Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana pushed hard Monday to round up votes for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, part of a last-minute effort to help her survive a close runoff and one of the toughest battles of her political career....
With the specter of the Adrian Peterson saga still looming over his team, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer on Monday was simply shifting his focus from a frustrating loss to the Chicago Bears to this Sunday’s must-win game against the Green Bay Packers, one of the hottest teams in the NFL....
Basement paint-can hoarders, it’s time to clean up. Under a new Minnesota law, more than 120 paint and hardware stores across the state in October started accepting old paint from the public at no charge. Dozens of additional retailers will join the program by summer....
The U.S. Census Bureau is proposing to eliminate a series of questions about marital history from its ongoing American Community Survey, now the only reliable source of information on marriage and divorce rates in the United States....
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has no intention of backing down on major environmental initiatives to fight climate change and improve air and water quality, EPA chief Gina McCarthy said Monday, dismissing Republican threats to thwart proposed regulations by starving the agency of money....
WASHINGTON — With just two years left in power, President Barack Obama is elevating his efforts to combat global warming above almost all else as he seeks to leave an imprint on the world that will endure after he's gone. It's a strategy rooted not only in Obama's long-stated support for such efforts, but also in political reality....
WASHINGTON – A panel of Indian Country experts will recommend to Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday that tribes be allowed to criminally prosecute non-Indians who sexually or physically abuse Indian children on tribal land, saying that juveniles on reservations are living with “dire” levels of violence and poverty....
CHICAGO — A large study of gay brothers adds to evidence that genes influence men's chances of being homosexual, but the results aren't strong enough to prove it....
The Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, which has seen a drastic decline in revenues from its River Rock Casino since a bigger, newer competitor opened near Rohnert Park, has chosen a new leader....
The majority of First Nations students on reserves in Ontario and Alberta are failing at reading, writing and math, according to 2013-14 standardized test results recently published by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Students in Atlantic Canada and Manitoba are also struggling....
(Reuters) - Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. Senate scrambled on Monday to gather one last vote to pass a bill that authorizes the project that would help send Canadian oil to the U.S. Gulf, a task that became harder after President Barack Obama made his toughest comments yet on the topic....
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane sued a Texas loan company on Thursday for allegedly targeting consumers in the state through an illegal Internet-based payday loan scheme....
Two members of the Claims Department for the Seneca-Cayuga Nation have been suspended, with pay, following allegations they committed "fraud or malfeasance."...
Before the horrors of African slavery came to America’s shores, there was another kind of slave trade on the continent. The victims of this one were Native Americans....
Lawrence police arrested two male suspects in a rape reported early Saturday in a dormitory at Haskell Indian Nations University. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article3953607.html#storylink=cpy...
In Lac Courte Oreilles Band v. Wisconsin, 769 F.3d 543 (7th Cir. 2014), Chippewa tribes had entered into treaties with the United States in 1837, 1842 and 1854 ceding millions of acres in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota but reserving the right to hunt, fish and gather in the ceded territories. The survival, scope and regulatory code of the reserved rights were litigated for seventeen years and ultimately made part of a final judgment in 1991, which neither party chose to appeal....
TOWER — A new $7.6 million health and dental clinic in Vermilion will provide convenience and expanded medial services for Bois Forte band members....
Today, diabetes affects more than 29 million people in the United States or over 9 percent of the population. In addition, another 86 million American adults, more than one out of three individuals, have pre-diabetes, a condition that puts people at increased risk for diabetes. In fact, these statistics include many groups of American Indians and Alaska Natives. According to the Indian Health Service, almost 16 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives have diabetes. Among them, diabetes varies considerably in various regions, from 6...
A member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of Wyoming died after being attacked by a pack of dogs, local authorities said....
On Monday, authorities in Wyoming said a dog pack was behind the death of a Native American woman. The animal attack comes on the heels of a warning last week to the public to be on the lookout for a dangerous predator. With the FBI involved, among other things, members of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe were left a bit skeptical of the pack of dogs revelation, citing a report from the NWI Times....
Police have found nothing after digging up a barn northeast of Toronto to determine whether three boys were murdered and buried there decades ago....
MUSKOGEE, Okla. – Former Choctaw Nation Chief Gregory Pyle took the stand Monday afternoon in the trial of the tribe’s one-time construction executive director....
Two men were found dead of apparent gunshot wounds at a home on the Picuris Pueblo near Taos on Saturday....
