakota are removed from their homes and placed in foster care each year, often in violation of federal law, an NPR investigation found. Native American children make up less than 15 percent of the state's child population, but represent more than half of kids in foster care....
A federal judge has struck down an unwritten Bureau of Indian Affairs policy that barred tribes in Public Law 280 states from entering into self-determination contracts for law enforcement....
Oregon's Native American entrepreneurs launched businesses at one of the nation's fastest rates before the recession, opening their doors at a pace more than double the U.S. average....
The Hopi Tribe's finances are out of compliance with federal regulations, putting the tribe's $18 to $22 million in federal funding at risk, consulting accountants told the Hopi Tribal Council this month....
First nations leaders fear thousands of people in northern Manitoba will have to wait another year to get running water in their homes because governments have been dragging their feet and the brief period when pipes and other material can be trucked over winter roads is fast approaching....
Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Navajo Nation, the largest American Indian tribe by members and reservation size, plans to issue its first bonds in a $120 million offering that would be the biggest sale of nongaming tribal debt in at least a decade....
Seven new leaders have been elected to the Fort Peck Tribes Executive Board, as well as a new chair and vice chair. This year, former tribal councilman and Poplar businessman Floyd Azure won the election for the tribal chairman. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_9e6dbf05-33db-5f86-9517-97c5937c0fdb.html#ixzz1cRu1fuam...
A deputy's routine traffic stop helped authorities break up what they say is one of the biggest drug-smuggling operations uncovered in Arizona, which they estimate moved $2 billion of narcotics across the border in just five years. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/10/31/20111031arizona-drug-smuggling-bust-103111.html#ixzz1cRuIiyQQ...
Documents released Monday shed light on a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD). The civil rights investigation has been under way since March, probing accusations leveled against the department of racial bias and the use of excessive force....
The standard way to estimate a child's weight in medical emergencies is inaccurate half the time when patients are first nations, a new study shows. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Baby+weight+calculating+method+misses+mark+natives/5636701/story.html#ixzz1cRuxgMEb...
A young member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe deserves a 48-year-sentence for murder, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals said in a split decision today. Bryan Austin Boneshirt was 17 when he was indicted as a juvenile for first-degree murder. He agreed to plead guilty as an adult to second-degree murder for the death of Marquita Walking Eagle on November 1, 2009....
Rapid City, S.D. — The murder trial of 29-year old Heidi Waloke is set to start in Rapid City on Thursday. Waloke is accused of stabbing and killing her aunt, 38-year old Jada Jeunesse of Pine Ridge, in a Rapid City apartment in May....
A long-time sex worker believes serial killer Robert Pickton violently raped her in the early 1990s, but she told the inquiry into Vancouver's missing women that police never showed up to investigate....
OKMULGEE, Oklahoma -- The trial is underway for an Okmulgee county woman charged with abusing and murdering her 3-year-old foster daughter....
Family members of the victims murdered by serial killer Robert Pickton have received $1.25-million in support from the B.C. government, The Globe and Mail has learned....
CASPER, Wyo. — A former employee of the Northern Arapaho tribe’s Department of Social Services has pleaded guilty to embezzlement, a charge she faced after authorities said she and two others took roughly $135,000 in federal funds. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_14806872-18ed-5ec6-b02e-edb0f07b398e.html#ixzz1cRy21ogd...
1/31/2011 - PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Native Americans have served honorably in all our nation's wars despite the fact that they were not granted citizenship until 1924. About 12,000 Native Americans served our country heroically in World War I; 44,000 (of a total population of 350,000 at the time) served in World War II; and 42,000 served in Vietnam -- more than 90 percent of whom were volunteers....
