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Administrators at a Bethesda middle school found numerous images of a swastika drawn on a boys’ bathroom wall Friday, the second such incident at the school in the past two weeks. In a letter sent home to parents of students at Westland Middle School in Bethesda, principal Alison Serino said the school has contacted the Montgomery County Police Department to investigate the acts of vandalism. “We are very saddened by this incident,” Serino wrote. “This type of behavior will not be tolerated. Once the culprit(s) are identified, consequ...
President-elect Donald Trump won over millions of Americans with promises of change and even some controversial proposals. Now, Trump will be under pressure over the next four years to follow through on many of the promises he's made since his June 2015 entry into the race -- especially in the first 100 days of his administration. From building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to repealing and replacing ObamaCare, here's a list of campaign promises: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/305657-trump-faces-pressure-to-fulfill-...
A history teacher at Mountain View High School has been placed on paid leave after drawing parallels between Republican President-elect Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler in his lesson plan. Frank Navarro, who’s taught at the school for 40 years, was asked to leave midday Thursday after a parent sent an email to the school expressing concerns about statements Navarro made in class. Mountain View/Los Altos High School District Superintendent Jeff Harding confirmed the incident Friday but declined to describe the parent’s complaints. Navarro, an exp...
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is starting to sound an awful lot like President Barack Obama on immigration. In his first postelection interview, Trump said he will focus on deporting criminal immigrants and not everyone living in the United States illegally. Two million or 3 million people could be immediate targets for deportation under this approach, Trump said, providing a likely inflated figure. And that "big, beautiful wall" at the Mexican border? Trump said he may be amenable to a fence along some parts of the roughly 2...
WASHINGTON — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as the favorite to serve as secretary of state in Donald Trump's incoming administration, a senior Trump official said on Monday — another indication the president-elect is putting a prize on loyalty as he narrows down his Cabinet picks. The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record and requested anonymity, said there was no real competition for the job and that it was Giuliani's if he wanted it. But a second official cautioned that John Bolton, a former U.S. amb...
Facebook is blocking fake news sites from using its advertising network to generate revenue, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, following a similar move by Google. The restriction follows speculation that fake news on both of the companies’ sites may have influenced the outcome of the election. It means that fake news sites now join misleading, illegal and deceptive sites as barred properties by the Facebook Audience Network. http://www.startribune.com/facebook-bans-fake-news-sites-from-using-ad-network/401218425/...
If you’re still trying to make sense of the political earthquake of 2016 and happen to be reading this in Minnesota, just look east to a key Hillary Clinton firewall that crumbled on election night. It’s now clear that Clinton made a major strategic mistake by taking Wisconsin and its 10 electoral votes for granted, last deigning to visit the state in April. Despite its purple hue, the strategy seemed a safe bet: President Obama easily won Wisconsin twice, by nearly 14 points in 2008 and by just under 7 in 2012. As Election Day approached, the...
Allina Health spent more than $104 million to keep its Twin Cities hospitals open during two nursing strikes this year, according to a financial report released Monday. The total matched the amounts that had been rumored on the picket lines, where striking nurses grumbled that all the stopgap spending could have been spent to preserve their benefits. An Allina official on Monday called it a regrettable but necessary expenditure in the organization's effort to hold the line against costly health insurance plans used by the nurses. The two sides...
When President Obama arrives Tuesday in Europe, he will touch down in a country at the center the continent’s refugee crisis — Greece — before journeying to one that has helped guide the continent’s response — Germany. The symbolic juxtaposition of the two countries underscores the balance Obama hopes to strike on his last trip to Europe as president. While he plans to buttress Greek efforts to cope with migrants fleeing the Middle East, he must contend with other European Union members’ desire to keep more refugees out. That task became more...
A federal land acquisition program to benefit tribes will leave unrecovered 4 million acres of fractionated land, reservation land divided up and allotted to individual members, interests when it ends in 2022, according to the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations’ 2016 Status Report released November 1. That is, unless the Interior Department and Congress can find a way to extend the program and increase its funding by several billion dollars. The copy.9 billion Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations was established in 2012 as part of t...
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II said on Sunday that he is unaware of whether the Obama Administration will make a decision on the Dakota Access Pipeline easement as early as this week. “I haven’t heard anything from the White House,” he said during a press conference at the Oceti Sakowin camp. “I actually called the White House, and the message back to me was, ‘If you didn’t hear from us then it’s probably not true.’ So I just continue to be patient and wait.” Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetw...
The Army Corps of Engineers dealt a blow to the progress of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline on Monday, saying in a letter that more analysis and discussion with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe is needed before construction can take place under the Missouri River. The company behind the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, needs an easement, or permission, from the Corps in order to drill under Lake Oahe — on the Missouri River — to finish the oil pipeline along its proposed route. http...
Invoking the historic mistreatment of Native Americans, the Obama administration said Monday it will continue to withhold a final permit for completion of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline while it conducts further analysis of concerns that the project will damage sacred tribal sites and water supplies. Developers of the 1,170-mile pipeline say it would provide a vital and safe means of transporting as much as 500,000 barrels of crude oil daily from the Bakken region of North Dakota to an existing pipeline in Illinois. But the pipeline...
BISMARCK — About 500 Dakota Access Pipeline protesters descended on the North Dakota Capitol, prompting a “soft lockdown” of the building Monday, Nov. 14. The lockdown protocol allowed only those with key card access into the building as North Dakota Highway Patrol officers monitored exterior doors. Anyone inside the building were allowed to leave if they chose, with State Capitol employees receiving notice of the lockdown. The protesters — carrying signs and placards while chanting — converged on the Capitol grounds, prompting the lockdown...
OCETI SAKOWIN CAMP, Standing Rock Reservation—The moral soul of this continent is at Standing Rock, and at the moment that soul is being beaten, maced, pepper-sprayed, tear-gassed, and locked up by a militarized police force acting on behalf of foreign oil companies. As North Dakota police lock up and abuse peaceful “water protectors,” members of a growing resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline slated to transport oil under the Missouri River, it becomes clear that the fight over the tribal land of Standing Rock is not only the primary battl...
Video footage is being reviewed of an incident in which shots were fired last weekend on County Road 82, according to the Morton County Sheriff's Department. The department is looking at a Facebook Live video in which a man is seen pointing a gun at Dakota Access Pipeline protesters on Saturday, then later firing the gun several times into the air, said spokesman Rob Keller. A woman was reportedly injured, Keller said, but she refused medical treatment. http://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/sheriff-s-department-reviews-video...
MORTON COUNTY, N.D. — North Dakota authorities are investigating a weekend incident in which pipeline protesters said a woman was struck by a man driving a truck who drove over her feet and fired shots into the air. The Morton County Sheriff's Department continues to investigate what occurred, spokesman Rob Keller Monday, Nov. 14. Early on Saturday, protesters against the oil pipeline near sacred tribal lands briefly blocked two entrances to a work yard near Mandan, causing workers to leave the area. http://www.dglobe.com/ne...
Tribal leadership of Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona said they won't support a border wall project on their land. Part of their reservation extends into Mexico and covers 75 miles of the international border. The tribe’s chairman and vice chair said the plan was always to try to work with whoever holds the office of the United States President. But, they added, it’s still too early to tell exactly how Donald Trump’s administration will impact the tribe. Vice Chairman Verlon Jose explained tribal members have traversed their ancestr...
PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump has confirmed plans to deport 318 million non-Native American immigrants. As part of a wider plan to restore America’s old values of shamanism, living in cone-shaped tents and going on vision quests, Trump will remove anyone who is less than 50 per cent Native American, including his family and himself. He said: “We have forgotten the tribal values that made this nation great. We have lost our connection with nature and no longer even fear the Wendigo, the mighty shape-shifter who comes with the winds. htt...
MORONGO INDIAN RESERVATION, Calif. - Thousands of turkeys are headed to needy families this holiday season thanks to the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. This is the 31st year the tribe has given away turkeys to nonprofits, churches and charities across Southern California. In those 31 years, the tribe has been able to provide almost 2 million meals to families in need. "We give them to veterans, to the seniors, to the churches, and it warms our heart and makes us feel good that we're helping and that they're sitting down to a hot meal," said...
This election Indian Country was like America. Perhaps only more so. Most American Indian and Alaska Natives voted for Hillary Clinton. But that support was mild. There were not enough votes to make a difference in red states like Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota. Just enough votes to stay the course in blue states like New Mexico, Washington or Oregon. And, most important, not nearly enough votes in the swing states. Hillary Clinton earned the most votes, 60, 839,922, to Donald J. Trump’s 60,265,858. But that, of course, is not the w...
Confusion abounded in Navajo voting places in San Juan County, Utah, on Election Day, according to observers. The county overlaps the northern portion of the Navajo Nation and runs federal elections there. Navajo Nation attorney Maya Kane was in the county’s reservation town of Montezuma Creek, while Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission policy analyst Lauren Bernally was in Oljato, also on the reservation. The two saw malfunctioning voting machines and one polling place that couldn’t offer voters any way to cast a ballot for at least two and...
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 42.2 million people in America struggled with hunger in 2015. About one in four Native American households experience low food security, meaning an overall lack of food quality, variety, and desirability of nutritional intake. As a result, nutrition-related diseases on Native American reservations are particularly high. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/pine-ridge-gets-more-than-k-in-grant-funds-for/article_fd688b93-f411-5c9b-9f5f-7e5db1dbe6f9.html...
The Seminole Tribe of Florida is considering conducting yet another election to select a chairman, after members complained that the winner of an Oct. 31 vote did not meet residency requirements. The tribe's board of directors ousted chairman James Billie on Sept. 28, after a recall petition and vote by the board. A month later Marcellus W. Osceola Jr. won the election to be chairman. But now the tribal council might void the election. Seminole rules require office-holders to reside on one of the tribe's reservations. Osceola owns a home on...
On March 8, 1964, a small group of Sioux made landfall on Alcatraz Island, which had been abandoned as a prison the previous year. They invoked the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie in reclaiming the surplus federal property as Native land, and spent a few hours singing and drumming before being removed by federal marshals. That occupation was small and brief, but was noticed by Native Americans across the country who were suffering under federal policies of relocation and termination, by which the government was encouraging Native Americans to...
