Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Adam Fortunate Eagle is awaiting another film crew, expected to arrive later in the week. This particular group, coming from Frankfurt, Germany, to his Nevada home, wants to talk to him about the loss of the "shoe tree," a decades-old Cottonwood that was out in the middle of the Nevada desert, 50 miles from civilization, decorated with hundreds of pairs of shoes, his own wife's among them. "Four years ago, some jerk cut it down," he said. Thus is the life of Adam Fortunate Eagle, born Adam...
Red Lake July Celebration - The Parade...
Red Lake July Celebration - The Parade - P2...
Hundreds of years ago, our Anishinabeg ancestors began a migration from the northeast. They were guided by a vision and were told to follow a trail of sacred shells until they came to a place where the food grew on the water. When they found manoomin (wild rice), their journey was over. This is how the ancestors of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe came to settle around Lake Mille Lacs and the east-central Minnesota region....
Red Lake July Celebration - The Parade - P3...
7 July Celebration - Saturday Afternoon...
7 July Celebration - Saturday Afternoon - P2...
7 July Celebration - Saturday Afternoon - P3...
An Ojibwemowin Rivitalization Celebration in Honor of Larry Stillday (Chi-Ma'iingan) was held in Red Lake on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at the Hospital Field area. The event featured honor songs, dancing, a feast and giveaway. There were about 350 community members in attendance. Spiritual Elder Larry Stillday passed away on May 20, 2014. He was a well respected Spiritual Advisor involved in numerous projects both on and off the Red Lake Nation. He had recently retired from Red Lake Chemical...
An Ojibwemowin Rivitalization Celebration in Honor of Larry Stillday (Chi-Ma'iingan) was held in Red Lake on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at the Hospital Field area. The event featured honor songs, dancing, a feast and giveaway. There were about 350 community members in attendance. Spiritual Elder Larry Stillday passed away on May 20, 2014. He was a well respected Spiritual Advisor involved in numerous projects both on and off the Red Lake Nation. He had recently retired from Red Lake Chemical...
RED LAKE, MN - On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, at shortly after 9 AM, Red Lake Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain called his last Regular Tribal Council Meeting to order at the Red Lake Humanities Center. After roll call, the first order of business was for a vote to accept the results of the May 2014 Elections where two candidates received over 50% of the vote. Darrell Seki Sr. received the majority of votes for Red Lake Chairman, and Gary Nelson the majority for Ponemah Representative. Seki received...
RED LAKE, MN - On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, at shortly after 9 AM, Red Lake Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain called his last Regular Tribal Council Meeting to order at the Red Lake Humanities Center. After roll call, the first order of business was for a vote to accept the results of the May 2014 Elections where two candidates received over 50% of the vote. Darrell Seki Sr. received the majority of votes for Red Lake Chairman, and Gary Nelson the majority for Ponemah Representative. Seki received...
BEMIDJI -- America. Land of the free and the home of the brave. But brave people already called this land home before Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner," before Europeans declared their freedom from Great Britain on land already occupied by other nations native to North America. Those nations are being reanimated through a self-taught mapmaker's vision. Aaron Carapella, a self-described "mixed-blood Cherokee" from Oklahoma has created pre-European settler maps of the United...
BEMIDJI -- A Redby man plead guilty in Beltrami County Court to charges in a Bemidji stabbing incident in May. Orland James Spears, 23, is charged with felony first-degree burglary in possession of a dangerous weapon and second degree assault. He entered a guilty plea June 20. Spears is accused of stabbing a 71-year-old man at his home when Spears asked to use his telephone. The man was stabbed twice in the chest before Spears fled on foot and was later apprehended by the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office K-9. Spears faces up to 20 years in...
BEMIDJI -- One of three people arrested for transporting methamphetamine to Red Lake from the Twin Cities in May has plead not guilty. Joseph Jacob "Jake" Thunder III, 47, of Redby entered a not guilty plea in Beltrami County Court on June 23. He is accused of working with Alex "Sparky" Dejesus-Zuniga, 18, and Delisha Rae Rodriguez, 25, of Richfield, Minn., to bring 43 grams of meth onto the Red Lake reservation. All three face first-degree conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine charges. They were apprehended by law enforcement on U.S....
BEMIDJI -- A Bemidji man accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl in April 2013 has plead guilty in Beltrami County Court. Jeremy Bruce Cournoyer, 33, of Bemidji is charged with felony first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He amended his not guilty plea entered in October to guilty in late June after he waived his right to a jury trial and opted to have Beltrami County Judge John Melbye hear his case in a court trial. Trial proceedings began on June 4 and concluded Tuesday. Chief...
BEMIDJI -- A Fosston man has plead guilty in Beltrami County Court to his part in an armed robbery in Bemidji in March. Riley William Burns, 18, Fosston, entered a guilty plea June 23. Burns was arrested along with Michael Todd Fineday Jr., 19, of Bemidji after the pair forced their way into a Bemidji home and demanded to know from the people living there the whereabouts of a person they believed to have money and marijuana. Both men are charged with first-degree burglary and first-degree aggravated robbery. Each charge carries a maximum...
WALKER -- Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe members traveled from the tribal government headquarters in Cass Lake to Walker to host the 2014 Inauguration Ceremony at Northern Lights Event Center on Thursday. A new secretary/treasurer, District 1 and District 2 representatives were sworn into office. Arthur "Archie" LaRose defeated incumbent secretary/treasurer Donald J. Finn in the 2014 election. LaRose was sworn in by Walter Chase. District 1 Representative Robbie Howe did not seek reelection. Penny...
BEMIDJI -- Recent flooding caused as much as $70,000 in estimated public property damages in Beltrami County, officials said Thursday....
PHOENIX—July 3, 2014— Leaders of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) are dismayed with the action by U.S. Department of the Interior, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Kevin Washburn who today communicated his decision to convert a county island located within the City of Glendale, Arizona into Indian reservation land for the Tohono O’odham Nation, a southern Arizona tribe. While this action does not mean that gaming can occur on the parcel clearly it shows total disregard for the state-tribal gaming policy estab...
ADA, Okla. - Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby recently appointed an experienced Mississippi attorney and businessman to lead a Chickasaw Nation-supported foundation in the homelands. Mr. Brad Prewitt, Tupelo, was appointed executive director of the newly-formed Inkana' Foundation. Based in Tupelo, the Inkana' "Friend" Foundation is a nonprofit corporation with a mission to help protect, preserve and interpret Chickasaw homeland historic sites. Mr. Prewitt is an eighth-generation...
The Chickasaw Nation is now accepting nominations for the 2014 Dynamic Woman of the Year Award. Established in 2006, the Dynamic Woman of the Year award honors Chickasaw women who have made significant contributions to the Nation, served as role models to other Chickasaw women and who have made a difference in the lives of Chickasaws and other citizens, enriching their communities and society at large. The Dynamic Woman of the Year Award salutes the contributions the recipient has made to improving and enhancing the lives of those around her,...
MOORHEAD, Minn., July 2, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today announced targeted conservation funding of up to $50 million over the next five years in the Red River of the North Basin to minimize flooding, boost soil health, improve water quality and enhance wildlife habitat in the watershed. The Secretary and Congressman Peterson were joined by Senators Amy Klobuchar, John Hoeven, Heidi Heitkamp and Representative Kevin Cramer at a press conference in Moorhead to make the...
Police continue to investigate a series of separate incidents that claimed two lives in north Minneapolis over the weekend and left several others wounded....
School starts Monday at Face to Face Academy in St. Paul....
