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  • Dec 6, 2011

    The federal government created a vast surveillance network in early 2007 to monitor protests by First Nations, including those that would attract national attention or target “critical infrastructure” like highways, railways and pipelines, according to RCMP documents....

  • Dec 6, 2011

    There are hundreds of reserves across Canada where Aboriginal people live in deplorable third world conditions: a lack of clean running water, suitable housing, high unemployment and an array of social problems such as drug and alcohol addiction....

  • Obama, Indian Country’s Problem Solver – But Where’s the Boldness?

    Dec 6, 2011

    WASHINGTON – After a morning no-show at the White House Tribal Nations Conference he was supposed to be hosting, President Barack Obama made a grand entrance to the afternoon portion of the event held December 2 at the U.S. Department of the Interior headquarters. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/05/obama-indian-countrys-problem-solver-%E2%80%93-but-wheres-the-boldness-65853 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/05/obama-indian-countrys-problem-solver-%e2%80%93-but-wheres-the-boldness-6...

  • Dec 6, 2011

    With the country still in the grip of economic recession, Michael Lee feared it would be an even grimmer-than-usual Christmas for many Native American children in Arizona....

  • Hopi Tribal Council Reduces Tribal Chairman’s Powers

    Dec 6, 2011

    The Hopi Tribal Council has voted unanimously to reduce the scope of the tribal chairman’s authority and to end the legal services of its tribal attorney. The actions follow dissatisfaction over personnel matters and complaints about the attorney’s pay and operations. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/05/hopi-tribal-council-reduces-tribal-chairman%E2%80%99s-powers-65888 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/05/hopi-tribal-council-reduces-tribal-chairman%e2%80%99s-powers-65888#ixzz1fkxu73...

  • Dec 6, 2011

    While standing at the school bus turnaround on Old Zuni Drive-In Road, it is not difficult to notice the two doublewide trailers bathed in light....

  • Dec 6, 2011

    Allegations concerning the sexual abuse of young girls on the Tuscarora reservation by individuals linked to the powerful "Gang of Four" ruling clique there continue, despite efforts to sweep the matter under the rug....

  • Dec 6, 2011

    SUMMIT COUNTY — After two years of targeted community policing and other measures, the Safe Indian Communities initiative helped reduce violent crime by 35 percent across four Indian reservations, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said last week during the annual White House Tribal Nations Conference....

  • Dec 6, 2011

    Vince Fontaine picked up the Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year award at the 2011 edition of the Canadian Folk Music Awards, held in Toronto on December 4th. Manitoba musicans had nine nominations going into the awards, but Vince was the sole Manitoban to pick up an award....

  • Seeking Justice: Unable to Get Son’s Murder Case Reopend, Native Family Sues FBI

    Dec 6, 2011

    On February 2, 2005, after the two men had spent a long day working on the range together, Bob Holcomb shot Steven Bearcrane-Cole between the eyes, killing him. They were both ranch hands on the Leachman Cattle Co., near the Crow Reservation in Montana, and Holcomb says he shot a drunk and enraged Bearcrane-Cole after being threatened with a knife. Holcomb was never arrested, and the FBI listed the shooting as self-defense. There were no witnesses, but the physical evidence has some intriguing questions and mysteries. For example, why was the...

  • Dec 6, 2011

    The verdict has come in for two top officials of To Nanees Dizi (Tuba City) Chapter accused of stealing over $37,000 from the chapter....

  • Dec 6, 2011

    EL CAJON — The trial against an East County man accused of murdering a Lakeside teenager last year ended in a mistrial Monday after a jury announced it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict....

  • Dec 6, 2011

    EL CAJON, Calif. -- A deadlocked jury prompted a judge to declare a mistrial Monday in the murder trial of a young man charged in the shooting last year of an El Capitan High School student whose body was found on the Barona Indian Reservation....

  • Benjamin Duane Richards III

    Dec 6, 2011

    Benjamin Duane Richards III, 69, died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, at Red Lake Indian Health Hospital. He served in the U.S. Army. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Richards, Redby; children, Toni Montileaux. Kyle, S.D., Marlys Big Eagle, Benjamin Richards Jr., and Jennifer Richards, all of Rapid City, S.D., Angela Swallow, Rio Rancho, N.M., Stephanie Brown Bull, Martin, S.D., Candace Shoulders, Sharps Corner, S.D., and Jonathan Richards and Stacy Beaulieu, both of Red Lake; siblings, Emil "Woody" Richards, Ellettsville, Ind., Anthony Richards Sr.,...