Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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ONEIDA (WLUK) -- For more than 20 days, smoke has been rising from a teepee at the corner of Hwy 54 and Seminary Road in Oneida. The smoke is the result of a sacred fire which the Oneida Nation community believes will help keep drugs off their streets. http://fox11online.com/news/local/oneida-nation-members-use-a-sacred-fire-to-combat-drugs...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — A bill before the U.S. Congress that would return land to the Winnebago Tribe near Sioux City, Iowa,is drawing some fire from some hunting groups. They are afraid they will lose public access to one of the premiere game areas in the region, and they are targeting the bill's sponsor, U.S. Rep. Steve King, from Iowa. http://www.ketv.com/article/bill-to-transfer-land-back-to-winnebago-tribe-draws-fire-from-hunters/13143928...
The Bureau of Indian Affairs expects to re-open a privately-built jail on the edge of the Crow Indian Reservation in coming months after it sat vacant for much of the last decade. The bureau's director recently told a U.S. Senate committee that the agency is finalizing a contract to begin operating the Two Rivers Detention Facility in Hardin within the next three months, the Billings Gazette reported . Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/news/business/article182267081.html#storylink=cpy...
Once again, the Arizona courts have it out for medical marijuana patients. In a curious case of cannabis concentrates, Navajo County Superior Court Judge Dale Nielson has declared extracts illegal. The basis for his stance concerns the definition of cannabis in Arizona state law. The state's statutes define cannabis as "the resin extracted from" marijuana plants, and pot laws written more than 50 years ago classify cannabis as a narcotic. https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/extract-excitement/Content?oid=12652485...
SALMON ARM , B.C. — RCMP have identified the remains of a young woman that were found on a farm in British Columbia where a large-scale search has been underway for more than a week. Police said no charges have been laid in connection with Traci Genereaux's death, which is being treated as suspicious. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/01/traci-genereauxs-remains-found-on-salmon-arm-b-c-farm_a_23264024/...
FARMINGTON — The Department of Diné Education has filed a complaint with the Navajo Election Administration to remove a Sanostee Day School board member from her seat after she failed to list two alcohol-related convictions on her candidacy paperwork. She also is facing a warrant that was issued for her failing to appear at a court hearing on a September DWI charge in Albuquerque Metropolitan Court this week. http://www.daily-times.com/story/news/crime/2017/11/03/complaint-filed-remove-tribal-school-board-member-office/82944...
The nerve center of payday lending pioneer Charles Hallinan’s multimillion-dollar business empire was – at least on paper – housed for years in a dilapidated shipping container parked on a dusty patch of tribal land in rural Northern California. Inside, a lone computer server purportedly fielded hundreds of requests each day from desperate borrowers across the country – applying online for low-dollar, high-interest loans to carry them until their next paycheck. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/hall...
WASHINGTON – A day before House Republicans were expected to unveil their plan to overhaul the tax code, tribal leaders and senators complained Wednesday that Indian Country once again does not have a seat at the table. Tribal leaders told members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs that tribes struggle with economic growth because of things like basic federal tax law, dual taxation from state governments and budget cuts from the federal programs that serve them. They urged lawmakers to push for legislation that will help Indian C...
The Menominee Tribe has fired a police officer who was arrested for allegedly having inappropriate contact with a teen. WLUK-TV reports Sunday the mother of a 15-year-old tribal member came forward and said the girl had received sexually inappropriate social media messages from Basil Okimosh Jr., 39. http://www.wsaw.com/fox/content/news/Menominee-Tribe-fires-police-officer-over-inappropriate-contact-with-teen-454998043.html...
