Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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MISSOULA — The fight to protect Indigenous resources rages on in Canada as First Nation Elsipogtog members band together along Highway 11 to physically block machinery that will be used for shale gas exploration six miles north of their reserve in New Brunswick....
When I read that former Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Chairman Michael Thomas was sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling more than $100,000 from the tribe he once led, I thought maybe he was getting off easy....
A custody dispute involving the children of a Miccosukee mother and non-Indian father belongs in a Florida state court, not in a tribal court, a Miami-Dade judge ruled this week. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/3769538/miccosukee-child-custody-case.html#storylink=cpy...
The powerful financial enforcement agency created by Dodd-Frank is bringing its legal guns to bear on Indian tribes — and the Native Americans are now fighting back. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/21/dodd-frank-enforcement-agency-puts-indian-tribes-in-the-crosshairs/#ixzz2lNQvjwip...
Tribal members on the Spirit Lake Nation got to speak their mind Wednesday about the tribe's embattled social services program. Several children have died on the reservation in the last few years. See more at: http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/20931/#sthash.6amw2VO5.dpuf...
HELENA, Mont. — The two factions of a divided Blackfeet Tribal Business Council have struck a deal to pay employees and vendors, the tribal chairman said, in the two sides' first agreement more than a month into an impasse that has crippled tribal operations. Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/11/21/3189953/chairman-deal-made-to-meet-blackfeet.html#storylink=cpy...
Herman Honanie won a technology driven, and often heated, race for the Hopi chairman position....
President Barack Obama promised change in 2008 and won significantly with Native Americans. During the 2008 Presidential election, the Navajo Nation overwhelmingly voted for Obama. Crowds of people waited in line to vote for the first black President- now, that seems to have changed....
American Indians may have a more complex pool of ancestors than scientists once thought, according to a 24,000-year-old arm bone found in Siberia....
PEMBROKE — A Lumbee Tribal Council candidate who says he was offered a bribe of $4,000 to drop out of last week’s council race is not going to appeal a decision by the Board of Elections not to hold a hearing on his charges....
ST. IGNATIUS — Diabetes is a too well known unwelcome intruder in Indian Country. There is hardly an American Indian or Alaska Native family untouched or unaffected by the debilitating and potentially fatal disease. As an American Indian or Alaska Native, if you don’t have diabetes you know several people that do — that’s about as close to you can get to a sure-bet....
The Montana Supreme Court has dismissed the wrongful-death lawsuit that Fort Peck tribal councilwoman Roxanne Gourneau filed against her local school board after her teenage son’s suicide in 2010. Gourneau talked to Indian Country Today Media Network about her journey of the last three years and why she thinks Congress needs to scrutinize the schools her son attended in Wolf Point, a white-dominated town within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in northeastern Montana. She and her son paid a terrible price for the school district’s lon...
Students across campus were filmed answering questions about if they had heard of the American Holocaust and what they knew about Native American history. This video played before a panel discussion at the Center for Diversity and Unity on Wednesday afternoon. The panel, titled “American Holocaust?”, was designed to raise awareness of Native American history and dispel myths and stereotypes some people may believe....
POLSON – Family members handed over three young children missing from Lapwai, Idaho, to Lake County authorities Thursday afternoon, shortly after the Montana Attorney General’s Office issued a missing/endangered persons advisory for them....
PEMBROKE - The secretary of the Lumbee Tribal Council has filed assault charges against Chairman Paul Brooks....
A former tribal planner, general counsel and economic development and trust resources director for the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah was sentenced Wednesday to 68 months in federal prison....
