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In late December, the New York Police Department sent a packet of material to the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI. It was full of what's known as raw intelligence - bits and pieces of information that turned up by scraping various social media sites. It all indicated that there would likely be violence when lawmakers certified the presidential election on Jan. 6. The NYPD sent the information to Washington under the assumption it would be folded into a formal intelligence bulletin by the FBI...
Kevin Gover, the director of the National Museum of the American Indian, has been named the Smithsonian’s Under Secretary for Museums and Culture, effective Jan. 17. The position oversees the Smithsonian’s history and art museums, its cultural centers, and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Exhibits and the National Collections Program. Gover has served as Under Secretary in an acting capacity since February 2020. He reports to Meroe Park, the Smithsonian’s Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer. Gover, a citizen of the Pawne...
Halloween in Red Lake 2020 Somewhat different, but still a lot of fun for kids and their parents...
Looking Back to June 2011 - Red Lake Elementary School Academy...
Looking Back to July 2011 - Red Lake 4th of July Celebration - Evening Session...
Looking Back to July 2011 - Red Lake 4th of July Celebration - Saturday Afternoon Session...
Looking Back to July 2011 - Red Lake Middle School Conference...
Looking Back to July 2011 - Red Lake 4th of July Celebration - Saturday Afternoon Parade...
Looking Back to July 2011 - Red Lake 4th of July Celebration - Sunday Afternoon Session...
Looking Back to July 2011 - Red Lake 4th of July Celebration - Monday Afternoon Session...
Bemidji, Minn. – On January 6th, Americans witnessed an attempted insurrection by a mob that attacked the United States Congress as it carried out its constitutional duty of certifying the results of a free and fair election. The mob was incited by President Trump to do so, and by the many GOP officials who willfully peddled misinformation about last November’s election. This riot was nothing less than an attack on American democracy and the Constitution, and should be investigated and litigated as such. Curtiss Hunt, Chair of the Beltrami Cou...
Clark County School District students received more failing grades during the fall semester of distance learning than in previous school years, according to district data posted ahead of an expected School Board vote Thursday on the possible reopening of some campuses. The grade data, which cut across all age groups, was a factor in a recommendation to reopen schools to small groups of students for voluntary academic and socio-emotional supports, according to an online presentation on the agenda. Other factors shaping the district’s r...
Wednesday, Jan. 13. 5 p.m. — The second installment of a joint series on school reopening organized by UIC and Chicago Public Schools takes place Thursday. Dr. Kenneth Fox, the district’s chief health officer, will be there. The series is virtual and intended to answer questions from parents. Details here. Fox was among the CPS officials who testified this week at a marathon City Council hearing about school reopening. Today, 19 City Council members made public a letter pushing for a second hearing before K-8 students are set to return Feb...
In the beginning of the school year, Pike Township parent Amy Dirks decided her three children would learn online. So much was unknown about the coronavirus and how contagious it could be to children, she said. But now she’s had a change of heart. She’s sending her children back into the classroom this semester. “We decided that it’s worth the risk to send them because they are just not thriving with in-home,” Dirks said. Her second grader was falling behind in reading. https://in.chalkbeat.org/2021/1/12/22228057/more-indian...
NMAAHC Community Day: A People’s Holiday On Monday, January 18, 2021 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, the museum celebrates this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day with its annual community program A People’s Holiday, named for Coretta Scott King’s famous quote stating the holiday “is not a black holiday; it is a peoples’ holiday”. The program features six-time Grammy award-winning bassist, composer, and educator Christian McBride in a digital performance inspired by his social justice-focused album, The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of F...
Washington, D.C. (January 13, 2021) – Today, the National Council of Urban Indian Health Chief Executive Officer Francys Crevier (Algonquin) released the following statement: “Last week, we bore witness to a terror at the United States Capitol, an institution which has long carried the original transgressions of this country dating back to 1492. The Capitol is located on the stolen land of the Nacotchtank, Piscataway, and Pamunkey peoples and was built through the stolen labor of our Black brothers and sisters. Despite the dark history of its...
WASHINGTON – In a virtual ceremony today with tribal leaders, Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Tara Katuk Mac Lean Sweeney announced the opening of the Operation Lady Justice Task Force’s cold case office in Nashville, TN. The Nashville office follows six that were opened in 2020: Bloomington, MN, on July 27; Rapid City, SD, on August 4; Billings, MT, on August 6; Albuquerque, NM, on August 11; Phoenix, AZ, on August 13; and Anchorage, AK, on August 26. Sweeney was joined by Assistant to the President and White House Intergovernmental Affai...
WASHINGTON - President Donald John Trump has been impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. Today's vote is historic because Trump becomes the first United States president in history be impeached twice. Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the votes of the article of impeachment were 232 to 197, mostly down party lines. Ten Republican members of Congress crossed party lines to vote in favor of impeachment. The impeachment vote came one week to the day that the U.S. Capitol was violently...
A task force on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) has found that Indigenous people account for 21 percent of homicides in Wyoming, despite only making up three percent of the state's population. This grim conclusion is based on data from a report that was released last week. The document, titled "Missing and Murdered Indigenous People: Statewide Report Wyoming," was compiled by researchers from the Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center at the University of Wyoming using administrative...
Three Indigenous members of Congress voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump, charged with “incitement of insurrection.” He is the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. The U.S. House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump, with 10 Republicans voting yes. The vote fell along party lines for the Indigenous lawmakers. Democratic Reps. Sharice Davids, Ho-Chunk, of Kansas, Kai Kahele, Kanaka Maoli, of Hawaii, and Deb Haaland, Laguna and Jemez Pueblos, of New Mexico, voted in favor. https://indiancountrytoday.c...
MILLE LACS RESERVATION – In her 2021 State of the Band address, Mille Lacs Band Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin summarized 2020 as a year in which “some of the worst things we could imagine happened, but in many ways, it brought out the best in us we could ever hope for.” During one of the darkest times in our modern history, Benjamin said that many Mille Lacs Band Members became a light in the darkness, “being the best ancestors they could be.” “Small sparks together lit a great fire of community service, of fighting against injustice a...