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BENA - Water sampling efforts have detected the presence of two microscopic, larval zebra mussels, also called veligers, in Lake Winnibigoshish located in Cass and Itasca counties, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said....
BEMIDJI – After Katie Johnson’s young son was able to access mental health care, their lives changed....
ST. PAUL – Students in grades 9 through 12 are invited to produce a 30-second TV public service announcement about the importance of buckling up or the dangers of distracted driving. The top commercial will air during the televised MTV Video Music Awards and the producer will be awarded $1,000. Entries are due April 15. The contest is sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS), Office of Traffic Safety and AAA. Contest finalists will be selected by DPS and AAA for a public online vote in May. AAA will award first-, second-...
BEMIDJI – Twelve area elementary students will be honored this month as they are awarded scholarships to attend weeklong immersion camps at Concordia Language Villages. This is the 10th year of the local scholarship program, which through donations provides funds to send local fourth- and fifth-graders to the language village of their choice. Recipients are selected based on essays written by the students. According to CLV, about 100 local students submitted essays in December addressing “The ways that I could learn and grow from the study...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Health officials say the worst of the flu season is likely over in Minnesota....
eronica Marie Provincial, age 59, of Fort Thompson, South Dakota journeyed to the Spirit World on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at The Sanford Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She was born in Wagner, South Dakkota on January 30th, 1953 the daughter of Lucille Jandreau and Melvin Provincial. In 1968 she moved to Fort Thompson, South Daktoa with her mother and stepdad Eddie Hare. She attended Crow Creek Elementary School up until 8th grade then attended Todd County High School in Mission, South...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Scholars of Native American history will gather at the University of California, Riverside and Sherman Indian High School in Riverside for a two-day symposium, “Sherman Institute: The American Indian Boarding School Experience,” on Feb. 7 and 8, beginning at 9 a.m. The symposium is free and open to the public. Feb. 7 activities will take place in Costo Library, located on the fourth floor of the Tomás Rivera Library at UCR. Parking is $6. The symposium will move to...
Reno, NV (January 31, 2013) - Chairman Ernie Stevens of the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) has endorsed the Egghart Certified Public Accountants Scholarship for Native American Accounting Students, a new scholarship offered by the Reno, Nevada-based accounting firm. "I'm thrilled to announce that Egghart is investing in a new generation of Native accountants and auditors," said Chairman Stevens. "This is a wonderful opportunity for Native youth to pursue higher education and help protect tribal sovereignty." The Egghart Certified...
The U Card is as ubiquitous at the University of Minnesota as the buck-tooth Golden Gopher himself. More than 40,000 University of Minnesota students carry the photo ID, a key to dorms, computer labs, libraries and laundry rooms....
Dozens more cases of flu-related deaths have been confirmed in Minnesota, state health officials said Thursday, sending the tally for the season surging into triple digits....
Fact or fiction? Sex burns a lot of calories. Snacking or skipping breakfast is bad. School gym classes make a big difference in kids' weight....
Tomahawk Tassels, the Twin Cities burlesque performer who uses a stereotypical American Indian persona, says she is suspending her Native act indefinitely amid controversy over what many in the local American Indian community call an offensive portrayal of a Native woman. Known for her long black braids and use of a cartoonish-style canoe, tipi, feathers and other kitschy motifs in her performances, Tassels says she never intended her character to be derogatory, but rather satirical. “Whether or not I agree, out of respect I feel I need to...
As winter approaches its Groundhog Day midpoint, this season might have seemed unusually cold to people. But native and invasive plants and insects have hardly shivered....
A newspaper in Thompson, Man., has disabled its Facebook page due to racist slurs that were being posted by the public about aboriginal people....
Will bad news delay the sequester? Wednesday the government released the fourth quarter’s Gross Domestic Product, the output of goods and service produced by labor in the United States. That number decreased by .01 percent. It doesn’t sound like a big deal, decimal point next to a digit that small, but it reflects a shrinking economy instead of a growing one. And the main reason for the contraction: Government spending....
Yesterday, during a speech on immigration in Las Vegas, President Obama reacquainted the nation with the actuality that “unless you’re one of the first Americans, Native Americans, you came from somewhere else – somebody brought you,” he said. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/01/30/obamas-native-american-reference-during-immigration-speech-sparks-bering-strait-twitter...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The response to natural disasters and other emergencies in American Indian communities is expected to improve thanks to legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama....