Red Lake Nation News - Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

ST. PAUL – Rick Nolan sounds thrilled to sit on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, and he hopes a personal relationship with the House speaker could help the cause....

CASS LAKE — At least three people were killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash Saturday on U.S. Highway 2 near Cass Lake, the Minnesota State Patrol reported....

BEMIDJI – Populations are shifting, but the total number of legislators going to St. Paul is not....

BEMIDJI – While northwest Minnesota has lagged behind the rest of nation in terms of this year’s influenza epidemic, that is not expected to last....

CASS LAKE - A 27-year-old Mississippi woman and two children, ages 1 and 3, were killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash Saturday on U.S. Highway 2 near Cass Lake....

Minnesota school officials are expanding their focus from security at high schools to the state's more than 900 elementary schools, which often haven't had the same safety precautions or personnel as secondary schools....

CHICAGO - Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down on employees who won't get flu shots, with some workers losing their jobs over the refusal....

MINNEAPOLIS - Carp, wolves, moose, copper and sand will be high on the agenda as the Minnesota Legislature tackles environmental and outdoor issues this session....

LITTLE FALLS, MINN. - Kevin Brown knew he needed help. The 11-year Army veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan was suffering from PTSD, a brain injury, a back injury causing arthritis in his elbows and knees and a chronic skin ailment contracted in the desert of Iraq. But his calls to the county's veterans service office in his hometown of Duluth proved more frustrating...

The flu shot, it might be said, is the black sheep of the vaccine family. In good years, people ignore it because they think the flu is no big deal. In bad years -- like this one -- they complain that it doesn't work well enough....

ON UPPER RED LAKE - If you have the option, choose ice fishing to resolve your modern problems, rather than a frontal lobotomy. I say this not knowing much about frontal lobotomies, except for the old saw that argues, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.''...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Government has been mismanaging funds for over 140 years according to a damaging audit commissioned by the First Nations released this morning....

While Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo sat in the meeting room of the high-security Langevin Block building flanked by Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and Treasury Board President Tony Clement he could hear the sounds of the Idle No More protest that had shut down the streets outside....

We all have a story about waiting for a check from the Treasury. It could come from managing a tribal program, being an entrepreneur waiting for a contract, or even a personal tax refund. (These days, of course, much of this occurs electronically.) But the wait is made easier because you know, eventually, it will happen. The money will be there....