Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring the time for action overdue, President Barack Obama promised on Wednesday to send Congress broad proposals in January for tightening gun laws and curbing violence after last week’s schoolhouse massacre in Connecticut....
For years, Greg Lund carried a loaded gun as a high school principal in northwestern Minnesota. Students, parents and most of the staff at Norman County East High School didn't know he was armed, but Lund said he couldn't leave his students' safety to chance....
Minnesota motorists are paying the lowest retail gasoline prices of the year as they fill up for the long holiday weekend, but those prices might not last....
Refund checks are going out this week to more than 900 Minnesotans who were allegedly ripped off by an Internet payday lender based in Delaware....
WASHINGTON - The GOP-controlled House is moving ahead Thursday on a bill that would raise taxes on people earning over $1 million a year, sparing most workers from a tax hike but leaving in place painful budget cuts to the military and domestic agencies as "fiscal cliff" talks appear stalled....
WASHINGTON - One early focus of new gun regulations by President Barack Obama and some lawmakers would reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons, a law widely regarded as imperfect....
Khalil Beckwith has never been formally diagnosed with lactose intolerance. He just knows that drinking milk makes him feel lousy....
Darrin Charles Losh, “NIIGABOW”, which means “Four Standing”, 43, of Bena, MN, passed away on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at his home. He was born on May 27, 1969 in Chicago, IL, the son of Leonard Losh and Gladys Sherman. Darrin liked being at the casino, sitting outside with his friends and visiting. He enjoyed dancing, music, watching videos, canoeing, sitting around bon fires, going for rides and being around all his great nieces and nephews. Darrin was preceded in death by two aunts;...
Robert Young Eagle, a.k.a Robert "Bobby" Eagle, “Wambdi Ho Wašte” (Eagle Voice Good), age 59, of McLaughlin, South Dakota Journeyed to the Spirit World on Sunday, December 16, 2012 at The Mobridge Regional Hospital in Mobridge, South Dakota. He was born on September 28, 1953 in Sisseton, South Dakota the son of Wallace Eagle Sr. and Harriet Keeble. A member of The Sisseton/Wahpeton Dakota Oyate. He is full-blood from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Robert attended AIAI-Institute of American Indian Arts at Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1969. He hono...
John Samuel Hill May 8, 1944 - Tuesday, December 18, 2012 John Samuel Hill Sr., age 68, of Sisseton, South Dakota Journeyed to the Spirit World on Monday, December 17, 2012 at The Kindred Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. He was born on May 8, 1944 in Sisseton, South Dakota the son of Samuel Hill and Martha Barker. He graduated from The Flandreau Indian School. John honorably served his Country in The United States Navy. He lived in Phoenix, Arizona and Los Angeles, California for many years....
Officials with the U.S. Department of the Interior have confirmed that it will cost $285 million for the agency to administer the Cobell settlement’s land-consolidation plan over the next 10 years....
MOORHEAD, Minn. — The U.S. Department of the Interior plans to spend $1.9 billion to clean up decades of mismanagement of Indian land, an effort that likely will allow Minnesota Indian bands to regain control of more of their original reservation land, parcels that now have thousands of owners. The effort to clear land titles is part of a $3.4 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit that started in 1996. It aims to solve a problem the government calls "fractionated heirship." In 1887, Congr...
LOWER BRULE — They broke the bank at Lower Brule. Literally. The floor of the Wells Fargo bank dropped 2 feet Tuesday morning as tribal members rushed to cash trust settlement checks. No one was injured, but the bank is closed indefinitely....
When the Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo made a national call for action, Saskatchewan answered. Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/Sask+Idle+More+supporters+route+Ottawa/7723627/story.html#ixzz2Fb14dhk3...
It was an exciting year for Jennifer Jessum and Simon Joseph, the creative minds behind the award-winning documentary film “Holy Man.” Their 2011 film, which told the story of incarcerated Lakota medicine man Douglas White, traveled the country for select screenings that even included August appearances at DocuWeeks in New York and Los Angeles. And a promising new venture was taking shape, one that took them back to South Dakota’s Pine Ridge reservation....
Red Lake, MN (WDAY TV) - A non-profit is raising money for 10 members of the Red Lake Reservation who are on their way to Connecticut to comfort families. Not long after five students were killed at Red Lake in 2005, it would be survivors of Columbine who would comfort those grieving at Red Lake. The F-M Native American Center is planning a taco lunch fundraiser Friday in Fargo, as a way to raise money for those Red Lake survivors traveling to Connecticut. Tanya Red Road, F-M Native American...
It was meant to be a permanent and public record of a sad chapter in Canadian history....
FARMINGTON — The Australian company that owns Navajo Mine said Wednesday it has reached a preliminary agreement to sell the mine to the Navajo Nation....
HIV and AIDS cases are increasing among Native American populations. Officials say many Native groups lack the information about the diseases and how to prevent them from spreading, and that has resulted in a growing problem. Authorities in Arizona are trying to reverse that trend by encouraging people on the Navajo Nation Reservation and throughout Indian country to get tested, and educating Native populations about the spread of HIV. But they face difficult challenges, including traditional taboos in speaking of sex or death. They have tried...
RAPID CITY — South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced Dec 4 that he would not support expanding Medicaid benefits to thousands of poverty-stricken South Dakotans....
Long before Columbus was even a twinkle in his distant relatives’ eyes, a Native American woman may have voyaged to Europe with Vikings, according to a new genetic study. Scientists analyzed portions of DNA passed only from mother to child, finding that about 80 people living in Iceland today possess a genetic variation distinct to one found mostly in Native Americans, National Geographic reports. Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/native-american-woman-may-have-made-it-to-europe-500-years-before-co...
A federal agency and the Eastern Shoshone Tribe are urging a federal judge not to reconsider his recent ruling banning Northern Arapahos from killing bald eagles on the central Wyoming reservation the two tribes share....
Despite a law that compels judges to spare natives from jail when possible, the first aboriginal Stanley Cup rioter should get more than house arrest, the Crown told her sentencing hearing on Wednesday. Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Jail+time+sought+aboriginal+rioter/7725373/story.html#ixzz2FbAy1ekV...
