Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Nine days ago, when Idle No More rallies swept across Canada, Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence announced a hunger strike. The federal government seized financial control over her reserve last winter, after she declared a state of emergency over abysmal housing conditions and poverty. She has insisted to refuse food until a meaningful meeting takes place between Prime Minister Stephen Harper, First Nations and a representative of the Queen, in hopes of resetting the relationship between Canada and aboriginal peo...
Just as payments to Native Americans from the landmark Cobell settlement are being mailed out, another part of that landmark settlement could pump more than $430 million into the hands of thousands of South Dakota tribal landowners over the next few years and along the way improve the quality of life on reservations for generations to come....
The second wave of Idle No More protests swept across Canada on Friday December 21, with support events held across the U.S. and as far away as Europe and New Zealand, less than two weeks after the movement burst onto the political scene on December 10....
Prince Albert municipal officials have warned Idle No More organizers not to attempt a round dance in the Saskatchewan city’s main intersection during a planned rally Friday to coincide with the movement’s linked events around the world....
About a dozen American Indian drummers and several dozen supporters gathered inside Miller Hill Mall on Saturday afternoon to stage a “flash” drum circle and round dance aimed to show solidarity with protests taking place in Canada....
From the day Senator Daniel K. Inouye first stepped foot into Indian country he has been known as a friend, a brother and a champion of our people—to all indigenous people, in every state, in every region, in every sovereign Native nation and every council chamber, here in the United States and around the globe....
The following is a reflection on the life of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) from Brian Patterson, president of United South and Eastern Tribes....
On December 17 at age 88, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the second longest serving member of the Senate, walked on. In honor of the life of nine-term senator since January 1963, the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA) issued the following statement yesterday:...
According to current U.S. legal interpretations, non-Indian U.S. citizens are not subject to tribal criminal jurisdiction. A critical well-known case is where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the non-Indian defendant Mark Oliphant could not be prosecuted under tribal court jurisdiction. The tribal court assumed jurisdiction of Oliphant because his crimes were committed within the territorial limits of the reservation. Oliphant was charged with drunken disorderly conduct during an annual ceremonial gathering of the Suquamish...
Arizona’s Ak-Chin Indian Community have long been tillers of the soil with about three quarters of their reservation—some 16,000 acres—under agricultural irrigation. Now the Tohono O’odham and Pima are taking to the sky with the dedication of the Ak-Chin Regional Airport in Maricopa, Arizona—the slogan: Where Successful Business Takes Off....
Hundreds of kilometres to the west of Ottawa in northeastern Saskatchewan, a housing crisis on one small reserve has citizens frustrated and desperate....
American Indian women sporting pink shawls at social events this year are likely showing their support for the American Indian Cancer Foundation’s (AICF) breast cancer awareness initiative in partnership with the Minnesota affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The Minneapolis, Minnesota-based AICF is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was established to address the tremendous cancer inequities faced by American Indian and Alaska Native communities....
Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Round House (HarperCollins), is a fast-paced mystery that readers will have a hard time putting down until they’ve finished it. In the book, the winner of this year’s National Book Award for fiction, she takes readers back to the fictional reservation world she has created in several novels over the years....
Many of Canada's top Aboriginal teenage hockey players will converge upon a small Mohawk community in Quebec next spring to decide national bragging rights....
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Cherokee Nation citizen Wes Welker again has his name in the NFL record books....
Support has been pouring in for the victims of the December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A small-caliber rifle and notes about a possible attack at Bartlesville High School were found at the home of a teenager accused of plotting to shoot classmates and detonate bombs, police said Dec. 17....
Footage from the "Idle No More" Rally held in front of the Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles, to stand in solidarity with our Canadian and Indigenous relations throughout the world. With special apperances by native celebrities Red Cloud, Crystal Lightning, Sam Bear Paw, Adam Beach, and Hoop Dancer Sage Romero. Camera by Sage Romero, and Christina Ortiz. Cut and editied by Sage Romero at Sage Smoke Studios for AkaMya Culture Group. Music by Lindsey Stirling AC3 Theme Song...
Patricia Stein, a Lakota from South Dakota, attached an Idle No More sign to the wall of the Canadian embassy in Cairo on Friday morning....
The Lakota Healthy Start Program on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota dramatically lowers the infant mortality rate (IMR) by providing emotional care, nutrition, education and Lakota values to young at-risk moms and babies....
From Hale-Bopp, the famous comet, to the near-forgotten Hen of Leeds, history is littered with failed apocalyptic predictions....
IZAMAL, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of mystics, New Age dreamers and fans of pre-Hispanic culture have been drawn to Mexico in hopes of witnessing great things when the day in an old Maya calendar dubbed "the end of the world" dawns on Friday....
Archaeologists digging in a 1,000-year-old pre-Hispanic cemetery in Mexico's South Sonora have uncovered a series of skeletons featuring signs of cranial deformation. The practice, which is well documented among Mesoamerican peoples, has never been seen this far north before — a strong indication that their cultural influence was far more prominent than previously assumed....
Just before the Missing Women Inquiry report is set to be released today Kamloops had its fourth murder of 2012....
Reports are surfacing of problems being experienced by some Cobell class members who say that the federal government does not have the correct addresses to send their settlement checks....
