Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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County child protection agencies failed to investigate 203 reports of suspected child sex abuse in Minnesota last year, the state Department of Human Services said Thursday....
Capping months of emotional debate that brought tens of thousands of e-mails, the board overseeing high school athletics in Minnesota overwhelmingly said yes Thursday to opening up girls’ sports to transgender student-athletes....
Minnesota reported its first death of the 2014 flu season Thursday, along with several new outbreaks across the state, even as federal health officials warned that the current vaccine might be less effective than in some other years....
Minnesota’s troubled psychiatric hospital in St. Peter has a new medical director, a psychiatrist who helped lead the dramatic turnaround of a renowned mental facility in Washington, D.C....
WASHINGTON — Senators raised but then postponed an effort Thursday to advance a new legal justification for U.S. military operations against the Islamic State, highlighting the difficulty of carrying out what lawmakers say is their constitutional duty to declare war....
The number of women in the United States who gave birth dropped last year, said federal statistics released Thursday, extending the decline for a sixth year....
NEW YORK — From the White House to the streets of some of America's biggest cities, the New York chokehold case converged with the Ferguson shooting and investigations out of South Carolina and Cleveland to stir a national conversation Thursday about racial justice and police use of force....
The bite was hot, and Tony Roach was pulling panfish through 8 inches of new ice on a small central Minnesota lake last week....
The descendants of four Montana servicemen from the Crow Indian Nation accepted Congress’ highest honor on their behalf of forefathers Thursday....
Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) --- Enbridge Energy and many Native American communities have had a turbulent relationship recently due to controversial environmental issues....
Nearly 80 people have applied for compensation that the province agreed to pay to the children of missing and murdered B.C. women....
The search for a missing aboriginal woman has led Nova Scotia police thousands of kilometres south of the border, to Tennessee, where Chrisma Denny was last seen at a women’s shelter in September....
“Aww, here we go again, talking about the dang boarding schools!” This was the first thought Chally Topping-Thompson had when the topic came up in her social work class at St. Scholastica College in Duluth. Topping-Thompson of the Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe had heard hushed talk about the bad times at Indian boarding schools all her life. The talk, however, was for her, part of a long ago past of trouble and hurt. As a single mom trying to raise a child and finish her degree in social work, however, she had more immediate problems of her own...
President Barack Obama announced Wednesday a program to help Native American youth. The program, called Generation Indigenous, aims to prepare Native youth for careers and leadership roles. More than one-third live in poverty and about two-thirds graduate from high school....
4:38 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. (Applause.) Kahee. (Applause.) Well, thank you so much. Everybody please have a seat, please have a seat. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Love you! THE PRESIDENT: Love you back. (Laughter.) It’s good to see you. AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you, man! THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Love you more! (Laughter.) THE PRESIDENT: Well, welcome to the 2014 White House Tribal Nations Conference. (Applause.) Five years ago, when we held this meeting for the first time, it was historic -– the largest-ever gat...
When President Obama made his first trip to Indian Country earlier this year, he told a compelling story about the impact federal investment and partnerships have in tribal communities. So I was privileged today to participate in the President’s sixth White House Tribal Nations Conference. Because of the challenges tribal communities continue to face with high rates of unemployment and barriers to opportunity, the conference was an important chance to discuss the Department of Labor and Administration’s efforts to create shared prosperity in...
A new look at the number of Alaska children in foster care finds that despite a push to reduce the count, that hasn’t happened and the number of Alaska Native children in care remains shockingly high....
For the first time in several years, drivers in the Thunder Bay area can buy gas for less than $1 a litre....
Heat stove project underway on Standing Rock; goal is to reduce reliance on pricey propane From: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/0b892acae847410c9869ca2f7318b562/ND--Heating-the-Rez...
A 15-year-old aboriginal girl says she is speaking out against racism in her community after she and her family were refused service in a bowling alley in Wetaskiwin, Alta....
The Edmonton Police Service recently promoted officer Mike Wasylyshen to sergeant despite a criminal record for the drunken, off-duty assault of a man on crutches and a disciplinary suspension for Tasering a passed-out native youth....
The Affordable Care Act ensures, by law, that all U.S. citizens who are required to file taxes, have insurance or qualify for exemption. There are two exemptions you may be eligible for to avoid a penalty for not having insurance coverage:...
The universe is full of mysteries that challenge our current knowledge. In "Beyond Science" Epoch Times collects stories about these strange phenomena to stimulate the imagination and open up previously undreamed of possibilities. Are they true? You decide....
One snowy night in January 1969, the singer Willy Mitchell was shot in the head in Maniwaki, Quebec, because of Christmas decorations. Mitchell was a 15-year-old Canadian schoolboy of Algonquin and Mohawk heritage, living on the Kitigan Zibi reserve, who had recently formed a rock band called Northern Lights. “We were loud,” he says, laughing. “If we’d stuck together we’d have been the next Nirvana!” That night, he was flyposting to promote their first gig when he bumped into some friends who had stolen some Christmas lights from a neighbour’s...
Regular listeners of Wisconsin Public Radio might have come to know Richie Plass as the genial co-host of Kalihweyo'se (Oneida for “Good Message”), the Native American radio program that airs from 10pm to midnight on Thursdays....
