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RED LAKE, MN - The Red Lake Lady Warriors hosted Blackduck on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, taking a 36-22 halftime lead and outscoring their opponents 41-28 in the second half to win, 76-50. Red Lake had defeated the Drakes in January 70-61 in Blackduck, and had came off a 2-game losing streak, falling to Cass Lake and Pine River. Mimi Beaulieu led all scorers with 22 points on the night, Latayla Pemberton added 20 points of her own and Karen Guise hit for 10 points. M. Flatness led the Drakes wi...
RED LAKE, MN - The Red Lake Warriors hosted Clearbrook-Gonvick on Friday, February 12, 2021, and the Bears were first to score, followed by ten more to lead 12-0 in the first half. But the Warriors fought back, even after D.J. Holtusen got his third foul and came out of the game near the 10-minute mark, and ended up leading at the end of the first half, 36-35. The lead changed several times in the second half, with both teams running fast paced offenses, and it ended up going down to just...
RED LAKE, MN - The Red Lake Warriors came off a 77-71 win, their fourth win in a row, over Pine River on Friday, February 5, 2021, to face a fast Cass Lake-Bena Panther team on Tuesday, February 9th, and were outscored in both halves 45-33 and 43-34 respectively. Cass Lake improved their season record to 6-2 with the 88-67 victory, while the Warriors dropped to 4-2. Leroy Fairbanks led the Panthers with 32 points, Kayden Lee hit for 20 and Dominic Fairbanks added 13. D. J. Holthusen led Red...
RED lAKE, MN - The Red Lake Lady Warriors won their season home opener and 4th straight game on Monday, February 1, 2021, taking a 67-2 halftime lead and having no trouble adding to it for the win, 115-13. Five Lady Warriors were in double figures. Rose McClain led all scorers with 22 points, Mimi Beaulieu added 21 points, Kelanna McClain netted 20 points, Latayla Pemberton hit for 14 points and Karen Guise had 13 points. Alyssa Moss had 8 points for Laporte. Red Lake will be on the road to...
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives today passed a bill reauthorizing a lapsed Violence Against Women Act with new provisions speicifcally addressing Native American victims. The legislation will now be sent to the Senate for consideration. The bill-reintroduced March 8 by Texas' Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and co-sponsored by 182 lawmakers, including two republicans-came with strong support from the Office of Management and Budget (OBM), the federal agency responsible for...
DURANT, Okla. - Two years ago, on March 12, 2018, the prime minister of Ireland visited the Choctaw Nation in Durant, Okla. He was in the United States during a week-long tour to celebrate St. Patrick's Day festivities. Prime Minister of Ireland Leo Varadkar, who left that position in June 2020, wanted to visit the Choctaw Nation to thank the tribe for the generous gift their ancestors gave to the Irish back in 1847 during the Great Famine of 1845-1852 in Ireland. After experiencing their own...
Madam Secretary Deb Haaland (Pueblo of Laguna) took the oath of office to become the 54th Secretary of the Department of the Interior Tuesday night in a small ceremony with family, according to department spokesperson Tyler Cherry. The oath was administered by Chief of Staff Jennifer Van der Heide. Today marks her initial day serving as the first Native American to head a federal department. The former New Mexico Representative resigned from her Congressional seat Tuesday, and delivered an...
Fort Hall, Idaho - A school bus carrying 10 students and a bus driver was involved in an accident on Wednesday morning on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, home of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, in Fort Hall, Idaho. There were no reported injuries sustained during the accident. The accident occurred shortly after 7:30 a.m. – local time. At 7:32 a.m., Fort Hall Dispatch received a call of a school bus hitting a power pole on Besto Road in the Gibson District of the Fort Hall Reservation. The...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary Deb Haaland is making history in more ways than one, as the first Native person to lead the Department of the Interior and the first Native person to serve in a presidential cabinet. On her first day in office on Wednesday, Haaland held her first engagement with the news media. In doing so, she chose to speak first with Native reporters, something that hasn't occurred in recent history with any high-ranking government official of any administration. The call, which...
Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, met with five pueblo leaders in New Mexico on Wednesday as part of President Joe Biden’s “Help is Here” tour. Emhoff also toured the Kewa Pueblo Health Center, where the majority of tribal citizens have been vaccinated. He was joined by Kewa Pueblo Gov. Sedelio Tenotio Sr. and state Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. Emhoff watched a patient at the center be vaccinated, according to a press pool report. https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/vice-presidents-husband-visit...
MINNEAPOLIS — March 17, 2021 – Bilingual students across Minnesota are putting down their pencils and picking up their phones and devices for a language proficiency exam that helps determine their collegiate path. Extempore, a Minneapolis-based speaking and listening program for language learners, announced today it will be used to test student proficiency in languages other than English schools and districts in Minnesota. High school students who pass the exam are awarded the Minnesota Bilingual or Multilingual Seal, a distinction that...
Race Forward calls for urgency in centering the needs of communities of color as we battle the pandemic. Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities have been more severely impacted by COVID-19 than any other communities in our country. This tragic outcome is not random; it is the result of long standing historical racist practices and current day systemic racism putting Black, Latinx and indigenous people at dramatically higher risk of death and morbidity. An equitable vaccine distribution strategy requires taking this history into account and...
Effective immediately, MDH is updating guidance for long-term care facilities related to non-medical outings. MDH has posted new guidance documents for Minnesota’s long-term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted-living-type facilities, following the March 10 update from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is an important next step for the overall health and well-being of our long-term care residents. Minnesota’s focus on...
Red Lake District Easter Basket Giveaway - March 27, 2021- 11 AM until gone Drive Thru Event - 500 Baskets - Enter at old Red Lake Center; Exit by Humanities Center Sponsored by Red Lake Community Center Staff...