Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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“This will stimulate you,” the lawyer Lisa Blatt told the Supreme Court during her rebuttal this month in a case called Carpenter v. Murphy, which will decide whether a large swatch of eastern Oklahoma remains part of the Muscogee Creek reservation granted to the tribe by the federal government in 1832. “There are 2,000 prisoners in state court who committed a crime in the former Indian territory who self-identify as Native American,” Blatt told the court. “This number is grossly under-inclusive because, if the victim was Native American,...
RAPID CITY, S.D. – A man convicted of fatally shooting a 13-year-old girl on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been sentenced to serve 30 years in prison. A federal jury in May 2017 found James Dowty of Pine Ridge guilty of second-degree murder and a firearms count in the killing of Te’Ca Clifford, who was walking with three friends in July 2016 when she was shot. https://www.kdlt.com/2018/12/18/man-gets-30-years-for-fatally-shooting-girl-on-reservation/...
If you are an Indigenous woman or girl, you have a bull's-eye on your back. That is reality, according to Patty Musgrave, who recently worked with police to rescue a young woman she believes was targeted by sex traffickers at a Moncton McDonald's. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/indigenous-women-girls-human-trafficking-new-brunswick-kayla-peters-patty-musgrave-1.4939090...
SPOKANE — A film made in Spokane and the Inland Northwest now has a spot on the list of the most important movies ever made. “Smoke Signals,” the 1998 independent film written by Sherman Alexie based on his acclaimed story collection, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” was named to the National Film Registry on Wednesday by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. https://lmtribune.com/northwest/smoke-signals-named-to-national-film-registry/article_94f63837-81e1-55fd-a373-50f38a1455d1.html...
On Thursday, December 13, 2018, Committee assignments for the upcoming Washington State legislative session were announced by the House Democratic Caucus. Representative Elect Debra Lekanoff was appointed Vice Chair of the Environmental and Energy Committee. “I am honored to represent the values of the 40th LD in our state legislature. If we stay true to our values we can achieve both economic prosperity and protect the environment throughout our state,” said Lekanoff. “My portfolio of committees weave together opportunities that reflect the v...
