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Federal authorities charged a man this week with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing his wife in front of their children. Koby Dean Johnson shot Rachel Noel Sapohoors in the head last week during a fight about painkillers while on the Wind River Indian Reservation, according to a charging document written by a Federal Bureau of Investigations agent and filed in the U.S. District Court of Wyoming. Some of the couple’s eight children witnessed the killing, the document states. http://trib.com/news/local/crim...
SISSETON, S.D. – U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., has been to one of the nation’s poorest locales – the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwest part of the state – twice in the past two months as she tries to find solutions to an epidemic of teenage suicides. About 20 young people between the ages of 12 and 24 have taken their lives there in the past year. http://www.inforum.com/news/3891902-answers-sought-teen-suicide-epidemic-across-sd-tribal-communities...
Statistics Canada has released its latest data about the number of homicides in Canada, and Manitoba continues to have the highest rate in the country, but it's an Ontario city that is leading the way with the most deaths. Thunder Bay, Ontario had the highest homicide rate in 2014 among Canada's census metropolitan areas with 11. StatsCan said that in 2014, 85 percent of homicides with aboriginal victims were solved compared to 71 percent solved where the victim was non-aboriginal. Voice Herald http://voiceherald.com/2015/11...
Racist investigators and a lack of evidence have cast doubt on the conviction of 4 native teens in a 1997 Alaska murder. So why are they still in jail? It was around 2:45 a.m. when the grisly sight came into view. Three friends in Fairbanks, Alaska were heading home from a bar when they discovered a teen lying on the curb, kicked in the head so many times he was unrecognizable. John Hartman was weeks past his 15th birthday that night in October 1997, when he was savagely beaten and left for dead. The driver who found him later testified, “I c...
A difficulty in responding to Native American health concerns, says Michelle Johnson-Jennings, is a lack of good information. "When tribal communities go to the government (for grants), they're told there's no evidence," said Johnson-Jennings, director of the University of Minnesota's Research for Indigenous Community Health Center in Duluth. "What we're hoping to do is develop an online database so that it can be used in writing grants." http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/3891757-grant-will-aid-research-native-american-h...
