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Digital display signs that tell riders how long they will have to wait for the next bus have been appearing a number of transit stations and busy bus stops over the past few weeks as Metro Transit expands its NexTrip service. The signs provide real-time predicted departure information for all routes departing within 15 minutes at the stops where they are located. The same information is also available on the agency's website and by telephone at 612-373-3333. Riders can text "MT" and their stop number to 27299 to get bus information, too....
An undercover video shot at Hormel Foods Corp.’s Austin pork supplier, Quality Pork Processors, shows treatment of pigs that is “completely unacceptable,” according to federal meat inspectors. The video was shot this year by the animal rights group Compassion Over Killing. It shows scenes from the killing floor at Quality Pork, which is next to Hormel’s sprawling plant in Austin, wellspring of Spam and myriad other products. The group turned the video over to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is reviewing it. http://...
WASHINGTON – When President Obama first won the White House, he recruited Ray LaHood, a Republican congressman, to join his Cabinet. The appointment, Obama declared, “reflects that bipartisan spirit” that would distinguish his presidency. Seven years later and now out of office, LaHood has concluded that the opposite turned out to be true. Rather than reflecting the bipartisan spirit of the Obama presidency, LaHood said his appointment as secretary of transportation came to reflect its failure. http://www.startribune.com/ray...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Mummers Parade, a long-running and extravagant Philadelphia New Year's celebration that has faced criticism for its lack of diversity and occasional racial insensitivity, will have a performance division specifically for ethnic groups for the first time next year, organizers said. The change will help ensure the 115-year-old tradition - often called the city's version of Mardi Gras - continues and thrives, Mummers spokesman George Badey said. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151111_ap_96f30e5ee3444...
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Hard Rock has 80,000 reasons to celebrate its world-famous memorabilia collection this week. At the recent Icons & Idols: Rock n' Roll Auction event at Julien's Auctions Beverly Hills, Hard Rock International, known for its memorabilia at locations worldwide, has acquired its 80,000th piece — Elvis Presley's 24-karat gold leaf grand piano. The most important piano to be offered from Elvis Presley's history will join Hard Rock's priceless collection of invaluable memorabilia pieces including handwritt...
PIERRE, S.D. – Attorney General Marty Jackley confirms that he has met with Flandreau Chairman Anthony Reider, Tribal Council members and leaders, regarding the marijuana operations of the Santee Sioux Tribe. As with the previous government-to-government meetings with tribal authorities, the meeting was both professional and important to gain each other’s continued perspective. “As Attorney General, it remains my desire to work with Tribal authorities to avoid placing either Indian or non-Indian persons unnecessarily at risk from state or feder...
A South Puget Sound tribe is planning a grand opening at 4:20 p.m. on Thursday for what it believes is the nation's first marijuana store on a reservation. The recreational marijuana shop is in a small, simple building across the street from the Squaxin Island Tribe's casino near Shelton, Washington. The retail store is named "Elevation." Squaxin councilman Jim Peters said he and fellow tribal members had qualms about getting into the retail marijuana business. http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/south-puget-sound-tribe-op...
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community was among eight tribes from Washington that sent representatives to Washington, D.C., last week to continue their protest against the largest proposed coal terminal in the United States. The terminal, planned for Cherry Point in Whatcom County, has been a point of contention for several years over whether the potential economic gain of the terminal outweighs environmental risks and tribal treaty rights. http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/tribes-take-coal-train-protest-to-d-c/article_6841...
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Chairman Brian Cladoosby was recently re-elected as president of the National Congress of American Indians during the group’s annual meeting. “Never in my wildest dreams as a little Indian boy growing up on a tiny reservation in the Northwest corner of our country did I ever imagine that I could have been given the opportunity to serve an organization like the National Congress of American Indians,” Cladoosby said in a press release. “Only through the love of the Creator.” http://www.goanaco...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota’s Supreme Court has tossed out a judicial order that for years excluded residents of Oglala Lakota County from serving on juries. The county is within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and nearly all residents are Native American. The county doesn’t have state court facilities and instead contracts with Fall River County for legal proceedings. Judge Jeff Davis in 2009 issued the order excluding Oglala Lakota County residents from serving on juries, referencing a 2001 tribal proclamation declaring state cou...
Over the past week, two proposals have surfaced that could have profound impacts on Indian Country, and they likely would not be for the better. The first proposal surfaced on October 20 when a Utah congressman introduced legislation to terminate all Interior Department jurisdiction over federal recognition of Indian tribes. The second came a day later when a major candidate for President announced that he wants to relocate the Department of the Interior out of Washington, insuring isolation from both other government agencies and Congress....
RAPID CITY, S.D. - An exhaustive study of rapid city police data released Tuesday underscored a problem plaguing the city: Native American women are too often the victims of violent crime. “Our Indian women in this town are in crisis,” said community activist Chas Jewett. “We’re the most victimized. We’re the most likely to be involved in violent events.” The study's author, Dr. Rich Braunstein, said, "This is the largest problem that needs the most attention in the shortest term." http://www.kotatv.com/news/south-dakota-new...
Stephen Yellowhawk grew up on the powwow circuit, traveling across the United States and Canada with his family. As a young boy, this son of the Lakota and Iroquois Nations was fascinated by the athletic, flashy style of the Fancy Dance (also known as Fancy War Dance), and the men who performed it wearing stunning, elaborate regalia: feather bustles, bells, roach rockers, beaded cuffs and moccasins. He would watch breathlessly as the dancers entered the arena following a color guard bearing eagle feather staffs and American flags. The Fancy...
WASHINGTON - Arizona college student Blossom Johnson painted a bleak picture Nov. 5 for President Barack Obama of life on the Navajo reservation, describing poverty and a childhood clouded by friends lost to suicide. "When I go home I don't really have a suitable home, and I don't have running water or electricity," said Johnson, 23, a native of Black Mesa. "I want to know what kind of programs you have to offer Native American communities who have the worst housing and living conditions." http://nhonews.com/main.asp?Section...
PHOENIX – Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman recently announced the execution of federal arrest warrants stemming from a federal grand jury indictment of a methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in the Colorado River Indian Tribes Indian Reservation. Eleven subjects have been taken into custody and additional arrests are anticipated. DEA Agents, along with law enforcement representatives comprising the La Paz County Narcotics Task Force, conducted the series of enforcement operations on T...
After consulting with tribes, two federal departments are launching a novel joint outreach to assist American Indian veterans who are homeless or likely to become so. The effect is to add a Native component to services reservation Indian vets had been shut out of before. The U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs are now ready to launch a demonstration program to offer a permanent home and supportive services to Native vets. The Tribal HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (Tribal HUD-VASH) program will...
As a part of Native American Heritage Month, Shoni Schimmel spoke at the University of Connecticut’s Student Union Theater on Tuesday night, regarding her experiences as a Native American in the WNBA. Schimmel was raised on the Umatilla Reservation in Mission, Oregon. She started the evening by reciting some of the ignorant questions she was asked in high school, such as, “Do you guys live in teepees?” Schimmel described her reservation as a place where “everybody knew each other,” but outside the reservation and in high school she faced dis...
SPOKANE — The number of fall chinook salmon returning to the Hanford Reach section of the Columbia River this year is the most since dams were constructed in the 1930s, the Bonneville Power Administration said this week. Scientists estimate 200,000 chinook are spawning in the Hanford Reach, which is the last free-flowing section of the Columbia in the United States. The Hanford Reach flows past the giant Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where the government for decades made plutonium for nuclear weapons. http://www.heraldnet.com...
The deer herd in the ceded territory is at an all-time low. This is why it is buck-only hunting. Will allowing Native Americans to hunt at night be sporting, temporarily blinding an animal and then slaughtering it because it has no chance to escape? Do Native Americans need the venison for sustenance as their forefathers did? If you are 10 percent or more Native American, you get a government check and also a check from the gambling casinos. http://www.gazettextra.com/20151111/your_views_letting_native_americans_hunt_at_nigh...
BLACKFOOT — As of Wednesday afternoon, area law enforcement authorities were still looking for a Native American man who went missing earlier this week. McDonald Blackhawk, 63, failed to return to the Cedar Living Center in Blackfoot where he resides and was reported missing by officials there shortly before 6 p.m. on Tuesday. http://www.idahostatejournal.com/members/native-american-man-still-missing/article_ae4db83a-53ed-5929-8b4f-7c43d0c2c8c7.html...
BISMARCK, North Dakota — Federal authorities have dropped the murder case against a man accused of stabbing his cousin during an attempted robbery on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. KXMC-TV (http://bit.ly/1Qh6M00 ) reports Judge Daniel Hovland on Tuesday granted the motion filed by authorities asking to have the case dismissed. In the motion, the government said it lacks evidence to prosecute and obtain a conviction against Ryan Ironroad of Cannon Ball. http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/64c186e9f263434a80ec9f47f59...
