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WHITE EARTH, Minn. – The White Earth Nation is alerting residents to a flurry of drug overdoses in the last day or so that have claimed at least one life, according to a notice posted Friday on the nation’s Facebook page. The White Earth Drug Task Force has made community officials aware that four people on the White Earth Reservation suffered overdoses, with the individuals experiencing respiratory failure or falling into a coma. One death was reported. http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/13/rash-of-overdoses-leaves-1-dead-on...
The Redby Elder's Dinner 2017 was held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 at the New Redby Community Center in Redby, Minnesota. The dinner honored elders and featured the Little Bear Drum Group, a question and answer session with Red Lake Law Enforcement, and a performance by Amaya Pemberton....
Seven Red Lake Head Start children visited the Chandler Farm Pumpkin Patch on Saturday, October 14, 2017....
On Friday, October 13, 2017 the Red Lake Warriors football team hosted the Bagley Flyers in their homecoming game, losing 53-14....
BEMIDJI—The McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits have selected Millicent Simenson of Bemidji as one of three individuals to receive this year's Virginia McKnight Binger Unsung Hero Award. The award is meant to honor individuals doing life-changing work in communities across Minnesota with little or no recognition, according to a press release. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4343825-simenson-earns-national-award...
On Friday, October 13, 2017 the Red Lake Warriors football team hosted the Bagley Flyers in their homecoming game, losing 53-14....
ORLANDO, FLORIDA - On Wednesday, October 4, 2017, five Red Lake School Board members and staff attended the National Indian Education Association Annual Conference. The 2017 NIEA Convention took place from October 4-7, 2017 at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. According to news reports, there was no damage to the Caribe Royale from the recent hurricane to impact the region. The Convention took place as scheduled. This year's Convention theme: "Building Education Nations by Amplifying Innova...
ORLANDO, FLORIDA - On Wednesday, October 4, 2017, five Red Lake School Board members and staff attended the National Indian Education Association Annual Conference. The 2017 NIEA Convention took place from October 4-7, 2017 at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. According to news reports, there was no damage to the Caribe Royale from the recent hurricane to impact the region. The Convention took place as scheduled. This year's Convention theme: "Building Education Nations by Amplifying Innova...
On Friday, September 29, 2017, the Red Lake Warriors Football Team played host to Pine River, losing 57-14....
On Friday, September 29, 2017, the Red Lake Warriors Football Team played host to Pine River, losing 57-14....
On Friday, September 21, 2017, the Red Lake Warriors hosted Red Lake County Central, losing to the visitors 44-0....
On Friday, September 21, 2017, the Red Lake Warriors hosted Red Lake County Central, losing to the visitors 44-0....
RED LAKE - On Thursday, September 21, 2017, the Red Lake Lady Warriors Volleyball Team won their first set of this season over Fond du Lac, 3-1. Red Lake's Junior Varsity also won their first set, 2-0, prior to the varsity game....
RED LAKE - On Thursday, September 21, 2017, the Red Lake Lady Warriors Volleyball Team won their first set of this season over Fond du Lac, 3-1. Red Lake's Junior Varsity also won their first set, 2-0, prior to the varsity game....
Ponemah Labor Day Pow Wow 2017: Saturday Afternoon Session...
Ponemah Labor Day Pow Wow 2017: Saturday Afternoon Session...
St. Paul, MN: The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has confirmed a new Palmer amaranth infestation in a conservation planting – this time in Todd County. The MDA is investigating where the Palmer amaranth seed came from; however, officials believe the weed is limited to specific planting sites. “There are several factors working in our favor that lead us to believe we can find, control, and eliminate this new Palmer amaranth find,” said Geir Friisoe, MDA’s Director of Plant Protection. “The Todd County planting was seeded in late June...
Francis Joseph White III April 2, 1961 - Wednesday, October 10, 2017 Service Information Community Center-Old Agency Village, SD Sunday, October 15, 2017 2:00 P.M. Visitation Information Community Center-Old Agency Village, SD Fri 10/13 & Sat 10/14 Beginning at 7 P.M. Francis "Little Joe" White III – Kakkak Journeyed to the Spirit World on October 10th, 2017 at his residence in Sisseton, South Dakota. Little Joe was born on April 2nd, 1961 to Francis J. "Joe" White Jr. and his mother Sharon K...
Walmart Canada has pulled a number of Halloween costumes from its website, including "native princess" and "chief," and will begin a consultation process to revisit its "guidelines that address cultural sensitivity," CBC Toronto has learned. CBC Toronto was investigating a complaint about an afro wig for sale at a Greater Toronto Area Walmart and came upon several Indigenous costumes on its site. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/walmart-native-costumes-1.4354726...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will unveil a timely new addition to its long-running show, “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations: An 11.5 foot-tall mile-marker post made by Hickory Edwards, one of the 12,000 activists who gathered at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline last September, will go on view starting October 24. Mile-marker posts were constructed and set up in the camps to represent how far protesters had traveled. Some cam...
Nevada’s largest marijuana retail facility and first on tribal lands will open its doors to the public on at 10 a.m. Monday. About 200 tribal leaders and families celebrated the announcement with industry members and elected officials in a private gathering Saturday inside the new 15,500 square-foot Nuwu Cannabis Marketplace. The ceremony also featured traditional Native American songs, chants and dances performed by birdsingers from tribes across Nevada. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/oct/15/years-in-the-making-massive-t...
MINNEAPOLIS — The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition will be facilitating a Tribal Roundtable Discussion for Carlisle Repatriations on November 30, 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On August 9, 2017 a group of Northern Arapaho began exhumation of their children’s remains from the Army War College Cemetery in Carlisle, PA to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. The tribal members were there to repatriate three of their children: Little Chief, Horse, and Little Plume. Tragically, Little Plume’s grave contained two sets...
The family of Sheridan Hookimaw, a 13-year-old Attawapiskat girl who died by suicide, is seeking a coroner’s inquest to examine the circumstances that led to the tragedy. Stephanie Hookimaw, the adoptive mother of Sheridan Hookimaw, recently sent a letter to Regional Coroner Michael Wilson requesting the inquest. She wrote that the suicide crisis faced by Attawapiskat following Sheridan Hookimaw’s death created a parallel with the seven student deaths in Thunder Bay that triggered a wide-ranging inquest. http://aptnnews.ca/2...
The homecoming dance, parade and football game at a Sturgis, South Dakota high school have been cancelled after social media showed “Go back to the Rez” painted on a car that was destroyed prior to the scheduled game with Pine Ridge High School for students on the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. “It’s the worst day I’ve ever had,” Sturgis Brown High School Principal Pete Wilson told the Associated Press. https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/south-dakota-high-school-cancels-homecoming-after-go-back-to-the-rez-attack-on-nati...
When the fur-trader-turned-politician William Benjamin Robinson pulled up to the shores of the river that links Lake Superior and Lake Huron in 1850, his mission was clear: he was to gain access to as much of the vast territory around him as possible. Acting on behalf of Queen Victoria, Robinson soon launched into formal negotiations with the indigenous people who lived in what would later become north-eastern Ontario in Canada. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/15/canada-first-nations-treaty-annuity-lawsuit...