Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Jeremy Swider doesn’t believe in out-of-body travel. But when the music instructor worked with orchestra students in Grand Rapids this week, he was 175 miles away....
Tens of millions of ordinary Americans will never recover from the financial collapse of 2007-09, a tragedy that spread misery around the world and cost U.S. households at least $19.2 trillion, according to Treasury estimates. So there was barely a whiff of satisfaction in last week’s $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase....
RAMOS ARIZPE, Mexico — In Mexico's booming auto industry, the cars rolling off assembly lines may look identical, but how safe they are depends on where they're headed....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — County jails that account for the vast majority of local inmates in California have seen a marked increase in violence since they began housing thousands of offenders who previously would have gone to state prisons....
BEIJING — China said it sent warplanes into its newly declared maritime air defense zone days after the U.S., South Korea and Japan all sent flights through the airspace in broadening defiance of rules Beijing says it has imposed over the East China Sea....
Residents of the First Nations community of Attawapiskat are facing an uncertain timeline for returning home after a fire destroyed housing trailers in the community last Friday, displacing about eighty people....
(GRANDE RONDE, OR) - Up to 1,000 members (nearly 20% of the membership) of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon will be receiving letters of potential disenrollment, resulting in what could be the largest termination of American Indian citizenship in United States history....
A sudden surge in U.S. oil output could derail plans to build the massive Keystone XL pipeline to ship Canadian oil from Alberta to refineries on the American Gulf Coast, Canada's U.S. ambassador was warned in internal emails....
A leader of the Navajo Code Talkers who appeared at a Washington Redskins home football game said Wednesday the team name is a symbol of loyalty and courage — not a slur as asserted by critics who want it changed....
DEVILS LAKE, North Dakota — The head of the Spirit Lake Tribe says the reservation is getting seven new law enforcement agents from a branch of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs....
Every November, media outlets try to get to the bottom of the unsolved mystery that is the menu of 1621’s first Thanksgiving. Speculation about the meal abounds: It’s known that William Bradford ordered four men to go on a “fowling mission,” but we can only make guesses about the species they brought to the table. Smithsonian reports that the Pilgrims may have picked off a few of the passenger pigeons that filled New England’s skies, and History.com lists swans, ducks and geese as likely protein choices for the colonists’ feast, alongside t...
The Oxendine family have long valued how Montessori schools educated their four children, especially with Montessori’s stated principles of inclusiveness and compassion. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/11/27/family-stands-against-schools-racist-thanksgiving-curriculum-152439...
First Nations, Metis and Inuit of advancing years often have poorer health than their non-aboriginal counterparts but don't receive the same level of health-care services as other Canadian seniors, a report says....
Opposition Congress on Thursday alleged that around 30,000 girls have gone missing in Madhya Pradesh in last four months alone and expressed apprehension they might have become victims of human trafficking....
KALISPELL - Montana's new wildlife salvage law went into effect on Tuesday, and folks are now able to claim deer, elk, antelope or moose that are killed in a vehicle collision along the state's roads....
A recent article on the front page of the Courier Times shouted an outrage registered by a proud parent of Native American descent in support of her child who is enrolled in the Neshaminy school system. This mother said that she and her child find the nickname “Redskins” used for Neshaminy athletic teams is offensive....
A South Florida lawyer was found guilty Tuesday of stealing about $1.3 million from the Seminole Tribe of Florida in a fraud conspiracy that went on for several years....
PAWHUSKA (AP) The Osage Nation Congress has scheduled a Jan. 13 trial on proceedings seeking the ouster of Principal Chief John Red Eagle....
Every schoolchild learns that the Pilgrims couldn't have survived life in the New World without the help of the Indians. The tribes taught them which crops to plant. They introduced them to corn and other nutritional mainstays. One of these, the American cranberry, is still part of the classic Thanksgiving feast....
In the United States, we trace our Thanksgiving celebration to an autumn feast between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians. We are told the story of the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth on the Mayflower. We know about their harsh first winter and the fact that many of them died. But after some hard work, the Pilgrims were blessed with a bountiful harvest in just one year, and they invited the nearby Wampanoag to celebrate with them....
BILLINGS — Christian Parrish Takes The Gun has been dancing at powwows since he was in the fourth grade. And, he’s been spreading his message of sobriety through hip hop as Supaman for more than a decade....
Tomorrow, millions of Americans will sit down to feast with their families in a spirit of gratitude, thinking they are reenacting a joyful interracial harvest festival....
Dennis Zotigh, a cultural specialist at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, won't be celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday the way most of us are going to. Neither will lots of other Native Americans. Surprised? Then you're way too close to the papier mache, elementary school version of the Thanksgiving feast, presented as a Disneyesque love fest between the Pilgrims and the Indians. Many American Indians don't see it that way at all. "It makes me really mad - the Thanksgiving myth and what happens on Friday," said Zotigh,...
PEMBROKE - Incumbent Danita Locklear, who lost the Nov. 12 race for a contested District 12 seat in the Lumbee Tribal Council elections, has requested a hearing with the tribe's administrative court....
Louise Erdrich and Joy Harjo were among nearly half a dozen Native American winners of the 34th annual American Book Awards, awarded at the Miami International Book Festival on November 23. Presented by the Before Columbus Foundation, the awards honor diversity in American literature and highlight excellence and risk-taking in the publishing industry. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/11/27/american-indians-win-big-american-book-awards-152465...
