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With no supporting information, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-South Dakota) claimed tribal leaders in her state are "personally benefiting" from the presence of drug cartels. And while campaigning for re-election, Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-Oklahoma) warned about tribes setting up "abortion-on-demand" clinics to subvert the state's new abortion laws. No Oklahoma tribe expressed any intention of setting up clinics. Join Native America Calling to examine the fallout from such unfounded claims by high-ranking...
NEW YORK - Donald Trump is now 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to get a New York appeals court to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals court judge Wednesday swiftly rejected the latest salvo from the former president's lawyers, who argued he should be on the campaign trail rather than ''in a courtroom defending himself'' starting next week. Trump's lawyers had asked the state's mid-level appeals court to halt the case indefinitely while they fight to remove the trial judge...
Gov. Tim Walz used the impending tax filing deadline to remind Minnesotans on Wednesday about the state's new child tax credit, which could mean thousands of dollars in refunds for some lower-income families. The $1,750 credit is the highest child tax credit in the country. It applies to all children 17 years old and younger for eligible families, with no cap on the number of children. Democrats included the credit in a $3 billion tax package passed last session, inspired by pandemic-era direct...
DFL state Sen. Lindsey Port told her legislative colleagues on Monday that she's switching to work mostly remotely as she struggles with worsening - and at times dangerous - symptoms of long haul COVID. Since contracting COVID in 2020, the second-term senator from Burnsville has struggled with ongoing symptoms, including extreme fatigue and neuropathy in her hands, arms, feet and legs, which causes both numbness and pain and has forced her to walk with a cane. That feeling has intensified,...
DETROIT LAKES - There is a lot of interest among White Earth tribal members over the band's efforts to regain control over the White Earth State Forest and the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge, Tribal Chairman Michael Fairbanks said in his State of the Nation address on Thursday. "We are working on this," he said. Regarding the 43,000-acre Tamarac Refuge, at the March 29 Tribal Council meeting, White Earth "signed our end of the MOA (memorandum of agreement) with U.S. Fish & Wildlife,"...
St Paul, Minnesota— Today, the Minnesota House passed the Elections Omnibus Bill (HF 4772), including the Minnesota Voting Rights Act (MNVRA) which takes critical steps to protect the cornerstones of democracy. By passing the MNVRA, Minnesota would codify the protections offered by the federal Voting Rights Act into state law to ensure ballot access and protect voters from disenfranchisement. Codifying these rights through the MNVRA will help to protect voting rights and access, especially in communities of color and other groups whose v...
The leaders of two key congressional committees are nearing an agreement on a national framework aimed at protecting Americans' personal data online, a significant milestone that could put lawmakers closer than ever to passing legislation that has eluded them for decades, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the talks. The tentative deal is expected to broker a compromise between congressional Democrats and Republicans by preempting...
Minnesota lawmakers say they've found $5 million to plug a funding gap that threatened to upend the college careers of former foster children who use state grants to pay for tuition and living expenses. "This is an extremely important issue for us," said Sen. Omar Fateh, DFL-Minneapolis, who chairs the Senate Higher Education Committee. "What we know is that these grants help a population that is less likely to go to college and more likely to drop out." Hundreds of Minnesotans rely on the...
In a historic move, a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe representative has been removed from tribal office for violating the tribal constitution. Ronald Rosseau, 35, was removed from his position as a District 6 representative after being convicted in tribal court of elderly abuse and aggravated assault. Rosseau was found guilty of both charges and is awaiting sentences. Rosseau faces a sentence of up to one year in jail. Article IV Section 2 of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's constitution states...
Recently we have been made aware of several controversial bills that would transfer portions of the White Earth State Forest and Upper Red Lake, state-owned land, to the White Earth and Red Lake Tribes respectively. These particular bills are concerning for a number of reasons, one of them being the fact that the authors of these bills sought little to no input from local stakeholders, affected landowners, legislators, or other members of our community. These are significant proposals that deserve our attention and honest deliberation: they...
As outrage built Tuesday over an Israeli strike that killed seven workers from the José Andrés-run World Central Kitchen, President Biden issued a rare direct rebuke of Israel for creating the conditions that have made the distribution of aid inside Gaza so difficult and deadly. "This is not a stand-alone incident. This conflict has been one of the worst in recent memory in terms of how many aid workers have been killed," Biden said. "This is a major reason why distributing humanitarian aid i...
WHITE EARTH, MINN. – White Earth Reservation held their Primary Election on Tuesday, April 2. The White Earth Election Board certified the numbers late this morning. There were no changes. Chairperson Michael A. Fairbanks (Incumbent) 658 Eugene "Umsy" Tibbetts 605 Donovan G. Burnette 140 Karen Marie Manypenny 21 District III Committeeperson * Cheryl "Annie" Jackson (Incumbent) Laura Lee Erickson * Only two candidates were certified to run for District III Committeeperson so they bypassed the P...
MAHNOMEN - White Earth Tribal Chairman Michael Fairbanks will face challenger Eugene "Umsy" Tibbetts in the White Earth General Election on Tuesday, June 11. They were the top two vote-getters Tuesday out of four candidates in the White Earth Primary Election for the chairman position. Donovan G. Burnette came in third, and Karen Marie Manypenny finished a distant fourth. Neither Fairbanks nor Tibbetts won over 50% of the vote, which would have resulted in their direct election on Tuesday....
CASS LAKE- The Leech Lake Election Board has certified the results of the 2024 Primary Election held April 2, 2024 on the Leech Lake Reservation. Elections were held for the positions of Chairperson and District III Representative. None of the candidates received more than one-half (50%) of the total vote in their races, in accordance with the MN Chippewa Tribe Election Ordinance, the two candidates with the most votes in each race will now advance to and appear on the ballot for the June 11,...
KYIV - Ukrainian men as young as 25 can now be conscripted into military service after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a new law Tuesday lowering the draft age - a bid to replenish Kyiv's badly depleted troop ranks more than two years into Russia's invasion. Lowering the conscription age, which had been 27, was the most significant measure in a mobilization draft bill that has already seen thousands of amendments in parliament since the start of this year. Although citizens can voluntarily...
Minnesota GOP Rep. Tom Emmer blasted President Joe Biden on social media over the weekend, claiming he declared Easter Sunday as "Transgender Day of Visibility" - which happened to fall on the same day this year - while also falsely saying he was "banning children from using religious symbols for a White House Easter egg art contest." The House Majority Whip posted the criticism on X over the weekend and doubled down on the claim in tweets this week from his campaign account, sharing a Fox News...
RAPID CITY, S.D. – South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem issued a statement Tuesday calling for the Biden administration to conduct single audits of all federal funds given to the nine Oceti Sakowin tribes in South Dakota. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Comptroller Gene Dodaro, Noem asked for comprehensive single audits of federal funds given to the nine tribes in South Dakota. Specifically, Noem, a Republican, asked for an O...
OWATONNA, Minn. - Gov. Tim Walz took a victory lap Tuesday in his State of the State speech, recalling the DFL's transformative 2023 legislative session and vowing a renewed push for tougher gun-safety laws and investments in the state's deteriorating infrastructure. The second-term governor, a former Mankato teacher, spoke from the auditorium of the impressive, airy Owatonna High School that opened last fall, replacing a building that was more than a century old. Walz likened the action of the...
Legislation has been introduced by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) to address the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) on tribal lands by encouraging record sharing between tribal and state/local law enforcement. The legislation, entitled the Tribal Community Protection Act, is aimed to address the complicated jurisdictional overlaps between federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies that exacerbate the problem. The Tribal...
NEW YORK - Within the span of an hour, one court rescued Donald Trump from potential financial ruin, while another set a trial to start in the height of the campaign season. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee rolled with the rapid twists Monday with his usual defiance and bluster - in split seconds attacking one set of judges and praising another, ignoring reporters then suddenly pivoting to address them, brushing off heckles and welcoming cheers from onlookers along the streets. Th...
NEW YORK - Donald Trump will face his first criminal trial on April 15, the judge overseeing the former president's hush money case ruled Monday after having allowed a several-week delay so Trump's lawyers could review last-minute documents relevant to the case. The Manhattan trial, over a payment Trump authorized in the final weeks of the 2016 election to silence porn star Stormy Daniels' claims of a sexual encounter with him, had been set to start March 25. But after federal prosecutors...
Bemidji, Minn. - The Beltrami County Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party held its annual convention on March 23 at the Gene Dillon Elementary School. At the convention, Carole Kelly received the 2023 Volunteer of the Year award. David Benson, Lynn Eaton, Val Field, Jeanine Gangeness, Carol Hoyem, Roy Nelson, Ben Peterson, Sally Swenson, Lin Ward, and Joel Ward were elected as Directors on the Executive Committee for 2-year terms. Natalie Welle was elected as a DFL State Central Committee delegate with Steve Nelson, Lin Ward, and Jesse Whiting...
Less than six months after a faction of House Republicans led a revolt that removed Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, more Republicans are already complaining about the party's direction and questioning whether his replacement, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), is the right person for the job. The complaints picked up after the House passage Friday of a $1.2 trillion funding bill, and they are familiar ones for the chamber, similar to those that had been lodged against McCarthy (Calif.):...
When Minnesota House Rep. Samantha Sencer-Mura heard that a woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail for going topless in public, she felt inspired to propose amending the state's law so exposed breasts cannot be considered indecent exposure. "That to me just seems really wrong," Sencer-Mura said of the 90-day conviction. "Particularly now, as we as a society are thinking differently about gender and gender identity, I think this law feels very antiquated." Sencer-Mura, a Democrat from Minneapolis, says her proposal is not likely to get a...
WILMINGTON, Del. - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown. ''This agreement represents a compromise, which means neither side got everything it wanted,'' Biden said in a statement. ''But it rejects extreme cuts from House Republicans and expands access to child care, invests in cancer research, funds mental health and substance...
