I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer penned a blog post titled “Native Americans morally disqualified themselves from the land.”
Two Native American communities in the Upper Peninsula will see infrastructure upgrades to drinking- and waste-water systems. Federal stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will benefit the Hannahville Indian Community of Potawatomie Indians near Escanaba and the Bay Mills Indian Community near Sault Ste. Marie. The Hannahville community will see $22,920 in [...]
A new study by Matthew L.M. Fletcher, a legal scholar at the Michigan State University College of Law, concludes that Indian tribes are almost universally denied a hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court when they file for the Court to hear a case. The abstract of that study says:
Native American song, dance, prayer and a plea for the return of ancestral remains marked the 36th Annual Dance for Mother Earth in Ann Arbor Saturday. Amid drum circles and dance contests in Crisler Arena, Co-Master of Ceremonies Paul Johnson asked the University of Michigan to return the remains of indigenous people to Michigan tribal [...]
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