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VANCOUVER, BC—Rising Above recently held their 20th Annual Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia and it was a great success. Reports of God’s healing power evident in many lives, “setting them free from deep wounds and bondages of the past.” According to a letter from Terry Martin, Director of Operations and Event Manager for Rising Above, “the team of Rising Above speakers, most of them First Nations, addressed the issues of sexual abuse and residential school experience head on, acknowledging the reality of the pain...
HAVRE, MT—Members of nearly every Montana tribe met on October 2, 2013, to form a group aimed at battling corruption on their reservations. Ken Blatt St. Marks, the chairman of the Chippewa Cree Tribe hosted the meeting. He was targeted for removal because he helped federal authorities with investigations that have resulted in multiple indictments. “When I was elected, I knew there was a little corruption that needs to be cleaned up,” St. Marks at the meeting, The Havre Daily News reported. “I had no idea how much....
SEMINOLE, OK-The idea was simple. Brent Sykes wanted to give his daughter a tangible way to remember her mother, Traci, who died in a 2007 car crash. Mr. Sykes, a Chickasaw citizen, decided to establish the Traci R. Sykes Foundation. Today, his daughter Paige, an energetic eight-year-old, is bringing joy, peace, happiness and educational opportunities to others through foundation gifts in her mother's name. "When she was about five, she began talking about the meaning of the...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM-Youth involved in the University of New Mexico's Honoring Native Life initiative want to be heard. The Native American Suicide Prevention Clearinghouse, a resource to tribes in New Mexico for suicide prevention and suicide response, today helped their voices reach far and wide with the release of a video directed toward tribal leaders and policy makers. "What we need from our tribal leaders and policy makers is more sympathy towards the different generations...
OTTAWA, ON-Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo commented on the federal government's Speech from the Throne officially opening the 41st session of Parliament on October 16, 2013. "Seizing Canada's moment must mean action for First Nations," said National Chief Atleo. "It must include working with First Nations people and governments to realize the potential of our citizens, our governments and our nations. This is how we will ensure security...
Bud Adams, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and owner of the Tennessee Titans, died on Monday. He was 90. Adams, whose uncle, W.W. Keeler, served as chief for two decades, was born on tribal territory in Oklahoma. He was a successful businessman who founded the American Football League, which later merged with the National Football League. "In 2000 he received the highest honor awarded by the Cherokee National Historical Society for his support and dedication to...
VANCOUVER, BC—Enrollment doubled going into the second year of the Vancouver School Board’s Aboriginal Choice school on East Hastings, “The plan was to start small and grow slowly,” says Vonnie Hutchingson, principal, “although we’ve doubled our enrolment.” The majority of the new enrollment is in kindergarten. The VSB called the school-within-a-school an ‘Aboriginal Focus School’ and established it in 2012 as the school year began at Macdonald School, 1950 E Hastings Street. “It’s a great location, big classrooms and studen...
MISSOULA, MT- The University of Montana began construction on a new facility that's dedicated to the legacy of Elouise Cobell, who was the lead plaintiff in the Indian trust fund lawsuit. The Elouise Cobell Land and Culture Institute will be located on the lower level of the Payne Family Native American Center. It will help students research land and cultural issues. Construction will be complete in spring 2014....
WASHINGTON, DC-The shutdown of the U.S. government, coming on top of the sequestration of the budget, hit Indian Country particularly hard. Programs at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service were already underfunded. Sequestration, in the form of across the board cuts, took its toll earlier this year and the shutdown has led to a second round of pain. "You're already looking at a good number of tribes who are considered the poorest of our nation's people,"...
RICHMOND, VA-A newspaper in the city where the Washington National Football League team holds its training camp has stopped using the team's "racist" name. The Richmond Free Press said the name was offensive to Native Americans. The paper will stop using the R-word and will remove it from its news and editorial pages. Richmond, Virginia, is about 110 miles south of Washington, D.C....
GABORONE, BOTSWANA-Two travel companies have suspended their tours to the country and several others have expressed concern about the Botswana government's continued persecution of the Bushmen. The government is stopping the Bushmen from hunting and forces them to apply for permits to access their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). International tour operator Travelpickr joined Survival's boycott and said, "We have canceled our pending [tour] requests...
TULSA, OK-The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) elected Brian Cladoosby as their new president. Two-term President Jefferson Keel stepped down October 18. In his first statement after being sworn in as the 21st president of the NCAI, Brian Cladoosby, Chairman of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, called for reduced thresholds for federal tribal disaster assistance and challenged Congress to prioritize Native peoples in the post-shutdown legislative calendar,...
RAPID CITY, SD-Heavy rains, winds, lightning, and eventually snow were the gifts that winter storm Atlas, brought to residents of Wyoming and South Dakota. The storm that has been labeled as a 100 year storm brought just over two feet of snow to the majority of areas in its path and up to forty in others. The storm would leave tens of thousands without power and even more stranded in their homes and the most unfortunate in stranded cars alongside highways across the state....
OTTAWA, ON-The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Mr. James Anaya, made a recent trip to Canada, visiting Indigenous territories in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Québec. The report states: "Over the last nine days I have met with federal and provincial government authorities, and with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis leaders, organizations and individuals in several parts of the country...I am grateful to t...
The office of the chief medical officer reports that during the 10-year period between 2003 and 2012, the office of the chief medical officer has recorded 154 deaths by suicide among children and youth between the ages of 12 and 17. Not that there weren’t even younger children—and older youths—who tried and succeeded. In 2011, when 10 kids who died by suicide—the lowest number in that decade-long period—another 11 youths, aged 18 and 19, also died by suicide. The medical e...
RIVERSIDE, CA (ANS) In a coordinated operation, the FBI rescued more than 100 teen sex trafficking victims—one victim was just 9 years old. The majority were girls between 13 and 17. The raids, which included the arrest of 150 pimps point to the growing trade in human sex trafficking in the United States. The raids took place in 70 cities around the U.S. It is the largest recovery operation of sexually exploited children. But according to one expert, this is just the tip of the iceberg. According to Kathi Macias, the a...
A Cherokee from South Carolina, Michael E. Thornton’s Cherokee Indians can trace their history back more than one thousand years. Their society was based on hunting, trading, and agriculture, living in towns until they encountered the first Europeans in 1540, when Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led an exploration through Cherokee Indian territory. By the time European explorers and traders arrived, Cherokee Indian lands covered a large part of what is now the s...
Tui Moliga, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, caught a rainbow trout that appears to break the record books. Moliga’s trout weighed 28 pounds, 9 ounces. That’s heavier than a prior record set in the state. “Right away I knew it was a good one,” Moliga, who works for his tribe’s hatchery, told The Lewiston Tribune. Genetic tests will confirm whether the fish is a “pure” rainbow trout. But since Moliga is a tribal member and the rules for fishing in Idaho are different...
SENECA, MO—The Wyandotte Nation will be opening a Sonic Drive-In in Seneca, Missouri. The tribe’s economic development corporation expected to break ground on the eatery in August, with an opening expected in early October. The business will create 30 to 35 full and part-time jobs. “It creates another direction, another diversified enterprise for the Wyandotte Nation,” Kelly Carpino, the CEO of the corporation, said in a press release that was posted by The Native America...
WINNIPEG, MB—Among the many gifts that the new prince will receive will be a pair of baby moccasins sewn especially for Prince George Alexander Louis by Winnipeg’s Edna Nabess. Also, his parents, Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge Katherine, received a pair of mukluks. The tiny traditional moccasins were sent to Windsor Castle by Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Shawn Atleo. “Definitely it’s a big deal,” Nabess told the Winnipeg Free Press. “I’m excited to be...
WHITEHORSE, YK—First Nations are in a “perpetual state of crisis” and conditions will not improve if Canada’s First Nations splinter into factions, National Chief Shawn Atleo told the Assembly of First Nations’ annual meeting in Whitehorse in July. More than 200 chiefs gathered in Yukon for the meeting. AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo is defending the AFN’s relevance, as a splinter group attempts to form in the Prairies. Some chiefs from Alberta and Saskatchewan have united...
BATOCHE, SK—The longstanding mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a bell stolen 128 years ago, was explained on July 20, when the man who stole it came forward. According to the Canadian Press, Billyjo Delaronde, Métis, from Manitoba, told his story as he gave the Bell of Batoche back to the Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert. The Bell of Batoche was seized from Batoche’s church as a trophy of war by federal troops who put down the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, crushing the...
NEW YORK, NY—On August 9, Google invited Indigenous people across the world to take time to add local geographic and commercial features to its online maps. The company, in partnership with the National Congress of American Indians, made the day its first-ever Indigenous Mapping Day. Participants had to have a Google account in order to edit or add to maps represented on the popular Google Maps and Google Earth. Participants also needed to be affiliated with the tribe whose community they planned to map. Many U.S. tribal c...
WASHINGTON, DC—Michael L. Connor, a descendant of Taos Pueblo, will be nominated as deputy secretary of the Interior Department. Connor has served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Reclamation since 2009. He has worked on negotiating and implementing several tribal water rights settlements. “Mike will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the position after two decades in public service working on energy, conservation and water issues,” Interior Secretary Sally Jewel...
CALGARY, AB—In Southern Alberta the recent flooding continues to wreak havoc. On June 24, 2013, it was announced that the Alberta Government approved funding of up to $1 billion to start rebuilding community dwellings destroyed by water damage and provide much needed support centers for residents who have been displaced from their homes. Meanwhile a leading scientist issued concerns that the landscape of Southern Alberta may well have been changed indefinitely. Over 1,300 F...
