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SAN FRANCISCO -- The annual AIM West Conference began today with a memorial for Darrell Standing Elk, Lakota. Standing Elk was honored by his family and friends. Standing Elk was remembered for his spiritual guidance, his humor, and the warmth of his love that he blanketed on others. Russell Means, Lakota, was also recognized for his life, one which was like none other. http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2015/11/american-indian-movement-conference-live-san-francisco...
One of Oregon's native tribes will vote next month on whether to start growing and selling marijuana. WW reported in March that the Warm Springs tribes, who live on land about 90 miles southeast of Portland, were exploring commercial marijuana. Former Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who serves on the Warm Springs tribes' economic development board, and tribal board member Pi-Ta Pitt launched an evaluation of whether a commercial growing operation is something the tribes should try. http://www.wweek.com/2015/11/21/warm-springs-tribes-wi...
Jennifer Catcheway went missing in June 2008, on her 18th birthday. Her parents, Bernice and Wilfred Catcheway have been searching for her ever since. Instead of going on summer vacations, they search bushes, marshes and open fields. This summer was no different. But the family halted their search this week, when the snow started flying in Manitoba. To thank the many volunteers who spent time helping the family in their recent search of the Dakota Tipi First Nation, Bernice Catcheway posted a video on Facebook. http://www.cb...
Once upon a time, in a far away desert hell-hole, there began Al Qaeda in Iraq, born in 2004 to oppose the U.S. invasion there. Its leaders came to doubt the worth of the Al Qaeda brand and so Al Qaeda in Iraq begat the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006, which begat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2013, which begat the Islamic State, claiming to be their resurrection of the Muslim Caliphate abolished by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1924. The full Arabic term for this alleged Caliphate...
The Passamaquoddy Tribe has entered a new chapter of political instability as the senior elected officials at one of its two reservations have turned on one another in a fierce power struggle. In recent months, governance at the Pleasant Point reservation near Eastport has plunged into chaos, with its chief having been suspended from his duties only weeks after trying to suspend his vice chief, who is in charge, at least for now. http://www.pressherald.com/2015/11/22/passamaquoddy-tribe-has-entered-a-new-chapter-of-chaos/...
In the year since the death of 8-year-old Jayla Rodriguez on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, little has been accomplished to keep community members safe from the kind of wild dogs that killed her. Meanwhile, at least two children were recently attacked and bitten by dogs that still roam in packs on the reservation. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/a-year-after-jayla-s-death-attacking-dogs-still-roam/article_ac6a602f-6d60-5827-a397-7ef88e32528b.html...
(TULALIP, WA.) -- The Snohomish County Multi-Agency Response Team (SMART) is in the process of completing their investigation into the death of Cecil Lacy, a man who died while in protective custody on September 18 on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. His death has been ruled an accident by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office which has completed its examination of Lacy. "The cause of death is a heart attack with methamphetamine intoxication, with contributing factors of pre-existing natural disease and physical struggle with law...
Thursday night, hundreds of Native businesses owners descended upon the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa for a dinner honoring 10 standout certified Indian-owned businesses for 2015. The eighth annual TERO (Tribal Employment Rights Office) Awards banquet recognized Native-owned businesses ranging from numerous construction contractors to an offset/digital printing company to a design-oriented architectural firm specializing in the healthcare field. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/11/21/10-indian-own...
Recall petitions seeking special tribal council meetings to vote on the removal of Comanche Business Committee (CBC) officers are in varying stages of the process. Tribal member Eleanor McDaniel is petitioning to recall Chairman Wallace Coffey and Business Committee members Harry Mithlo, Sonya Nevaquaya and Johnathan Poahway, alleging abuse of authority, self-serving, favoritism and nepotism, among the charges. McDaniel is inviting tribal members to a community meeting from 5-7:30 p.m. Monday in Room No. 2 at the Lawton Public Library, 110 SW...
COLVILLE INDIAN RESERVATION, Okanogan County — It’s a stickpin skyline: fire-blackened trees without leaves, needles or even branches as far as the eye can see. The quiet is deathly, until an 18-wheel logging truck roars out of the blackened woods. James Griffin hops out of the baby-blue cab of his logging rig painted with silver flames. He strides past the towering tires and throws his weight into tightening the chains on a full load of ponderosa pine logs, some 3 feet around, he is trucking out of the burn. http://www.seat...
A complaint has been filed with the hate crimes unit of the Ottawa police over notes slipped to an Ojibway woman. Since late August, Sharon Land Fisher, who lives in a YMCA women’s shelter in Ottawa, has received two notes. “Indians are disgusting,” says one, the other accusing her of being a “Stupid, dirty, Inian.” Tanya Schryer, coordinator of the TRY Housing Program for Women at the YMCA, filed the complaint. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/11/23/hate-crime-complaint-sent-to-ottawa-police-service/...
OTTAWA—The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief, Perry Bellegarde, has petitioned President Barack Obama to “reconsider the decision to delist the grizzly bear from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and to permit States to profit from trophy hunts of this sacred being.” The AFN is a national advocacy organization representing First Nation citizens in Canada, which includes more than 900,000 people living in 634 First Nation communities and in cities and towns across the country. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/...
PLEASANT POINT, Maine • Eighty-one years after a neglected tribal water supply caused a devastating outbreak of typhoid fever and a century after the state outlawed spearfishing of the salmon that fed their ancestors, Native American tribes who trace their history back millennia say their trust in the government of Maine is at an all-time low. What has long been an uneasy peace between the state government and the tribes who desire sovereignty has degraded with clashes on issues ranging from fishing rights to new casinos — a dispute so vit...
WASHINGTON – The Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA) today commended the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for taking steps to correct the damage done by Operation Choke Point to legal, licensed Native American online lenders. In a Financial Institution Letter (FIL) released this week, the FDIC formally amended its guidance to make explicit that banks may offer products and services to non-bank lenders like the members of NAFSA who operate in compliance with applicable laws. http://nativenewsonl...
Neskantaga is perhaps best known as the community that has been under a boil water advisory for more than 20 years. But it has been battling another issue – mould. Many of the homes in the community are infested with it. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/11/20/first-nation-under-boil-water-advisory-for-20-years-also-infested-with-mould/...
Officials with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department and the Three Affiliated Tribes Fish and Wildlife Department are currently investigating the poaching of a large mule deer found dead on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation last week. The buck, which is speculated by some to be a contender for the state record, was believed to have been shot during the opening weekend of deer season. Since the deer was killed on reservation land, the case will be primarily handled by Three Affiliated Tribes Fish and Wildlife, although the state Game and...
MASON COUNTY, MI – A seventh-month investigation has led to multiple weapons charges against two Scottville men in connection with a handgun that allegedly was stolen from Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Police. A digital crime lab operated by the Mason County Sheriff's Office and the Ludington Police Department was instrumental in cracking the case, said Mason County Sheriff Kim C. Cole. http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2015/11/men_charged_in_connection_with.html...
The Omaha Tribe is considering a new tactic to strengthen self-reliance and cultural identity. Or, it’s attempting to capitalize on the “growing” tolerance of marijuana, depending on your point of view. Tribal members last week voted to legalize marijuana for medicinal and recreational use and to grow industrial hemp. Leaders are now considering reservation land in western Iowa for growing the plant. http://www.kearneyhub.com/opinions/hubopinion/marijuana-latest-vice-for-tribes-to-exploit/article_34cbfa02-0d77-5105-b980-c087...
SHIPROCK – Johannah Barber carefully sliced a pumpkin pie Thursday in preparation for the annual turkey dinner to feed the homeless here. Barber was one of the volunteers from the Red Valley Chapter authorized local emergency response team, which traveled to the event from Arizona. "I enjoy volunteering. I like to help the community members," Barber said. "I see these people, they're still our people, no matter what." http://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2015/11/19/volunteers-feed-homeless-shiprock/76030...
Lobbyist Brandy Tomhave of The Tomhave Group, who has advocated in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Navajo County’s rural and tribal communities for the past 10 years, braced the Board of Supervisors last week for mixed news on federal support of the county’s struggling roads system. She prefaced her message with the words, “We have good news and we have bad news, but would you expect anything else from Washington?” Tomhave updated the board on the status of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) highway bill that authori...
CANASTOTA -- Joseph Smith runs Central New York's youngest police department. The Oneida Indian Nation police force was established in 1993 - as the Nation's enterprises, including Turning Stone Resort and Casino began to grow to the point where a police department was required to provide safety. "I didn't know it existed to the extent that it does until I came to work here," said Nation Police Chief Joseph Smith. Smith became a sworn law enforcement officer in 1968 as a State Trooper in the Albany area. "The agreement was I would come here,...
TULALIP — Snohomish County’s chief medical examiner has concluded the September death of a man in police custody on the Tulalip Indian Reservation was an accident. Dr. Daniel Selove said he relied on police and medical investigative reports as well as autopsy and toxicology results in reaching his conclusion. Cecil D. Lacy Jr., 50, died Sept. 18 after a late-night struggle with officers in the 6400 block of Marine Drive. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20151120/NEWS01/151129813/Death-of-man-in-police-custody-on-Tulalip-rese...
New data released this week is providing an unprecedented look at life in First Nation communities, including indigenous languages, cultural beliefs, education and employment levels. More than 21,000 children, youth and adults from 250 First Nation communities across Canada took part in a massive survey called the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey (FNREEES). The survey was conducted by indigenous researchers with a non-profit organization called the First Nation Information Governance Centre (FNIGC), which...
A Blackfeet Tribal Business Council member has been removed from office after police found that she was harboring an accused child molester last month. On Nov. 19, the tribal council voted 7-2 to remove Councilwoman Cheryl Little Dog for violating her oath of office and partaking in “misconduct reflecting on the dignity of the Tribe or the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council.” In a press release, Chairman Harry Barnes said the decision to expel Little Dog came following the arrest of a South Dakota man at her home in East Glacier Park last mon...
TORONTO - A former child welfare worker told a coroner's inquest Thursday that he was concerned the guardians of a seven-year-old Toronto girl might pose a risk to children in their care. Hamid Jivraj, then an intake worker at the Children's Aid Society of Toronto, noted his concerns after looking into calls made about Katelynn Sampson before the girl's case was referred to a sister agency months before her death, the inquest heard. http://www.yorktonthisweek.com/cas-worker-thought-girl-s-guardians-could-pose-risk-to-childre...
