PRAIRIE ISLAND INDIAN COMMUNITY, Minn. (AP) — Some Native Americans traditionally bestow bald eagle feathers at ceremonies to mark achievements, such as graduations, and as a form of reverence for the bird they hold sacred as a messenger to the Creator. This year, many are doing so with elevated pride and hope. The bald eagle…
Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The research, led by the Boston University School of Public Health, provides compelling evidence of a profound discrepancy between actual and officially reported statistics on the health…
Native Nations Fashion Night returns to St. Paul – CBS Minnesota Watch CBS News The fifth-annual Native Nations Fashion Night is coming to downtown St. Paul this weekend. Delina White, a designer and the founder of I Am Anishinaabe, visits WCCO to preview the event. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking…
CBS Reports presents “Speaking Frankly | Symbolic Justice” – CBS News Watch CBS News With renewed calls for racial justice in America come fresh demands to take down Confederate monuments, rid sports teams of Native American mascots, and rebrand products that use racist caricatures. But does the focus on imagery distract from the fight for…
A group of Native American tribes and students is suing the Trump administration to reverse its recent firing of federal workers at Native schools that they said has severely lowered their quality of education. The firings, part of the series of layoffs led by the Department of Government Efficiency that have cut thousands of federal…
Lawyers for the pipeline company Energy Transfer and Greenpeace fired their opening salvos in a North Dakota courtroom Wednesday morning in a civil trial that could bankrupt the storied environmental group. The suit revolves around the role Greenpeace played in massive protests against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly a decade ago. The pipeline,…
{KXLG – Watertown, SD} Community Transit of Watertown/Sisseton announced the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation will receive $690,327 in funding to expand its transit operations, including the addition of vehicles for new routes and weekend hours to ensure continued transit services for tribal members in northeastern South Dakota. This expansion project will help…
Two groups of Native American horse riders are on their way to Mankato from from Nebraska and South Dakota, with both slated to gather downtown Dec. 26 to remember the 38 Dakota men who were hanged after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. The Mankato Healing and Reconciliation Ride set out Dec. 10 from Fort Thompson…
SAN CARLOS, ARIZONA — After missing 40 days of school last year, Tommy Betom, 10, is on track this year for much better attendance. The importance of showing up has been stressed repeatedly at school — and at home. When he went to school last year, he often came home saying the teacher was picking…
President Biden appeared to suggest Friday that former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) is either dead or divorced— and no longer his friend — in an apparent gaffe shortly after he told members of a Native American community that there is “nothing wrong with me.” “Thank you to Sen. Mark Kelly, a great friend — who…