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Jason Lussier Sr., 40, of Bemidji died Thursday, January 26, 2012 at his home. Traditional Funeral Services will be 10:00 am Monday, January 30, 2012 at the Red Lake Community Center in Red Lake, MN with Spiritual Leader Larry “Amik” Smallwood and Harlan Downwind officiating. A wake will be held from 2-8:00pm, Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the American Indian Center in Minneapolis, MN, and will begin again at 2:00pm, Sunday, January 29, 2012 at the Red Lake Community Center and will continue until the time of the service. Interment will be at t...
Raymond Eugene Chatfiled, 83, of Cass Lake, died Jan. 24, 2012 at his home. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 30 at Ball Club Community Center in Ball Club. Visitation will be at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30 at the Ball Club Community Center. Burial will be in Winnie Dam Cemetery in Winnie Dam....
Ernie Stevens, (Oneida) chairman of the National Indian Gaming Association, came to Red Lake Jan. 20 with $15,500 in his pocket. Stevens, an athlete himself from Green Bay, was mourning the losses of his beloved Packers. After reminiscing over breakfast with Red Lake Chairman Floyd Jourdain, Jr., Boys & Girls Club Director Dawn Huseby, Tribal Administrator Lea Perkins, and Chemical Health Director Tom Barrett, the group traveled to the Humanities Center to formally present a check for more than...
The first thing one notices when entering the southwest door of the Humanities Center (also now known as the Red Lake Recreation Center) is how bright it is. Bright for two reasons, new brilliant paint colors on the bleachers and replaced light fixtures in the ceiling. Off to the left, where the old casino used to be, there's a welcome sign for the Red Lake Fitness Center. The new Red Lake Nation Fitness Center celebrated it's Grand Opening on Wednesday January 25th, 2012. From 9 a.m. to 5...
Red Lake, Minnesota January 20, 2012 – The Red Lake IHS Hospital and Ponemah Clinic has earned the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval™ for accreditation by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission's national standards for health care quality and safety in hospitals. The accreditation award recognizes Red Lake IHS Indian Hospital’s dedication to continuous compliance with The Joint Commission's state-of-the-art standards. The Red Lake IHS Hospital and Ponemah Clinic under...
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. -- Since 2006, there has been very "Good" work going on in northwest Minnesota. Retired teacher Karen Good has saved thousands of homeless animals. "You look at all the animals that we have helped through the years, you can say that, it was so worth it. And we fixed 2600 animals, So, that is going to make an impact. If we can sustain it, but that is something that has to be sustained." Karen Good gave up the teaching job that she enjoyed in 2010 to devote herself full time...
Recent print news articles suggest the biggest tribal casinos in the state, including Mystic Lake Casino Hotel operated by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, have gone years without inspections to validate the integrity of slots and table games. Unfortunately, this information is factually incorrect and misleading. These misleading stories report that the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, the state regulator with the authority to inspect tribal casinos under the Tribal-State...
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Employment and Training Administration Notice of Availability of Funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications for Workforce Innovation Fund Grants Announcement Type: Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) Funding Opportunity Number: SGA/DFA PY-11-05 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 17.283 Key Dates: The closing date for receipt of applications under this announcement is March 22, 2012. Applications must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. A pre-recorded webinar will be on-line at...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of the Native Mob gang have shot rivals in Minneapolis, sold drugs in Duluth, and thrown boiling water in a person's face in Crow Wing County. Authorities say this week's federal indictment of 24 suspected Native Mob members could bring a reprieve from some of that violence where the gang is active. It's seen as one of the most violent gangs in the Upper Midwest. Minneapolis police Inspector Mike Martin says the indictment sends a message "that you can run but you can't hide." Still, because the gang is so s...
3 Census 2010 Census Summary File 2 — This file provides detailed demographic information from the 2010 Census for up to 331 detailed race and ethnic groups down to the census tract level, adding a new layer of detail to the population and housing topics previously released from the census. The statistics are being released on a state-by-state flow basis and will be offered on embargo. For more information on the release process, visit the Summary File 2 press kit. (Scheduled for release December 2011 through May 2012.) Census Bureau and N...
(Eagan, January 19) The Dakota Communities Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has appointed Julie Manworren as the new President and CEO of the organization. She will begin her new role on January 30th, 2012 as Dakota Communities celebrates 40 years of partnering with people with disabilities to realize their goals and potential. Manworren brings over 25 years of experience in non-profit leadership to Dakota Communities, most recently serving as the Executive Director of Simpson...
Two dozen suspected members of Native Mob, a Minneapolis-born, American Indian gang, were indicted this week. Matt McKinney and I wrote a story today giving more details about the gang and talking to people familiar with Native Mob about its influence....
An extensive indictment made public this week offers a detailed look at the inner workings of one of the nation's most violent American Indian gangs....
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Please, please have a seat. It is wonderful to see all of you here this afternoon. Some old friends and some new friends. As you know, I’m not here tonight just as President, but also as an adopted member of the Crow Nation. (Applause.) If my adoptive parents were here, I know what they’d say: Kids just grow up so fast. (Laughter.) When I made that visit to Montana, I said that my job wasn’t just to win an election. It was to make sure that Washington start...
PUBLIC SAFETY INITIATIVES IN INDIAN COUNTRY Task Force To Examine Children’s Exposure To Violence In Rural And Tribal Communities (U.S. Department of Justice - www.justice.gov/usao/nm/pr/) U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence will hold its second public hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 31, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Vincent E. Griego Council Chambers at One Civic Plaza, N.W. Albuquerque, N.M. The task force will gather testimony on the epidemic of children’s exposure to violence from natio...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2012 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 24 university students who will attend USDA's 2012 Agricultural Outlook Forum. The finalists include students from Land-Grant, Hispanic-serving institutions, and American Association of State Colleges of Agriculture and Renewable Resources institutions who are the recipients of corporate and USDA sponsorship aimed at promoting the education of the next generation of agriculturalists. The Forum titled, "Moving Agriculture Forward," is USDA's largest...
Ten years after Block E opened with promises to bring crowds to downtown Minneapolis, the storied building has become a ghost town....
Every December since 2005, a group of Dakota people mount horses and ride 330 miles from Crow Creek, S.D., to Mankato, Minn., to commemorate the hanging of 38 of their ancestors in 1862....
Counterpoint On Jan. 22, for the second Sunday in a row, the Star Tribune published a front-page article that omitted key facts about tribal government gaming in Minnesota ("Slots get little or no state review"). The superficial analysis of tribal gaming regulation leaves readers misinformed and gives tribal gaming opponents false ammunition to unfairly criticize the gaming enterprises and to disparage state regulators. Minnesota's tribal casinos are among the most heavily regulated casinos in the United States -- that includes private casinos...
ATTAWAPISKAT, ONT. — At Micheline Okimaw’s White Wolf Inn, the most popular of the two motels in this remote James Bay reserve, visitors to town tend to cross paths. And in recent days, in Okimaw’s cozy confines, folks arrived trying to help the community with both its future and its past....
OTTAWA - Three decades after Attawapiskat's elementary school closed due to toxic contamination, the beleaguered First Nations reserve in a remote part of northern Ontario will have a new school by 2014. Read more: http://www.canada.com/Federal+government+build+long+awaited+Attawapiskat+elementary+school/6064687/story.html#ixzz1kuwfWWub...
The world received two blunt messages this week on Enbridge Inc.'s proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to B.C.'s northern coast....
An RCMP apology for failing to do more to catch Robert Pickton sooner has been dismissed as meaningless by families of women murdered by the serial killer....
The state attorney general's office is watching the activities of two eastern Oklahoma tribes involved in the high-interest, online lending industry. Read more: http://newsok.com/tribe-owned-lending-companies-collect-thousands-of-complaints/article/3644110#ixzz1kvCG4dPw...
