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IRVING – Sometimes, an election vote that is supposed to be secret really isn’t secret at all. That is what happened last Tuesday, when members of Seneca Nation elected every candidate sponsored by the Seneca Party, according to critics of the election. Seneca Party candidates won all 30 contested offices, including president, treasurer and all the members of the Tribal Council. Not one candidate who opposed the Seneca Party came away with a victory. http://buffalonews.com/2016/11/06/straight-ticket-vote-buying-aided-seneca-...
Vernon Miller knows the challenges facing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe firsthand. He’s the chairman of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and Iowa and went out this summer to stand in solidarity with the tribe as it protests the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. “I, as well as two other members of the Omaha Tribe, went out there,” he says. “We went up there and prayed with them and offered what we could. ... We do care about what’s going on. The Missouri River comes through our reservation, and what happens there is definitely going to...
To swear on a Bible is to pledge that you'll tell the truth in a courtroom. But Ontario courts have found a whole new way for indigenous people to swear an oath, rather than have them do it on the text of the Christian faith. The Ottawa Courthouse is allowing aboriginal people to swear on eagle feathers after two such items were handed over to staff in a ceremony last week, CBC News reported. They were gifts from Greg Meekis, community justice programme coordinator at the Odawa Native Friendship Centre. He provided them after one of his...
President Obama says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering rerouting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, amid months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and members of more than 200 other Native American nations and tribes from across the Americas. "My view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of Native Americans," Obama said. "And I think that right now the Army Corps is examining whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline in a way." Meanwhile, on Wednesday, police deployed pepper spray and...
With a key easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline being delayed by the Obama administration, water protection efforts are shifting to additional sites in North Dakota. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking a harsh stance against the presence of pipeline resisters on federal property. A letter sent to Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier on Tuesday refers to them as "trespassers." "The Corps of Engineers has not provided any permits or permissions for anyone to access that area of the federal property that we manage," Colonel John W....
The latest evidence of police violence at the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota: A journalist was shot by a rubber bullet, on camera, while interviewing a water protector, the preferred name for protesters in the area, on Thursday. I was shot by militarized police WHILE interviewing a man on camera at #StandingRock…and here's the footage. #NoDAPL https://t.co/FfWiSCbiKf pic.twitter.com/4DRwNPkfZ9 — Erin Schrode (@ErinSchrode) November 3, 2016 The shot came out of nowhere. As Fusion reported, journalist and activist Erin Schrode was rec...
About a hundred anti-Dakota Access Pipeline protesters and clergy held a prayer rally on the lawn of the North Dakota state Capitol in Bismark on Thursday evening, ending in a police-ordered lockdown of the Capitol and more than a dozen arrests. Highway Patrol Lt. Tom Iverson said 14 people were arrested in the Capitol's judicial wing for refusing to leave the building. Iverson said the protesters, who were holding a sit-in and singing prayer hymns, faced disorderly conduct charges. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dakota-pi...
The Canadian Press President Barack Obama has raised the possibility of a reroute of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota to allay the concerns of American Indians and others who have demonstrated against the project for months. The president says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is examining alternatives but the agency has not disclosed them and a spokeswoman declined comment. Some questions and answers about a possible reroute: http://aptn.ca/news/2016/11/03/if-dakota-access-pipeline-were-to-m...
The Donald Trump campaign announced it has formed a Native American Coalition in the last week of the presidential race. The coalition was created on October 30 with little fanfare. In a press release on the Trump website it was made public that Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the Chair of Trump’s Native American Coalition. “The coalition actually started as an advisory committee,” said Mullin, who said the first meeting of the advisory committee was in early September. “What we fight f...
WARM SPRINGS — In a nondescript, low-slung building on a barren plateau above the village of Warm Springs, a tight band of dreamers imagines a vibrant future for the hard-luck Indian reservation. And while it’s clearly no pipe dream, a drug — cannabis — does lie at the heart of their strategy to reinvigorate the reservation. They dream of Warm Springs rising—not like smoke but like a mountain slowly pushing up through the earth. Warm Springs Ventures inhabits the building’s warren of cubicles. The company, established by the Confederate...
Canada could face “20 Standing Rocks,” said a Mohawk chief in response to the Justin Trudeau government’s revelation Thursday it doesn’t plan to include consent as part of its consultation approach with First Nations on major resource projects. Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr told reporters Thursday the Trudeau government believes it only needs to accommodate and consult First Nations before proceeding with major resource development projects and not obtain “free prior and informed consent.” http://aptn.ca/news/2016/11/0...
Flora Muskego was found frozen to death in a snow drift near Norway House First Nation 56 years ago. Her family is still wondering what happened to the 22-year-old on Thursday, December 9, 1960. There was a small newspaper clipping from 1960 in the Winnipeg Free Press stating when Muskego was found and that she was last seen just the day before. It also said a coroner's inquest was pending on the police investigation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/manitoba-oldest-known-mmiw-1.3822116...
Up to 10 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into Onondaga Lake after a 50-year-old pipe burst during 21 hours of straight rain in Syracuse, New York on October 21. The 42-inch diameter pipe broke south of the Inner Harbor along the Onondaga Lake shoreline. For more than 24 hours, 5,000 gallons of raw sewage flowed into the sacred lake per minute, according to a report that Onondaga County filed with the New York State Department of Conservation. “Diluted raw sewage that had coarse screening removal” is how the spill was described in a pre...
A central Manitoba family living with leaking sewage, rodents and mould in their home will soon have a brand-new house thanks to an Ontario construction company. Darryl Williams, a senior partner with Total Construction Management based in Campbellford, Ont., said the company can deliver a new four-bedroom house to Melinda McIvor, her partner and eight children by Christmas. A recent video shot by McIvor's cousin, Clint McIvor, showed the trailer's foundation collapsing, raw sewage backed up under the floorboards and pieces of insulation...
Banishment is being considered by multiple Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. Muskoday First Nation recently passed a vote on a trespass law which would allow them to charge people with trespassing on reserve land, if they were unwanted in the community. It's not a new concept, says Rick Tailfeathers, the communications director of the Kainai First Nation Blood tribe, located approximately 215 kilometres south of Calgary. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/banishment-from-reserves-a-community-effort-1.3832012...
A case that sparked outrage from Indigenous leaders over treaty rights has ended with two men from the Pine Creek First Nation in Manitoba pleading guilty to charges of unlawful hunting on property near Canora, Sask. Charlie Boucher, 55, who is also the chief of the First Nation, and George Lamirande, 40, were each fined a total of $7,500 for unlawfully hunting on posted land, unlawful possession of wildlife and illegally transporting wildlife to another province. Earlier this year, Boucher and other Aboriginal leaders said their treaty right...
The rant that Felix Taqqaugaq made on his community radio station the night he was shot by police included threats to RCMP officers. That's according to testimony from Cpl. Dan Donison, the lead RCMP investigator on the case, speaking on the second day of the inquest into Taqqaugaq's shooting death by police in Igloolik, Nunavut, in March of 2012. Donison, who based his testimony off his opinion from the findings of the investigation, said the officers first tried to find Taqqaugaq, even going as far as going on community radio themselves to...
A new report from Amnesty International says police in northeast B.C. are not equipped to deal with the high rates of crime in the region, particularly when it comes to violence against Indigenous women and girls. The report also calls on RCMP to increase Indigenous cultural knowledge for its officers, and renews Amnesty's demand for the Site C dam project to be stopped. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/amnest-international-bc-police-1.3833774...
