By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA encroached on the sovereign land of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and destroyed a large crop of industrial hemp, Native Americans said. But the Associated Press report that federal authorities maintain the crop was illegal marijuana, some of which was being tended by non-tribal members. In May, the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Indian tribes are now allowed to grow and sell marijuana on their sovereign lands under the same federal guidelines that apply to four states where pot is legal for recreational use, the Justice Department announced Thursday, Bloomberg reports. The Justice Department said federal laws banning marijuana will no longer be enforced….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has finally confirmed that a civil rights activist who disappeared while supporting Native Americans in South Dakota four decades was murdered, the Buffalo News reports. Roy Robinson went missing after arriving at Wounded Knee to support the American Indian Movement’s fight against the federal government. The discovery wasn’t easy for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DOJ’s third-highest official is traveling to the Dakotas to for a hearing on the impact of violence on Native Americans and their children, the Associated Press reports. “One of the reasons why it’s important for me to go to Indian country periodically is to remind myself that people living there do…
