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SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo said Wednesday that it had dropped a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company. Instead, the company will spin off all its other assets, including its stake in Yahoo Japan, into a new company. The new structure essentially maintains Yahoo’s strategy of separating its valuable Alibaba investment from the rest of the company, which will be focused on Yahoo’s Internet properties. http://www.startribune.com/yahoo-will-keep-31-billion-alibaba-stake-spin-off-other-asset...
This is part four of a five-part series on sleep and dreams, sponsored by Oso mattresses. Read the others here, here, and here. The dreamcatcher, that classic children’s craft, hangs from rearview mirrors and earlobes across the United States. The story that’s commonly associated with the round hoop strung like a spider’s web and festooned with feathers can be conveyed quickly—“You hang it above your bed to catch bad dreams”—and the object holds a wide appeal to sentimental Americans, standing in as part of an apparently usable American Indi...
Drug addiction is perhaps the biggest crisis on the Qualla Boundary, and it’s time that tribal government got serious about punishing traffickers, members of Cherokee Tribal Council agreed last week. The discussion began with a resolution from Councilmember Teresa McCoy, of Big Cove, asking that council direct the Attorney General’s office to draft a law banishing anyone convicted of selling illegal drugs from tribal lands. As a sovereign nation, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has the right to forbid any individual from entering its lan...
Forty-three First Nations are waiting on the Liberal government to release more than $12 million in funding which was held back by the previous government under a controversial law that requires bands to post financial statements online. The Liberals "were very clear prior to the election," they would repeal and not enforce the First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA) says lawyer Robert Hladun, who represents Saskatchewan's Onion Lake Cree Nation. He claims the First Nation has had $1.6 million held back over the last two years — m...
Just over a month after voting unanimously to study the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana on the Qualla Boundary, the Cherokee Tribal Council held a vote whose outcome was nearly a mirror image of the first. Last week, council voted 11-1 to uphold Principal Chief Patrick Lambert’s veto of the study, with Councilmember Travis Smith, of Birdtown, the sole nay vote. It was Oct. 29 when council originally heard a resolution from a group calling itself Common Sense Cannabis to fund a study that would look into potentially legalizing marijuana ...
Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an inquiry into why 1,200 indigenous women were murdered or have gone missing over decades. Their fate has been a festering wound in many of Canada's more than 600 native communities, with allegations of mishandled murder investigations or failures to look into missing persons cases. The previous Conservative administration had long resisted calls for an inquiry, seeing the disproportionate number of deaths and disappearances as resulting from domestic violence....
CHARLESTOWN, RI (WPRI) – Longtime Narragansett Indian Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas registered to vote in Florida earlier this year and should no longer be eligible to be the tribe’s leader, according to some members, the Target 12 Investigators have learned. Thomas has been Chief Sachem of the Charlestown-based tribe for nearly two decades. According to tribal election rules, the chief must live in the state of Rhode Island or within a 50-mile radius. http://wpri.com/2015/12/09/records-show-narragansetts-chief-sachem-thomas-i...
OGLALA, SD - Seven months after flooding, hail and high winds damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation, federal officials gathered Wednesday near Oglala to present the keys to the first of more than 200 replacement homes to its new owner. You could call it a new lease on life for Marvin Goings, but without the rent. The Oglala Tribe member lost his rural home southwest of Oglala to a storm last May. But Wednesday Federal Emergency Management Agency officials turned over the keys to a trailer home for Goings and his...
Republicans and Democrats clashed once again as the House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs took up a controversial federal recognition bill on Tuesday. The drama started early as Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), the chairman of the subcommittee, lashed out against his Democratic counterpart for an opening statement that was critical of H.R.3764, the Tribal Recognition Act. The bill strips the Bureau of Indian Affairs of its ability to recognize tribes and requires Congress to make a decision on every single petition....
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) came to prominence as a photographer of Native Americans during a time when Indian tribes were being forced onto reservations and their children were being sent off to boarding schools to “assimilate” them into American life. Curtis was born on a farm in rural Wisconsin where he lived until his family moved to Minnesota in 1874. When he turned 17 in 1885, Edward became an apprentice photographer in St. Paul. Just two years later, his father’s declining health forced the family to move west in search of a bette...
A wind-driven fire on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation that threatened livestock and homes still was burning Wednesday evening but was under control for the time being, said Byard Lamebull, acting fire management officer for Fort Belknap. “It was really moving,” Lamebull said at 7:30 p.m. “There was nothing you could do but watch it when it first started.” Fueled by high winds, the fire consumed about 2,000 acres burning in pastureland, alfalfa and CRP fields and cottonwood and willow trees in irrigation ditches, he said. http://...
A federal grand jury has indicted the former director of the tribe’s Sequoyah Fund on charges she embezzled nearly $1 million from the nonprofit. The indictment was filed Dec. 1 in U.S. District Court. Nell Leatherwood, who headed the lending agency from February 2006 through November 2013, faces 50 criminal counts; 47 of those counts are connected to individual checks she’s accused of having forged. http://www.thesylvaherald.com/top_stories/article_e6aa97ba-9df1-11e5-b160-d3d7694cc1c4.html...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday convicted a 20-year-old of beating two homeless Navajo men to death with cinder blocks and other objects as they slept, an attack that spurred officials in New Mexico's largest city to establish a task force on Native American homelessness. After a full day of deliberations, jurors found Alex Rios guilty of two counts of second-degree murder after hearing details about the violent attack on Allison Gorman, 44, and Kee Thompson, 46, in a vacant lot in Albuquerque in July 2014. http...
