Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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A 5-year-old trick-or-treater was run over by a car and killed while crossing Victory Memorial Parkway in north Minneapolis well after dark Saturday, authorities said Sunday. The driver, from Minneapolis, stopped after hitting the boy about 9:25 p.m. on westbound Memorial Parkway near Knox Avenue N. and was cooperating, police said. Officers responding to the scene found the boy in critical condition after he was trapped under the car, according to police. http://www.startribune.com/car-runs-over-and-kills-boy-5-crossing-min...
Venture capitalists, cool to Minnesota companies during the first three quarters of the year, have started to open their wallets. Six companies in the state raised nearly $65 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30. That’s the highest quarterly amount so far this year, but less than during the same period in 2014. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-venture-capital-and-mergers-business-headed-for-another-good-year/339054791/...
Defense wins the game, the saying goes, and that strategy also is the key to staying healthy during flu season. The Man vs. Achoo contest is officially underway and is expected to plague us through May. So far, only a few cases of flu have been reported in Minnesota, said Kris Ehresmann, director of infectious disease, epidemiology, prevention and control at the Minnesota Department of Health. But with the wily virus capable of spreading quickly and striking hard — last year 10 children in Minnesota died — it’s never too early to start plann...
Inviting more stoners to town, as the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe intends to do with its pot lounge, would be tourism. That is, until the federal government sends in bulldozers, as happened Oct. 23 at the hemp farm of the Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin. Meanwhile the governor’s Blue Ribbon task force on K-12 schools wants the state sales tax increased, so South Dakota can pay teachers more and get out of last place nationally. http://www.capjournal.com/opinions/more-jobs-needed-in-the-right-places/article_e1384a34-8113-11e5-a...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Chip Taylor never expected to become a landscape ecologist. But as he watched monarch butterflies on a downward spiral — as a powerful herbicide killed off the only plant that feeds their caterpillar — he realized he needed to find places to grow milkweed in order to save the orange-and-black butterfly. Twenty years ago, a billion monarchs flittered through the skies. Their population plunged a staggering 95 percent by the end of last year, when about 56 million remained. See more at: http://examiner-enterpri...
As the Comanche Nation awaits the scheduling of a special general council meeting to seat a new tribal administrator, some tribal members are attempting to recall all the members of the tribe's business committee. The tribe's meeting hall north of Lawton was filled Oct. 24 with 625 members of its 16,000 roster onsite to determine if the removal of Tribal Administrator Will Owens from his post was constitutional. The decision was upheld by a vote of 297-293 the decision. http://www.swoknews.com/local/petitions-circulated-remo...
When you consider where American technology innovation is happening in the United States, places like Silicon Valley or big cities on the east and west coasts might come to mind. As a fintech entrepreneur providing services to online lenders, my experience has found a thriving business community in places you might not think to look: American Indian Reservations. Many American Indian tribes have been enormously successful launching sustainable businesses in high-growth industries. These tribes owe their success to the creation of well-fueled...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Federal authorities have announced three New Mexico residents have been indicted in a scam to sell Filipino-made jewelry as American Indian made. U.S. Attorney Damon Martinez said Thursday the three individuals were recently arrested following a long investigation and a raid of jewelry stores in Albuquerque, Gallup, New Mexico, and Calistoga, California. According to the indictment unsealed Thursday, 51-year-old Nael Ali, 53-year-old Mohammad Abed Manasra, and 41-year-old Christina Bowen are facing charges of v...
PEMBROKE — If requests for absentee ballots can help predict election turnout, voter participation in the Nov. 17 Lumbee tribal elections will be better than “average,” according to the tribe’s Elections Board chairman. “We’re being bombarded with requests for absentee ballots,” Sheila Beck-Jones told The Robesonian on Tuesday. This year’s elections include tribal chairman and seven seats on the 21-member Lumbee Tribal Council. https://robesonian.com/news/81255/tribe-bombarded-with-requests-for-absentee-ballots...
Federal agents destroyed a Wisconsin-based tribe’s industrial hemp crop that was being grown as a research project, and the tribe’s chairman says he’s perplexed as to why federal agents unilaterally ended a project the tribe believe was legal under the 2014 Farm Bill. The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin says federal agents seized the tribe’s crop of low THC non-psychotropic industrial hemp on tribal land last week. The tribe was growing the crop to research various strains to see which ones would work best for possible future economi...
MENOMINEE COUNTY — For the first time since a DEA raid, the leader of the Menominee Indian Tribe is speaking out, claiming the tribe did nothing wrong. The tribe says it was growing industrial hemp, but the DEA says it was high-grade marijuana. Whether the plants are industrial hemp or high-grade marijuana, Menominee Indian Tribal Chairman Gary Besaw says a federal raid should have never happened last Friday on tribal land. http://fox11online.com/news/local/northwoods/menominee-indian-tribe-reacts-to-federal-investigation-of...
n May, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe announced plans to legalize marijuana on their reservation. The tribe's executive committee made it official in June. Since then the tribe has been on a fast track to build a marijuana lounge, saying anyone 21 and over will be able to buy and use whether they're a tribal member or not. A change in federal law opened the door for the tribe to do this. But state law says marijuana is still very much an illegal substance. And those who enforce those laws say a very big problem is headed our way....
Tanker trucks tear past a yellow school zone sign. On one side of the road, five oil wells are clustered around a pad. On the other, a mere half-mile away, students sit in class, expected to learn amid the din and the odor. Early-morning fog lifts from the valley to reveal an oil well just across Highway 550 from Lybrook Elementary School. There are five oil wells sitting on both federal and state land less than a half-mile from the school. The public school serves 83 students, almost all of whom are Navajo, in kindergarten through eighth...
Indigenous people are holding Canada’s new prime minister to account on a host of ambitious “Obama style” campaign promises around rights and reconciliation. A number of aboriginal leaders have reminded Justin Trudeau that their expectations are high since the Liberal leader was elected on October 19. Some added that indigenous communities’ trust must be rebuilt after a decade of Conservative rule under Stephen Harper. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/10/28/indigenous-leaders-look-justin-trudeau-ad...
SISSETON, S.D. -- A Dec. 15 trial has been scheduled two current and three former executives and one employee of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe for issuing checks to themselves to pay for home repairs and helping to pay their income taxes. Acting U.S. Attorney for South Dakota Randy Seiler has announced the six, who are all members of the tribe’s Big Coulee District, face charges of conspiracy to commit embezzlement from an Indian tribal organization and embezzlement from the tribe. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/cr...
November has almost arrived and that means another Native American Heritage Month. "American Indians and Alaska Natives enrich every aspect of our country. As the first to live on this land," President Barack Obama said in his proclamation for National Native American Heritage Month. "Native Americans and their traditions and values inspired -- and continue to inspire -- the ideals of self-governance and determination that are the framework of our Nation." http://www.indianz.com/News/2015/019394.asp...
An Alberta judge ruled Thursday to continue a ban on the public release of video excerpts played in open court depicting the police interrogation of an intellectually challenged woman whose murder conviction was quashed earlier this month. Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Beth Hughes extended an interim ban on the release of portions of Wendy Scott’s police interrogation video which were played in court during the jury trial of her co-accused Connie Oakes. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/10/30/alberta-judge-extends-ban-on-pol...
A Native American arts and crafts expo this weekend at the 4-H building on the Olmsted County Fairgrounds will feature singing and dancing, story-telling, drum circles and the artwork of Indian artists. The two-day event will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Native American Center of Southeast Minnesota Arts & Crafts Expo has been an annual event focused on keeping Native American culture vibrant by keeping people in touch with its traditions. http://www.postbulletin.com/life/lifestyle...
The family of Jennifer Catcheway, who's been missing for seven years, say they've received a tip about where she might be. Her parents said someone recently showed up at their home and told them to search a landfill near the Dakota Tipi First Nation, 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg near Portage la Prairie. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jennifer-catcheway-s-family-searching-landfill-and-dakota-tipi-yards-1.3296048...
