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A 26-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with hiring four gunmen to kill her former lover, a plot that police say nearly succeeded when the man's car was sprayed with bullets in northeast Minneapolis last week, seriously wounding him and another woman. But both the man and the woman, who was pregnant, survived the attack after extensive surgery, police said. It wasn't immediately clear whether the woman lost her fetus when she was shot. The incident happened at 11:24 p.m. Dec. 19 in the 1200 block of Buchanan Street in northeast...
NEW YORK — If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to show he planned to obliterate President Barack Obama's approach to Israel, he might have found his man to deliver that message in David Friedman, his pick for U.S. ambassador. The bankruptcy lawyer and son of an Orthodox rabbi is everything Obama is not: a fervent supporter of Israeli settlements, opponent of Palestinian statehood and unrelenting defender of Israel's government. So far to the right is Friedman that many Israel supporters worry he could push Israel's hawkish Prime Minister B...
On the night Vanessa Dundon was shot in the eye, she was on the front lines looking up at a phalanx of police. It was after sundown on a cold night at the Backwater Bridge at the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Dundon, 31, a Navajo and mother of four, had arrived two months earlier to join thousands of others in their battle against the Dakota Access pipeline. Working security for the pipeline resisters, Dundon trailed a group of men as they approached two burnt-out trucks, abandoned on the bridge during a chaotic day of mass...
Cannon Ball, N.D. – Since last spring, volunteers from 280 Native tribes and countless other folks have been pouring into the various camps of the Standing Rock Sioux – ultimately up to 25,000 people, some for short stays and others “for the duration.” Their mission: to help the Sioux tribes stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from being drilled under the great Missouri River, befouling the water supply for 17 million people, desecrating sacred sites and trampling on Native lands and sovereignty. Native fighters had already employed an arra...
OLYMPIA — The secretary of state’s office said that four electors who cast their vote for someone other than Democrat Hillary Clinton will each be fined $1,000. David Ammons, a spokesman for Secretary of State Kim Wyman told The Associated Press on Thursday that the electors will have 60 days to pay the fine, and said the office is putting together an appeals process in case of a challenge. During last Monday’s Electoral College vote in Olympia, Clinton got eight votes, while former Secretary of State Colin Powell got three and Native Ameri...
Potheads and medicinal-marijuana users alike may be getting some coal in their pipes in the new year. While President-elect Donald Trump promised to allow states to keep their vast array of marijuana laws if he were elected, he’s also tapped some of Washington’s biggest marijuana foes to serve in his Cabinet. If confirmed, they would have the power to enforce the federal marijuana prohibition that supersedes states’ legalization efforts. This past spring, his pick to be the next attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), told Politico, “Good...
The occupation of a tribal government building by a faction of the Rhode Island Narragansett tribe that's demanding a leadership change is now in its seventh day. One occupier, Bella Noka, says elected tribal council members met with authorities Sunday to discuss vacating while the dispute is resolved through mediation. She says they didn't reach an agreement and about 20 people remain inside Monday. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/standoff-leadership-rhode-island-tribe-continues-44402440...
Six people suspected of dealing drugs on Seneca Nation land have been banished from all Seneca territory, a spokesman for the Seneca Nation said Monday. The Seneca Nation Council voted to take the rare step of banishing the individuals following an afternoon traffic stop on Cattaraugus Territory on Dec. 20 that resulted in the drug-related arrests of four men and women. Seneca Nation marshals found drugs and drug paraphernalia during a vehicle check. They detained Jermaine Fann, Kevin L. Hunt, Mikayla A. Miller and Eileen Oliver until New York...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Government attorneys have appealed a federal judge's ruling that blocked the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs from giving funds intended to benefit the Northern Arapaho Tribe to the Shoshone Business Council. The Northern Arapaho Tribe and the Eastern Shoshone Tribe share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming. The tribes had managed their affairs under a joint business council for decades before the Northern Arapaho pulled out two years ago. The Northern Arapaho later sued, saying the BIA gave money i...
A celebrated Canadian author who writes about First Nations heritage and culture is defending himself on Twitter after his ancestry was questioned. In a statement posted to his Twitter account, Joseph Boyden said he is of “mostly Celtic heritage,” but he also has Nipmuc roots on his father’s side and Ojibway roots on his mother’s. Boyden has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and his work was nominated for the Governor General’s award. He is a member of the Order of Canada and was an honorary witness at the Truth and Reconciliation Commissio...
When it comes to holiday food, most people probably think of turkey. But in Indigenous communities, the choices can be as diverse as the individuals who prepare them. From canned moose to rabbit stew, here are just a few of the meals that Indigenous people are sitting down to this holiday season. http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-holiday-dishes-2016-1.3912466...
BOSTON - Fake news, quadricentennial edition: America's early settlers were all pious. The native people were savages. Freedom and liberty were available to all from Day One. As the U.S. gears up to mark the 400th anniversary of its roots as a nation, leading scholars from around the globe are teaming up to dispel myths and challenge long-held assumptions about how the country was settled. Their group, New England Beginnings, is using phone apps and searchable online archives to help set the record straight about the early 1600s - and fill in...
