Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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DETROIT — After declining for most of the past decade, traffic deaths spiked 8 percent in the first half of this year, prompting a call from the nation's highway safety chief to find ways to reduce the human errors that cause most fatalities. The new estimate released Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration comes just as millions of Americans prepare to hit the road for the Thanksgiving holiday. AAA predicts that 42 million people will drive 50 miles or more over the coming weekend. http://www.startribu...
The single mother had split from her husband on the river wharf in Pittsburgh, heading by boat to St. Paul with her 5-year-old daughter. From there, they would hop a stagecoach to St. Cloud, where her sister lived. The divorce would take awhile, but Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm was upbeat. Never mind that single mothers venturing into the Minnesota frontier were unheard of in 1857 — a year before statehood. “… I having, voluntarily, assumed the legal guilt of breaking my marriage contract, do cheerfully accept the legal penalty — a life of celi...
The leader of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians is calling on President Barack Obama to support the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act even though his administration officially opposes it. The bill treats tribes in the same manner as states and local governments under the National Labor Relations Act. Despite widespread support in Indian Country, the White House Office of Management and Budget issued a statement of administration policy against H.R.511, the version of the bill that passed the House on November 17. htt...
Marijuana could soon be legal on the Cherokee Indian Reservation just three hours from Chattanooga. Leaders of the tribe recently passed a resolution to allow a study on how marijuana could be used on the reservation. Some of the tribal land is in our viewing area in Cherokee County, North Carolina. http://newschannel9.com/news/local/marijuana-could-soon-be-legal-in-cherokee-north-carolina...
San Francisco – Five San Francisco groups that help provide Thanksgiving dinners to the homeless and less fortunate received more than 900 free turkeys this week from the Morongo Band of Mission Indians near Palm Springs. The turkeys will help feed nearly 14,000 people across San Francisco. Morongo donated the birds to Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, the United Council of Human Services, the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, and the Chinatown Community Development Center. “Year after year, we are extremely gra...
NEW YORK - The Navajo Nation struck an agreement, which took decades to develop, with KeyBanc Capital Markets marking the first time in history that the Nation has authorized the issuance of bonds on the world market. The deal will give the Nation increased financial leverage by allowing the Navajo Nation to refinance a $60 million loan, which was used along with stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2010 for the construction of public safety and judicial complex facilities across the Nation, including the...
WASHINGTON - Nisqually tribal member Billy Frank Jr. was arrested for the first time at age 14. In the following 30 years, he would be arrested at least 50 more times. But it was his peaceful protests and resilience while advocating for Native American treaty rights and fishery protections that brought his legacy to the White House on Tuesday afternoon. Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article46361600.html#storylink=cpy...
SPEARFISH, SD - Millions of your taxpayer dollars have flowed into South Dakota all for the purpose of getting Native American students ready for college and helping their families prepare and pay for it. But did that happen with South Dakota GEAR UP? The latest independent evaluation of the program really can't say for sure. Our KELOLAND News investigation has been following the grant money since the tragedy in Platte that occurred hours after the state pulled the grant administration from Mid Central Educational Cooperative. A current South...
I grew up next to the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington state and I remember how native elders were revered throughout the community. At the annual powwow the elders shared their history through song and dance, and all generations sat together, joining in the chanting and drumming. Those memories rushed back this week, as AARP’s Public Policy Institute released its most recent report, “Lifelong Disparities among Older American Indians and Alaska Natives.” AARP, along with researchers from Western Carolina University and the Inter...
WINSLOW, Ariz. - As part of President Obama's Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) initiative to remove barriers to Native youth's success and the ConnectED program to provide more students access to the Internet, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced Nov. 17 a new partnership with Verizon and Microsoft to provide wireless tablets and high-speed wireless services to more than 1,000 Native American students. Jewell and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) Director Dr. Charles "Monty" Roessel celebrated the partnership with representatives...
BRAINERD, Minn. - Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin keynoted the opening ceremony Monday for a travelling exhibit on the importance of treaties between American Indian tribes and the U.S. government. "Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations," is on view through Dec. 18 at Central Lakes College. The exhibition includes 20 free-standing banners with text, photos and maps, and a 10-minute video. Its stay at CLC is part of a statewide tour of schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and...
Prosecutors will have until next summer to decide whether to seek the death penalty against a Wyoming teenager charged with a double slaying on the Crow Indian Reservation, after defense attorneys on Tuesday requested more time to argue against making it a capital case. "The goal here is to stop this now," said Donald Knight, a Colorado attorney specializing in the death penalty and member of the defense team. "We are looking to get all the information we can get in that time frame." http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and...
WPBN/WGTU — The former Information Technology Director of Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michael Buchanan, is being accused of embezzling from an Indian tribal organization. According to the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, a 'felony information' was filed Monday after an extensive investigation by GTB's Police Department in cooperation with the FBI. GTB says Buchanan should be arraigned Monday in the Federal District Court in Grand Rapids. GTB says they lost about $233,176.12, which is the value of c...
A suit filed in B.C. Supreme Court claims a former University of British Columbia associate dean of dentistry siphoned millions of dollars away from clinics set up to serve First Nations patients in Haida Gwaii. Canada's attorney general is suing Christopher Zed and the university for fraud and negligence in connection with money Health Canada gave UBC to provide dental services in Skidegate and Old Massett Village. The government claims it was overbilled by $3.3 million from April 2002 to September 2013; the suit claims $2 million worth of...
A man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl, beating her unconscious and tossing her body into the woods on an Alberta reserve. People on the Paul First Nation found the girl's partially clad body in the snow a few days before last Christmas. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/james-clifford-paul-pleads-guilty-in-sex-assault-on-girl-7-at-paul-first-nation-1.3334259...
A Lame Deer woman who admitted assaulting her four children while drunk will spend three years on federal supervision. During a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Watters followed prosecution and defense recommendations and sentenced Letha Jewell Bixby, 31, to supervised release along with giving her credit for 31 days she spent in jail when arrested in the case. http://billingsgazette.com/news/crime/woman-who-admitted-abusing-kids-while-drunk-gets-supervised-release/article_adb160ab-0d25-598f-af62-4e9cdbabca78.html...
