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For the second year in a row, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians hosted an Ojibwe Language and Culture Camp for youth. The camp was held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, August 5, 6, and 7, 2014, appropriately at the Ponemah Round House. The three-day Gabeshiwin (camp) hosted by Red Lake Chemical Health, Red Lake Economic Development and Planning, and the Boys and Girls Club featured eating traditional foods, lacrosse, games, plant gathering practices and identification, birch bark...
On Wednesday August 13th 2014, the Red Lake Conservation Enforcement Department, along with the Red Lake Police Department held their 2nd Annual "COPS AND BOBBERS" fishing event at Fullers Lake from 11 AM until 2 PM. The event featured local law enforcement officers taking children out for an afternoon of fishing and fun. In addition, all children received a lunch and free fishing rods. Their first year event was very successful with close to hundred children attending, and there were about the...
For the second year in a row, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians hosted an Ojibwe Language and Culture Camp for youth. The camp was held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, August 5, 6, and 7, 2014, appropriately at the Ponemah Round House. The three-day Gabeshiwin (camp) hosted by Red Lake Chemical Health, Red Lake Economic Development and Planning, and the Boys and Girls Club featured eating traditional foods, lacrosse, games, plant gathering practices and identification, birch bark...
On Wednesday August 13th 2014, the Red Lake Conservation Enforcement Department, along with the Red Lake Police Department held their 2nd Annual "COPS AND BOBBERS" fishing event at Fullers Lake from 11 AM until 2 PM. The event featured local law enforcement officers taking children out for an afternoon of fishing and fun. In addition, all children received a lunch and free fishing rods. Their first year event was very successful with close to hundred children attending, and there were about the...
Four people, including two children, were rescued during a night-time search Wednesday on Lower Red Lake in northern Minnesota. Using night vision goggles and an OAM AS350 helicopter, agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Air and Marine responded to a call from the Red Lake (Minn.) Police Department about 2 a.m. Wednesday. Two agents, assigned to the North Dakota Air Branch, assisted with a “search and rescue mission of a vessel in distress that was carrying four individuals,” according to a news release. “Upon arriv...
BEMIDJI -- A Grygla, Minn., man is in custody after a high-speed chase Tuesday night ended with shots fired by law enforcement on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Timothy Scott, 33, faces charges of DWI, felony fleeing a peace officer and first-degree assault and was being held Wednesday at the Beltrami County Jail in Bemidji. According to authorities, Scott was spotted by a Minnesota State Trooper traveling east on U.S. Highway 2 west of Wilton at 84 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone after 9...
On Wednesday August 13th 2014, the Red Lake Conservation Enforcement Department, along with the Red Lake Police Department held their 2nd Annual "COPS AND BOBBERS" fishing event at Fullers Lake from 11 AM until 2 PM. The event featured local law enforcement officers taking children out for an afternoon of fishing and fun. In addition, all children received a lunch and free fishing rods. Their first year event was very successful with close to hundred children attending, and there were about the...
Timothy Lance Scott 33, of Grygla, MN, was arrested at approximately 10PM on August 19th, 2014, after leading authorities approximately 30 miles on a high speed chase reaching speeds of around 90 miles per hour. A Minnesota State Trooper patrolling west of Wilton on Hwy 2, spotted Scott's pickup driving east bound at 84 MPH in a 65 MPH zone. When the trooper attempted to stop the vehicle, Scott increased his speed and began fleeing east toward Wilton. Scott turned his vehicle north on HWY 89...
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014, the Red Lake Tribal Council held their Regular Meeting at the Red Lake Humanities Center. Their first order of business was the swearing in of all remaining winners of the July 2014 Red Lake Tribal Run-Off Elections. In those Run-Off Elections, Don Cook was re-elected for another term as Tribal Secretary, defeating challenger Sam Strong by a difference of 138 votes, 1464 to 1326. Annette Johnson was elected at Red Lake's new Tribal Treasurer, defeating Glenda Martin...
Federal officials got a firsthand look at one deteriorating Native American school in Minnesota Tuesday--they said it's one of many suffering similarly throughout the country. After touring Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School in Bena, Minnesota, Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell said it's just one example of how the country is letting down it's Native American students. Employees said at this school about 30 miles west of Grand Rapids, they don't have many of the daily classroom materials they need....
Clyde Bellecourt and his cohorts caved in on the Warroad Warriors after a meeting with Henry Boucha on Monday. Basically, Bellecourt's group released a statement admitting that it did not properly research the connection between the nickname, Warroad High School and the Warroad Indian Community. Here was the statement released to Jess Myers, formerly a Warroad resident and a reporter who has been following this story: "Today, Monday August 18th, the National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media Board of Directors met with Mr. Henry...
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014, the Red Lake Tribal Council held their Regular Meeting at the Red Lake Humanities Center. Their first order of business was the swearing in of all remaining winners of the July 2014 Red Lake Tribal Run-Off Elections. In those Run-Off Elections, Don Cook was re-elected for another term as Tribal Secretary, defeating challenger Sam Strong by a difference of 138 votes, 1464 to 1326. Annette Johnson was elected at Red Lake's new Tribal Treasurer, defeating Glenda Martin...
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014, the Red Lake Tribal Council held their Regular Meeting at the Red Lake Humanities Center. Their first order of business was the swearing in of all remaining winners of the July 2014 Red Lake Tribal Run-Off Elections. In those Run-Off Elections, Don Cook was re-elected for another term as Tribal Secretary, defeating challenger Sam Strong by a difference of 138 votes, 1464 to 1326. Annette Johnson was elected at Red Lake's new Tribal Treasurer, defeating Glenda Martin...
The Red Lake Fair and Pow Wow 2014 was once again held in Ponemah this year. There will be a new Red Lake Pow Wow arena next year in Red Lake. Winning the Red Lake Princess contest was Sadie Kingbird, Bradley Barrett is the new Red Lake Sr. Brave, Slim Barrett is the new Red Lake Jr. Brave, and Cherish Kingbird is the new Jr. Red Lake Princess....
The Red Lake Fair and Pow Wow 2014 was once again held in Ponemah this year. There will be a new Red Lake Pow Wow arena next year in Red Lake. Winning the Red Lake Princess contest was Sadie Kingbird, Bradley Barrett is the new Red Lake Sr. Brave, Slim Barrett is the new Red Lake Jr. Brave, and Cherish Kingbird is the new Jr. Red Lake Princess....
The Minnesota Sheriffs’ Association (MSA) announced today the commencement of the Law Enforcement Scholarship Program for 2014. THE MSA Board of Directors have established a scholarship fund for the awarding of up to 15- $600 scholarships for this year. These scholarships are due to the coordinated efforts of the 87 Sheriffs of the State of Minnesota. MSA gives special recognition to the financial needs of students attending the peace officer skills course, or one of the two or four year law enforcement degree colleges. “The Board of Dir...
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. -- A Bemidji man accused of leading police on a chase after stealing wine from a liquor store and then a deputy’s squad car has been found not guilty by reason of mental illness. Ty Justin Andree, 24, was charged with six felonies and a misdemeanor in the March incident in rural Becker County. Authorities said he took sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase before charging toward them with a stolen shotgun and stealing one of the squad cars, then taking them on a second chase. Andree opted for a court trial, overseen by...
ROSEAU, Minn. -- Two drivers died in a head-on collision in northwest Minnesota on Tuesday, the Minnesota State Patrol said....
PABLO, Montana – As part of President Obama’s commitment to strengthen the government-to-government relationship with tribal nations and fulfill federal trust obligations, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today issued a Secretarial Order reaffirming the Department of the Interior’s trust responsibilities to federally-recognized Indian tribes and individual Indian beneficiaries and providing guidance for Interior agencies in carrying out their obligations to them. “This Order reaffirms the Department’s obligations and demonstra...
TAOS, NM—Taos Pueblo in Taos, New Mexico is one of 20 nominees vying for votes in USA Today’s 10Best Reader’s Choice awards for the “Best Native American Experience” in the United States. Votes will be accepted online at 10best.com/awards/travel/best-native-american-experience now through Sept. 15 at 11:59 a.m. EDT (9:59 a.m. MDT). Taos Pueblo is one of only five New Mexico destinations that made the list. Others include Acoma Pueblo; Gathering of Nations PowWow in Albuquerque; Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque; and Santa Fe Indian...
WASHINGTON – The National Park Service today announced more than $1.5 million in grants under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) to assist museums, Indian tribes, and Alaska native villages to document and return human remains and cultural objects to their native people. Grants were awarded both to support the efforts of museums, Indian tribes, Alaska native villages and Native Hawaiian organizations in the documentation of NAGPRA-related objects (consultation/documentation grants), and to pay for the costs asso...
Pick up forms in the office or call 679-3388. Registration day and Open House is Wednesday, August 27th from 11am. to 2pm. Lunch will be served from 11am. to 1pm....
Family Fest 2014 - Monday, Aug. 25, 2014 10 AM - Ponemah Pow Wow Grounds 5 on 5 boys/girls basketball tourney Door prizes Games for all ages School Supplies Cook Out Make and take crafts plus othr give away items Sponsored by Red Lake Chemical Health Programs, Ponemah Community Office, Ikwe-Wiigamig, Community Ed Program, and Language Revitalization. Volunteers Needed...
PONEMAH LABOR DAY ROYALTY APPLICATIONS RED LAKE ENROLLED MEMBERS OF THE PONEMAH COMMUNITY or OF PONEMAH DESCENDENT AGES 6-17 Contact Tessie Barrett at 554-7425 or pick up application at Ponemah Outpatient DEADLINE AUGUST 28, 2014...
STURGEON LAKE, Minn. — Pine County authorities say they've arrested a 38-year-old woman for shooting a man after he told authorities his four gunshot wounds were self-inflicted....