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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 – COVID-19 Weekly update Red Lake Nation: Active cases: 23* *11 in Red Lake *11 in Redby *1 in Little Rock *0 in Ponemah *0 who reside off-res but tested at RL IHS Of the 23 active cases: *7 are minors *9 individuals are fully vaccinated *18 tested positive with an at-home test kit *1 is in the hospital Total cases: 2,344 Total Recovered: 2,321 Deaths: 19 At the March Regular Council Meeting, the Red Lake Tribal Council voted unanimously to lift all COVID-19 mandates v...
Members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians are hereby notified of an election to be held by secret ballot on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, to elect One (1) Officer At Large, One (1) Red Lake District Representative, elect One (1) Redby District Representative, elect One (1) Ponemah District Representative, elect One (1) Little Rock District Representative to a four year term, to serve on the Tribal Council of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. The election shall be conducted in accordance...
The Red Lake Tribal Council voted unanimously at the June 14, 2022 Regular Tribal Council meeting to Proclaim the third week of June each year as "RED LAKE NATION CONSERVATION WEEK" in recognition and appreciation of the Conservation departments outstanding work and dedication in preserving Red Lake tribal resources and protecting the wild life, our land, the lake and residents of the Red Lake Nation and the ceded lands. CHI-MIIGWETCH TO ALL THE OFFICERS!!...
Toni Lynn Doust November 24, 1965 - June 12, 2022 Toni Lynn (Sagataw) Doust, 56-year-old resident of Onamia, MN passed away on June 12, 2022. A Celebration of Life Service will begin at 2 PM on Thursday, 16, 2022, at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe reservation. Arrangements are with the Shelley Funeral Chapel of Onamia. Toni Lynn (Sagataw) Doust was born in Neenah, Wisconsin on November 24, 1965, to Edgar and Charlotte Sagataw. She enjoyed being around her...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve intensified its fight against high inflation on Wednesday, raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point — the largest bump since 1994 — and signaling more rate hikes ahead as it tries to cool off the U.S. economy without causing a recession. The unusually large rate hike came after data released Friday showed U.S. inflation rose last month to a four-decade high of 8.6% — a surprise jump that made financial markets uneasy about how the Fed would respond. The Fed's benchmark short-term rate, which af...
DULUTH - Local blues player Billy Mahdi stood in front of the memorial to Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie on Wednesday afternoon with a message for the 50-some people who turned out downtown on the 102nd anniversary of the Duluth lynching. "I'm not here to entertain you," Mahdi said. "I'm here to entertain the spirits of these brothers who were assassinated. I'm feeling that you are out here for the same thing." Mahdi led the group in a singalong, accompanied on his alto saxophone...
Nearly 50 cats found living in sweltering and unsanitary conditions inside a vehicle at a far-north metro rest area Tuesday are now in the care of the Animal Humane Society. Deputies from the Chisago County Sheriff's Office and the Minnesota State Patrol responded to a rest area along Interstate 35 near Harris, Minn., after getting a call about the cats inside the vehicle on the hottest day of the year. Humane Society agents arrived and removed them, Humane Society spokesperson Mary Tan said....
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday recommended a new limit for certain PFAS compounds in drinking water after concluding almost no amount of the "forever chemicals" appears to be safe. Environmental groups have long sought much tighter restrictions on PFAS and welcomed the move. "It's further confirmation that these PFAS can be very toxic at very low levels and there's really a need to regulate them much more stringently," said Melanie Benesh, legislative attorney for the...
ROCHESTER - A woman is suing the Rochester YMCA after she was sexually assaulted at the facility in 2018. The woman claims in a lawsuit filed earlier this month that the YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities, now known as the YMCA of the North, was negligent and failed to supervise common areas where she was assaulted as a 15-year-old. The suit is seeking at least $50,000 in damages. https://www.startribune.com/lawsuit-claims-rochester-ymca-failed-to-protect-woman-from-sexual-assau...
President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Jerry Blackwell to be the next federal judge in Minnesota, elevating the Minneapolis attorney who gained international esteem for his role in the prosecution of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd. Should the longtime corporate lawyer's nomination clear the U.S. Senate, Blackwell will further bolster a long legal resume that includes successfully winning the first pardon for a posthumous applicant in state his...
KYIV, Ukraine - The Russian military said it used long-range missiles Wednesday to destroy a depot in the western Lviv region of Ukraine where ammunition for NATO-supplied weapons was stored, and the governor of a key eastern city acknowledged Russian forces are advancing in heavy fighting. The battle for Sievierodonetsk in Ukraine's eastern Donbas area has become the focus of Russia's offensive in recent weeks. Russia-backed separatists accused Ukrainian forces of sabotaging an evacuation of...
WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Wednesday convicted a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol together during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to obstruct Congress from certifying Joe Biden's presidential victory. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden delivered the verdict from the bench after hearing two days of testimony without a jury for the trial of Kevin Seefried and his adult son, Hunter. McFadden convicted both Delaware men of a felony count:...
BEMIDJI — A petition has been filed to remove a candidate from the ballot for Minnesota Senate District 2, which alleges that Edward Strickland does not live in the district or meet the election’s residency requirements. Strickland filed as a Republican candidate for District 2 on May 25, where he would face Rep. Steve Green in the state’s primary on Aug. 9 for the party’s nomination. However, Strickland listed an address outside of District 2 in his affidavit of candidacy and instead provided an address in Maplewood a city east of St. Paul in...
Located at the base of the Mississippi River bluffs in the footprint of the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary on St. Paul's east side sits Wakan Tipi, a place Dakota people hold sacred. "This is a really, really incredibly important site for Dakota cultural history, Indigenous history in the region," said Maggie Lorenz, executive director of the Lower Phalen Creek Project. More than a century and a half ago, Dakota people were forcibly removed from Minnesota to South Dakota and Nebraska. Others...
WHITE EARTH, MINN. – Michael "Mike" LaRoque defeated Eugene "Umsy" Tibbetts, 876 to 821, for Secretary-Treasurer in the White Earth Reservation General Election held Tuesday, June 14. Henry George Fox edged incumbent Raymond J. Auginaush Sr., 194 to 168, for District I Representative, and Eugene Sommers topped Tara Mason, 389 to 282, for District II Representative. All three positions are four-year terms. Here are the unofficial results: Secretary-Treasurer Michael "Mike" LaRoque 876 51.62% E...
WASHINGTON – Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland announced today that the Indian Affairs Office of Indian Economic Development has awarded $7 million in grants under the Living Language Grant Program to 45 American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes and Tribal organizations. The Living Languages Grant Program provides an opportunity for Tribes to receive funding to document and revitalize languages that are at risk of disappearing because of a declining native-speaker population. For more than 150 years, Native languages in the U...
On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, the Regular Tribal Council Meeting opened at the Red Lake Casino Event Center, where the first order of business was the certification of the 2022 Election results and the swearing-in of two officers, Secretary Sam Strong and newly elected Treasurer Vernelle Lussier. Strong defeated Tim Sumner in the May 2022 General Election, while Lussier defeated Martina Beaulieu. Former Treasurer Annette Johnson did not run for reelection after serving 8-years in that position....
The Red Lake Nation Warrior Challenge Basketball Tournament was held in Red Lake at differing sites over the weekend. Thank you everyone who came out and helped make this event a huge success!! The talent level was amazing, keep up the good work players and coaches!! Shoutout to our Red Lake Nation Youth Council members who helped us with the awards ceremony and sorting the prizes ahead of time for all the divisions. In the weeks leading up to the event they were involved with the planning...
The first day of the twp-day 15th Annual Red Lake Youth Conference began on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at the Red Lake Nation College. Hosted by the Red Lake Nation Youth Council , the conference was designed to focus on gathering young leaders and community members from the surrounding areas to create an environment of healing, utilizing culture and traditional teachings. During this two-day conference topics of discussion include leadership skills, indigenous tea identification, indigenous yoga...
On Wednesday June 15 the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indian Tribe of Texas, determining that the state cannot regulate electronic bingo on reservation lands. The case, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indian Tribe vs. Texas, overturns a 2020 Fifth Circuit Court determination that Texas had the ability to stop the tribe from gaming activities on their land. "In this case, Texas contends that Congress expressly ordained that all of its gaming laws should be...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The days of state governments claiming special authority over Indian Country appear to be numbered, with the nation's highest court issuing another favorable ruling for tribal interests as an otherwise controversial term winds down. By a vote of 5-4, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with two Indian nations in a long-running battle over their economic sovereignty. The decision confirms that the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe and the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, also known as the...
Prior Lake, Minn. – The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) is planning to remove the 262-foot-tall wind turbine on its reservation in Prior Lake this summer. The tribe first installed the 1.5-megawatt turbine in 2009 to provide a green energy source, but the turbine has since had significant reliability issues and is no longer cost-effective to maintain. “Unfortunately, this turbine is no longer a good fit for the location or our tribe’s needs,” said SMSC Chairman Keith Anderson. “One of our tribe’s core values is caring for the env...
CASS LAKE, MN- The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Election Board has certified the results of the General Election held on Tuesday, June 14th, 2022. Leonard M. Fineday was elected Secretary/Treasurer with 492 votes received (100%). Elections were also held for Leech Lake Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School Board. For Housing Board: Brenda White was elected in DIstrict I, Terri Finn Goggleye was elected in District II and Michael Reyes was elected in District III. In the School Board races, Rosalee Bowstring was...
Red Lake High School Graduation 2022 held on Saturday, May 28 2022 RLHS Graduates Steven A. Bellanger Brandon K. Bigsmoke Jasmine Lee Brun Shawn M. Chaboyea Jr. Alexis D. Clark Tasha L. Fairbanks Karen Eulisa Lynn Guise Justice Iceman Alycia Jade Infante Ashantae Kingbird LaTrell Kingbird Stacy A, Lussier Cynthia May Serenity May Nataya Joy Neadeau Derrell Pemberton TeAnndra Joy Pemberton-Kingbird Marissa Perkins Kendrick Ramon Sayers Kailyn Ann Seki Isaac J. Spears DeAndre J. Stately Ashon...
Red Lake High School End of Year Pow Wow 2022 held on Thursday, May 26th and was a huge success. New Princess Nookwakwii White and Brave Dillian Whitefeather were selected to represent RLHS for 2022-2023....
