Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The N.W.T. chiefs and councillors salaries posted under the First Nations Financial Transparency Act have been modest so far, but they vary widely from community....
Last night, a bill that would have advanced construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was killed. By a single vote, Senate Democrats managed to stop the legislation, which has become one of the most divisive issues of the Obama administration. Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, the chairwoman of the Senate Energy Committee who has staked her protracted reelection campaign on being able to get things done for the oil and gas industry in her home state, had made a major push for the issue in the last week, but in the end, couldn't get the 60t...
It was prominent news earlier this year-Reuters, the British news service, started their story on March 24 by saying, "A Native American tribe, concerned about the impact of marijuana on its youth, is fighting to derail the rollout of a nascent recreational pot industry across a quarter of Washington state, where it still holds some traditional rights."...
PEMBROKE — Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina voters Tuesday ousted two incumbents in the three contested races for Tribal Council and brought back a former councilman....
SANTA CLARA (CBS SF) – Demands for a new franchise name will follow the Washington Redskins across the country as they prepare to play at Levi’s Stadium for the first time Sunday....
As APRN's Liz Ruskin reports, American Indian and Alaska Native children see so much violence in their homes and communities that they suffer Post-Traumatic Sress Disorder at triple the rate of the general population, akin to rates among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. That's one of the starting points of a new federal task force report on indigenous children and their exposure to violence. The task force was created more than a year ago to advise the U.S. Attorney General, and held hearings across the country, including in...
The White House should create an office to coordinate a sweeping list of recommended actions to limit American Indian and Alaska Native children's exposure to violence, according to a report...
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is expanding background checks for firearm sales on sovereign Indian reservations as part of the Obama administration’s push to reduce gun violence around the country....
A CNN investigative report was able to uncover that a private Native American boarding school in South Dakota received $51 million as a result of “poverty porn” schemed marketing....
The federal government is being called upon to reduce the number of aboriginal children living within the child welfare system....
Thousands of Aboriginal children across the country are caught up in the child welfare system. Something needs to be done to fix the overrepresentation says the Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates....
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has reached out to the Environmental Protection Agency to make changes to air quality standards on the reservation....
Calling the arrest of its tribal chairman a “sad and difficult situation,” the Tunica-Biloxi Tribal Council has pledged to “meet around the clock if necessary to ensure that the tribe functions effectively under the guidance of this council’s leadership....
MOUNT PLEASANT – It's almost naptime in the toddler room at the preschool building known as the Sasiwaans, part of a cluster of buildings on the Isabella Indian Reservation....
(Seattle--Nov. 17, 2014) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is calling a burn ban for the following Indian Reservations in Washington State due to stagnant air conditions and high air quality monitor readings. The burn bans for the reservations listed below will continue until further notice....
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — Authorities in South Dakota say a pack of dogs attacked and killed an 8-year-old girl on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
Sioux Lookout OPP are investigating the death of a 29-year-old woman. Police say Deidre Patayash from Weagamow First Nation was found early yesterday morning in a hotel room by emergency personnel after a report about a woman in medical distress at a hotel on May Street in Sioux Lookout....
