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Surrounded by Red Lake Nation and open only to tribal members, Lower Red Lake has stayed largely insulated from the world - the only big walleye lake left in Minnesota still free of invasive species. That's why the discovery of zebra mussel larvae earlier this year in Upper Red Lake put tribal scientists and reservation leaders into crisis mode. The destructive creatures are on the reservation's doorstep. The worry is they'll spread quickly to Lower Red Lake, threatening the reservation's...
David Manuel had high hopes for Red Lake's organic food initiative when he broke ground on a test garden in 2016. He planned to scale up quickly and build a system to feed the whole tribe within a few years. Tribal leaders hoped their goal, which they call food sovereignty, could be met using only legacy farming techniques disconnected from the modern industrial food system, which many Native people see as unhealthy and damaging to the environment. It turns out, though, when you're trying to...
John Persell won a recount Monday in Minnesota House District 5A. The original count in the north-central district had Persell leading Republican incumbent Matt Bliss by just 8 votes. The new margin: 11 votes. Volunteers and election officials hand-counted nearly 17,000 ballots, uncovering voting machine errors that increased Persell's lead. Previously: Minnesota 2018 voter turnout tops the nation • Election 2018: Full results Persell's lawyer David Zoll said he expected more of a change. "The total result changed by less than two percent of a...
Teena LaPointe ran along the shoulder of Highway 89, about 20 miles south of Red Lake. She carried three ceremonial staves, ornamented with eagle feathers and ribbon, through the spitting rain. Family friend Gary Charwood coasted behind in an old Silverado with its hazard lights blinking. "She's on this run," he said, "because she may have made some choices and now she's aiming to turning her life around." Charwood and LaPointe are both from Leech Lake. They're part of a group of several dozen...
The Red Lake Band of Chippewa held its sixth annual Ojibwe Language camp this week. Kids from all across the reservation gathered in the remote backwoods of Ponemah to learn about plant medicines, and language and traditional native lacrosse. Or at least, to try and pelt their lacrosse teacher, Kelly Iceman Sr., with tennis balls. Iceman is a fast runner, and only of few balls connected. "I'm 44," he said. "But I play hard. Even against the little ones. That's how they learn." Dodging a...
There's a traditional belief on the Red Lake Indian Reservation that when someone drowns, it's because the lake has a point to make. "When there's an accident on the lake," said Red Lake Nation Fisheries Director Russ Brenny, "that's the lake telling us it's angry. We're taking too much." On Nov. 6, 2017, two anglers - both employees of Brenny's fishery - were gillnetting on the lake when their boat capsized. One man was able to swim to shore, but Deland Beaulieu, 29, and a 17-year-old boy were...
Antonio Varney stands 6 feet tall, 149 pounds. He's 16, lanky, quiet. A few guys call him The Beast. He doesn't look like one, but you wouldn't say that in the ring. Tony has a fearsome reputation on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. He's known as Tony Boy, or Pretty Tony, or Lightning. He's won 20 fights in just a few years. He won the Midwest Silver Gloves title earlier this year with a technical knockout of his opponent in the first round. He's part of a boxing brotherhood on the reservation,...
Minnesota nonprofits, school districts and tribal groups have been the target of a new tax scam, according to warnings released Wednesday by the Internal Revenue service. Scammers clone the email accounts of high-level managers and use them to request lists of employee tax forms and social security numbers. Dan Hendrickson, spokesperson for the state's Better Business Bureau, said it's a new wrinkle on an old scam. "It really used to be targeted at the for-profit business," he said. "Now we're seeing it targeting the non-profit sector, health...
Hundreds of tribe members and others from around the region spent the weekend on the Red Lake Nation reservation in northern Minnesota learning how to grow and gather indigenous food. The three-day event was the Red Lake Nation's first Intertribal Food Summit which tribal leaders hope will spur the momentum of a movement among their people - a growing interest in returning to the food their ancestors grew, hunted and gathered. As part of the event, native chefs led cooking demonstrations, and...
The Red Lake Nation has bought an old warehouse property in Minneapolis, and announced plans this week to turn it into an affordable housing complex. According to Red Lake Economic Development Director Sam Strong, it's the tribe's first attempt to provide affordable housing to members who live outside the northern Minnesota reservation. "It's really more than just a housing development," Strong said. "It's a fully inclusive development that allows us to serve all of our band members in...
A power struggle over constitutional reform on the White Earth Reservation could cost longtime tribal Chairwoman Erma Vizenor her job. The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe removed Vizenor from its governing board Tuesday. The MCT governs six Minnesota bands, including White Earth, and is led by a board made up of tribal chairs and secretary-treasurers from each band. Vizenor sat on that board for the past 18 years, but lost her seat Tuesday when the MCT voted to censure her. White Earth Secretary-Treasu...
A body believed to be that of a missing Bemidji woman was recovered Wednesday, and two local men have been arrested in connection with her death. Rose Downwind, 31, had been missing for nearly two months. A 50-day investigation carried out by Bemidji police, the FBI, the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and other agencies caught its first break Monday, when Downwind's ex-boyfriend walked into the Beltrami County Jail and turned himself in. In a press conference Thursday morning, Bemidji Police Chief Mike Mastin said the man had confessed...
Sam Strong is running. He left Redby, Minn., in the Red Lake Nation on Wednesday with 50 other runners. Then, he and a smaller group headed for Leech Lake, aiming for Duluth. Friday they will run straight into a pow wow on the Fond du Lac reservation. They're running 200 miles to encourage sobriety as part of the Anishinabe Spirit Run. It's the 19th run of its kind, and Strong's 7th in as many years. "This run is huge for me," he said, resting on the side of State Highway 89 Wednesday...
On-air reports by MPR News' Dan Gunderson Jeff May has a scar running from his jaw line down past his collar bone. It's 8 inches long, the remnants of a wound that made him a national hero. It's 10 years old now and turning white. It could go away with a few skin grafts. Doctors suggested this, but May said no. Red Lake Indian Reservation William Lager | MPR News "I want to keep it," he said, "as a souvenir." http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/18/red-lake-shooting-10-years...
It's illegal to sell or possess alcohol on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, but anyone who drive a few miles down the road will find liquor readily available. In a sparsely populated area of northern forest, a handful of liquor stores are located within a mile or two of Minnesota's only dry reservation. Liquor sales have long been a source of tension along its border, but Chris Freudenberg didn't know that. A few weeks ago he asked the Beltrami County Board for a liquor license, hoping to sell...
