Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less....
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration halted operations of the country's largest organic peanut butter processor Monday, cracking down on salmonella poisoning for the first time with the new enforcement authority the agency gained in a 2011 food safety law....
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- After nearly 17 years of courtroom arguments, congressional negotiations and Indian Country bickering, hundreds of thousands of Native Americans could see the first payments of a $3.4 billion U.S. government settlement by the end of the year, plaintiffs' attorneys said Monday....
The Obama administration approved a $3.4 billion settlement to Native Americans for the federal government’s mismanagement of money intended for American Indian landowners, the Interior Department announced Monday. The settlement stems from a class-action lawsuit filed during the Clinton administration that accused the federal government of failing to properly manage billions of dollars in royalties paid by mining, oil and timber companies for leases on Indian lands dating back more than 100 years. As part of the settlement, several hundred t...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The federal government has finally closed a long, contentious chapter with American Indian tribes. They’ve finalized the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement, which accounts for more than a century of mismanaged Indian land royalties....
Three years after the government and individual Indians announced their historic settlement in the Cobell v. Salazar class action lawsuit, payments will begin to be distributed to hundreds of thousands of individual Indian trust beneficiaries. The first payment to each member of the Historical Accounting Class, which consists of approximately 350,000 beneficiaries, will be $1,000.00 and these funds should be distributed before the end of this year, lawyers for the Indians announced today. The landmark settlement resolves certain claims related...
MITCHELL | Four tribes in the Dakotas that claimed tribal money and trust lands were mismanaged have received more than $100 million through settlements with the federal government....
(Chadron)-Long recognized for his ability to organize and make things happen, Bryan Brewer is about to take on the biggest job of his life. He will become the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on Dec. 7 after recently being elected to the position....
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- At first, the agenda of the Oglala Sioux Tribe's newly elected president might seem overly ambitious....
The Hoopa Valley Tribal Council voted on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, that per capita settlement payments will be sent out to everyone who was on the tribal rolls as of 12 am that night....
The Bureau of Indian Affairs reported over the weekend a total of three separate fires on the Cherokee Indian Reservation. Since Tuesday, Nov. 20, there have been fires at three different locations....
A tribal court on the Umatilla Indian Reservation is one of the first to hand down a long prison term under new tougher criminal sentencing laws enacted by Congress in 2010....
Members of five Chippewa tribes in Wisconsin were poised on Monday to begin a contested off-reservation night deer hunt, according to a spokeswoman for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission....
UPDATE: Tribes have been given until next Wednesday to respond to the Wisconsin DNR's plea to stop plans for night hunting of deer. A statement from the Wisconsin DNR Friday said, "We are hopeful the Court will hold a hearing earlier and the Secretary has expressly asked all six Chippewa Chairperson/Presidents to refrain from issuing night hunting permits and implementing night hunting until the Court has had the opportunity to rule on this issue."...
