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Jordan Flaherty was among the Farmington High School students who raised $10,000 last year to build a school — and buy goats — for a village in Kenya. Tiffany Bertek was part of a group from Alexandria Area High School that helped organize a coat drive for local students, sent Christmas toys to needy children, and raised funds to support a “We Scare Hunger” campaign. They were among 18,000 enthusiastic students who jammed the Xcel Energy Center Tuesday for what has become an annual day of celebrating service learning and giving, called We Day....
Snowy owls, true to their name, are white, snowy white. In the winter landscape, these striking birds look like ghosts, hunting for their prey on silent wings. They make their home in the Canadian Arctic, but some winters they dip down into Minnesota, usually only as far south as Duluth. Still, these massive birds — 2 feet tall with wingspans twice that — cause a stir whenever they’re spotted outside of their range. http://www.startribune.com/snowy-owls-have-been-spotted-in-the-twin-cities-does-it-mean-another-owl-invasion/3...
NEW YORK — Teenagers spend nearly nine hours a day absorbing media and despite all the new options, music and television remain the favorites. Common Sense Media released an exhaustive survey Tuesday outlining how young people spend screen time. One concern: the number of youngsters who feel comfortable multi-tasking while doing homework. Two-thirds of teenagers said they listen to music every day, and 58 percent said the same about watching television, the study said. By contrast, 45 percent reported using social media every day and only 36 p...
The obituary of Laurynn Whiteshield depicts her as a happy and playful little girl. And for most of her short life, she was. From the age of nine months, she lived with her twin sister Michaela in a loving foster family that wanted to adopt her. When the girls were just shy of three, the county acted to make them available for adoption. But a court ordered that the girls be taken from their foster home and placed with their grandfather and his wife, who had been arrested a half-dozen times for abuse, neglect, endangerment, and abandonment of...
SAN DIEGO — There are 566 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) tribes in the U.S. and 80 more recognized by the states. Counting every member is a mandate of the U.S Census Bureau when it takes a national population count every 10 years. But the agency also has to count people who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, even if they’re not affiliated with any tribe. And that's where the challenge lies as the 2020 decennial census approaches. v...
President Barack Obama is planning to reject a permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline, according to news reports, but the company behind the controversial project is seeking to delay a decision. Obama has said he will take action before he leaves office in January 2017. Although a timeline has never been provided, news reports claimed the White House is ready to reject it. That may be why TransCanada, a Canadian firm, is asking the Department of State to suspend review of its cross-border permit application. The company said it needs more time to...
Legalizing marijuana is a touchy subject to tackle. But, the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska is considering making it a part of their community. A referendum giving power to the people of the Omaha Tribe will take place on Tuesday. Members of the community will get a chance to vote on whether marijuana should be allowed for recreational and medical purposes, and whether it should be grown industrially on the reservation. "We're here to serve the people, and so we want to know what the community wants," said Vernon Miller, Tribal Chairman. Some members...
The Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe of Nevada and Oregon will grow marijuana on its reservation to be used solely in the production of medical marijuana, the tribe’s chairman told KNPR’s State of Nevada. “After serious consideration and countless discussions among our membership, leadership and expert consultants (we have) decided to enter the medical marijuana marketplace,” Chairman Tildon Smart said. http://knpr.org/knpr/2015-11/nevada-tribe-build-medical-marijuana-facility...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Lawmakers on the Navajo Nation have given the OK for a team to negotiate a $20 million loan to acquire three new planes, raising questions among tribal members about the priorities on the vast reservation where half the workforce is unemployed and thousands live without running water and electricity. The tribe has three Beechcraft King Air turboprop planes that have taken tribal officials to meetings in Flagstaff, Phoenix and Salt Lake City, to the nation’s capital for President Barack Obama’s inauguration and to Color...
Despite the significant progress made in removing Confederate flags from government buildings and challenging racist names of federally-recognized destinations, a new Voactiv study quantifies just how much is left to be changed. The study, which was released last Thursday and can be read in its entirety here, concludes that "at least 1,441 federally recognized places across the nation include slurs in their official name." This number persists despite the U.S. Board On Geographic Names—the official federal body that regulates American place n...
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska prison officials unsuccessfully tried to buy a key lethal injection drug from a Mississippi-based pharmaceutical company after spending months trying to import tens of thousands of dollars in execution drugs from India, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services ordered about $825 worth of pancuronium bromide last month from Gulf Coast Pharmaceuticals Plus, which replaced a firm that was dissolved in 2013 after it faced disciplinary action in other s...
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, November 5, 2015, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn will join President Obama, other cabinet Secretaries, and leaders from the 566 federally recognized tribes at the 7th annual White House Tribal Nations Conference. Secretary Jewell will deliver opening remarks to kick off the Conference and will then join one of three town hall sessions with tribal leaders. Later in the day, Secretary Jewell will also lead a p...
The Department of Justice filed suit against the South Dakota Department of Social Services, accusing the agency of discriminating against Native Americans who sought employment. According to the complaint that was filed in federal court, the department repeatedly rejected qualified Native applicants for jobs on the Pine Ridge Reservation. From 2010 through 2012, the agency hired 11 non-Natives and just one Native person even though 40 percent of applicants were Native, DOJ said. http://www.indianz.com/News/2015/019424.asp...
Centuries ago, Native Americans created and played the sport of lacrosse, believing it was given to them by the Creator to entertain him and to heal the indigenous people. Tribes also used the sport to settle disputes, including territorial conflicts. Eventually, settlers re-purposed the sport, pushing its tribal history into the shadows, but today, Sasha Houston-Brown of the Dakota tribe is relearning lacrosse and teaching it to other indigenous women in her community in Minneapolis. "Growing up in the inner city here I didn't see any of our...
A panel of experts has talked, researched, brainstormed and talked some more. Now it's ordinary Minnesotans' turn to weigh in on what art should adorn the halls of Minnesota's 110-year-old Capitol building. That public input, to be gathered at more than a half-dozen meetings around the state in the next month, will help decide controversial questions, including what should be done with century-old paintings widely acknowledged to be insensitive to American Indians. http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_29061397/minnesota-con...
ASHLAND, WI (WTAQ) - After winning a three-year court battle, Chippewa Indians are apparently waiting for better conditions before they go out to shoot deer at night in northern Wisconsin. A two-month season began Sunday. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission says one hunter has shot a doe in Douglas County, and just one other hunter had a required shooting plan approved. The rules also require the Chippewa to complete hunter safety courses and pass marksmanship tests. About 30 people have accomplished both of those -- and their...
ALBUQUERQUE—Aaron Hubbard, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Fort Defiance, Ariz., pled guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a felony information charging him with abusive sexual contact of a minor child. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Hubbard will be sentenced to ten years in prison followed by not less than three years of supervised release. Hubbard will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence. Hubbard was arrested on Feb. 25, 2015, on an i...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A Fort Yates man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a woman on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Thirty-year-old Lance Summers appeared in federal court in Bismarck Monday. Summers pleaded guilty in August to second-degree murder in the death last year of 38-year-old Natalie White Lightening of Cannon Ball. The charge carried a maximum penalty of life in prison but the plea deal between Summers and prosecutors called for 10 years, and Judge Daniel Hovland approved it. Summers will be on probation for...
A woman from Aroland First Nation, Ont., says she was wrongfully accused of shoplifting at a Walmart in Thunder Bay. Donna Wesley-Gagnon says she was shopping with her husband and three grandchildren at the big box store in October and noticed store employees were closely watching and even following them. Wesley-Gagnon said after spending $300 on clothes and food, security stopped her just outside the entrance. She said she was accused of taking the jacket she was wearing from the rack and wearing it out the door. The security guard held up...
