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The United Nations' special rapporteur on the rights of freedom of association and peaceful assembly released a forceful statement Tuesday, calling out U.S. security forces for using violence against protesters peacefully opposing the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota, as well as what he called “the inhuman and degrading conditions” those arrested faced in detention. The official, Maini Kiai, is a reputed human rights lawyer from Kenya who also traveled to the United States this summer to survey mounting racial ten...
Breaking weeks of silence, the wealthy backers of the Dakota Access Pipeline are returning to court to force the completion of their costly and controversial project. A day after the Obama administration said it would not grant a crucial easement for the pipeline, Dakota Access filed a cross-claim against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The firm asserted a right to finish the $4.8 billion project even without that final document. "The Corps takes the position that Dakota Access will not have the right-of-way to cross beneath that land until...
In a victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the U.S. Army Corps announced Monday that it won’t grant an easement to allow completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline while it looks further into concerns raised by the tribe. The Corps announced it would set a timeline with the tribe for further consideration of its concerns, including the risk of spills into the Missouri River, the drinking- water source for the tribe and more than 17 million people downstream. Energy Transfer Partners of Dallas, Texas, has completed the more than 1,100-mile o...
CANNON BALL, ND – The U.S. Army of Engineers said it needs more information before granting the approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline to stay on its planned route. Monday, the federal government informed the pipeline company, Energy Transfer Partners and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which is against the construction, that a review was complete and the route needed more study before the pipeline construction can cross underneath the Missouri River. The latest developments should be welcomed news for protesters who have been trying to stop c...
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — The Latest on protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. (all times local): 4:50 p.m. North Dakota's governor is criticizing a potential delay in completion of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Gov. Jack Dalrymple said Tuesday that an additional delay "does nothing but prolong and intensify the public safety issues imposed on Morton County and the state of North Dakota since the beginning of August," when protests against the pipeline broke out. http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/The-Latest...
HELENA - About 50 people rallied on the steps of the Capitol on Monday to protest Gov. Steve Bullock’s decision to send several Montana Highway Patrol troopers to North Dakota last month. Law enforcement officials in North Dakota asked for help under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, a long-standing agreement among all 50 states. Bullock said in a statement last week he signed off on the request as part of the compact. http://www.kbzk.com/story/33719246/protesters-criticize-bullocks-deployment-of-troopers-to-north...
After ushering in a new era with the election of a new Seminole tribal chair on Oct. 31, the tribe may be poised to usher it right back out again. The Seminoles elected 44-year-old entrepreneur Marcellus Osceola after the previous chair, James Billie, was removed on Sept. 28 by the Seminole Tribal Council in a 4-0 vote. But the rules require that a chair must live on one of the Seminole reservations at the time of his or her election. And while Osceola lives on the Hollywood Seminole Reservation, his house is currently being repaired due to...
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) has announced that it will provide $125,000 grants to both the Shakopee and Prior Lake-Savage school districts. “We appreciate local schools’ role in preparing our youth for the future, and we know that they will put these donations to good use,” said SMSC Chairman Charles R. Vig, an alumnus of Shakopee High School. For each school district, $25,000 of the donation will be allocated for the district’s Indian Education Program. The Indian Education Program supports opportunities that ensure...
Crown prosecutors will not charge six Quebec provincial police officers following an investigation into the alleged abuse of Indigenous women in Val-d'Or, Que., sources have told CBC's French-language service Radio-Canada. Prosecutors have been in the city 600 kilometres northwest of Montreal since Monday, meeting with the women who made complaints about police conduct. "They deserve that we take the time to meet with them to explain what led to our decision," Crown spokesperson Jean-Pascal Boucher told CBC News. http://www....
Some familiar faces were pitted against each other when Mescalero Apache voters last week to select four candidates to occupy seats on the tribal council. Leclaire Gayton received the highest number of votes with 549, or 14.56 percent; Pamela Morgan was next with 543 votes and 14.40 percent; followed by Miralene “Garalie” Blaylock with 496 votes or 13.15 percent; and Pascal Enjady with 480 votes at 12.73 percent. The four candidates defeated were Sandra Platero with 478 votes, 12.68 percent; Glenda Brusuelas with 454 votes, 12.04 percent; Pet...
The recent sentence of probation for a Mono County doctor who pleaded guilty to taking Native American artifacts from public lands in Death Valley and other Eastside Sierra locations is “a slap in our faces,” a tribal representative said Monday. Jonathan Cornelius Bourne, a doctor based in Mammoth Lakes, was sentenced last week to two years of probation and he must pay a $40,000 fine and $249,372 in restitution for taking artifacts from Timbisha Shoshone tribal lands in Death Valley and in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. “I was at the sente...
Worried that her three-year-old daughter was being hit while in the care of guardians, a mother raised alarms to Alberta's child intervention system. The investigation that followed couldn't substantiate any abuse. But soon after the child turned four, she died after being taken to hospital with an extensive brain injury. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/new-calls-for-change-follow-two-more-deaths-of-alberta-children-who-received-government-care-1.3850794...
MISSOULA - University of Montana officials say they are aware of a Facebook post that recounts an alleged assault of a Native American student that reportedly occurred on campus on Friday, Nov. 11. "We take this very seriously and are making every attempt to investigate," UM said in a statement, adding that the UM Police Department has not received a report of this incident. Several UM officials are reaching out to the author of the post and to peer law enforcement agencies seeking additional information, the statement added. Anyone with...
When presenting awards to exemplary American Indian students at a school board meeting Monday at Wildhorse Resort & Casino, many Pendleton School District principals highlighted the honoree’s perfect or near-perfect attendance. After the applause ended and the families filed out, Matt Yoshioka, the district’s curriculum, instruction and assessment coordinator, said a lack of attendance plays a large part in the persistent performance gap between Native American students and their peers. “The achievement gap is real,” he said. “It’s alive and w...
In her dream, Seattle photographer Matika Wilbur is riding the subway with a cup of coffee in her hand. “I look to my left and I see these white people and they're speaking Diné Bizaad” and discussing the Navajo concept of hozho, or, balance, Wilbur said. “I look over to my right, and there are these folks that are black and they’re speaking Lakota and they’re feeding their children wild rice and buffalo meat.” Nearby, she notices Asian and Middle Eastern passengers also speaking indigenous languages. “It always brings me to tears when I w...
(MTN News-BILLINGS) A man serving time in prison for a brutal murder on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in 2003 was re-sentenced Tuesday after arguing he did not receive adequate representation. Jitawee Curly Bear Cub, 29, was re-sentenced in U.S. District Court in Great Falls for the beating and stabbing death of a Fort Peck tribal member in 2003. Bear Cub received five fewer years in prison for the second-degree murder conviction he was originally sentenced for in 2008. http://www.ktvh.com/2016/11/child-molester-convicted...
BILLINGS – The FBI is investigating two weekend deaths in Big Horn County. The sheriff’s office identified the victims as 38-year-old Freman Bends, a Crow tribal member from Benteen and Julia Stump, a Northern Cheyenne tribal member from Lame Deer. Coroner Terry Bullis says Stump is believed to be in her early 40s. Bends’ body was found Saturday afternoon by a painting crew along the side of U.S. Highway 451 about four miles south of his home. Stump’s body was found Saturday west of Lame Deer. http://flatheadbeacon.com/2016/...
A woman has been charged with the homicide in the death of Freman Bends, 38, whose body was found Saturday on the Crow Indian Reservation. Vernelle Badbear has been arraigned on a charge of deliberate homicide, Crow Tribal Court Prosecutor Robert LaFountain said Tuesday. Badbear was being held on a $100,000 bond, though LaFountain could not say which of the seven Bureau of Indian Affairs facilities she was being held in. FBI investigators are also investigating the death of 41-year-old Julia Stump, whose body was found in a home in Lame Deer,...
