Articles from the January 13, 2022 edition
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At-Home COVID Test Kits are available for Community Members at the Red Lake Pharmacy
At-Home COVID Test Kits are available for Community Members at the Red Lake Pharmacy M-F, 8 AM - 3 PM. How-to video: AT HOME COVID TEST KITS Jill Andersen and John Nicholson from Red Lake Comprehensive Health discuss the antigen home test kits for COVID and demonstrate how to use the tests with step by step instructions....
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Justice Iceman enlistes in United States Marine Corps
Justice Iceman has enlisted to serve his country as a Marine. He comes from a long line of Warriors who've served their country in active duty. Great grandfather's Robert Iceman and Leo King served in WW II, his uncle Ervin Iceman served in the U.S. Army with active duty in Iraq and his father Michael Iceman served 4 years in...
Paul Bunyan Communications 6th Pick-it Bowl Challenge Winners
(Bemidji, MN) (January 12, 2022) - Paul Bunyan Communications is excited to announce the winners of the 6th Pick-it Bowl Challenge, a free online contest for participants to pick the winners for the 2021-22 College Bowl games for a chance to win a credit on a Paul Bunyan Communications account. Winners of the 6th Paul Bunyan Com...
Dwight Alan Perkins
Dwight Alan Perkins May 14, 1975 ~ January 9, 2022 (age 46) Dwight Alan Perkins, 46, of the Marten Clan, passed away on Sunday, January 9, 2022, at LifeCare Medical Center in Roseau, Minnesota. Dwight was born on May 14, 1975, in Red Lake, Minnesota, to Kenneth Johnson and Gloria Perkins. He was raised in Ponemah and graduated...
James George Smith
James George Smith June 5, 1976 - January 11, 2022 James Smith, age 45 of Onamia, MN passed away on January 11, 2022. Visitation will begin at 6 PM on Friday, January 14, 2022, at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Reservation. A Funeral Ceremony will be held at 10 AM on Saturday, January 15, 2022, at the...
Clyde Bellecourt
Clyde Bellecourt May 8, 1936 - January 11, 2022 A full obituary will be published soon. All - night Visitations: Thursday, January 13, 2022 - 7:00 P.M. Phillips Community Center Minneapolis, Minnesota and Friday, January 14, 2022 - 7:00 P.M. White Earth Community Center Whiteearth, Minnesota Funeral Service: Saturday, January...
Rhonda Marie (Norcross) Lopez
Rhonda Marie (Norcross) Lopez December 24, 1957 ~ January 7, 2022 (age 64) Rhonda Marie (Norcross) Lopez, age 64, "Nagweyaab Giizhigookwe" meaning "Rainbow Sky Woman" of Pine Point, Minnesota began her journey to the spirit world on Friday, January 7th, 2022 from the Sanford Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. Rhonda was born on...
Minneapolis, St. Paul to require vaccine proof to get into bars, restaurants
Minneapolis and St. Paul will require customers to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to enter restaurants, bars and other entertainment venues, marking some of the most aggressive steps the Twin Cities have taken to curb the spread of the virus. The action comes as officials are trying to temper a spike in...
Minnesota stops requiring child care providers to quarantine kids exposed to COVID-19
The state will no longer require child care providers in Minnesota to quarantine students and staff who were in contact with someone testing positive for COVID-19, though it recommends they continue to do so. The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), which notified providers Tuesday of the change to its licensing...
Minneapolis schools will go virtual for two weeks starting Friday
Minneapolis Public Schools will go virtual for two weeks due to a "significant reduction" in school staff available to work because of COVID-19, district officials said Wednesday afternoon. Students will begin learning virtually on Friday and return to classrooms Jan. 31. In-person after-school programs will go on hiatus during...
Vikings have pointed to five candidates as names to watch for general manager position
The first two days of the Vikings' general manager and coaching searches have played out relatively quietly, with executive vice president of football operations Rob Brzezinski, chief operating officer Andrew Miller and co-directors of player personnel Ryan Monnens and Jamaal Stephenson huddling with team ownership to form a...
Trump slams politicians who won't say they got booster shots
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump is slamming politicians who refuse to say whether they have received COVID-19 booster shots as "gutless." "You gotta say it. Whether you had it or not, say it," Trump said in an interview that aired Tuesday night on the conservative One America News Network. Trump, who was booed last month by supporters after revealing he had gotten a...
GOP leader McCarthy says he won't cooperate with 1/6 panel
WASHINGTON - The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection requested an interview and records from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday, as it continues to seek first-hand details from members of Congress on former President Donald Trump's actions on the day hundreds of his supporters brutally beat...
Remote learning? We're done with it.
I didn't log my children into remote learning the other day. Around 4 p.m. Sunday we received the dreaded e-mail from Minneapolis Public Schools: "tomorrow will be an e-learning day." My first response: "Nope, not doing it." https://www.startribune.com/remote-learning-were-done-with-it/600135244/...
Enbridge-funded state account has paid over $4.8M for Line 3 policing costs
Enbridge has doled out about $4.8 million to cover policing and public safety costs related to construction of its new Line 3 across northern Minnesota - and the final tab will be higher. Meanwhile, courts in counties along the pipeline's route are clogged with hundreds of cases involving protesters. Several have been charged...
US hits NKorean officials with sanctions after missile test
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration on Wednesday slapped sanctions on five North Korean officials in its first response to Pyongyang's latest ballistic missile test and later announced it will also seek new U.N. sanctions. The Treasury Department said it was imposing penalties on the five officials over their roles in...
Trump abruptly ends NPR interview after he is pressed on baseless election fraud claims
Former president Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with NPR on Tuesday after he was pressed on his baseless claims of election fraud and repeated contention that the 2020 election was "rigged" against him. Trump hung up on "Morning Edition" host Steve Inskeep nine minutes into what NPR said was scheduled to be a...
Red Lake felon sentenced for illegal possession of firearm, meth and fentanyl
RED LAKE — A Red Lake man has been sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for illegally possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl and possessing a firearm as a felon, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice. According to court documents, on Nov. 21, 2020, Joshua Jon Lussier, 34, was...
Minnesota School Boards Association cuts ties with national group
ST. PETER, Minn. — The Minnesota School Boards Association is among the latest in the U.S. to withdraw membership from a national association that asked for help from federal authorities in handling parent protests and threats at school board meetings and compared the issue to "domestic terrorism." Minnesota Republicans in November called on the state's school board...
Minnesota to offer $200 to get kids 5-11 vaccinated against COVID-19
ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday, Jan. 11, announced that the state would offer $200 to Minnesota families that vaccinate their children ages 5 through 11 against COVID-19. The incentive programs follow several other rounds of giveaways for other age groups aimed at enticing people to get immunized against the illness. It also came as the omicron variant spurred...
Triple Homicide on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
On the early morning hours of January 5, a triple homicide occurred in Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. On January 10, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Department of Public Safety released the names of three deceased victims who were shot and killed inside a home on the reservation. The bodies of Alma...
Tribal Leaders Weigh in on the Catholic Church's Effort to Engage over Indian Boarding Schools
An increasing number of Catholic organizations are joining the discussion about Indian boarding schools. But what role do they have to play in the pursuit of truth and healing, and who is their participation serving? In November, Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops'...
Navajo woman sworn in as Arizona Senate member
Less than two hours before the 2022 legislative session began, the Senate welcomed Theresa Hatathlie as its newest member. The Coconino County Board of Supervisors appointed Hatathlie, 52, to fill the District 7 Senate seat vacated last month by Sen. Jamescita Peshlakai, who resigned to take a job with the Biden administration at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Like...
The 'incorrigible' Thunder Before the Storm
Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun introduced himself. He said he was from the Three Fire Society, Gathering of the Sacred Pipes, a Sun Dancer, and the American Indian Movement. “My spirit name is Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun,” he said. “The translation of that is Thunder Before the Storm.” Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun said he was only 11-years-old when a Becker County judge gave him another...
2022 Tribal Election Announcement
The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe hereby announces that a Regular Election will be held on June 14, 2022, on the LEECH LAKE RESERVATION. This REGULAR ELECTION provides for an April 5, 2022, PRIMARY ELECTION in the event there are more than two (2) eligible candidates for each open position. Elected positions to be filled are as follo...
