Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates from record lows set at the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, a shift that heralds modestly higher rates on some loans. The Fed coupled its first rate hike in nine years with a signal that further increases will likely be made slowly as the economy strengthens further and inflation rises from undesirably low levels. Wednesday's action signaled the central bank's belief that the economy has finally regained enough strength 6½ years after the Great Recession ended to withstand mo...
A two minute grocery store shopping spree turned into a big windfall for a local food shelf. Full video: http://lakerpioneer.com/2015/11/30/video-a-prize-for-the-food-shelf/ http://video.startribune.com/minnesota-woman-wins-shopping-spree-but-donates-to-food-shelf/361264381/...
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian troops Wednesday buried the bodies of hundreds of victims of an alleged military massacre of Shiite Muslims to hide the death toll, the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria said. Wednesday's allegation comes as human rights advocates and the United States called for an investigation following the army's raid on Nigerian Shiites in which hundreds of people were reportedly killed and Shiite leader Ibraheem Zakzaky suffered four bullet wounds. http://www.startribune.com/activists-nigeria-military-killed-...
SALT LAKE CITY — The Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City says a bleeding host reported after a communion wafer turned water red was caused by bread mold, not a miracle. Officials said Wednesday that a scientist found the conclusive natural explanation for the wafer that turned water in an ablution bowl a dark red color at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Kearns. The diocese appointed a committee to investigate after the host that went uneaten on Nov. 8 appeared to bleed after being left unattended for several days. htt...
The Interior Department signed two more cooperative agreements for the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations. The Round Valley Indian Tribes of California and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota are the latest to join the effort. The tribes will help inform landowners about the program in order to facilitate potential sales of their fractional interests. “Federal and tribal partners must do all we can to give landowners a meaningful chance to participate in this unique Program and receive compensation for their f...
BISMARCK - In October, mixed in with the heap of oil production numbers the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources churns out every month, was an important footnote: Oil production on the Fort Berthold Reservation had been grossly overstated as far back as 2012. Department spokeswoman Alison Ritter said an internal audit in October discovered an error in a formula used in an Excel spreadsheet to break out production figures for the reservation. http://www.inforum.com/news/3905229-spreadsheet-error-overstated-oil-produc...
Eight of the 54 murders of indigenous women that have been investigated by the Ontario Provincial Police remain unsolved, according to a report released by the force today. Of the 126 men murdered within OPP jurisdiction, one remains unsolved, while 39 indigenous men remain missing. Of the 46 solved female indigenous homicides: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-missing-murdered-aboriginal-people-1.3367495...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — Gazing out his living room window at the rolling, wind-swept hills of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Marvin Goings gestured to his dining room table in his front yard. A few minutes earlier, Goings had sat at that table and accepted the keys to his new home, a permanent manufactured housing unit installed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It is the first of more than 200 to be erected on the reservation between now and spring 2016. Goings' household was one of 1,900 on the reservation to apply for aid t...
OTTAWA — Doris Young was 3 years old when she was forced to leave her family and attend a church-run school in central Canada. If she spoke her native Cree language, she was beaten, she said. If she disobeyed any authorities at school, she was beaten. She was separated from her siblings, who also were forced into the schools. She also suffered sexual abuse. “It was pretty bad. I was very angry all the time, and I was always lonely, because you didn’t really develop relationships in those schools,” said Young. “Even when we went home to our pa...
On December 7, 2015, the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments for the Dollar General Corporation v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a case occasioned by the sexual assault of a 13-year-old Dollar General employee by his employer. While the Supreme Court doesn't often hear sexual assault cases, this one has a twist: The victim is Native American, and the assailant is white. The Dollar General store sits on the Choctaw reservation, land considered Indian Country (the legal term used by the federal government) and the legal question is...
The U.S. Supreme Court says it will decide whether a person with multiple domestic violence convictions in tribal court should be subject to harsher punishments for habitual offenders. The appeal stems from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from a Montana case that was contrary to separate circuit court decisions on cases in North Dakota and Utah. The 9th Circuit threw out Northern Cheyenne Tribal Court convictions against Michael Bryant Jr. because Bryant did not have a lawyer. The judges said the lack of legal counsel violated the...
The Town of Browning posted a notice this week in the Glacier Reporter, warning residents that the Town will have to either declare bankruptcy or disincorporate over the longstanding conflict between the Town and the Blackfeet Tribe over control of the water and sewer system, as well as trash collection, within the town’s boundaries. Referencing “multiple lawsuits” between the Town and Tribe, the notice points to a “substantial negative impact on the Town’s finances.” While the notice states the Town has cut corners to adjust, the pressure ha...
Top officials from the White House and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) have a plan aimed at reducing the opioid epidemic among tribal members. Oklahoma will be the first state to start the program leaders said is proven to save lives. Representatives with the Indian Health Services and the BIA announced Wednesday that they are rolling out a pilot program in 2016 that would equip BIA officers with the drug naloxone. http://www.fox23.com/news/news/local/bureau-indian-affairs-white-house-team-fight-presc/npk7g/...
Indian Health Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs partner to take on prescription drug overdose deaths. IHS will provide naloxone to BIA officers starting next year. The fast-acting drug counteracts respiratory shutdown brought on by overdosing on heroin or prescription painkillers. According to the Centers for Disease Control, prescription drug overdose deaths among Native Americans increased fourfold in the last 15 years. White House drug official Michael Botticelli says giving BIA officers naloxone is not their only response. They’re a...
Larrissa Moore skipped the typical law school summer vacation at a beach. Instead, she spent her summer break holed up inside a Presbyterian church in Georgia, reviewing unsolved murder cases from the civil-rights era.The Mississippi College School of Law student says she wants to be a federal judge, but until that day comes she’s figuring out how to serve justice any way she can. Moore, 24, spent 10 weeks reviewing old police records looking for clues to help her close unresolved civil-rights era killings, including suspicious cases that m...
Another aboriginal woman has come forward to say she was sterilized against her will at the Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon. "I want to make it very clear I am not a victim," said Melika Popp. "I'm a survivor." Over the past seven years, Popp said she's sought counselling and therapy. She's tried to focus on her career, and her degree in business administration. But the mother of two said she still feels 'violated' after being sterilized against her will in 2008, at RUH. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/s...
RIVERTON — The Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Office is planning to return the remains of deceased tribal members who attended a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the 1800s to Wyoming. The children were sent to boarding school in hopes of them returning to the tribe, but some died and were buried there. http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/tribe-plans-to-retrieve-remains-of-children-from-school/article_b16f0731-50ec-5023-a097-6138802029c6.html...
CLOQUET, Minn. - The arrest of an unruly driver and passenger on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation is all caught on video and it could have ended much differently. Authorities say the male passenger tried to grab the gun of an officer, but it stays holstered. Three officers were attempting to arrest the driver who was resisting during the stop near Cloquet last Friday. Reservation police say lethal force could have been used once the man got his hand on the officer's gun. The car was stopped because the driver was operating the vehicle in the...
PIERRE, S.D. -- A Mandan, N.D., woman who ran a domestic violence shelter on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in McLaughlin, S.D., has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for stealing money from the shelter. Dawn Muir, 54, who ran the Pretty Bird Woman House, was convicted of writing checks to herself that she said was for mileage or travel reimbursement or other tasks. But she couldn’t provide receipts and deposits into her own bank account matched the check amounts. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/cr...
PABLO -Tribal police say they expect to find the two suspects who shot a woman in Pablo on Monday after receiving several tips. Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribal Police Chief Craige Couture said that a woman was shot on Monday in Pablo, but he would not elaborate on the specifics of the shooting. He did say the woman made it through surgery and is in stable condition. One of the suspects is Ashley Hewankorn, a Native American woman described as 5'5" tall and 170 pounds. She has brown eyes and black hair. http://www.ktvq.co...
