An appeals court has ruled the wire fraud conviction of a Watford City CPA who was indirectly linked to a man convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme be dismissed.
CBD and Hemp Legal and Regulatory Roundup – March 2021 #1 | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP jdsupra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jdsupra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
John Muir in Native America
Muir s romantic vision obscured Indigenous ownership of the land but a new generation is pulling away the veil
Photo-Illustrations by Cristiana Couceiro
Gerard Baker began his illustrious career with the National Park Service at 20. As a young patrol ranger in the 1970s, he often overheard the park interpreters while he collected trash or mowed lawns. One thing I noticed, the Mandan/Hidatsa man from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota told me, is that we were never talked about. From the early, early days of the philosophies on American Indians, we were looked at as being nothing but so-called animals without even a soul. The animal that they move out of the way so they can have the land. And so, when they start making national parks, they didn t think about taking Indian land. They didn t think about that we had spiritual places. They didn t talk about that. When Baker started out in the Park Service, the park interpreters were mostly whi
Related More than 20 years ago, Alex White Plume, a leader of the Oglala Lakota, planted his first hemp crop on Wounded Knee Creek, on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. I call White Plume “the Hemperer.” He’s considered to be one of the grandfathers of the cannabis economy for Native people. Like John Trudell, the great Dakota philosopher and musician, White Plume always said, “Hemp is the way.”
But in 2000, Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the reservation and seized White Plume’s crop. In fact, there were several raids on his crop between 2000 and 2002. Two years later, he was ordered to stop growing. In 2016, the federal ban was lifted and in 2017, White Plume partnered with Evo Hemp to make hemp supplements. He’s just beginning again.
Guest column: Correcting tax inequities benefits both MHA Nation and North Dakota thedickinsonpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedickinsonpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.