Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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More than 400 Band members, and friends of Red Lake Nation slowly streamed into the new Oshkiimaajitahdah (New Path or New Journey) Event Center in Redby, (a change of venue from previous years held at Seven Clans Casino, Red Lake) to attend the annual Red Lake Nation State of the Band Address on Friday, It was scheduled for March 10, 2023, at 10:00 am. As attendees entered, they were able to visit Program Informational Booths and sign up for drawings from 8:30 – 10:30 am with some pretty n...
More than 400 Band members, and friends of Red Lake Nation slowly streamed into the new Oshkiimaajitahdah (New Path or New Journey) Event Center in Redby, (a change of venue from previous years held at Seven Clans Casino, Red Lake) to attend the annual Red Lake Nation State of the Band Address on Friday, It was scheduled for March 10, 2023, at 10:00 am. As attendees entered, they were able to visit Program Informational Booths and sign up for drawings from 8:30 – 10:30 am with some pretty n...
Band members, and all friends and allies of Red Lake Nation are cordially invited to attend the annual Red Lake Nation State of the Band Address on Friday, March 10, 2023, at 10:00 am at Oshkiimaajitahdah Event Center, Redby. In this annual report to the people, Red Lake Chairman Darrell G. Seki, Sr., will recap the Tribal Council's 2022 agenda, and present future goals, aspirations, and plans for 2023. Please join us for a dinner after the address. Menu: RL Walleye and/or Steak, potato, wild...
The Fifteenth (non-consecutive) Red Lake Community Wellness Gathering was held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, January 9-11, 2023, at Red Lake Nation College in Red Lake. (Gatherings for 2021 and 2022 were not held due to COVID) This is the third year the Wellness Gathering has been held earlier in the year during the January semester break at Red Lake Nation College, thinking it a better venue for teachings on chemical health. In previous years, then known as the Drug & Gang Summit, the event...
The Red Lake Political Education Committee (RLPEC), a tribal non-profit, and non-partisan organization, will be hosting a Candidate Fair on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. The Fair will be held at the Oshkiimaajitahdah (New Beginnings), 15525 Mendota Ave., Redby, MN. (five miles east of Red Lake on Highway #1, Entrance back of the building) All candidates for local and statewide office, US Congress District 8, MN Senate District 2 and 2A, Beltrami County Sheriff, Beltrami Count...
The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians now is back to its usual seven hereditary Chiefs with the swearing in of Chief Gerald May. The swearing in took place at the Red Lake Tribal Council's regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at Seven Clans Event Center in Red Lake. May takes the place of Chief Darwin Sumner who resigned earlier this year. The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians Seven Hereditary Chiefs are descendants from those who negotiated the 1889 Land Agreement, and serve...
At the regular monthly meeting of the Red Lake Tribal Council held on Tuesday September 13, 2022, the Tribal Council was visited by a Beltrami County delegation. They included County Commissioner Reed Olson who was seeking tribal endorsement for State Representative 2A which include all of Red Lake and Bemidji. Olson, after fielding several questions from the Council and Hereditary Chiefs was endorsed unanimously by the Council. Ponemah Representative Glenda Martin made a motion to endorse Red...
At 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, August 9, 2022, Red Lake Tribal members and friends of the Nation gathered for an inauguration held at Seven Clans Casino and Event Center, Red Lake. Two months earlier in mid-June, members witnessed the swearing in of re-elected Secretary Samuel R. Strong and newly elected Tribal Treasurer Vernelle L. Lussier. Each had won their respective seats in the first-round election back in May, receiving more than 50% of the ballots cast and winning the election outright. Today He...
COVID cancelled many events over the last couple years including the 14th Annual Youth Leadership Conference back in 2019. Back in those days, the event had been held at Red Lake High School. Now, reimagined by new Youth Conference Coordinator Bianca Mendoza, who was celebrating one year at the helm on the second day of the event, the conference has been moved to the Red Lake Nation College with a slight name change. The Conference held before at the High School included mostly Red Lake High...
On Tuesday May 10, 2022...oh, around noon, a groundbreaking ceremony and celebration was due to commence for Ombimindwaa Gidanawemaaganinaadog, Red Lake's New Intergenerational Service Building. Several visitors from architects to county social service workers came from Bemijigamaag and elsewhere to join the Red Lake Tribal Council, tribal staff, community members, and honored guests. Ombimindwaa Gidanawemaaganinaadog translates to English as Uplifting our Relatives. It was formerly known as...
The Chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Darrell G. Seki, Sr. met with Bemidji Mayor Jorge Prince for a get acquainted dinner on February 15, 2022. Discussion items included a future joint meeting with both governmental bodies. The agenda would include, but not limited to, economic development and race/cultural relations. Mayor Prince informed Chairman Seki that Bemidji would be pleased to host as the city council is forbidden to meet as a council outside the city. Then a month...
Candidates for Red Lake Tribal Officers and District Representatives were certified at the Tuesday, March 8, 2022 regularly scheduled Tribal Council meeting. One incumbent, Tribal Treasurer Annette Johnson withdrew her candidacy before the candidacy withdrawal deadline of March 2, 2022. One non-incumbent candidate withdrew, and one candidate was deemed ineligible. Two incumbents from Ponemah and Redby opted to not seek reelection in addition to Treasurer Johnson. (List of certified candidates...
"The state has a history, we do as well. Red Lake wants to tell the story from our perspective. We need to raise the level of discourse on this subject. We want to educate our people but also the citizens of Minnesota and the United States on what was given often under high duress." - Red Lake Tribal Council on 150th Anniversary of Old Crossing Treaty, October 2, 2013. A Tribal holiday was established the month before. On October 2, 2021, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians recognized the...
"The state has a history, we do as well. Red Lake wants to tell the story from our perspective. We need to raise the level of discourse on this subject. We want to educate our people but also the citizens of Minnesota and the United States on what was given often under high duress." - Red Lake Tribal Council on 150th Anniversary of Old Crossing Treaty, October 2, 2013. A Tribal holiday was established the month before. On October 2, 2021, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians recognized the...
According to Andy Wells, Sr. of Wells Technology in Bemidji, the manufacturing company will partner with Oshkiimaajitahdah Center in Redby, MN in machinists training. The manufacturing industry across America is in great need of CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machinists for production jobs says Wells. "Therefore, Wells Academy, the Native American skill training school for Wells Technology, has opened a new branch in the Oshkiimaajitahdah center in Redby, MN.", said Wells. "We have relocated...
The Red Lake Tribal Council unanimously passed a vaccination mandate at their regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Tuesday 14 September monthly council meeting. The mandate applies to all persons who enter the Reservation for employment or business purposes. Exceptions to the mandate include pregnant women, documented medical conditions, children under 12, or belief or religious practice. Exceptions will not be approved for philosophical, political, or scientific views. Those not following...
The global war on terror isn't ending, nor was it as long as the American Indian Wars. I take issue with the characterization that the war in Afghanistan is America's longest war. America's real longest war was the conflict against Indigenous Americans, called the American Indian Wars, which most historians characterize as beginning in 1609 and ending in 1924 or 313 years, mainly over land control. The colonization of America by English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish was resisted by some...
"We stand together as one nation and face all challengers before us – the heart of unity will move us forward" In the annual report to the people, Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell G. Seki Sr., Secretary Samuel L. Strong, and Treasurer Annette Johnson along with ten tribal program managers, addressed a crowd gathered at the Red Lake powwow grounds on May 28. They would celebrate together...and in person...the challenges and successes that the tribe experienced in the 15 months since the last S...
"We stand together as one nation and face all challengers before us – the heart of unity will move us forward" In the annual report to the people, Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell G. Seki Sr., Secretary Samuel L. Strong, and Treasurer Annette Johnson along with ten tribal program managers, addressed a crowd gathered at the Red Lake powwow grounds on May 28. They would celebrate together...and in person...the challenges and successes that the tribe experienced in the 15 months since the last S...
"We stand together as one nation and face all challengers before us – the heart of unity will move us forward" In the annual report to the people, Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell G. Seki Sr., Secretary Samuel L. Strong, and Treasurer Annette Johnson along with ten tribal program managers, addressed a crowd gathered at the Red Lake powwow grounds on May 28. They would celebrate together...and in person...the challenges and successes that the tribe experienced in the 15 months since the last S...
Medical Martial Law at Red Lake Nation was rescinded as one of the first orders of business at the May 11, 2021 regular monthly meeting of the Red Lake Tribal Council. Among the restrictions lifted; Facemasks will no longer be required for outdoor activities; restrictions for numbers of people attending indoor activities, and non-residents entering the reservation. Medical Martial Law has been in effect since 5 pm, on Friday, April 3, 2020 on the Red Lake Indian Reservation/Red Lake Nation. The...
It was Friday October 9, 2020. I came to Red Lake Nation to witness the impressive Voter Registration Drive going on, a drive that registered roughly 5,500 new Red Lake voters. Yes, you read that right, 5,500 first time Red Lake voters. Success was due to the efforts of scores of Red Lake member canvassers...in a friendly competition...and over ten days. Another (roughly) 2,500 new voter registrations were filed at counties serving Leech Lake and White Earth. These were enrolled canvassers...
It was Friday October 9 when I returned to Red Lake. It was one day shy of six months, my last visit being the March 10, Tribal Council meeting. It is the longest time without a visit in 26 years by far. COVID kept this Gichi-mookomaan in Bemijigamaag for long time with all events and powwows cancelled or postponed. The first thing I notice...curbs. Curbs? And isn't that dip down to Ogaakaaning-Ziibiing (Pike Creek) shallower? Hwy. 1 thru Red Lake wider with a fresh coat of blacktop? A new Day...
It was Friday October 9 when I returned to Red Lake. It was one day shy of six months, my last visit being the March 10, Tribal Council meeting. It is the longest time without a visit in 26 years by far. COVID kept this Gichi-mookomaan in Bemijigamaag for long time with all events and powwows cancelled or postponed. The first thing I notice...curbs. Curbs? And isn't that dip down to Ogaakaaning-Ziibiing (Pike Creek) shallower? Hwy. 1 thru Red Lake wider with a fresh coat of blacktop? A new Day...
The Bemidji Area Citizens for an Informed Electorate (CIE) is hosting virtual forums for both the Primary and General Elections in 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The CIE will be sharing candidate info by social media, City website, and First City TV (Cable Channel 2) rather than holding our usual forums at Bemidji City Hall. Answers to 13 questions along with candidate head shots are now posted on CiE’s Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/Bemidji-area-Citizens-for-an-I...
