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In the past two years, Ramsey County has had 17 cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, a drastic increase from the one-or-fewer average in other years. Six of the 17 have died, with three of those deaths being directly attributed to tuberculosis, said Kris Ehresmann, director for Infectious Disease at the Minnesota Department of Health, on Monday. http://www.twincities.com/2017/11/06/ramsey-county-mn-tuberculosis-multi-drug-resistant-hmong-senior-center/...
A woman who lost her job after a photo of her flipping off President Trump's motorcade went viral worked for a NANA Regional Corp. business, according to news accounts. Juli Briskman was riding her bike when the caravan of black SUVs passed her leaving Trump National Golf Club the afternoon of Oct. 28, according to the Guardian. She raised her middle finger, then repeated the gesture when she caught up with the motorcade. The club is an 800-acre property along the Potomac River in Sterling, Virginia. https://www.adn.com/poli...
A US House of Representatives committee has called a hearing on the issue of IP rights being owned by entities that claim sovereign immunity. In an announcement made on Thursday, November 2, the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on IP said that the hearing, “Sovereign Immunity and the Intellectual Property System”, will take place on Tuesday, November 7. https://www.lifesciencesipreview.com/news/congress-sets-date-for-hearing-on-allergan-tribe-deal-2500...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A recent Idaho Supreme Court decision sets a precedent for ensuring tribal court judgments are upheld throughout the state, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe said this week. The state's highest court ruled Friday that tribal court decisions must be recognized in other Idaho courts. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/idaho/articles/2017-11-06/new-precedent-set-for-tribal-court-decisions-in-idaho...
Mashantucket – Two newcomers were elected to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council in voting among tribal members Sunday, a tribal spokeswoman said. Latoya Cluff and Matthew Pearson both outpolled Richard E. Sebastian, the council vice chairman, who finished third in the voting, according to Lori Potter, the tribe’s director of communications. Sebastian, who has served a total of five terms over the years, was among 11 candidates who ran for the two seats up for election. http://www.theday.com/local-news/20171105/cluff-pear...
For the 330,000 people who live on the Navajo Nation, diabetes is a very real threat. In fact, one in three Navajo people is pre-diabetic or diabetic. To address the problem, changemaker Denisa Livingston spearheaded the Healthy Diné Nation Act of 2014 with her community members, introducing a 2% additional sales tax for unhealthy foods. (A complementary law eliminates sales tax on healthy foods with a special emphasis on cultural foods.) What happens to the $3.5 million generated so far? It goes to fund ideas in community-based and...
A government agency’s recent decision to cut off Medicare and Medicaid payments to the Indian Health Service hospital in Pine Ridge was motivated by the case of a patient who died the day after being brought to the hospital’s emergency department, according to documents released to the Journal. The documents, released Monday, say the diabetic male patient was brought to the hospital by ambulance at 12:22 p.m. Oct. 16 with high blood sugar. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/pine-ridge-hospital-fumbled-man-s-care-before-d...
Alberta's child and youth advocate is calling on the provincial government to do more to recognize the symptoms of trauma in the young people it helps following the deaths of three Indigenous teen girls. All three died over a seven-month period in 2015. All had childhoods in which they were exposed to violence, addictions and neglect. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/deaths-of-3-indigenous-teen-girls-lead-to-calls-for-trauma-training-1.4389340...
CHEYENNE — Smokers in Wyoming would pay an additional $1 per pack and roughly $10 more per carton under a measure given a tentative green light by the Legislature’s revenue committee. At 60 cents, Wyoming has one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation, and on Monday, public health concerns aligned with a need to bring more cash into public coffers amid the roughly $700 million budget deficit. Lawmakers decided to move forward the cigarette tax bill that was effectively tabled during the revenue committee’s August meeting. http:...
Native Americans once owned the land in the United States, it was theirs before the white settlers arrived. They are the First People, whom archaeologists believe have been on the North American continent for some 50,000 years. Today they represent less than one percent of the United States’ total population. An estimated 2.7 million tribal citizens associated with 567 federally recognised tribes. http://en.rfi.fr/americas/20171029-native-american-media...
A chamber of commerce in Maine is apologizing for a holiday promotion that asked participants to “Hunt for the Indian,” an event blasted by some critics as “absolutely horrific” and totally tone-deaf. The planned event by the Skowhegan Area Chamber of Commerce featured a Native American figurine, which was to be hidden in a local business for participants to find using clues posted on the group’s Facebook page. Winners would be offered discounts of up to 20 percent. http://nypost.com/2017/11/06/biz-group-apologizes-after-hun...
Indigenous youth who use drugs in B.C. are 13 times more likely to die than all other youth in the same age group across the country. That's according to a new study, which singled out young women and those involved with injection drug use to be at the highest risk. "It's a lot higher than I ever imagined," said Mary Teegee, who is on the steering committee for the research group with Carrier Sekani Family Services. "It's absolutely heartbreaking." http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-youth-drugs-death-1.4388450...
The Nanticoke Indians celebrated their 40th Annual Powwow in Millsboro in September. “It’s a time of renewal and refreshing our spirits,” said Chief Natosha Norwood Carmine, the first female to head up the tribe. Carmine ran unopposed for the position and assumed the role on January 5, 2016. Becoming the tribe’s first female chief, she says, has brought a new-found interest in the Nanticoke. https://whyy.org/articles/nanticokes-first-female-chief-focuses-future/...
A dispute between the Yakama Nation and Klickitat County over who has criminal authority over tribal members in an unincorporated area northwest of Goldendale may finally be determined in federal court. The Yakama Nation filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Friday seeking a permanent injunction against Klickitat County authorities, prohibiting them from arresting and prosecuting tribal members for crimes in the area known as Tract D southeast of Mount Adams. http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/lower_valley/yakama-nation-su...
The man who police say broke into a Billings sporting goods store and exchanged gunfire with officers Saturday recently left a prison prerelease program and had a long criminal history. The Billings Police Department identified the man as Frank Joey Half Jr. The 30-year-old man died at the end of a 10-hour armed standoff at the Big Bear Sports Center. http://billingsgazette.com/news/crime/man-dead-in-big-bear-standoff-recently-finished-prison-prerelease/article_6b1144d9-33d4-5b76-925d-ac5c20c4b744.html#tracking-source=home-f...
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A Mission man has been sentenced to two years in prison for assaulting a federal officer on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. Authorities say a bat-wielding 23-year-old Richard Peneaux came at a tribal officer who had responded to a disturbance report on the Sinte Gleska University campus on March 23. http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Man-sentenced-for-assaulting-officer-on-tribal-12334796.php...
The 18-year-old man now charged in the death of an Indigenous woman in Thunder Bay, Ont., has officially had his original charge of aggravated assault withdrawn. Brayden Bushby was charged with aggravated assault in February after Barbara Kentner, 34, was reportedly struck by a trailer hitch thrown from a passing car. Kentner was hospitalized and subsequently died in July. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/bushby-aggravated-assault-withdrawn-1.4389401...
President Trump said Tuesday that new gun laws would have made "no difference" in preventing the massacre at a church service in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that left 26 people dead. Trump was asked during a press conference in South Korea about his recent comments calling for "extreme vetting" immediately following the New York City terror attack, and whether he would favor similar scrutiny for those looking to purchase firearms. https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-says-extreme-vetting-texas-shooter-made-no-131005395--abc-news-t...
Lynette Sumner-Hill May 22, 1960 ~ November 4, 2017 (age 57) Lynette Sumner-Hill, age 57, of the Eagle Clan and Red Lake, Minnesota went home on Saturday, November 4, 2017 from Sanford Hospital in Bemidji, MN. She was born in Red Lake, MN on May 22, 1960 to Donna Mae (Hanson) and John Franklin Sumner, Sr. Lynette worked for various people throughout her life. She worked for the Red Lake Employment office, the Head Start Program, at both Donna's and Bernadine's Cafes and the IGA before she starte...
