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Seven years ago, Washburn High School building was settling into old age with ample space for its 800-some students. Then came its renaissance. Since 2009, Washburn’s student population has doubled to more than 1,600 this year, thanks to leadership changes and the south Minneapolis school’s growing reputation. Students now pack booths and tables in the tiny lunchroom of the 90-year-old building. Some take science classes in makeshift labs. Athletic teams jockey for scant gym space in the bitterly cold winter months. http://w...
WASHINGTON — There were many protesters but few faithless electors as Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote Monday — ensuring he will become America's 45th president. An effort by anti-Trump forces to persuade Republican electors to abandon the president-elect came to practically nothing and the process unfolded largely according to its traditions. Trump's polarizing victory Nov. 8 and the fact Democrat Hillary Clinton had won the national popular vote had stirred an intense lobbying effort, but to no avail. "We did it!" Trump twe...
Minnesota's prison system will partner with a national criminal justice reform group in 2017 to reduce its reliance on the controversial practice of solitary confinement as a punishment for problem inmates. New York-based Vera Institute for Justice announced Monday it has selected the Minnesota Department of Corrections to take part in its 21-month initiative, with the goal to work with prison administrators to find and help implement alternatives to long-term isolation — a practice that can take a severe mental health toll on prisoners — wit...
BERLIN — A truck rammed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing 12 people and injuring nearly 50 as it smashed through tables and wooden stands. Police said a suspect believed to be the driver was arrested nearby and a passenger died as paramedics were treating him. The popular Christmas market outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was filled with a mix of tourists and locals when the large Scania truck hurtled into it. Germany's top security official said initial evidence pointed to an intentional a...
The Minnesota Legislature's long debate over alcohol sales on Sundays could end in 2017, House Speaker Kurt Daudt told reporters on Monday. Speaking to the media during a legislative session preview event, Daudt, R-Crown, said he expects the perennial issue will come up again once the Legislature convenes in January -- and that he senses that it has the support of a majority of his colleagues in the House. Daudt said he's spoken with other legislators and also indicated that there will be shifts in the committee that will first consider the...
The first pipeline protester trial scheduled to start Monday morning was postponed after the judge learned that not all 10 defendants had received all the evidence from the prosecutor. Only one of the nine defense attorneys involved in the case had received about three hours of aerial video and 500-plus photos of the protest site from law enforcement, said Sandra Freeman, who was present during the closed proceeding. Freeman is the criminal case coordinator for the Water Protector Legal Collective, a group that assists Dakota Access Pipeline...
Trials for Dakota Access Pipeline protesters begin next week, but there aren’t enough attorneys to take their cases. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department lists 264 people who have no lawyer at all, and the 265 people who have been assigned public defense attorneys aren’t receiving adequate counsel. In order to fix the problem, advocates from North Dakota and Minnesota are now trying to convince the North Dakota Supreme Court to give the green light to lawyers from other states — who have no license to practice in North Dakota — to...
North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) is pushing tribal officials to help vacate a protest camp set up for those demonstrating against the Dakota Access pipeline. A group of about 10,000 protesters established two campsites near the pipeline’s proposed route near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation south of Bismarck this fall. They urged federal officials to deny the project, which the tribe says threatens their drinking water and historic land. Protesters — who have experienced sub-zero temperatures and blizzard conditions so far this mon...
Only a handful of dedicated anti-oil protesters and American Indian members remain at campsites located near the now-rejected Dakota Access Pipeline project. Most of the remaining protesters are members of Standing Rock Sioux, the tribe whose reservation stands more than a mile from the pipeline’s route. The 1,000 remaining protesters are a pale comparison to the nearly 10,000 protesters who occupied the area throughout the summer and fall. They remain even though the Army Corps of Engineer’s rejected the previously approved project on Dec...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is considering creating a tribal utilities commission to regulate infrastructure projects on its land. Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II said the tribe has started the process since Standing Rock has been in a months-long fight against the 1,172-mile Dakota Access crude oil pipeline, which is proposed to cross the Missouri River just north of the reservation, over fears that a leak in the line would pollute the river and tribal water supply. Archambault said the pipeline battle has shown light on flaws in state...
HOUGHTON — One incumbent and two newcomers will join the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Tribal Council, as a result of Saturday’s annual election. Four of the council’s 12 seats are up for re-election every year in the community’s two districts. In the L’Anse District, incumbent Michael F. LaFernier Sr. earned 269 votes and Gary F. Loonsfoot Jr. received 227 votes, beating challenger Lyndon Ekdahl, who got 197 votes. http://www.mininggazette.com/news/2016/12/incumbent-two-newcomers-elected-to-kbic-tribal-council/...
WEST VILLAGE, NY — Jean-Louis Goldwater Bourgeois—the millionaire son of renowned sculptor Louise Bourgeois—is in the process of donating his multi-million-dollar, landmarked West Village townhouse to a non-profit organization run by the Lenape tribe, multiple news outlets report. The Lenape Indians were the original inhabitants of Manhattan. “This building is the trophy from major theft. It disgusts me,” Bourgeois told The Post. His family’s LLC bought the three-story home at 6 Weehawken St. for $2.2 million in 2006. The townhouse dates back...
An elderly woman in North Fork has been found murdered. The Madera County Sheriff's Office said 76-year old Bonnie Hale was found dead on her front porch Saturday morning. Hale was a former North Fork Rancheria Tribal Council member. Sheriff Deputies have arrested her neighbor 63-year old Mary O'Keefe on charges of murder. The details on exactly how Hale died is still under investigation. The Sheriff's Office said there was some sort of physical altercation between the two women. The last time Bobby Hale saw his 76-year old mother Bonnie was...
ANACORTES — Swinomish tribal Chairman Brian Cladoosby told the Anacortes City Council on Monday night that local residents need not fear tribal action as portrayed in a recent letter from Skagit County commissioners, which he said purposely cast a negative light on the tribe. Cladoosby took the floor for about a half-hour, during which he accused the county of spreading falsehoods about the tribe and compared the tactics to this year's caustic approach in national politics. The county released a letter in early December that stated o...
SHIPROCK, N.M. – Carletta Begay and her family thought they were getting their big break. They’d been living in a flat-topped box home on the Navajo Reservation. All six were crammed into a few hundred square feet, paying rent to a local housing corporation. But one spring, a contractor for the Navajo Housing Authority started work on vacant lots sprinkled throughout the South Shiprock neighborhood. New houses were going up, 91 in all. Begay believed one could be hers. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-invest...
An elder from Whitesand First Nation, in northern Ontario, says children's lives are being put at risk because of a problem getting heating oil delivered in the community. Elsie Kwandibens said people pay their own utility bills but the First Nation is responsible for delivering the oil to individual homes. But she said deliveries have been so infrequent during winter months over the last several years that some families resorted to a dangerous practice of heating the house by turning on the oven and leaving the door open. h...
The Dam Repairs and Improvements for Tribes Act (S. 2717) (DRIFT Act) and the Irrigation Rehabilitation and Renovation for Indian Tribal Governments and Their Economies Act (S. 438) (IRRIGATE Act) were both enacted as part of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (S. 612) (WINN Act) at the end of the 114th Congress. The DRIFT Act authorizes up to $229.25 million over six years to fix aging dams on or near reservations. The IRRIGATE Act authorizes up to $175 million over five years to fix and maintain irrigation systems in Ind...
FARMINGTON — The Navajo Nation Supreme Court has reversed a lower court's decision about a special election to fill a vacant seat on the tribal council. The high court issued its Dec. 16 written decision for an appeal filed by Theresa A. Becenti-Aguilar, who is challenging the eligibility of Steven Begay to represent five chapters. Becenti-Aguilar and Begay were among 13 candidates who were looking to represent Bahastl’ah, Coyote Canyon, Mexican Springs, Naschitti and Tohatchi chapters after the council seat was declared vacant. htt...
Armand MacKenzie spent 15 years representing Indigenous offenders before he quit the practice. MacKenzie, an Innu lawyer, said when an offender showed up for a court appearance at the Sept-Îles courthouse on Quebec's North Shore, he'd face a room filled with white people: the judge, the constable, the prosecutor and the support staff. ''I felt like a player in the business, like another person contributing to the misery people were going through,'' MacKenzie told CBC's Quebec AM. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec...
BRADLEY COUNTY, Tenn. — The FBI and other agencies are now looking into the beating of a Native American man in Bradley County last month. The Bradley County Sheriff's Department spokesperson James Bradford says they're asking other agencies to take a look at the case and help them decide if it qualifies as a hate crime. In November, James Russell was hospitalized. http://newschannel9.com/news/local/fbi-now-investigating-beating-of-bradley-county-native-american-man...
COLUMBUS, N.M. -- A Mexican woman tried to smuggle liquid methamphetamine into the U.S. by hiding it inside Native American-style dreamcatchers when she crossed the border into New Mexico over the weekend, federal officials said Monday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said the woman was detained Sunday in Columbus, New Mexico when she crossed from Puerto Palomas, Mexico, and a drug-sniffing dog alerted customs officers. The officers found six dreamcatchers in the woman's car with rings made of rubber tubing filled with a liquid...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Colorado man accused of killing a woman on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in September has pleaded not guilty. Thirty-four-year-old Orlando de Macias is charged with second-degree murder in the Sept. 29 death of 34-year-old Annie Colhoff. Authorities say she was shot in Pine Ridge village. Villanueva de Macias was arrested in Colorado in November. U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler says he pleaded not guilty earlier this month. http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/12/19/man-accused-in-reservatio...