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A St. Cloud Hospital security guard won’t be charged in the tasing of a sheriff’s deputy’s killer who died after the Oct. 18 altercation. The Stearns County attorney’s office announced Wednesday that the actions of security officer Ricky Ray Hess Jr. were justified under the circumstances, in which a patient had snatched a deputy’s gun and fatally shot him. Hess used his Taser to incapacitate the patient, 50-year-old Danny Leroy Hammond, which probably sent him into cardiac arrest, the report said. Despite immediate medical attention...
WASHINGTON — A boy who was driving a car that crashed near Pittsburgh has been tentatively identified by the government as the eighth death in the U.S. due to an explosive air bag inflator made by auto parts maker Takata, according to federal transportation officials and a state police report. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials also announced an expansion in the recall of vehicles with Takata airbags, already the largest and most complex recall in the agency's history. The latest findings could result in the recall o...
Twenty minutes of hide-and-seek under the covers of my bed, with my 8-month-old son and my nearly 3-year-old daughter laughing maniacally. In the last two months, I’ve baked two cakes, a dozen muffins and one batch of brownies. I’ve even rolled out at least 80 Play-Doh “pie crusts” with my industrious daughter, Ruby, who loves to follow “wessipes” and say “check!” after we place each “ingweedient” on the kitchen table, real or not. For months, Ruby has been impatiently awaiting the season's first Minnesota snowfall. When it finally fell — on a...
Although most people have Christmas on the mind this week, a group of sixth grade students in Plattsburgh are looking forward to next October. As WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley reports, they’re asking the city school board to change the name of Columbus Day. The Plattsburgh city school board has twice tabled a request by Stafford Middle School students to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day on student calendars and district paperwork next year. The first postponement in November was to allow time for community feedb...
Three years ago, the process of disenrollment began for more than 306 members of the Nooksack Native American tribe in the northwest part of Washington State. Since that time, tribal members have been fighting the process—they're desperate to avoid what they refer to as tribal identity theft. It's a question of belong that Gabriel Galanda is fighting for. He's a tribal lawyer in Seattle and council for the 306. He's also a member of the Round Valley Indian Tribe. http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/disenrollment-threatens-nativ...
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians remains a strong advocate for education, according to tribal chairman Robert Martin. That devotion could be seen in the moot court competition held at the Morongo Tribal Administrative Center on December 5. American Indian students from Southern and Central California participated in UCLA Law School’s competition, during which they learned about the legal system and earned college credits. Morongo is thought to be the first Indian reservation to host a moot court competition like this that involves dozens o...
A power struggle over constitutional reform on the White Earth Reservation could cost longtime tribal Chairwoman Erma Vizenor her job. The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe removed Vizenor from its governing board Tuesday. The MCT governs six Minnesota bands, including White Earth, and is led by a board made up of tribal chairs and secretary-treasurers from each band. Vizenor sat on that board for the past 18 years, but lost her seat Tuesday when the MCT voted to censure her. White Earth Secretary-Treasu...
A federal court program to divert drug addicts away from prison and into treatment is still not reaching the people it was supposed to help: aboriginals, women and youth. A new evaluation says the program is largely helping white males over the age of 30, the same skewed population a previous assessment warned about six years ago. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/drug-court-treatment-diversion-program-1.3376569...
The Department of Interior is spending $1.2 million on “climate change liaisons” for Native American tribes. The agency issued a grant opportunity this month announcing its intentions to hire five to seven people to address “tribal climate change science needs” through a Bureau of Indian Affairs program. The liaisons will provide “functional expertise in areas that are or may be affected by climate change.” http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-1-2-million-for-climate-change-liaisons-for-native-american-tribes/...
RCMP in Sooke, B.C., are investigating the illegal dumping of what they say appears to be asbestos waste on Beecher Bay First Nations land on Vancouver Island. "It's hazardous waste, it's very expensive to get rid of it properly," said Staff Sgt. Jeff McArthur. "Clearly someone is trying to save money and discard this at the roadside, endangering the environment and the public." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/illegal-asbestos-dumping-vancouver-island-1.3377699...
CATTARAUGUS RESERVATION (WKBW) - First responders plucked a man from the cold waters of Cattaraugus Creek on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation overnight Wednesday. The rescue occurred about 2,000 feet off of Buffalo Road along the creek's banks near the New York State Thruway overpass. A man had been camping along the creek bed since this past weekend when high waters from recent rains isolated him on an island. A family member checked on the man late Tuesday night and alerted first responders to the situation. http://www.w...
CHEROKEE - A jailer on the Cherokee Indian Reservation faces charges in connection with having sexual contact with an inmate. Correctional officer Amanda Bradley Huerta has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about her relationship with a female inmate in the detention center where she worked. A federal prosecutor says Huerta initially told the FBI she didn't have a special relationship with the inmate, but she later admitted to sexual contact. http://www.wlos.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Jailer-cha...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) -- A former worker with the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians has admitted to using Tribal funds to buy computer equipment, which he then resold for more than $233,000. Michael Gerard Buchanan, 52, appeared in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids on Monday where he pleaded guilty to theft from a tribal organization. The Benzie County man faces up to five years in prison when he returns to federal court for sentencing in April. http://www.wzzm13.com/story/news/crime/2015/12/22/tribal...
RAPID CITY— Lakota Nation Invitational fans won’t soon forget the letters “BAGO” across the front of a blue jersey. Winnebago used the same strategy it has used all tournament in easily dispatching the defending LNI champs, the White River Tigers, 74-41, to capture the Indians’ first LNI title. “We came in here thinking we can’t take anything lightly,” tournament MVP David Wingett said. “We did everything, we played defense, we ran the floor, everything.” Wingett explained why he put on such a slam-dunking MVP performance for four games: “I...
