Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Much is being made of the ever-escalating cost of political campaigns. In the presidential race this year alone, each candidate raised approximately $1 billion. As recently as 2000, both candidates spent $343 million; it was $718 million in 2004. Expenditures in 2008 were more than $1.3 billion -- a 279 percent increase in just eight years. The 2012 expenditures were 54 percent above that....
Lake on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation sits in one of the poorest and most remote counties in the country....
Hooters has stepped up to take its place along with the Gap and Victoria’s Secret as a major brand using disrespectful images of American Indians for advertising. Yesterday Hooters put on a promotion that had young women posing suggestively in scanty clothing reminiscent of popular cartoon images of Pocohantas or Halloween “squaw” costumes, complete with toy headdresses. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/16/hooters-launches-culturally-offensive-marketing-campaign-146095 http://indiancountrytodaymedi...
In a somewhat surprising victory, newcomer Bryan Brewer has defeated Oglala Sioux Tribe Presidential incumbent John Yellow Bird Steele in the 2012 presidential election on the Pine Ridge reservation. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/16/bryan-brewer-named-new-oglala-sioux-tribe-president-145997 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/16/bryan-brewer-named-new-oglala-sioux-tribe-president-145997#ixzz2CftnjokX...
People with diabetes are prone to clogged arteries, which can lead to heart disease. Insufficient levels of vitamin D may be responsible for this cholesterol-overload in cells that results in the stiffening of blood vessels and inhibited blood flow, according to new research at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/16/health-tip-for-diabetics-vitamin-d-may-help-prevent-clogged-arteries-145896 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2...
Native Cry Outreach Alliance, an organization that seeks to prevent Native youth from making life-ending decisions and treat depression, is pushing for more signatures for its online campaign that urges Congress to pass the Native American Suicide Prevention Act. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/18/native-cry-continues-its-push-for-5000-signatures-for-suicide-prevention-146059 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/18/native-cry-continues-its-push-for-5000-signatures-for-suicide-preventi...
Earlier this week, APTN National News aired the story about Shawanga Elementary School in Ontario where some students learn in the school’s furnace room....
On Sunday, Nov. 18, starting at 3 p.m. at Mankato West High School Auditorium–an event will feature the acclaimed 80-member Mankato Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Freed’s musical direction. “To Be Certain of the Dawn” will include two compositions: “Trail of Tears” by Michael Daugherty and “To Be Certain of the Dawn” by Stephen Paulus. “These two pieces of music will pay tribute to the 1862 tragedy while offering a message of optimism for the future of all Minnesotans,” says Freed in a press release from the symphony. Read more:http://in...
A pair of all-Native professional lacrosse clubs will continue to operate out of the same facility for the coming season. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/13/all-native-pro-lacrosse-teams-will-again-share-iroquois-lacrosse-arena-in-2013-143749 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/13/all-native-pro-lacrosse-teams-will-again-share-iroquois-lacrosse-arena-in-2013-143749#ixzz2CfywXUXx...
LAS VEGAS – Justin Dahlgren Jones, a 25-year-old Cherokee bronc rider, died on Nov. 10 after an accident during the saddle bronc riding competition at the Indian National Finals Rodeo....
NEW TOWN - Four people died in New Town and another person died in Parshall Sunday. Law enforcement officers are investigating whether the two incidents are related....
Gregory Chmielewski, 43, formerly of El Dorado Hills, has been indicted on 24-counts of mail fraud and money laundering, according to U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner in Sacramento....
If Republicans have been chastened by losing the women’s vote last week by the widest margin in modern history, they have a funny way of showing it....
Firebird Raceway's future is all but certain as their lease on the Gila River Indian Reservation runs out in Spring 2013....
A Tohono O’odham Nation member’s claim of unlawful detention, dismissed by a District Court, also got a thumbs-down from the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals November 14, eight days after the tribal member was sentenced in Arizona to 30 years in prison on an unrelated charge of second-degree murder in the death of a 7-year-old. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/17/indian-civil-rights-act-violations-alleged-146255 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/17/indian-civil-rights-act-violati...
Racial and ethnic minority groups represented roughly one-third of the U.S. population in 2008 but are projected to become the collective majority before the middle of the century. But the current understanding of cancer risk, progression and outcomes is based largely on studies of non-Hispanic white populations and are often not appropriate for individuals of non-European descent says the President’s Cancer Panel (PCP) report, America’s Demographic and Cultural Transformation: Implications for Cancer, released in 2011. Read mor...
Louise Erdrich does not gloss over the violence that plagues many American Indian reservations, including violence against native women and children....
Thieves will be getting a lot more than a slap on the wrist in one Bolivian city, and convicted rapists will face something a whole lot worse. Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/11/14/bolivian-city-to-castrate-rapists-and-cut-off-hands-thiefs/#ixzz2Cg3HZhYV...
Eric Roy continues to make a name for himself in Canadian junior hockey circles. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/12/defensman-eric-roy-metis-is-a-top-national-hockey-league-prospect-145010 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/12/defensman-eric-roy-metis-is-a-top-national-hockey-league-prospect-145010#ixzz2Cg3gLvZG...
Police aren’t saying anything about the investigation into the September 7 death of 19-year-old University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth, leaving her family and tribe wondering and waiting. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/17/family-community-await-arrest-in-unc-chapel-hill-murder-case-governor-increases-reward-146179 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/11/17/family-community-await-arrest-in-unc-chapel-hill-murder-case-governor-increases-reward-146179#ixzz2Cg3v...
The unsolved murders on B.C.'s Highway of Tears will be the subject of a special episode of the top-rated U.S. investigative TV show "48 Hours" on Saturday....
As Indian Country Today Media Network reported in mid-October, the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s (OST) Law and Order Committee has proposed legalizing the sale, possession and consumption of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The goal, to stop the millions of dollars from leaving the reservation and into the hands of alcohol-selling establishments in White Clay, Nebraska – is just one reason why James “Toby” Big Boy, chairman of the Oglala Sioux’s Law and Order Committee, says alcohol needs to be allowed. Read more:http://...
The council of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota will vote November 27 on a proposal to legalize alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation....
Upwards of 20 members of the Buffalo Point First Nation in southeastern Manitoba have been occupying their band office for almost a month, challenging the authority of their non-elected chief....
McFadden’s is no stranger to being linked with bad decisions. (Go ahead, look through the bar’s Facebook gallery of party photos and hope against hope you aren’t in any of them.) So it shouldn’t be totally surprising that the West End bar is being roundly slammed for making one really, really bad decision about how to promote its upcoming Thanksgiving party....
