Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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In a speech on Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Christopher Columbus did not discover America. In fact, according to Erdogan, it was discovered by Muslims almost 300 years before Columbus ever landed. Erdogan went on to say that Columbus mentioned a hill on the coast of Cuba that has a mosque standing on top of it. He said that a mosque should be built by Turkey on top of the hill that Columbus spoke of. He said he would like to speak to his “Cuban brothers” about it. Read more at http://guardianlv....
An emotional dispute over a family’s decision to pull their cancer-stricken daughter out of chemotherapy ended Friday with a potentially far-reaching constitutional decision, as a judge ruled First Nations people have a legal right to seek out traditional native remedies....
Family and supporters are celebrating their victory in court. McMaster Children’s Hospital sought a court ruling that would force chemotherapy on an 11-year-old First Nations girl. On Friday, an Ontario judge dismissed their application....
Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline has been a controversial endeavor. The bill passed the House of Representatives 252-161 on Friday for the ninth time, allowing President Barack Obama to move forward with the project. It’s an oil pipeline system that would run from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, moving about 830,000 barrels of crude oil a day, and would allow Canada to sell its oil to the rest of the world....
A teen who was viciously attacked almost one week ago is now recovering with her family at home in Winnipeg....
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation Council approved a tax on junk food sold on the country's largest reservation, tribal officials announced Friday....
The greatest resource of a tribal nation is their people. Every elected tribal council has a responsibility to the membership that they serve but more importantly they have a sacred obligation to protect the welfare of their future generations. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/11/14/dont-listen-predators...
YORK, Maine — Passamaquoddy Tom Doyle said he remembers friends disappearing from the Pleasant Point reservation when he was a child....
Native Times’ special contributor, S.E. Ruckman, pitched a three-part series for a National Health Journalism project from the University of Southern California (USC)’s Annenberg School of Journalism that was at initially entitled, Obamacare in Indian Country. After working on the series, Ruckman narrowed the focus to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) enrollment figures and how individual Indians fit into that picture. She rounds it out by seeking the mainstream’s take on how ACA has manifested in Indian country. Her search for reliable ACA enr...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that a Lancaster County judge should have applied to a child custody case a federal law that seeks to prevent the removal of Native American children from their homes....
DENVER, Colo., Nov. 14, 2014 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Native Americans with a tribal enrollment card have been eligible for a specialized Home Loan Guarantee Program (HUD Section 184) since 1992 to assist in the purchase of a new home, says Morgan Pennington, a Section 184 Licensed Mortgage Consultant at Universal Lending Corporation. Beginning this year, there are some new changes went into place that will make it even more attractive to Native American Indian homeowners....
After years of complaints by human rights and Native groups about escalating crime in the Bakken oil field region, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on November 14 that it will open a permanent office in Williston, North Dakota, its first since 2006. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/11/15/rising-crime-bakken-region-leads-fbi-open-north-dakota-office-157862...
To combat the growing epidemic of diabetes on Indian reservations, we must learn how to bridge the gulf that sometimes separates physicians who work there from individuals who have the illness. I say this with no thoughts of blame. It is simply a lesson I have learned in many years working for the Indian Health Service (IHS) and tribal organizations at the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/11/14/battling-diabetes-reservations-bridging-gap-and-getting-healthy-157857...
Inuit elder Susanna Singoorie has seen diabetes ravage people both in the north and in her current home city of Ottawa. Originally from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, she’s lived in Ottawa since 2003. Through interpreter Looee Okalik, Singoorie says a change in diet is to blame. She sees many Inuit moving away from traditional to more processed foods....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federally run schools for Native American children have misspent millions of dollars and in one case $1.7 million was illegally transferred to an offshore account, an apparent result of hacking, a government watchdog said Thursday in a report sharply criticizing fiscal oversight of the schools....
The Louisville women’s basketball team ran away with an 89-69 win in Friday night’s season opener at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis, Indiana. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/11/15/jude-schimmel-starts-final-season-lady-cardinals-157868...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo lawmakers voted Thursday to stiffen penalties for crimes on the reservation, more than a decade after the tribe eliminated or reduced penalties for nearly 30 offenses....
Death comes too soon for too many on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Few other places in the Western Hemisphere rival its grim statistics: shortest life expectancy, highest mortality rate and widespread alcoholism....
The winners of the 15th Annual Native American Music Awards were announced yesterday evening at the Seneca Allegany Entertainment Center in the Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel in Salamanca, New York located near Buffalo, New York....
An Amber Alert was issued in the late night-early morning hours of Friday into Saturday for a missing four year old girl in southern Montana....
VANCOUVER — Ron Giesbrecht, the chief of a small Vancouver-area First Nation who collected nearly $1-million last year, claimed that much of his pay was actually a 10% cut he received from an $8-million economic development agreement with the province of British Columbia....
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, November 14, 2014. The House vote was 252 – 161....
There is a natural reluctance to gratitude that comes at virtually any age. Ask a toddler if they are grateful for their juice box and the blank looks rival the same ones a teenager gives if you ask them if they appreciate the ten spot you gave them last week. A facial expression is worth a thousand words....
WASHINGTON – Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn Thursday announced that he has approved the Northern Cheyenne Tribe’s probate code and that the Department of the Interior’s Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) will now apply the code when probating trust or restricted lands within the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana....
A funding system that routes money through a bureaucratic maze with more than a dozen checkpoints before it arrives at its destination – tribal governments – is one of the obstacles Indian country faces in its quest for self-governance, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs said at the National Congress of American Indians annual meeting. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/11/14/bias-funding-maze-hampers-tribal-self-governance-157840...
