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WASHINGTON – Kimberly Graves took the Fifth. Graves, a high-ranking official from the St. Paul office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, faced a House panel Monday night to respond to charges that she improperly — and perhaps illegally — gamed the civil service system. She refused to answer based on her constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination. http://www.startribune.com/embattled-st-paul-va-official-takes-the-fifth-amendment-before-a-house-panel/339673472/...
Electric bills of Xcel Energy customers in Minnesota are going up — again. The state’s largest power company on Monday requested a 9.8 percent electric rate hike phased in over three years. By 2018, a typical electric customer’s annual electric charges would be $132 higher if state regulators approve the increase. Xcel’s 1.2 million Minnesota electric customers face an almost-certain interim rate hike of 5.5 percent in January, or about $60 per year, plus a smaller bump in 2017, bringing the total to 7 percent. Interim rate hikes are almost...
Karen Diver is resigning as chairwoman of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to take a position in the Obama administration. Diver, who has led the band since 2007, announced her resignation Monday and said she has accepted an appointment as special assistant to the president for Native American affairs. "I am excited by the opportunity to have a wider impact in Indian County under President Obama's administration, which has shown unprecedented support for Indian County," she wrote in a letter posted on the band's website. "I will...
Imagine trying to find a house when your directions sound like this: When the pavement ends, drive a mile and turn left at the school bus stop. Then it's the third house on the right. On the Navajo Nation, Native American-governed U.S. territory, this scenario is common — having a real, physical address is pretty rare. But that's finally beginning to change. http://www.npr.org/2015/11/02/452824825/navigating-navajo-nation-soon-to-be-easier-for-amazon-ambulances...
BESBETOH, ARIZONA — The family of two Navajo boys were relieved on this past Wednesday morning after spending a frantic night waiting for word as a search party went looking for the toddlers, 3- and 4-years old who wandered off from their grandparents and aunt while they were hauling wood. The boys went missing about 2 p.m. on Tuesday and the Navajo Nation Police Department (NNPD) were notified about 7 p.m. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/two-navajo-toddlers-rescued-after-spending-night-in-woods-found-unharmed/...
To commemorate Domestic Violence Awareness month, the U.S. Department of Justice hosted a streaming video presentation that featured reports from tribes that implemented pilot projects under the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act of 2013. The pilot projects demonstrated the tribe’s ability to handle criminal domestic violence cases for the first time in more than 30 years. Tribes lost their power to prosecute non-Indians in 1978, when Mark Oliphant, a non-Indian was arrested by Suquamish tribal police. But, he got off because t...
A $300-million aboriginal housing fund created by the Conservative government is falling far short of its promise of creating thousands of new homes on reserves that desperately need dwellings. A CBC News investigation has found the First Nations Market Housing Fund helped build just 99 homes to date and is nowhere near meeting its ambitious target of 25,000 privately owned dwellings by 2018. "Frankly, it's taken us a little longer than anticipated," says John Beaucage, chair of the fund's board of trustees. "We're not going to hit that...
BALTIMORE – The Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health announced today it is doubling its efforts to improve American Indians’ educational and health status. On the occasion of its 25th Anniversary, the Center for American Indian Health’s 500 Scholars Initiative will raise $3 million over the next three years to promote education and training opportunities for 500 American Indian and Alaska Natives, through programs spanning high school to post-doctoral education. Initiatives will include programs to help youth finish high schoo...
His lips are pressed tightly together. His eyes stare straight ahead. And his thick beard appears streaked with gray. A recently unearthed glass-plate photograph, about 150 years old, puts a new face on a pivotal figure in perhaps early-Minnesota’s grimmest moment. Until now, historians had never seen an image of Capt. William J. Duley — the executioner on the day 38 Dakota men were hanged in Mankato after the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War. New Ulm researcher and author Elroy Ubl tracked down a descendant in Seattle who had inherited a family album of...
Four Alaska Native men hoping to be exonerated of the 1997 beating death of Fairbanks teenager John Hartman are confident their innocence is being proven by evidence and testimony provided this month in a series of hearings. “The evidence we are presenting is really cumulative, and each builds on the last,” said Bill Oberly of the Alaska Innocence Project, which is assisting the defense for George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts and Eugene Vent. “We have the confession of William Holmes as the starting point and have built on that. We suppo...
A Regina man alleged to have murdered two women two years ago has agreed to trial by judge and jury. Clayton Eichler, 34, appeared in provincial court Monday morning for a scheduled preliminary hearing. A judge was set to begin reviewing evidence to determine if Eichler should stand trial, but before that could begin, the crown entered a request to commit the case for trial, which the defence agreed to. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/clayton-eichler-to-stand-trial-by-judge-and-jury-1.3300099...
The chief of the Dakota Tipi First Nation says the search for Jennifer Catcheway can continue on the southern Manitoba reserve without a search warrant. The family searched the community's landfill last week after receiving a tip about Catcheway, who has been missing since 2008. Chief David Pashe previously said the missing woman's parents would only be welcome to return with the RCMP. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/catcheway-search-dakota-tipi-1.3299618...
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. – Animosity is brewing in Manitoba between a mother and father desperate for clues into the disappearance of their missing daughter, and a First Nations chief who says band members have grown tired of searchers digging holes on their reserve. Bernice Catcheway, whose daughter, Jennifer, disappeared seven years ago, says she, her husband and other searchers are now barred from entering the Dakota Tipi reserve near Portage la Prairie after their latest search of the community’s dump and other areas last week. The sea...
A new witness has come forward with information about Jennifer Catcheway's disappearance, her family said. Catcheway was 17 years old when disappeared in 2008. On Friday, Jennifer's mother, Bernice, said she went numb when she heard there was someone with new information. "Everything went slow motion," she said. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/new-witness-comes-forward-in-jennifer-catcheway-case-1.3298425...
