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The National Weather Service Office out of Grand Forks, North Dakota and Beltrami County Emergency Management conducted a damage assessment on the afternoon of July 4th, 2018 following damaging severe weather that impacted southern Beltrami County in the early morning hours on the 4th of July. A concentrated area of damage was identified across Bemidji west of Bemidji State University. The hardest hit area was across the central part of the City of Bemidji along 18th Street NW from Delton Ave NW...
A conference of the nation’s educators winds down in Minneapolis on Thursday with few more ready to take on an anti-union tide than a battle-hardened group from Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association has withstood membership losses that followed Gov. Scott Walker’s limiting of collective bargaining rights statewide, and it has racked up victories by rallying parents and community members behind its pursuits. http://www.startribune.com/after-union-setback-teachers-regroup-at-nea-conference-in-minneapolis/487...
Onetime automobile magnate Denny Hecker is a free man. After serving more than seven years in prison for fraud, Hecker was released on Tuesday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He had been staying in a Minneapolis halfway house since February. http://www.startribune.com/denny-hecker-is-a-free-man/487357831/...
A stormy pall brooded over storied July 4th traditions in much of Minnesota Wednesday, forcing some to trade parades for washed-out streets and others to swap sparklers for sandbags. In the Twin Cities, some parades and fireworks were canceled as Mother Nature dropped a booming show of thunderstorms across the region. In Bemidji, officials were cleaning up downed trees, branches and power lines Wednesday, trying to assess if high winds were the result of a brief tornado touchdown. And from Redwood Falls to the Iowa border, southern Minnesota...
Dakota County closed the Lake Byllesby Regional Park beach Tuesday after the city of Northfield dumped 1 million gallons of treated and untreated wastewater into the Cannon River. A PVC pipe break at Northfield’s treatment plant forced the city to discharge the wastewater between 1 and 4 a.m. Tuesday, according to a news release. Northfield warned the public to avoid direct contact with the Cannon River downstream of the city until 6 a.m. Friday. http://www.startribune.com/northfield-dumped-1-million-gallons-of-wastewater-in...
Claudette Jackson Ross May 08, 1953 - June 29, 2018 Our loved mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend Claudette Jackson Ross has traveled on to be with our Creator God. She left us on Friday, June 29, 2018 while hospitalized at Altru Hospital, Grand Forks. Her daughter and family members were by her side throughout her health crisis and held her close as she peacefully journeyed on. Wake services will be held Friday July 6. 2018 at 5 pm at St Michael's Wellness Center with a Prayer Service...
REDBY, MN - On Thursday, June 28, 2018, Oshkiimaajitahdah held an Open House at their facility in Redby. The event included good food, kid's games, prizes and tours. Mission Statement: "We are committed to educating Families to discover their strengths as individuals" Red Lake Nation TANF/Employment Services TANF is a program that serves the Red Lake Nation with cash and food assistance while they are in need of this type of assistance. TANF is designed to be a temporary program to help...
REDBY, MN - On Thursday, June 28, 2018, Oshkiimaajitahdah held an Open House at their facility in Redby. The event included good food, kid's games, prizes and tours. Mission Statement: "We are committed to educating Families to discover their strengths as individuals" Red Lake Nation TANF/Employment Services TANF is a program that serves the Red Lake Nation with cash and food assistance while they are in need of this type of assistance. TANF is designed to be a temporary program to help...
The 2018 Red Lake High School Graduation was held at RLHS at 1 PM on Saturday, June 2, 2018. Graduates: Todd J. Barrett, Jr., Alysha Rose Beaulieu, Anthony M. Benais, Quinten W. Chaboyea, Lailah Laurelle Cloud, Verdell X. Cook, Cassidy Lynn Defoe, Alexis R. Desjarlait, Alexis Fairbanks, Shaun Robert Fineday, Shaliecia F. Geionety, Tyler Rose Good, Rekoe J. Graves, Keirsten R. Iceman, Destiny L. Jourdain, Adam Warren Kingbird, Ryan Kingbird, Tobie Dean Kingbird Jr., Tara M. Lussier, Arianna Lussi...
The 2018 Red Lake High School Graduation was held at RLHS at 1 PM on Saturday, June 2, 2018. Graduates: Todd J. Barrett, Jr., Alysha Rose Beaulieu, Anthony M. Benais, Quinten W. Chaboyea, Lailah Laurelle Cloud, Verdell X. Cook, Cassidy Lynn Defoe, Alexis R. Desjarlait, Alexis Fairbanks, Shaun Robert Fineday, Shaliecia F. Geionety, Tyler Rose Good, Rekoe J. Graves, Keirsten R. Iceman, Destiny L. Jourdain, Adam Warren Kingbird, Ryan Kingbird, Tobie Dean Kingbird Jr., Tara M. Lussier, Arianna Lussi...
11 Seven Clans Casino Pow Wow held May 25-27, 2018 at Seven Clans Casino in Thief River Falls Seven Clans Powwow 2018 Committee Singing Contest 1st: 1416 pts. The Boyz $8000 2nd: 1400 pts. Sharpshooter $6000 3rd: 1372 Pts. WarPaint $4000 4th: 1295 pts. Ndn Creek $2000 5th: 1291 pts. Indian Nation $1000 Darren "Scruff" Cook Memorial Singing Contest 2018 1st: 520 pts. The Boyz $4000 2nd: 512 pts. Sharpshooter $3000 3rd: 505 pts. WarPaint $2000 4th: 484 pts. Stoney Park $1000...
RED LAKE - On May 15, 2018, St. Mary's Mission held their annual pow wow beginning at 12 noon. All grades danced and this year's Princess and Brave are Nazarene Bearstail and Derrick Smith....
RED LAKE - On May 15, 2018, St. Mary's Mission held their annual pow wow beginning at 12 noon. All grades danced and this year's Princess and Brave are Nazarene Bearstail and Derrick Smith....
The Red Lake Elementary School 2018 Pow Wow was held on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at RLES Jaycel Cloud "RLES Brave' and Trinity Auginash "RLES Princess". 2018-3019 Royalty...
The Red Lake Elementary School 2018 Pow Wow was held on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at RLES Jaycel Cloud "RLES Brave' and Trinity Auginash "RLES Princess". 2018-3019 Royalty...
Red Lake Independence Day Celebration 2018 - July 6, 7 and 8 https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ18Kh-k3M-Vo9I1vijdeujtl3fPbNKWkigNZ3HjFYCz2Av0D3Xxy_ptmsj87CyDyCiud5y-C5oC1yq/pub...
The Park Rapids Downtown Business Association invites you to celebrate summer at 2nd Street Stage events Thursday evenings through Aug. 16. The free concerts will run from 6 to 8 p.m. (7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 9) with bands, a beer garden, cornhole tournaments and family activities on the second block of South Main. Bring your own lawn chair. The beer garden will open at 5 p.m. for a social hour while you find your spot, listen to the sound check and greet neighbors and friends. Support this great event...
FARMINGTON — Alaska resident Tara Sweeney has been confirmed to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior. The confirmation, the first time an Alaska Native was selected, received approval by the U.S. Senate on June 28. https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2018/07/04/senate-confirms-assistant-secretary-indian-affairs/756550002/...
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — On a bluff north of Browning, just outside the shadow of Flattop Mountain, a final resting place has been prepared for George Ell. The winds there blow sweet with the scent of pine and blue sage. The trout grow fat in the stream down below, and elk hide among the trees in the meadow. https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Boy-s-remains-returned-to-Blackfeet-family-after-13049309.php...
Booms echo through the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation’s fireworks mall, where booths show off inventions like the “Arm of Thanos,” which allows users to launch five artillery shell tubes from their arms, and “Jay’s Mega Blaster,” a bundle of Roman Candles with 368 shots. Andrew Holmes, from North Bend, said he spends $500 every year at Muckleshoot buying the “loud stuff”— artilleries, cakes and rockets — that he can’t get off the reservation because of state law. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/fireworks-banned-in-...
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community is suing Purdue Pharmaceutical and other manufacturers of opioid drugs, charging that false and deceptive marketing has fueled an epidemic of addiction with Native Americans among its primary victims. The tribe's suit in U.S. District court follows on the heels of lawsuits by the State of Washington, and cities of Seattle and Everett, charging Purdue in particular with misleading doctors and health care providers on the addictive and debilitating nature of opioids. https://www.seattlepi....
A former Shinnecock Indian Nation leader who was ticketed last year for possessing undersized eels in disputed tribal waters filed a $102 million federal lawsuit against multiple people and agencies late last month. According to the lawsuit, David Taobi Silva, 42, and two of his uncles, Gerrod T. Smith and Jonathan K. Smith, are seeking both a temporary and a permanent injunction from the U.S. District Court that would allow them to continue to fish in the disputed waters without being harassed by State Department of Environmental Conservation...
Welcome to FCNL's Native American Legislative Update! The NALU is a monthly newsletter about FCNL's Native American policy advocacy and ways for you to engage your members of Congress. FCNL's Congressional Advocate for Native American policy is Lacina Tangnaqudo Onco (Shinnecock/Kiowa). On Wednesday, May 9, FCNL hosted a community dialogue on the crisis of violence against Native Women. The event, hosted at FCNL's Quaker Welcome Center, was organized to observe the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls, May...
The 28-year-old son of Abel Bosum, the grand chief of the Cree Nation in Quebec, was killed over the long weekend while competing in a motocross event. Nathaniel James Bosum died Sunday while at a competition in Baie Comeau on the north shore of Quebec, according to a news release from the Grand Council of the Crees. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nathaniel-james-bosum-dies-1.4733464...