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Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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CHINLE, ARIZONA — The first Denny’s restaurant on the Navajo Nation will open its doors on Sunday, November 6, 2015 at 6 p.m. in Chinle, Arizona, unveiling its locally-inspired design and renowned diner menu. The Denny’s will employ 100 permanent employees with an annual payroll of about $1 million. During construction that began in April, 2015, some 230 were employed with temporary construction jobs. http://nativenewsonline.net/briefs/grand-slam-time-dennys-to-open-sunday-on-navajo-nation/...
PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS — Each year since 1970, a group of American Indians and their allies have gathered on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day to commemorate a National Day of Mourning, as a means to promote a reminder of genocide committed against millions of indigenous peoples in North America. On Thursday, November 26, 2015, some 1,200 gathered for the 46th National Day of Mourning. They marched to the streets of Plymouth and held a rally at Plymouth Rock. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/120...
In 1879 an army officer named Richard H Pratt opened a boarding school for Indian youth in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This was the first of many schools which ran with the full support of the federal government, and with the expressed goal of Americanizing Native Americans, or in other words, “Kill the Indian, and save the man.” When dealing with the issue of child welfare, the research and literature suggest this is an issue inseparable from racial disparity. When we consider the experience of Native American children in the welfare system we...
Dana Munroe's life was turned upside down when her boyfriend Marcus Neil Blacksmith was stabbed four times in her own home almost two years ago. He died in the hospital three days later. "I've never had anybody that I didn't trust or I didn't know to come [into my home]. If I had any idea this could have happened … I wouldn't have [had] anybody over that night," Dana recalls. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/family-of-homicide-victim-speaks-out-about-aboriginal-men-being-more-likely-to-be-killed-1.3336496...
A study of the Rapid City Police Department and the city's Native American community reports that 62.6 percent of the cases in which police used force, that force was carried out against Native Americans. That is a bit higher than the proportion of arrests for which Native Americans account -- 59.1 percent. It also is more than double the proportion of Native Americans the study concludes comprise Rapid City's total population -- roughly 25 percent. Use of force ranges from the lowest level, a wrist hold, to intermediate levels such as use of...
We have been giving scholarships to Native American college students for 29 years. James Lujan, Jodie Palmer, Pat Locke, Gerry Parker, Bill Schaaf, and I formed Catching the Dream in 1986. We have produced 875 graduates, with a completion rate of 78.6 percent. But we live with a high level of frustration. Our biggest frustration at Catching the Dream is the students who inquire about our scholarships and then do not apply. They look at our website, do not read the instructions (“How to Find and Win Scholarships”), and then call us to ask wha...
Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) -- When most kids start school, they are trying to master just one language, but thanks to an immersion program, some elementary students in Duluth are learning to be fluent in two. Like a lot of first graders, these students love to sing songs, but unlike most elementary students the singing is in Ojibwe. http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/Lowell-Elementary-students-learn-Ojibwe-358508191.html...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has called for a ban on outdoor burning for many Indian reservations throughout the state, including the Muckleshoot area, because of stagnant air conditions and high air quality monitor readings in parts of the region. The burn bans for the reservations were in effect Friday, and will continue until further notice. http://www.auburn-reporter.com/news/358074001.html...
Head bowed and sniffling, Ricki Strang testified at an inquest this past week about the night he went out drinking with his little brother, passed out, and woke up in the river where his brother's body was later found. His story is part of an inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations students in Thunder Bay, Ont. Strang's brother Reggie Bushie, died in 2007. (The pair have the same parents, but use the last names of family members who raised them). http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/brother-hopes-for-truth-justic...
An Ontario First Nation is ready to take its fight against energy giant Enbridge all the way to the Supreme Court. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/11/27/chiefs-of-ontario-support-fight-against-enbridges-line-9-pipeline/...
Skyler Kuczaboski hadn't given much thought to the Washington Redskins mascot before last year. Now, the Harding High School junior and Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe member is in position to influence a ban on it and other racist mascots from St. Paul Public Schools. "I think that the Redskins logo and emblem and all that isn't seen as racist by a lot of people," she said, "but I think that if there was more knowledge about native people and where the Redskins term derived from, then people wouldn't want to wear that." http://ww...
The names and faces of 26 of Manitoba’s missing and murdered will soon be displayed on transit buses across Winnipeg. Project Devote – an integrated task force made up of Winnipeg police and the RCMP – is launching the new campaign. They hope to job memories about any of the cold cases. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/11/27/manitoba-police-task-force-looking-for-tips-on-missing-and-murdered/...
States where energy operations on federal land provide a key source of revenue from royalties will see smaller checks in 2015, according to the U.S. Interior Department. Lower oil prices for the past year have sapped what since 2011 had been a disbursements totaling tens of billions of dollars. Since peaking in June 2014 at a little over $107, the benchmark price for U.S. crude has fallen to as low as $38 in August. It ended Friday trading at$41.71, dropping $1.33 on the day. Domestic oil companies have struggled as a result, with dozens...
When we sit down to a Thanksgiving meal with friends and family, it’s easy to overlook the cranberry sauce, that familiar side with a vague purpose. But give it a second thought this year: the dark red fruit, associated with health and well-being, is laden with chemicals that are killing the lake of a Wisconsin-based Native American tribe and violating the tribe’s treaty rights. Wisconsin is the largest producer of cranberries in the United States, helped in part by a special exemption from the state’s department of natural resources that...
Canadians are becoming increasingly aware of residential schools and their impacts on First Nations people. But many have not yet heard about another system of segregation — one that often kept First Nations confined to their communities. The pass system was in effect for 60 years on reserves across western Canada. Any First Nations person who wanted to leave their community, for any reason, had to have a pass approved by the reserve's Indian agent that they would carry with them, stipulating the leave's purpose and duration. h...
Reggie Leach is an Ojibwe hockey player who was nicknamed the Riverton Rifle for his lethal slapshots during his 13 seasons in the NHL. His career highlights include a league championship Stanley Cup with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1975 and a career high of 61 goals with the Flyers during the 1975-76 campaign. Despite his achievements on the ice, at times Leach’s excessive drinking undermined his success. His drinking led to not only the breakup of his first marriage but also the end of his pro career. It also landed him a New Jersey t...
Antoine Delormier, the 67-year-old Akwesasne man who claimed he was roughed up by Canadian border guards while en route to the hospital in September, has died. No word was given on the cause of death in an obituary other than that he had walked on “peacefully at the Cornwall Community Hospital-McConnell Site on Tuesday, November 24, 2015.” He had had a number of heart attacks before allegedly being dragged from his vehicle and made to wait in a cell for an ambulance on September 22. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedi...
The body of Simone Sanderson was found in Winnipeg’s north end in 2012. Not satisfied with what they’re hearing from police her family hired a private investigator. http://aptn.ca/news/2015/11/27/private-investigator-following-the-steps-of-a-murdered-indigenous-woman/...
American River College business instructor Gregory Scott Baker resigned last week after pleading guilty Nov. 5 to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, conspiring to commit money laundering and filing a false tax return. The college accepted his resignation, which will be effective Dec. 18, said Ryan Cox, associate vice chancellor of human resources for the Los Rios Community College District. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article46960345.html#storylink=cpy...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Cleo Pablo married her longtime partner when gay weddings became legal in Arizona and looked forward to the day when her wife and their children could move into her home in the small Native American community outside Phoenix where she grew up. That day never came. The Ak-Chin Indian Community doesn't recognize same-sex marriages and has a law that prohibits unmarried couples from living together. So Pablo voluntarily gave up her tribal home and now is suing the tribe in tribal court to have her marriage validated. h...
A tiny northern Ontario First Nation has announced plans to get into the medical marijuana business. The Wahgoshig First Nation, near Kirkland Lake, is partnering with an Ontario company called DelShen Therapeutics to convert a former forestry operation into a facility that will grow "pharmaceutical grade" pot. The medical marijuana grown will be a strain developed in the Netherlands, specifically for medical purposes. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/ontario-first-nation-medical-marijuana-1.3340407...
KESHENA - Menominee County officials want the Menominee Tribe of Indians to know they have no gripe with the tribe’s hemp-growing operation. In a letter to the tribe, officials said the county’s role was minimal in a federal raid on the tribe’s hemp operation last month and should not be taken as a threat to relations between the county and tribe. http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2015/11/27/county-minimizes-role-menominee-hemp-raid/76449536/...
Two Canadian journalists have given a Reddit AMA on their newspaper’s coverage of the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. Kathryn Blaze Baum, a Globe and Mail reporter who has interviewed aboriginal families of the lost for the past 15-months, and Matthew McClearn, the paper’s data journalist, who is working towards compiling a thorough database of vanished women, spoke about their investigations. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canadas-missing-women-reddit-ama-with-journalists-investigating-chil...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — 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://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Attacking-dogs-still-roaming-Pine-Ridge-Indian-6659893.php...
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the high court to take up a case dealing with tribal court convictions in domestic violence cases in Indian country. Michael Bryant Jr., a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, was convicted of domestic violence as a habitual offender and sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Federal law makes it a felony to commit domestic violence on a spouse or intimate partner in...
