Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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RED LAKE, Minn. - The Red Lake Band of Chippewa in Minnesota is aiming to increase its enrollment, even as some members want to stick to the status quo. This fall, the Red Lake Tribal Council approved a resolution loosening its rules on blood quantum, a system that identifies Native Americans by their percentage of ancestry in a tribe. Now, the tribe has hundreds of new citizenship applications under consideration as it seeks to avoid what Tribal Secretary Sam Strong described as "mathematical g...
The Trump administration’s fear-mongering tactics against immigrant communities surrounding the 2020 census may have been shocking to some, but it’s not the first time the government has used the census as a tool of oppression. Native people, in particular, are the most undercounted ethnic group in the census’ history. Native people were excluded from the first 70 years under the U.S. Constitution, which explicitly regarded “Indians not taxed,” or those living on reservations or unsettled territories, as not countable. In more recent years, th...
The State Board of Education turned down a charter school application from a group that wants to serve indigenous students in Robeson County. The Old Main STREAM Academy proposal for a charter school was rejected by the Charter School Advisory Board last month. The group was hoping to get a fast-track application approved by the State Board so it could open in 2020. https://www.wunc.org/post/state-board-education-rejects-native-american-charter-school...
A New Town man was sentenced Monday to 2 ¼ years in prison for burning down a church on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, an act that one witness said has caused a "heartfelt loss" to elders of the community. Rode Wayne Vocu, 23, in August pleaded guilty to arson in connection with the April 22 fire that destroyed the Memorial Congregational Church northwest of White Shield. A federal grand jury had indicted him in June. https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bisma...
Dec 9, 2019 – Three Information Technology (IT) teams were recently recognized during the 20th Annual TribalNet Conference and Tradeshow in Nashville, TN. TribalNet has been officially recognizing IT teams for exemplary work since 2008. TribalNet had called for nominations earlier this summer and each application was reviewed by the TribalNet Advisory Boards, made up of technology decision makers and executives in Tribal Enterprises, Gaming, Government and Health. This peer-to-peer recognition has become a long-standing tradition and one t...
