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RED LAKE -- With an eagle soaring overhead, the Red Lake Nation on Thursday celebrated the groundbreaking of its new government center and tribal college. "Here in Red Lake we pride ourselves on our history, our culture, and most importantly, our land," said Floyd Jourdain Jr., tribal chairman. "It's really a good feeling to walk up here and see our brotherly eagle, our inspiration, circling around here today. That's always a good sign for the Anishinaabe people." The tribe will construct two...
BEMIDJI -- A new camp at Bemidji State University aims to spread the Ojibwe language throughout a younger generation. "Something I read recently was 'a Frenchman is still a Frenchman even if he lives in China because he speaks French,'" said Vincent Staples-Graves, an American Indian Studies student at Bemidji State University who is serving as a camp counselor. "Really that's how I feel about language and the culture. The Ojibwe (are) living in America but as long as you still speak Ojibwe,...
For Tammy Goodwin-Carter, the opening of the Leech Lake Bemidji Tribal Clinic couldn't come soon enough. On Monday, the waiting came to an end with a grand opening for the new facility. "I fought for this for years," said Goodwin-Carter, a registered nurse and manager for the clinic. On hand for the grand opening were about 20 supporters. It provides convenience and privacy. For example, if a urine sample before was needed from a patient visiting the Leech Lake Bemidji Tribal Clinic, she needed...
BEMIDJI — Lawren Wadena, an eighth-grader at Bemidji Middle School, and Melanie Wilson, a Leech Lake Tribal College employee, have gotten to know each other quite well in the past year. The two have been partnered through the Students First school initiative, which aims to pair students with community coaches. “It’s fun,” Wadena said about the program. “I like the games and I like talking about our (future) plans, high school.” Students First just completed its second year as a three-year...
BEMIDJI — Lukas Beaulieu, 13, paints a dreamcatcher, carefully layering red, blue, green and yellow. Grace Greiner, 9, paints a panda bear, concentrating as she adds the white belly inside black borders. "They’re so cute and they look fuzzy," said the J.W. Smith Elementary student. "I like fuzzy things. They’re fun to cuddle with." The two are among dozens of students working after school to paint a large mural on the wall of the gymnasium inside the Boys & Girls Club of the Bemidji Area. "I li...
BEMIDJI – TrekNorth High School has been ranked the fourth best high school in Minnesota by U.S. News & World Report. Additionally, Bemidji High School was ranked No. 30 in the state. The report ranked the top 46 schools of Minnesota’s 722 public high schools. Schools were ranked based on their student-teacher ratios, college readiness (through Advanced Placement scores), and math and reading scores. TrekNorth, which was eighth in the rankings last year, is now ranked No. 396 in the cou...
CASS LAKE – It wasn’t until Veronica Kingbird began attending Leech Lake Tribal College that she flourished in school. “I really struggled (in the traditional school system) and I think that was because they didn’t notice me,” she said. Now at LLTC, Kingbird, 27, is studying the Ojibwe language with hopes of establishing a school in the Anishinaabe culture, teaching the Ojibwe language and traditional academics. “That is what my dream is,” she said, noting a similar school, the Niigaane Ojibwe I...
MAHNOMEN – An event here will mark National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day next week. The third annual Celebration of Life: National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Event – Mahnomen will be from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Shooting Star Casino & Event Center, 777 South Casino Road. A dinner and presentation on “Women, HIV and STIs” will be available. The event is sponsored by White Earth Tribal Health. Registration is required by calling Kim Turner with tribal health education at 218-983-3286. The goal of National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is to r...
WILTON – A 6-year-old boy was forced to walk a quarter-mile home in freezing temperatures last week after a school bus driver refused to let the child off the bus at his house. According to Daryl Bohn and Amber Thayer, their younger son, Darrion, tried to disembark the bus after his 8-year-old brother, Devin, was let off at their driveway after school last Wednesday. But the bus driver physically held Darrion back and shut the door in his face, driving him a quarter-mile down the road and m...
BEMIDJI – Evergreen Youth & Family Services will host an open house today to celebrate its new site. In December, Evergreen relocated its headquarters and youth drop-in center to 610 Patriot Drive NW, also establishing six onsite youth supportive housing units. An open house will be from 3-7 p.m. today at the new site with a welcome and special presentation beginning at 4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. The relocation moved the youth drop-in center and Evergreen’s business offices, along with Evergreen programs including Ind...
BEMIDJI – The percentage of Minnesota high-schoolers who obtain passing scores on Advanced Placement tests exceeds the national percentage. Even better, local graduates’ scores exceed state averages as well. An AP test, usually taken at the conclusion of an AP course, offers college credit to test-takers who score a 3, 4 or 5. Bemidji High School offers 12 AP courses. Last school year, 212 BHS students took 336 AP exams, scoring an average of 3.47, according to district data. At TrekNorth high school, which offers seven to 10 AP courses a yea...
First-grade students in Chris Yingling’s class at Central Elementary created Valentine’s Day bags with their fifth-grade buddies Friday. On Wednesday, students prepared for the Valentine’s Day party, set for today, as they also celebrated the 100th day of school. Pictured are, from left, Kristen Burnham, Xarria Frazier, Eveny Baril, Robert Beaulieu, Seth Meixner and Hayvn Jenkins. Bethany Wesley | Bemidji Pioneer...
BEMIDJI – Twelve area elementary students will be honored this month as they are awarded scholarships to attend weeklong immersion camps at Concordia Language Villages. This is the 10th year of the local scholarship program, which through donations provides funds to send local fourth- and fifth-graders to the language village of their choice. Recipients are selected based on essays written by the students. According to CLV, about 100 local students submitted essays in December addressing “The ways that I could learn and grow from the study of...
BEMIDJI – After one attorney gave Missy Dodds the impression she had an unwinnable case, she turned to Mark Rodgers for help. She now calls it “one of the best decisions” she ever made. Rodgers and Michael Garbow, who make up the Bemidji law firm Rodgers & Garbow, fought for years to win compensation for 10 Red Lake teachers who lost wages due to post-traumatic stress disorder following the March 21, 2005, shooting at Red Lake High School, when 16-year-old Jeff Weise shot and killed five stude...
BEMIDJI – A patient is best served when she has a team of medical staff working in tandem to address all of her medical needs, says Dr. Valerie Fox, a Sanford Bemidji family physician. That is the goal of Sanford One Care, a team-based initiative that aims to improve health-care delivery for patients with chronic health concerns. “What we’re trying to do is identify how we can improve our ability to serve our patients … in the most effective manner,” said Dr. Read Sulik, Sanford Health’s...
CASS LAKE – LeRoy Staples-Fairbanks III, as he ran for tribal office, pledged to make education a priority. Staples-Fairbanks, 30, elected last summer as the new District 3 representative on the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribal Council, followed through on that promise this month, donating the first installment toward a $50,000 scholarship endowment at Leech Lake Tribal College. “Education is the single-most powerful thing you can do to empower yourself and make yourself less dependent,” Stapl...
RED LAKE – Justin Jourdain is among the few people who just might be able to understand. Jourdain, a 2008 graduate of Red Lake High School, was in the school on March 21, 2005, when 16-year-old Jeff Weise shot and killed five students, a teacher and a security guard before killing himself. Jourdain now is leading 10 Red Lake graduates in a three-vehicle caravan to Newtown, Conn., to offer comfort to the grieving community in the wake of Friday’s tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, w...
“I knew right then and there I had to turn my life around,” he said. A bullet had entered his right shoulder and tore through his chest, collapsing his lung and shattering his left arm. His girlfriend, Angela Browneagle, encouraged him to consider his future and Goodman agreed. “Honestly, I just wasn’t on the right path,” he said. Goodman, now a second-year student at Leech Lake Tribal College, captured the attention of U.S. Sen. Al Franken Wednesday as the senator addressed students during a...
BEMIDJI – Beltrami County has announced the following polling places for this year’s elections. Residents in areas that vote by mail-in ballot were sent ballots in July. For those who did not receive a ballot or are not registered, they may vote at the Beltrami County Auditor’s Office, 701 Minnesota Ave. NW, between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday for primary election day. While opening times for area polls vary by location, all polling locations are open until 8 p.m. Polling places for the following towns and cities are as follows: E Alaska, residen...
BEMIDJI – Brad Swenson, 57, longtime political reporter with the Bemidji Pioneer, died unexpectedly Sunday at his home. He retired due to health issues as the Pioneer’s political editor in July 2011, but had been writing weekly political columns since January. “Brad was one of a kind,” said U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar. “He was someone who cared about every issue and would prepare for interviews and really was a voice not only for Bemidji but for greater Minnesota. “He would interview me more thorou...
ST. PAUL – Minnesota’s political community remembered Brad Swenson as a top political reporter. For former House Speaker Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon, a visit to Bemidji is not the same without Swenson. “I always knew when I came to Bemidji for any reason, Brad would be there,” said Sviggum, a Kenyon Republican who now is House Republican spokesman. Sviggum said he called Swenson last month just to talk after he missed the long-time reporter during a post-legislative session Bemidji visit. “I liked Brad a lot,” Sviggum said. “He was very fair. He...
BEMIDJI – The number of children served through the Bemidji Community Food Shelf this year is up 36 percent since this time last year....
NORTHERN TOWNSHIP – The investigation into the burning cross in a yard here early Friday morning is being investigated as a bias crime. An 8-foot-tall burning cross was reported in a Northern Township yard at about 12:40 a.m. Friday. A woman reported she saw the light of the flames from her bedroom window and ran outside, dousing the 3-foot flames with water. The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office said officers are investigating the report, and requested the public help by reporting any information related to the incident by calling 333...
NORTHERN TOWNSHIP – An 8-foot-tall burning cross was found last week by a Northern Township woman who believes her family was targeted because of their race. “This is racism,” the woman said Tuesday. The woman, who asked not to be identified to protect her family’s identity, said she was in her home early Friday morning when she seemed to see the sky catch fire. “The sky was all lit up,” she recalled. “It was yellow.” She looked outside and found the burning cross propped up against a tree. There also was a 3-foot-long line of fire on the gro...
REDBY – Jason Lee King, the fugitive who has been at large since dropping his shackles at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center, has again been arrested. The Red Lake Department of Public Safety arrested the 21-year-old man after officers responded on a complaint of reckless driving in Redby. According to a Red Lake Police Department news release: Red Lake officers located the suspect vehicle, which then led police on a high-speed pursuit on Green Lake Road. The vehicle, containing four people, eventually came to rest and two of the occupants fled o...
