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National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day - Memorial Feast Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 11 AM...
Barely more than half of Minnesotans got a flu shot during the fall and winter of 2016-17, said a report released on Tuesday. But the state’s 51.7 percent flu vaccination rate was the seventh-highest in the country, according to “Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism,” a report from the nonprofit Trust for America’s Health. https://www.twincities.com/2017/12/20/report-despite-relatively-high-rate-too-few-minnesotans-get-flu-shots/...
President Andrew Jackson presented Congress on this day in 1836, with a treaty he negotiated with the Ioway, Sacs, Sioux, Fox, Otoe, and Omaha tribes of the Missouri Territory. The treaty, which removed those tribes from their ancestral homelands to make way for white settlement, was one of some 400 treaties concluded between various tribes and the federal government from 1788 to 1883. On May 28, 1830, Jackson had signed the Indian Removal Act. The statute gave the president the power to negotiate relocation pacts with Indian tribes. During...
MEXICO CITY (Bloomberg) -- A chunk of Sempra Energy’s natural gas pipeline sits in the dirt behind a community center in the village of Loma de Bacum in northwest Mexico. Guadalupe Flores thinks it would make a great barbecue pit. “Cut it here, lift the top,’’ he says, pointing to the 30-in. diameter steel tube. “Perfect for a cook-out.’’ http://www.worldoil.com/news/2017/12/19/mexican-protesters-disable-400-million-natural-gas-pipeline...
FARMINGTON — A motion filed this month seeks to move forward the lawsuit filed last year by the father of Ashlynne Mike against the Navajo Nation. Gary Mike filed the complaint last December against the tribe and its Division of Public Safety and Department of Law Enforcement and tribal police Capt. Ivan Tsosie. http://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2017/12/19/ashlynne-mikes-father-seeks-action-lawsuit-filed-against-tribe/962376001/...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. —Navajo Nation filed suit against Wells Fargo Bank Dec. 12, alleging that Wells Fargo engaged in a campaign of predatory and unlawful practices that targeted and harmed the Navajo people. The Navajo Nation is seeking restitution, damages and civil penalties based on Wells Fargo’s violations of federal, state and tribal law. https://www.nhonews.com/news/2017/dec/19/navajo-nation-files-lawsuit-against-wells-fargo-ba/...
The nerve center of payday lending pioneer was – at least on paper – housed for years in a dilapidated shipping container parked on a dusty patch of tribal land in rural Northern California. Inside, a lone computer server purportedly fielded hundreds of requests each day from desperate borrowers across the country – applying online for low-dollar, high-interest loans to carry them until their next paycheck. http://oakwoodherald.com/how-a-main-line-payday-lender-used-an-indian-tribe-and-an-empty-computer-server-to-make-...
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette's office approved criminal charges against multiple veterans who formerly lived at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans for the sale of non-taxed cigarettes. In August, we reported four Grand Rapids Home for Veterans members were involuntarily discharged from the facility after selling hundreds of packs cigarettes inside the home. http://www.wzzm13.com/news/investigations/13-on-your-side/watchdog/three-veterans-criminally-charged-in-connection-with-sale-of-cigarette...
Dec. 19, 2017 – Land established for timber growth, before 1986, is exempt from property tax under state law, but a “severance tax” on timber applies to expired contracts, unless the landowner is a sovereign Indian Tribe, a state appeals court recently ruled. In the 1990s, the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin (Tribe) acquired land in Sawyer County. A previous owner, in the 1960s, had filed a petition to enroll the subject land in Wisconsin’s Forest Croplands Program. https://www...
WHITE EARTH, MN (KFGO) - White Earth Tribal Government has issued what it calls an urgent public health crisis after seven drug overdoses including two deaths within 48 hours. Mahnomen County deputies and tribal police have responded to the calls. Heroin is suspected in some of the overdoses. Tribal Police Chief Michael Laroque says the departments are committed to arresting those selling the drugs. http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2017/dec/19/series-of-overdoses-on-white-earth-reservation/...
The Southern Ute Indian Tribe elected two new council members and a new tribal chairwoman at Friday's runoff election. Christine Baker-Sage pulled off a narrow election victory against opponent Shane Seibel for the position of tribal chair. https://pinerivertimes.com/articles/46236-bakersage-elected-tribal-chairwoman...
The Prairie Island Indian Community gathered to celebrate leaders, experienced and newly-elected. Melanie Urich and Nicole Lehto joined Shelley Buck, Johnny Johnson and Lu Taylor at the Prairie Island Indian Community Tribal Council swearing-in ceremony Dec. 13 at Treasure Island Resort and Casino. Urich joins the tribal council with 20 years of federal services — with the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She also spent time in Washington, D.C., as a congressional intern for the...
POLSON, Mont. - The following was sent out by the Polson Police Department: On Sunday night, the Polson Police Department, with the assistance of the Flathead Tribal Police Department, concluded a short-term drug investigation nicknamed Operation Blue Christmas. The scope of the investigation was to rescue drug endangered children, to target suspected drug dealers, users/abusers and the houses they operate out of. http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/kcfw/polson-tribal-authorities-conduct-drug-raid/674942250...