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BEMIDJI—District 5A Rep. John Persell, DFL-Bemidji, will seek another term in November with veterans affairs and education as key pieces to his platform. "It wasn't a tough decision," Persell said. "After terms of dealing with deficits and asking 'what are we going to cut?,' now we have a surplus. So now we can go back and work with colleagues across the aisle to put some funding into our needs." http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/3949416-dfl-rep-persell-seeking-another-term-district-5a...
BEMIDJI—The Wolfe Center, a project by the Nameless Coalition for the Homeless, opened its doors for the first time Monday evening. The nighttime shelter is for chronic homeless inebriates, and is located at 522 America Ave. NW, the site of the former Headwaters Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Church. The building is able to house 16 people during the winter months, and on the first night the shelter had a sleeper. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/3949441-nameless-coalition-homeless-shelter-opens-its-doors...
WAUBUN, Minn. -- Authorities are searching for a vehicle that struck a man who had left his car after it slid off of a road and into a ditch in Mahnomen County on Sunday. According to Minnesota State Patrol, Mohamed Paya, 28, Fargo, was driving a 1994 Cadillac DeVille eastbound on Minnesota Highway 113, just east of Waubun about 6:30 p.m. when the vehicle hit an icy patch and slid into the northbound ditch. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/3948549-authorities-seeking-pickup-hit-man-along-road-mahnomen-county...
ST. PAUL — U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she has a job, which includes vetting any U.S. Supreme Court nominee, and is not seeking a position herself on the high court. Her Senate Judiciary Committee post is important as the president and Senate work to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died during the weekend at 79, the Minnesota Democrat said Tuesday. "There are a many wonderful, qualified people who could serve on the Supreme Court, but only a few of us are charged with the job of getting the nominee through the Senate," Klobuchar added....
Hundreds of school districts in the state are not making significant progress in closing achievement gaps, including the state’s largest urban districts, Minneapolis and St. Paul. All Minnesota school districts and charter schools are required to improve reading and math test scores, boost graduation rates and cut achievement gaps for all students, under a state law passed in 2013. But in its first progress report, the Minnesota Department of Education says that many are not meeting their targets. http://www.startribune.co...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Tuesday she's not expecting a U.S. Supreme Court appointment but does intend to be a loud voice defending President Obama's prerogative to fill the vacancy. "I think I have an obligation and a duty over the next months to make a case that the country can't leave this position vacant for over a year," Klobuchar told the Star Tribune. Klobuchar is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which vets Supreme Court nominees. The unexpected death on Saturday of Justice Antonin Scalia has scrambled national politics. If...
GARRISON, Minn. – The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is considering an assortment of summer fishing regulations for Lake Mille Lacs, each with its own estimates of when anglers might hit this year’s state quota of 28,600 pounds. The highly anticipated regulations will be set by the DNR in early March, but the first glimpse of what they could look like was provided here Tuesday night in a public meeting of the Mille Lacs Fisheries Advisory Committee. DNR Fisheries Chief Don Pereira said the total allocation for Mille Lacs walleyes in...
The opening of a new $17 million checkpoint at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Tuesday came with a few hiccups, and that, combined with more passengers than usual trying to get through screening after the long holiday weekend, led to slightly longer wait times. During the early morning crush, lines spilled out of the queuing area and into the lobby. “The queue is still a work in progress,” said Cliff Van Leuven, federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration in Minnesota. “It’s like any move into...
Bank of America is making a run at building a business in the heart of Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank country. The nation’s second-largest bank just opened a new branch in the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis, is beefing up its Minnesota business lending presence and will add a dozen ATMs and three new branches in the metro area. “In some ways, we’re growing before it’s happened because we think it’s that important of a market,” said Larry Kloth, the bank’s market president for Minneapolis and St. Paul. http://www...
MORELIA, Mexico — Pope Francis urged Mexico's young people to resist the lure of easy money from dealing drugs and instead value themselves during a visit Tuesday to the heartland of the nation's narcotics trade. "Jesus, who gives us hope, would never ask us to be hit men," he said. Francis brought a message of hope to Mexico's next generation during a youth pep rally in Morelia, capital of Michoacan state, a major methamphetamine production hub and drug-trafficking route. http://www.startribune.com/pope-turns-eye-to-mexic...
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Senate voted Tuesday to scale back a bill that would ease the regulatory path for developers looking to build on bodies of water, sending the revised measure back to the Assembly for approval. The Republican bill would make sweeping changes to statutes and regulations governing construction in water bodies. One of the key provisions removed through an amendment Tuesday would have created a general permit authorizing shoreline property owners to dredge 25 cubic yards of material from an inland lake and 100 cubic...
Militiamen seem to have forgotten the old advice to leave only footprints and take only memories during their 41-day occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon. Investigators found “significant amounts of human feces in and around” a campsite near a Native American burial ground within the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The last four protesters were arrested Thursday outside the city of Burns after a tense standoff with FBI agents who closed in on the armed group as they negotiated their surrender. http://www.n...
After failing to gain the support of a legislative panel Tuesday, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe will turn its gazes to the federal level in an attempt to re-open its shuttered marijuana grow facilities. The tribe last year began growing marijuana on the reservation and planned to open a marijuana lounge on New Year's Eve. But after consulting with the attorney general and the U.S. attorney's office for the district of South Dakota, the tribe opted to burn their crops in November for fear that the facility would be raided by federal agents....
Canada's minister for the status of women suggests the number of missing and murdered indigenous women could be as high as 4,000, but a dearth of hard data means it's all but impossible to pinpoint an accurate figure. Patty Hajdu told reporters Tuesday that the government doesn't have an exact number, but pointed to research from the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) that puts it at 4,000, much higher than a figure near 1,200 the RCMP has previously stated. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mmiw-4000-hajdu-1.3450237...
Missing and murdered aboriginal women were a neglected group in Canada for many years. Now preparations are underway for a national inquiry. One of the latest revelations is, that the total number of victims may be more in the range of 4000 women and girls, not the 1200 often quoted. Indigenous and Northern Affairs MInister, Carolyn Bennett, spoke to reporters in Ottawa today, after completing a consultation process with First Nations communities. Along with the Status of Women Minister, Patty Hajdu, they travelled the country meeting with the...
The owner of an 80-acre parcel of land in Washington County told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he sold his property to an investment company affiliated with a Native American tribe. "The real estate agent told me the investment company is operated by one of the local Native American Tribes," Bruce Mogren said. The land is the site of the Mogren Sod Farm, which was owned and operated by Bruce Mogren's father and uncle. http://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/s4050137.shtml...
For all the commemoration of Antonin Scalia’s sweeping legal theories and biting prose—his promotion of the original 18th-century understanding of the Constitution and his disdain for competing legal philosophies—the justice’s most immediate, powerful, and lasting influence may be felt on one important issue: who can gain access to the courthouse. His opinions on such matters as which parties have “standing” to sue and which types of cases can be tried as class actions tilted the scales of justice sharply toward corporations and...
The Michigan State Police seized 184 cases of cigarettes that were destined for retail sale by the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community on February 9. According to the KBIC, the seized shipments were headed to KBIC businesses which are located on Indian lands, were manufactured in Indian Country and were intended to be sold in Indian Country. They say that this seizure is an infringement of Tribal sovereignty, Nation-to-Nation trade, the Interstate Commerce Clause, other federal law and Michigan's own statute. The Michigan State Police stated that...
MADISON (AP) — The Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa band’s chairman used the annual State of the Tribes address to dispel American Indian stereotypes. Mic Isham told a joint session of the state Senate and Assembly on Tuesday that people still ask him whether American Indians live in tee-pees and question why they don’t know their own language. He said he tells people they live in houses and Chippewa youth know their native language well. He said Wisconsin schools must do a better job educating children about tribal life. He called on...
Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) -- A $15 million project to expand the Center for American Indian Resources building in Duluth reached a new height on Tuesday. The final beam of the renovated building was set in place, and Fond Du Lac Band members were present to celebrate this major step in construction. http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/statewide/fdl-tribal-expansions-369042531.html...
After responding to an incident at a house Monday morning on the Onion Lake Cree Nation, RCMP say they were responding to an assault complaint at a residence that involved nine different people. All nine people, seven men and two women were arrested and taken into custody without incident, RCMP said in a series of Tuesday morning tweets. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/onion-lake-rcmp-respond-to-incident-1.3449444...
Federal grants totaling more than $48 million ($48,133,285) are going to 108 Native American tribes in California, including more than $8.5 million to tribes within the Central Valley, to pay for affordable housing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says Tuesday. The Indian Housing Block Grant allocations benefit low-income families living on Indian reservations or in other American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The amount of each grant is based on a formula that considers local needs and housing units under...
TUBA CITY, Ariz. - Kids from Tuba City Primary School are getting a chance to spend quality time outside learning about gardening and nutrition, thanks to FoodCorps, a non-profit nationwide organization that connects kids to real food. FoodCorps is made up of a nationwide team of leaders which formed as an organization in 2010. The program out of Tuba City is part of the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health. http://nhonews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=17333&TM=26520.76...
Growing up in Shakopee, Holly Schmitt learned a lot about the Native American culture as it existed in her own backyard. That exposure increased her interest in the American Indian culture, which led to her decision to earn a degree in Native American studies at the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota. Her interest and education, combined with other personal experiences, are helping Schmitt in her new role as part of the Indian Education program in the Redwood Area School District. Schmitt, who also has Dakota lineage, started...
A Shakopee artist is getting some attention at the Bloomington Center for the Arts, where she is curator of an exhibition called “Sinew: Female Native Artists of the Twin Cities.” Artist and curator Dyani White Hawk Polk curated the multidisciplinary group exhibition, which is being presented as part of the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover. The Takeover is an event running through March that engages more than 20 regional arts and cultural organizations in illuminating gender and racial inequalities and taking on stereotypes....