Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Little Rock, Ark. — A forum is set in Little Rock on the effort by descendants of slaves owned by Cherokees who want to be included in the tribe....
New York - At Island Smokes on New York City's Lower East Side, customers sick of the highest tax on cigarettes in America are fighting back by rolling their own cigarettes out of pipe tobacco....
At a meeting of the Tuscarora Tribal Council last Tuesday, four of the nation's Clan Mothers were ejected by Neil Patterson Sr. -- who has no official position within the tribe -- so that he could consult with Grand Island attorney Kendra Winkelstein....
Residents of Indian country were rattled over the weekend by at least 10 earthquakes in Oklahoma, including the largest in the state’s history, a temblor early Sunday that measured 5.6 on the Richter Scale....
YREKA — At a recent rally of at least 700 farmers, tea party members and conservative activists, Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey spoke in almost revolutionary terms, framing the actions of federal and state regulators as threats the county's livelihood....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — As Providence pushes for the eviction of Wall Street protesters camping out in a downtown park, there is no shortage of cautionary tales from other cities where activists and police have clashed violently. But some in Rhode Island say an encounter closer to home makes it more likely that the city will not see violence in Burnside Park....
When Tammy Trickler purchased a family portrait, she had to hide it behind the couch for days — holding her breath and feeling every heartbeat before the court hearing that would forever change the fate of her family....
In her blog Daily Yonder, Mary Annette Pember, Ojibwe, describes the conversations between nine revered medicine men and the “embodiment of Western medicine,” Dr. Donald Lindberg, director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, located in Bethesda, Maryland....
Dr. Ann Bullock, a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is an energetic and ambitious physician. She is reticent when it comes to talking about herself, but turn the spotlight on diabetes in the Native population—a topic about which she’s incredibly passionate—and it’s hard to get her to stop talking. A family physician who has been employed by the Indian Health Service (IHS) since 1990, Dr. Bullock practices today at the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) in Cherokee, North Carolina, just as she has for the past 21 years. In 2009, s...
(Reuters) - American Indian activist Russell Means is used to battles, having faced off against the U.S. government early and often throughout his high-profile life....
A group of roughly 100 people gathered at the Oklahoma state capitol yesterday to pay tribute to and demand justice for Naomi Whitecrow, a 2 year old Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal member killed in 2009 while in the care of a foster family. The foster mother, Amy Holder, of Edmond, Oklahoma was found guilty in October of child abuse and after about 10 hours of deliberation the jury recommended a $5,000 fine but no jail time. After word of the jury's recommendation was released, outrage sparked throughout the Indian community as family members,...
Author Linda LeGarde Grover has been named the recipient of the 2011 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, presented by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's studies at the University of Rochester. The annual award will be given for Grover's debut short story collection The Dance Boots....
More than 200 children of the Round Valley Indian Reservation in impoverished Covelo, California expressed joy and surprise when they were given the opportunity to pick several toys out of 2,500 new toys gifted by Crime Stoppers of Tacoma and Pierce County, Washington, during a Halloween party sponsored by the Tribe....
WASHINGTON - The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them with housing and college debt....
SPARKS, Okla. - Clouds of dust belched from the corners of almost every room in Joe Reneau's house as the biggest earthquake in Oklahoma history rocked the two-story building....
In the little southeastern Minnesota town of Bellechester, population 177, holding elections can be kind of a pain....