Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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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...
LONGMONT, Colorado (January 27, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is pleased to announce that more funding will soon be directed to Indian Country to counter the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on Native communities. First Nations is among the 20 Native American Community Development Financial Institutions and Native-serving nonprofits – many of them in Colorado – that together received $13 million in funding from Bank of America as part of its efforts to advance economic opportunity and racial equality. “Syst...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - (Jan. 27, 2021) - Travois, a Certified B Corporation focused exclusively on promoting housing and economic development for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities, established the Travois Tribal Scholarship Program in partnership with the American Indian College Fund to support 10 tribal college students in 2021. The $25,000 scholarship program will support eight students pursuing careers in affordable housing and economic development and two students pursuing an arts degree. “Every day, we see f...
(OTTAWA, January 27) – Racism in healthcare is a problem affecting all Indigenous people, regardless of their sex, and Indigenous women should not be left on the sidelines of the discussions, Lorraine Whitman, the President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), said Wednesday. NWAC is pleased to have been asked to deliver brief remarks on Thursday of this week, the second day of a two-day meeting at which the issue of anti-Indigenous racism in Canada’s healthcare systems will be addressed by federal, provincial, and terri...
FREE COVID SUPPLIES OFFERED AT RED LAKE NATION COLLEGE 10 AM - 3 PM - FEB. 1ST - 3RD - RLNC STUDENT UNION...
BEMIDJI, Minn. – The staff from the BSU Alumni & Foundation recently donated various items to the Sanford Health Foundation of Northern Minnesota in support of the residents at Sanford Health Neilson Place. This kind of support will help with the daily care and comfort of the residents. The Sanford Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the enhancement and expansion of health care services, state-of-the-art technology and facilities to provide health and healing for our region. Anyone interested in s...
Today, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development issued a reminder that applications for Movie Theater and Convention Center Relief Grants are due this Friday, January 29th. Here’s further information and applications for the programs: • Minnesota Convention Center Relief Grant Program – This temporary program was established to provide economic relief for convention centers adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This program will make grants of up to $500,000 to eligible convention centers located in Minne...
Mesa, Az – United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. (UNITY) has announced that the application process is now open for the 2021 cohort of its Earth Ambassadors Leadership Program. The environmental stewardship program, established in the 1990s, engages Native American and Alaska Native youth in training sessions and informational workshops to increase their knowledge of environmental issues affecting Native America, learn to serve as ambassadors to increase awareness of the issues affecting the environmental quality on Native lands, and p...
ADA, Okla. – Two months into a battle with COVID-19, Chickasaw citizen Nicole Willis hopes lingering symptoms will diminish but is resigned to the possibility "this may be the new me." Mrs. Willis' fight is typical and atypical. Despite fighting the virus since mid-November, she still suffers body aches, fatigue, headaches, and the much more dangerous illness of COVID-19 pneumonia, a condition that landed her in the Chickasaw Nation Medical Center emergency room. "I still have a difficult time c...
WASHINGTON - As part of his racial and equality initiative, President Joe Biden on Monday signed a Presidential Memorandum that reaffirms tribal sovereignty through tribal consultation. Speaking in more general terms about the racial divide that exists in the country, Biden said the nation faces deep racial inequities in America. "In my campaign for President, I made it very clear that the moment had arrived as a nation where we face deep racial inequities in America and system - systemic...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — On Wednesday, the Navajo Department of Health, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center and the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, reported 152 new Covid-19 positive cases for the Navajo Nation and four more deaths. The total number of deaths is now 989 as of Wednesday. Reports indicate that 14,266 individuals have recovered from Covid-19, and 230,323 Covid-19 tests have been administered. The total number of positive Covid-19 cases is now 27,887, including 70 delayed reported cases. Navajo Nation Covid-19 p...
PEMBROKE, N.C. - The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is mourning the passing of its former Tribal Chairman Paul Brooks, who served as chairman from 2011 to 2016. Brooks passed away on Saturday night. He died from complicaitions with pneumonia after recently recovering from Covid-19. He was 81. paul brooksPaul Brooks"Today our thoughts and prayers are with the family of former Lumbee Tribal Chairman Paul Brooks," the Lumbee Tribe said in a statement released Sunday. Current Lumbee Tribal Chairman...
Growing up in Nebraska, Carole Lindstrom’s favorite novel series was “The Little House” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder about a young woman’s life as a settler on the Great Plains in the late 19th Century. But while she loved reading about Wilder’s adventures, Lindstrom couldn’t help but feel frustrated by how the author depicted her people. “I just remember being so torn and not understanding why this book that I loved so much could talk about me so badly, as a savage and as a wild Indian,” she said. “I wasn’t those things. My mother wasn’t th...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must outline its plans for the Dakota Access oil pipeline after an appeals court confirmed the line is operating without a key permit, a federal judge said Wednesday. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has set a status hearing for Feb. 10 to discuss the impact of Tuesday's opinion by the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals that upheld Boasberg's ruling ordering the Corps to conduct a full environmental impact review. Opponents of the pipeline want it shut down immediately. h...
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected gambling compacts that Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt negotiated with two Oklahoma-based tribes, delivering the first-term governor another setback in his attempt to renegotiate the deals that allow gambling at tribal casinos. In its decision on Tuesday, the court ruled the compacts with the Kialegee Tribal Town and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians are invalid under Oklahoma law. The court determined that because Stitt negotiated different terms to those included in a model g...
