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BUFFALO, NY - The Seneca Nation approved medical marijuana measure in a referendum vote on Tuesday. The final vote was 448 in favor and 364 opposed. The nation will now consider the establishment of a legal and regulatory framework for potential developments in the area of medical marijuana. http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/2015/11/03/medical-marijuana-referendum/75118990/...
SALAMANCA – Seneca Nation voters gave their leaders the green light Tuesday to see what it would take to get into the medical marijuana business. In a referendum that coincided with the Nation’s judicial elections, the measure passed, 448-364. The approval lets the Seneca Nation Council draw up the laws and regulations to allow for the manufacture, use and distribution of medical cannabis. The measure requires further approval from the Nation’s membership, if the Council winds up having to enter into agreements on medical marijuana with other...
U.S. federal authorities are trying to dismantle a smuggling network moving Chinese nationals from Toronto to New York City through the Mohawk community of Akwesasne which straddles the Canada-U.S. border, court documents show. The smuggling network advertises its services by publishing ads in Chinese-language newspapers sold in the Toronto-area. The ads include the phone number of a broker who sets up the smuggling run, according to court documents filed with the U.S. Federal Court Northern New York District. http://aptn.ca...
OTTAWA–Led by Theland Kicknosway, a 13 year-old Pottawatami-Cree youth from Wahpole Island, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his new cabinet walked into history Wednesday as they were sworn into office in the ballroom of Rideau Hall. The Secretary to the Governor General Stephen Wallace acknowledged the ceremony was taking place on Algonquin land and two Inuit girls performed a short throat-singing song before Trudeau and his ministers issued their oaths of office, signaling that this new federal government is serious about a new r...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says an oil and gas lease in the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Rocky Mountain Front should be canceled, a decision welcomed by the Blackfeet Tribe and environmental groups but criticized by an attorney for the developer. Vilsack made the recommendation in support of canceling the controversial Hall Creek natural gas exploration lease in a letter he sent Friday to Sally Jewell, secretary of the Interior Department. The Interior Department is expected to make the final decision by Nov. 23. h...
POPLAR – Newly elected Fort Peck tribal leaders pledged unity and fewer politics in their council meeting chambers Monday when they were sworn into office. Fifteen council members and four tribal judges were elected Saturday during the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes’ biannual election. Floyd Azure of Poplar, who served previously as chairman from 2013-2015, was elected again and will replace retiring Tribal Chairman A.T. “Rusty” Stafne of Oswego. Azure defeated challengers John Morales, Larry Wetsit, Barry Bighorn and Garrett Big Leggins...
BEMIDJI, Minn. - Police investigating the disappearance of Rose Downwind now say they believe foul play is involved. Bemidji Police Chief Mike Mastin says investigators have also identified two persons of interest in the case, Marchello Cimmarusti and Christopher Davis. Downwind was last seen by her family October 19th in Bemidji, officers say their investigation into what happened to her has been focused on the area of Lake Bemidji State Park and the Buena Vista State Forest. Police are also...
A young member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will moderate a discussion on Thursday between President Obama and tribal youth. Jude Schimmel, a standout basketball player at the University of Louisville, author and member of Generation Indigenous, will meet with Obama during a session of the White House Tribal Nations Conference in Washington D.C. “I’m excited and honored to announce that I will moderate a conversation between President Obama and Native youth about how we can work together to help more young peo...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - How does a reservation kid from the Navajo Nation grow up to work at NASA at a lab that sends robots to Mars? For Aaron Yazzie it started in Tuba City, where he was born. His mother's family lives in Shadow Mountain in Cameron, Arizona and many of Yazzie's relatives attended Tuba City High School, including his mother. Yazzie was raised and went to school in Holbrook, Arizona. His parents Kee and Shirley Yazzie still live in Holbrook. He is Salt clan, born for the Bitter Water clan. His maternal grandfather's clan is...
A film crew will be in Lillooet next month to begin filming a new TV documentary series on the Stl’atl’imx Tribal Police. The series, called “Tribal Police Files,” is the brainchild of producer Steve Sxwithul’txw, who served as an officer with the Tribal Police from 2000 to 2004. “Filming starts Dec. 1 and goes for two weeks,” Sxwithul’txw told the News. See more at: http://www.lillooetnews.net/news/local-news/new-tv-series-focuses-on-tribal-police-1.2103627#sthash.IVTmgdNI.dpuf...
A boarding home parent is testifying for the first time Wednesday at the inquest into seven First Nations student deaths in Thunder Bay. The court proceedings Wednesday have focused on 15-year-old Jethro Anderson. The teen was staying with his aunt, Dora Morris, when he disappeared in 2000. Anderson's body was later found in the Kaministiquia River. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/first-nations-student-deaths-inquest-1.3303387...
Surveillance video posted to YouTube shows a Mt. Edgecumbe High School student stripped to his underwear and restrained by three Sitka Police Department officers while one shocks him point-blank with a Taser at least 10 times, leaving him crumpled and limp on a holding cell mat. One officer can then be heard yelling that the teenager is a "douchebag" as he leaves the cell. Since the video of the incident from Sept. 6, 2014, was posted last week, it has been viewed more than 11,000 times, with hundreds of people sharing it on Facebook....
EAGLE BUTTE Tuesday we explained how the Federal Bureau of investigation is seeking help from the community to solve a murder that happened two weeks ago in Eagle Butte. But now the victim’s family is speaking out. While investigators are offering a monetary reward for information, his mother begs for someone to come forward. For parents, there is no worse pain, than losing a child. And finding out they died a violent death, is unimaginable. 19 year-old East Lee was found shot dead at Brueske Lake two weeks ago. http://www.k...
A woman from Mishkeegogamang First Nation in northwestern Ontario is suing the Ontario Provincial Police for $2 million in damages after her shoulder and ribs were broken during an arrest. Bonnie Muckuck, 55, was found not guilty earlier this year of assaulting police in a 2013 altercation in Pickle Lake, Ont., in which she was injured. She was also found not guilty of assault on her partner, a complaint that led to her contact with police. The judge in that case ruled that the injuries to Muckuck, whom he described as "frail and bird-like",...
