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Winter Storm Warning Alert: ...SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM TO IMPACT THE REGION LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING... .A POTENT STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS LATE TONIGHT INTO MINNESOTA MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. THE STORM WILL MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE REGION. CONFIDENCE IS HIGH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SIGNIFICANT BAND OF HEAVY SNOW ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ALONG AND WEST OF THE VALLEY. EXTREME BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY RESULT ALONG AND WEST OF THE...
BEMIDJI - Hundreds of people adorned in vibrant, jingling regalia danced to the beat of 15 vivacious drum circles accompanied by human harmonies in the John Glas Fieldhouse at BSU Saturday afternoon. The first grand entry for the 41st annual Pow-Wow had 232 registered dancers, more were anticipated at the evening performance after the feast. The BSU Council of Indian Students hosts the event every year. Council president Samantha Fairbanks helped organize the powwow. Fairbanks is a senior at...
The fifth of six scheduled Red Lake Constitution Reform Initiative Community Engagement Meetings was held at the Little Rock Community Center on March 27, 2014 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM. The first meeting was held at the Minneapolis American Indian Center on March 22, 2014 with about 60 people in attendance, followed by Redby's meeting on Monday, Red Lake on Tuesday, and Ponemah on Thursday. According to a press release on March 17, the Bush Foundation approved a grant of $1,542,700 to the Red Lak...
The fifth of six scheduled Red Lake Constitution Reform Initiative Community Engagement Meetings was held at the Little Rock Community Center on March 27, 2014 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM. The first meeting was held at the Minneapolis American Indian Center on March 22, 2014 with about 60 people in attendance, followed by Redby's meeting on Monday, Red Lake on Tuesday, and Ponemah on Thursday. According to a press release on March 17, the Bush Foundation approved a grant of $1,542,700 to the Red Lak...
The fifth of six scheduled Red Lake Constitution Reform Initiative Community Engagement Meetings was held at the Little Rock Community Center on March 27, 2014 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM. The first meeting was held at the Minneapolis American Indian Center on March 22, 2014 with about 60 people in attendance, followed by Redby's meeting on Monday, Red Lake on Tuesday, and Ponemah on Thursday. According to a press release on March 17, the Bush Foundation approved a grant of $1,542,700 to the Red Lak...
Photographs by Nicole Desjarlait, Liza Spears, Starr Kingbird and Lori Chaboyea-Beaulieu Over the weekend the Red Lake Little Warriors were Third Grade Champions in Crookston....
Photographs by Nicole Desjarlait, Liza Spears, Starr Kingbird and Lori Chaboyea-Beaulieu Over the weekend the Red Lake Little Warriors were Third Grade Champions in Crookston....
Photographs by Nicole Desjarlait, Liza Spears, Starr Kingbird and Lori Chaboyea-Beaulieu Over the weekend the Red Lake Little Warriors were Third Grade Champions in Crookston....
Red Lake Middle School students visited the sugar bush in Ponemah on Friday, March 28, 2014. Red Lake Traditional Foods on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/384504271580246/744936738870329/?comment_id=745120708851932¬if_t=like...
Red Lake Middle School students visited the sugar bush in Ponemah on Friday, March 28, 2014. Red Lake Traditional Foods on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/384504271580246/744936738870329/?comment_id=745120708851932¬if_t=like...
ST. PAUL — Medical marijuana is a story that is not going away....
WHITE EARTH — Primaries will take place Tuesday for the White Earth Indian Reservation, with elections happening at 12 precincts around the reservation and two off it, in Cass Lake and Minneapolis. Up for grabs are two of the three seats on the White Earth Tribal Council — District I and II, as well as secretary-treasurer. This year, 14 candidates have thrown their hats in for those three races, which will be whittled down to two for each seat. Those candidates will then proceed to the general election June 10. Those elected to the pos...
Colin Neary: This is a Niijii Radio News Update. At 7:30 A.M. Monday October 29, 2012 the City of Park Rapids reported a sewer blockage in the vicinity the Bezhiigwan Art Gallery. Bezhiigwan is located at the Old Library at the corner of 2nd Street South and Park Avenue South in Park Rapids. The blockage was cleared by city maintenance, but resulted in raw sewage flooding the basement of Bezhiigwan. Ten days after the spill occurred on Wednesday November 7, 2012 Mary and Gordon Van Wert, owners of Bezhiigwan, returned from an installment in...
NAYTAHWAUSH, MINN. – Kathy Goodwin fiddles with the antenna on the boxy radio by her bed until the sound of powwow drumming cuts through some static....
ST. PAUL — The number of Minnesota boaters who violated state regulations on transporting invasive species dropped in 2013 compared to 2012, but one in five boaters who were checked still violated state law....
CASS LAKE — Five people in a van — including four children — were injured Friday morning when the vehicle rear-ended a school bus south of Cass Lake, the Minnesota State Patrol reported. No injuries to the roughly 40 students on the bus or the bus driver were reported. The accident took place at about 7:30 a.m. Friday. According to the patrol, the bus, driven by William D. Foster, 46, of Cass Lake, was stopped, red lights were activated and children had just entered the bus when it was rear-ended by a van driven by Alexandra M. Tanner, 38, o...
Top prep students to attend Business Week in Ada ADA, Okla. – Stacey Bolin, director of the Wilburn L. Smith Center for Entrepreneurship & Oklahoma Business Week at East Central University, is preparing for the emotional “good kind of tired” she gets during Oklahoma Business Week. The third annual educational opportunity gets underway June 1-6 at ECU in Ada. Many of the finest, most innovative and brightest high school students from across several states will learn business, entrepreneurial, marketing and other skill sets to succeed in the h...
The United States Attorney for the District of Montana Michael W. Cotter announced today that Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Victim Specialist Wendy Bremner, of Browning Montana, is the District of Montana's "Working Hard, Making A Difference" award winner. The award was created to recognize individuals in Indian Country who have made significant contributions to public safety. Wendy Bremner is one of nine Native Americans, nationwide, that work as BIA Victim Specialists. As a Victim...
Sunday was a long-overdue reward for many winter-weary people soaking up the sun as they hiked, biked, walked dogs and played with kids....
YOKOHAMA, Japan – Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control....
Procrastinators, take note. You have until midnight Monday to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act....
You can read the full report here, but here’s some of the stand-out information: Only 2.9% of Montana’s white students in grades 7–12 drop out of school, but the dropout rate for American Indian students is 8.8%....
WASHINGTON – A much needed Native American Children’s Safety Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate this past Thursday....
The ongoing ethical debate around seal-hunting has resurfaced in the form of a 21st century style twitter-off. The battle ensued after talk show host, Ellen Degeneres, donated 1.5 million “selfie” generated dollars to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) which actively opposes seal hunting....
Pow wows just aren’t what they used to be, according to a handful of elders across the Plains states. There was a time, not too long ago, when a pow wow was not about contests or fancy regalia, but was simply a gathering of family and friends, with homemade food, giveaways and unnamed dances. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/03/30/traditional-commercialized-doings-times-have-changed-pow-wow-circuit-154223...