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Mayo Clinic researchers say they have discovered a significant and surprising incidence of brain degeneration in males who participated in amateur contact sports in their youth. About one-third of the men, whose brains had been donated to the Mayo Clinic Brain Bank, had evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repetitive brain trauma, the researchers announced Wednesday. The Mayo study links contact sports — football, boxing, wrestling, rugby, basketball, baseball and others played while in school — with the dev...
A small Minneapolis start-up that makes educational games has been awarded a federal grant to develop apps to help students learn difficult science and math concepts. Andamio Games and two science educators at the University of Minnesota will use the $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to design a series of tablet-based lessons for high school and college biology. Improving science, technology, engineering and math education has been a stated priority of the Obama administration. The U.S. could face a shortage of 3 million...
Target Corp. will pay most of the costs that banks and other credit card issuers incurred because of the retailer’s 2013 data breach. The Minneapolis retailer agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by financial institutions for $39 million. This is the last major litigation tied to the breach in which cyberthieves gained access to personal data of 40 million Target customers. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson gave preliminary approval to the settlement Wednesday afternoon. The participants in the suit have three months to r...
WATERLOO — The legal war between Seneca County and the Cayuga Indian Nation rages on. The latest round is a counterclaim filed by Brian Laudadio, the county’s new legal counsel, seeking a ruling that the Cayuga’s 64,027-acre reservation in Seneca and Cayuga counties has been disestablished and no longer exists. http://www.fltimes.com/news/seneca-county-files-counterclaim-in-court-battle-with-tribe/article_d342c57c-976f-11e5-8589-ef5ddb4f53e0.html...
The House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs will hold a second hearing on H.R.3764, the Tribal Recognition Act. The bill strips the Bureau of Indian Affairs of its ability to recognize tribes and instead requires Congress to make a final decision on every petition. The Obama administration and some tribes have already come out against it but Republicans say they will push it through the House anyway. The second hearing takes place on December 8 in Room 1334 of the Longworth House Office Building. A witness list hasn't...
Cloquet, MN (NNCNOW.com) -- The Fond du Lac Band is working with St. Louis County to purchase upwards of 1,200 acres of land for about $1 million. The tax-forfeited forested land is undeveloped, and the tribe says it wants to keep it that way. They are interested in the land for conservation efforts. http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/Tribe-land-359748171.html...
WILLISTON, N.D. – North Dakota received more than $47 million from energy production on federal lands in 2015, a drop from recent years attributed to the lower price of oil. The Department of Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue says it disbursed $47,164,777 to North Dakota in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30. http://www.inforum.com/news/3894419-north-dakota-revenue-drops-energy-production-federal-lands...
Just days after the discovery of Karina Wolfe's body, a Saskatoon aboriginal woman is coming forward with her experience of a violent encounter with a stranger. Monica Goulet has been an aboriginal relations consultant for the Saskatoon police for five years. She helps families cope while they deal with the painful reality of missing and murdered relatives. "It's very delicate time in our community and I think whenever a person is faced with loss or whenever something really painful has happened to them it's very difficult to talk," Goulet...
The U.S. Senate is debating a measure this week that would repeal much of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare). Senate leaders are using a budget process called reconciliation which is important because only 51 “yeas” are required for the bill to pass. On October 23 the House passed H.R.3762, Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 that would end the Affordable Care Act budget provisions and “terminate the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which provides for investment in prevention and public health...
SHIPROCK – As Alexavier Yazzie stood in front of family members on Tuesday, he held in his hands the Marine Corps ribbons his father, fallen Navajo police officer Alex Kee Yazzie, earned during military service. Yazzie, who was shot and killed on March 19 during a gun battle with a 26-year-old man near Red Valley, Ariz., enlisted in the Marines after graduating Crownpoint High School in 1992. He earned the rank of corporal before being honorably discharged. http://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2015/12/02...
HELENA — Two former leaders of an online lending company owned by Montana's Chippewa Cree Tribe have pleaded guilty to stealing money from the company and taking bribes from its Nevada-based partner. Neal Rosette and Billi Anne Morsette entered their pleas Tuesday in Great Falls as part of a deal with federal prosecutors that calls for them to repay about $1.3 million. Judge Brian Morris set sentencing for March 3. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/plead-guilty-in-tribal-lending-corruption-case/artic...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. - Legal History was to be made Tuesday in Pine Ridge as the Oglala Sioux Tribe's attorney general was to be deputized to prosecute crimes in state court. The tribe's top law enforcement officer, Tatewin Means, was to be sworn in as deputy states attorney in Oglala Sioux County Tuesday morning. The move comes as federal, state and tribal legal officials are working break though the confusing thicket of jurisdictions in Indian Country. In many cases, tribal law enforcement officials don't have jurisdiction over non tribal...
RIVERTON — A man accused of shooting his wife to death in front of the couple's children on the Wind River Indian Reservation will remain in custody pending his trial on a first-degree murder charge. U.S. District Court of Wyoming Judge Kelly H. Rankin ruled Monday that probable cause exists for the charge against Koby Dean Johnson. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/man-to-be-held-pending-trial-in-wife-s-shooting/article_c68bf5e7-8b9b-59b9-a2da-1c644b755c0b.html...
PINOLE, Calif., Dec. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 1st Tribal Lending, the nation's leading Section 184 mortgage lender, announced it has committed to funding at least $60,000 in scholarships in 2015 with the American Indian College Fund. The amount will be enough to support scholarships for 16 American Indian students for the 2015-2016 school year. "As the country's leading provider of mortgage loans specifically for the Native American community, we feel a kinship and responsibility to this underserved segment of the population," said...
ST. PAUL–The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) announces 36 recipients of 37 Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Small Grants (up to $10,000 each) totaling $291,642 in 22 counties. The grants are awarded quarterly to help non-profit and educational organizations, government units and tribal organizations preserve and share Minnesota history. The awards were approved by the MNHS Executive Council on Nov. 13, 2015. Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants are made possible by the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage F...
Minnesota will join the majority of states with workable medical marijuana laws by allowing individuals suffering from severe and chronic pain to legally access medical marijuana if their doctors recommend it ST. PAUL — Minnesota Commissioner of Health Dr. Ed Ehlinger announced Wednesday that intractable pain, as defined in Minnesota law, will be added to the list of qualifying conditions for which patients can legally access medical marijuana. The commissioner must notify the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative health and p...
PARIS, France – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell met today with French Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira to express the United States' concern about tribal sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony that are sold at French auction houses, and to seek cooperation in working to repatriate objects to Indian tribes in the United States. In the meeting, Secretary Jewell and Minister Taubira discussed their shared commitment to helping tribes repatriate their sacred cultural objects that, under tribal customary law, are owned b...
Remarks as prepared for delivery WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Barrasso, Vice-Chairman Tester and Members of the Committee: I am honored to appear before you to discuss the implementation efforts of the Department of Justice to fulfill our responsibilities as established in the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 (TLOA) and, ultimately, to improve public safety in Indian country. In introducing this Act in April 2009, Chairman Dorgan illuminated some of the hard realities faced by tribes in modern times, including: astonishingly high rates of...
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October 14, 2015 – Mesa, Arizona – In a major effort to support and provide guidance to a new generation of young Native American and Alaska Native entrepreneurs, two nationally-recognized organizations are partnering to create youth-oriented entrepreneurial education, and offer ongoing resources for Native youth. The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) and United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. (UNITY) will collaborate to tie-in training and workshop components to their respective - and successful - ann...
LONGMONT, Colorado (Dec. 2, 2015) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations [ http://www.firstnations.org ]) has received several important grants recently to support its mission of strengthening Native American economies in order to build healthy Native communities. Among the grants are: Ford Foundation [ https://www.fordfoundation.org/ ] -- $600,000 for two years of continuing work on the "Building Economic Security Over a Lifetime" initiative in Oklahoma. Under this effort, First Nations works with key partners in Oklahoma to b...
BEMIDJI, MN -- December 2, 2015 – The deadline to enter the eighth annual IDEA Competition is fast approaching - December 31 is the last day to register. More than $300,000 has been awarded to Northwest Minnesota entrepreneurs in the past seven years. The competition has earned a reputation in the region for helping competitors turn great ideas into great businesses. The competition provides training, business coaching, and capital to entrepreneurs who apply and want to turn an idea into a fast-growing business. In the past, most e...
