Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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RED LAKE - The Red Lake Nation's tribal council voted on Tuesday to legalize recreational marijuana and begin selling it - to both tribal and non-tribal members - on Aug. 1. The move could make Red Lake Nation the first entity to operate a recreational dispensary in the state, and gives the tribe a significant head start in the green rush to claim a piece of the projected $1.5 billion market. While possessing recreational marijuana will become legal across Minnesota on Aug. 1, retail locations...
In the 1950s, the United States government came up with a plan to solve what it called the "Indian problem." It would assimilate Native Americans by moving them to cities and eliminating reservations. The 20-year campaign failed to destroy Native cultures and tribal sovereignty, but its impact is still felt today. In the summer of 1964, Charlotte and Clyde Day and six of their children boarded a train in northern Minnesota bound for Cleveland. Except for Clyde, none of them had been on a train...
With prayer, song, and gold shovels emblazoned with Ojibwe floral patterns, the Red Lake Nation broke ground Saturday on a 110-unit affordable housing complex in Minneapolis. The $42 million apartment building is expected to be completed sometime next year and will also include a culturally-specific health care center, community space and a Red Lake Nation embassy serving band members living off the northern Minnesota reservation. The project is called Mino-Bimaadiziwin, an Ojibwe phrase that...
If you are a member of a Native American tribe, it's more likely that you live in a city than on a reservation. Despite that, it's rare for city governments to partner directly with tribes, who typically work with the federal government. That's changing - at least between the city of Minneapolis and the Red Lake Nation. This week, the mayor of Minneapolis drove 4 1/2 hours north to visit the Red Lake Tribal Council. "I believe this is the first time a mayor from the Twin Cities come visit the...
The Red Lake Nation and the city of Minneapolis are rushing to build emergency shelter for around 200 people living at the state's largest homeless encampment. The new shelter, a so-called "navigation center," has never been built before in Minnesota. The site for the future navigation center was offered by the Red Lake Nation. It's about an acre of asphalt and concrete, just across the eight-lane Hiawatha Avenue from more than 150 tents pitched along a concrete sound barrier. Red Lake tribal...
One side of the homeless encampment near the Little Earth neighborhood spans the sidewalk on Thursday, Sept. 20 in south Minneapolis. Mayor Frey hopes to have the site evacuated by the end of September. Ellen Schmidt | MPR News Nearly 200 people are living in tents at the homeless encampment at Hiawatha and Franklin Avenues, according to the first in-depth survey of the camp's residents. The survey was commissioned by the Red Lake Nation. Over the course of seven days two surveyors went tent-by-...
The Red Lake Nation and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Friday announced a new site to build a temporary shelter for residents of a homeless encampment that's swelled to an estimated 300 people near Hiawatha and Franklin avenues. The Red Lake Nation is offering to house the camp residents on plot of land it owns nearby. Red Lake Secretary Sam Strong says the tribe wants to build a six-story apartment building there to serve low-income people. He says those plans haven't changed. But in the...
