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LONGMONT, Colorado (December 22, 2016) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) has received a USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) grant of $200,000 for a broad effort to increase the capacity of Native American farmers, ranchers and tribal communities so they can advance their farming or ranching businesses, or so tribal communities can work more effectively to improve local control of community food systems. Under the grant, First Nations will conduct various in-person trainings and workshops, plus online w...
Federal prosecutors have charged 21 people — including six Twin Cities chiropractors — in connection with a series of parallel fraud schemes that allegedly bilked insurance companies out of more than $20 million over the past five years. The chiropractors are accused of systematically paying recruiters, or “runners,” to identify victims of car accidents or people willing to claim that they were in a collision. They then submitted insurance claims and received reimbursements for services that were either not medically needed or were never r...
LAKE DELTON, Wis. — A boy has died after police say he fell from an outdoor water slide at a resort in the Wisconsin Dells area. Police say the incident happened Wednesday night at Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park in Lake Delton. The area surrounding the slide is closed for the season and is fenced off and the gates are locked. Lake Delton police say the boy and two other juveniles entered the restricted area and climbed to the top of the slide. The boy used a sled to go down the slide, but got caught in the snow. When he tried to free h...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Amid deepening acrimony, a supposedly bipartisan deal to kill the North Carolina law known as the "bathroom bill" fell apart Wednesday night, ensuring the likelihood that global corporations and national sports events will continue to stay away from the state. The law limits protections for LGBT people and was best known for a provision that requires transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to the gender on their birth certificates. It was passed earlier this year after Charlotte officials approved a sweeping a...
Adrian Peterson, the greatest running back in Vikings history, has taken his share of Lambeau Lumps, going 2-6-1 at Green Bay alongside quarterbacks named Brooks Bollinger, Tarvaris Jackson, Christian Ponder, Joe Webb, Teddy Bridgewater and, of course, his favorite, Brett Favre. Sam Bradford would be the seventh quarterback to play alongside Peterson at Lambeau Field when the Vikings (7-7) face the Packers (8-6) on Christmas Eve. But first things first. Peterson said he needs to get his surgically-repaired right knee feeling well again after...
SAN DIEGO — A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement between President-elect Donald Trump and former students of Trump University who claimed they were misled by his promises to teach success in real estate. The ruling Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel triggers procedural steps that will lead to a March 30 hearing for final approval. Curiel said the agreement for Trump to pay $25 million is "fair, adequate and reasonable," as required by federal law. Trump admits no wrongdoing in settling two class-action l...
MANDAN, N.D.—Two pipeline protesters were convicted Tuesday of misdemeanors in the first Dakota Access-related jury trial in Morton County. The case, which laid bare some of the disorder around the pipeline cases, also featured the first attempt to pick a jury in a county flooded with news and personal ties to the controversy. The trial pertained to two men — Benjamin Schapiro, 30, of Ohio, and Steven Voliva, 62, of Washington — who were arrested Sept. 27 and accused of blocking a highway to allow a caravan of protesters to proceed. A jury...
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA – Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum met Monday to begin establishing direct communication between leadership with the goal of building trust and normalizing relations between the state and tribe. Chairman Archambault, Vice Chairman Jesse McLaughlin, Gov. Burgum and Lt. Gov. Brent Sanford spent more than two hours discussing the history of treaties and Native American policies, opportunities for collaboration and mutual interest in a peaceful resolution to the D...
Snowball fights. Upside-down American flags. Out-of-town agitators. These are among the evils perpetrated by Dakota Access Pipeline protesters according to Know the Truth, a series of gonzo propaganda videos produced by the Morton County Sheriff's Department. At a press conference on December 8, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple complained that his state has found itself "outgunned" in countering a "social-media machine" operated by shadowy environmentalist groups in support of the anti-pipeline protests near the Standing Rock Sioux...
BELDING — Belding’s longtime mascot is about to become a piece of history. After months of conversation at school board meetings and special community forums, the Belding Area Schools board voted unanimously to change the mascot from the Redskins and to do away with any Native American associated imagery on Monday evening. Superintendent Brent Noskey said he understands there are those in the community who are “diehard Redskins” and that “they were never meaning to be offensive with that mascot.” http://thedailynews.cc/2016/...
Oklahoma's top legal official is taking credit for a water settlement with the Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation even though his office tried to have the case dismissed. In August, Attorney General Scott Pruitt praised the tribes for working "purposefully and tirelessly" to reach an agreement regarding water in their treaty territory. But if he had gotten his way there wouldn't have been a settlement at all. "The tribes have only limited remaining water rights, if any, and, as the tribes concede, the nature and magnitude of those rights...
LAS VEGAS — Agriculture secretary Michael T. Scuse today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved and obligated the first loan under the Highly Fractionated Indian Land Loan program (HFIL). The program, made possible by the 2014 Farm Bill, provides revolving loan funds to qualified intermediary lenders, allowing qualified tribes and individuals the ability to purchase tribal farmland that has multiple owners. Scuse made the announcement during the Intertribal Agriculture Council Membership meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
A Gwich'in man who ran across Canada to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women is being sued in the Yukon for defamation. The suit alleges Brad Firth, also known as 'Caribou Legs,' made false statements to media about the death of his sister. Firth's sister Irene Korte died in Whitehorse in February 2015 after a series of falls, culminating in a fatal head injury. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/brad-firth-caribou-legs-raymond-gagnon-lawsuit-1.3906123...
(CNN) - Gregory Gunn. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Terence Crutcher. Those are just a few of the names of black men who were killed in high-profile police shootings in 2016. Now, as the year comes to an end, a new study reveals disturbing data on how much of a racial disparity there may be in police use of force, or as researchers call it, "legal intervention." Black men are nearly three times as likely to be killed by legal intervention than white men, according to the study, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health...
SAINT PAUL – The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) welcomes Dr. Mattie Harper as a Program and Outreach Manager working with the new American Indian Initiatives team, beginning January 2017. An enrolled member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe Indians, Harper earned a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and is a historian of the Great Lakes region of North America, U.S. settler colonialism and Native American women and gender. Most recently Harper served as an assistant professor at UC San Diego in the Ethnic Studies department. “I hav...
Mason Fine, Cherokee Nation citizen and holder of the Oklahoma high school career passing record while playing for Locust Grove High School, has done a bit more than just become a starter in his freshman year at the University of North Texas. Fine has quarterbacked his team into the Heart of Dallas Bowl against West Point. Last year, the Mean Green won only one game. This year, with first year head coach Seth Littrell (who played his college ball at Oklahoma) at the helm and Fine under center, they improved to 5-7, and advanced to bowl...
The Quebec government is proposing a public inquiry into police relations in Val-d'Or, Que., more than a year after police officers there were accused of sexually assaulting aboriginal women. The news comes as the federal inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women says its two-year mandate isn't long enough to delve into Val-d'Or. In a letter obtained by Radio-Canada, the commission's executive director, Michèle Moreau, said that while the events in Val-d'Or will be part of the national narrative, the mandate of the federal inquiry...
ALTURAS — A former tribal official who killed four people in a shooting and stabbing at the Cedarville Rancheria in Alturas has been found guilty and could face the death penalty. Cherie Lash Rhoades, 47, was convicted by a jury Monday for a Feb. 20, 2014, attack that killed four people — some relatives of Rhoades — and wounded two more. Rhoades was also found guilty of special circumstances allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty and the jury will return for a penalty phase of the trial Jan. 3. http://www.heraldandne...
NORTH BEND — The Coquille Tribal Police’s newest drug officer stands at around 1 foot, 6 inches tall and weighs in at 35 pounds. Ben is a 1-year-old English Springer Spaniel with boundless energy and the ability to sniff out three types of narcotics. Canine officers Jerry Merritt and Rob Scoville said it’s important for narcotics dogs to be high energy, so they keeping seeking a reward for finding drugs. http://theworldlink.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/coquille-tribal-police-get-new-drug-officer/article_997a03d2-66ff-58a8...
A murder mystery podcast is not your typical grade school teaching resource, but Paul Strueby said he has seldom seen students engage so quickly with material. His Grade 8 class at St. Augustine School in Humboldt, Sask., has been following the CBC podcast Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams. The podcast investigates the 1989 unsolved case of a 24-year-old Indigenous woman who was found dead along the Highway of Tears near Prince Rupert, B.C. A tip to CBC about the case sparked the project. http://www.cbc.ca/news...
