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Articles from the March 29, 2012 edition


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  • Richard Robert Castanada

    Mar 29, 2012

    Richard Robert Castanada (whose Ojibwe name is “Bii Baa Ayaad Anung” – which means “Wandering Star”), 54, of Ponemah, MN, died Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at the Red Lake Hospital in Red Lake, MN. Traditional Funeral Services will be 10:00 am Monday, April 2, 2012 at the Ponemah Community Center in Ponemah, MN. A wake will begin at 1:00 pm, Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Ponemah Community Center and will continue until the time of the service. Interment will be at the Family Burial Grounds in Ponemah, MN under the direction of the Cease Family Fu...

  • Native American Actor Adam Beach is Guest Speaker at Red Lake Youth Leadership Conference

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Mar 29, 2012

    On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Native American Actor Adam Beach was the guest speaker on the second day of Red Lake’s Youth Leadership Conference. In front of about three-hundred students and adults, Mr. Beach gave a true-to-life presentation on his own experiences in growing up with gangs, the loss of his parents when he was just 8 years old, and how he became the success he is today. Raised on the Dog Creek First Nations Reserve with his two brothers, his mother was killed by a drunk driver a...

  • Native American Actor Adam Beach is Guest Speaker at Red Lake Youth Leadership Conference - P2

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Mar 29, 2012

    On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Native American Actor Adam Beach was the guest speaker on the second day of Red Lake’s Youth Leadership Conference. In front of about three-hundred students and adults, Mr. Beach gave a true-to-life presentation on his own experiences in growing up with gangs, the loss of his parents when he was just 8 years old, and how he became the success he is today. Raised on the Dog Creek First Nations Reserve with his two brothers, his mother was killed by a drunk driver a...

  • Native American Actor Adam Beach is Guest Speaker at Red Lake Youth Leadership Conference - P3

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Mar 29, 2012

    On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Native American Actor Adam Beach was the guest speaker on the second day of Red Lake’s Youth Leadership Conference. In front of about three-hundred students and adults, Mr. Beach gave a true-to-life presentation on his own experiences in growing up with gangs, the loss of his parents when he was just 8 years old, and how he became the success he is today. Raised on the Dog Creek First Nations Reserve with his two brothers, his mother was killed by a drunk driver a...

  • Native American Actor Adam Beach is Guest Speaker at Red Lake Youth Leadership Conference - P4

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Mar 29, 2012

    On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Native American Actor Adam Beach was the guest speaker on the second day of Red Lake’s Youth Leadership Conference. In front of about three-hundred students and adults, Mr. Beach gave a true-to-life presentation on his own experiences in growing up with gangs, the loss of his parents when he was just 8 years old, and how he became the success he is today. Raised on the Dog Creek First Nations Reserve with his two brothers, his mother was killed by a drunk driver a...

  • Native American Actor Adam Beach is Guest Speaker at Red Lake Youth Leadership Conference - P5

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|Mar 29, 2012

    On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Native American Actor Adam Beach was the guest speaker on the second day of Red Lake’s Youth Leadership Conference. In front of about three-hundred students and adults, Mr. Beach gave a true-to-life presentation on his own experiences in growing up with gangs, the loss of his parents when he was just 8 years old, and how he became the success he is today. Raised on the Dog Creek First Nations Reserve with his two brothers, his mother was killed by a drunk driver a...

  • BIE Director Keith Moore Announces Nomination of Two Schools for Green Ribbon Award

    Mar 29, 2012

    WASHINGTON, D.C.— Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) Director Keith Moore announced today that the Circle of Nations-Wahpeton Indian Boarding School in Wahpeton, N.D. and the Baca/Dlo' Ay Azhi Community School in Prewitt, N.M. have been nominated to receive the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Green Ribbon Schools award. “I am pleased to see the BIE’s schools meeting the challenging and competitive standards of the Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools pilot program,” said Moore. “To be considered candidates for the Green Ribbon...

  • Boca Raton Nurse is Sudden Millionaire

    Mar 29, 2012

    COCONUT CREEK, FL – A Boca Raton nurse hit the million dollar jackpot on a MegaBucks® wide-area progressive slot machine at around 10 p.m. on Fri. Mar. 16 in Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. $1,108,096 to be exact. The woman was accompanied by her adult daughter and requested to remain anonymous. “It always creates an exciting buzz when someone hits here. But there’s a good reason we call our casino ‘Florida’s Jackpot Capital,’” said Steve Bonner, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek president. Manufactured by International Gaming Technology (NY...

  • Census Bureau Releases First Information Since 2000 Census on Moves Between Counties

    Mar 29, 2012

    The U.S. Census Bureau today released estimates from the American Community Survey showing how many people migrated from one specific county to another during the course of a year ? the first such numbers published since these data were collected as part of the 2000 Census. The American Community Survey compiles data over a five-year period and asks people where they lived one year prior to being surveyed. The first five-year estimates released covers the years from 2005 to 2009. The 2005-2009 American Community Survey County-to-County Migratio...

  • Mar 29, 2012

    ST. PAUL – Minnesota representatives heard about problems from Duluth to Moorhead before overwhelmingly voting to crack down on synthetic drugs....

  • Meth Project Official Ad - Family

    Mar 29, 2012

    Meth Project Official Ad - Family...

  • Growth in Urban Population Outpaces Rest of Nation, Census Bureau Reports

    Mar 29, 2012

    The nation’s urban population increased by 12.1 percent from 2000 to 2010, outpacing the nation?s overall growth rate of 9.7 percent for the same period, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau released the new list of urban areas [ http://www2.census.gov/geo/ua/ua_list_all.xls ] today based on 2010 Census results. Urban areas--defined as densely developed residential, commercial and other nonresidential areas--now account for 80.7 percent of the U.S. population, up from 79.0 percent in 2000. Although the rural population ? t...

  • THE NATIONAL INDIAN COUNCIL ON AGING, INC SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM APPLICATION INTAKE

    Mar 29, 2012

    THE NATIONAL INDIAN COUNCIL ON AGING, INC SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM APPLICATION INTAKE March 28-29-30-2012 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: For older adults who are Interested in earning a wage, while training at a work-site: 55 yrs. Or older Meet Federal Low-Income guidelines Must be unemployed Must be a Resident of Minnesota Please Bring: Photo I.D Proof of Income (copies from all sources) For More Info: Aleta Fish, EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST Minnesota/Wisconsin/ Eastern SD NICOA...

  • Leech Lake Tribal College Pow Wow - March 31, 2012

    Leech Lake Tribal College Pow Wow - March 31, 2012 Cass Lake-Bena High School http://www.lltc.edu/...

  • Shakopee Mdewakanton Announce $250,000 in Grants

    Mar 29, 2012

    Prior Lake, MN – According to the Foundations Center, less than 1% of all philanthropic dollars in the United States go to tribal communities. For this reason, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community focuses charitable giving largely on Indian tribes and on organizations which serve Indian people. Today the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community announces a total of $250,000 to nine organizations which provide services primarily for American Indian people and reservation communities. These organizations are chartered by individuals, Indian tribe...

  • THE 24 SEVEN – March 29, 2012

    Washington Post|Mar 29, 2012

    THE 24 SEVEN – March 29, 2012 State Dept. paves way for Egypt to receive $1.3b As the U.S. State Department prepares to waive democracy requir... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=23065&L=12782&F=T ----------------------------------------------------------------- Scalia calls reading Obamacare 'cruel and unusual' Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eig... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=23065&L=12783&F=T ----------------------------------------------------------------- A...

  • Mar 29, 2012

    MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — For two decades, the Mashantucket Pequots lived like Indian gambling royalty. Luxury cars abounded on their tiny, gated reservation of colonial and ranch-style homes in the woods of southeastern Connecticut....

  • Mar 29, 2012

    Antonio Robinson stabbed his girlfriend twice as she lay in bed next to her 2-year-old child. He told an Anoka County judge Wednesday that he didn't remember stabbing her 10 more times....

  • Mar 29, 2012

    WASHINGTON - Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a report issued Wednesday....

  • John Seewer, Associated Press|Mar 29, 2012

    With a half-billion-dollar multistate lottery jackpot up for grabs, plenty of folks are fantasizing about how to spend the money. But doing it the right way — protecting your riches, your identity and your sanity — takes some thought and planning. Making sure you don't blow the nation's largest-ever lottery jackpot within a few years means some advice is in order before the Mega Millions drawing Friday, especially if you're really, really, really lucky. Q: What do I do with the ticket? A: Bef...

  • Mar 29, 2012

    PASADENA, Calif. - The operator of a boot camp for troubled youth in Pasadena and Altadena has been charged with sexually assaulting two teen girls in 2004, according to prosecutors....

  • Mar 29, 2012

    Ottawa, ON (March 27, 2012) The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) will appear tomorrow before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in Washington D.C. to provide a thematic briefing on the subject of the disappearances and murders of Aboriginal women and girls in British Columbia, Canada....

  • Students to Apologize for Cowboys and Indians Party

    Mar 29, 2012

    Some things in this life are entirely unacceptable. Yet offending the American Indian community does not appear to be among them. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/03/28/students-to-apologize-for-cowboys-and-indians-party-105117 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/03/28/students-to-apologize-for-cowboys-and-indians-party-105117#ixzz1qVPsPFF5...

  • Popcorn, Likely an Indigenous Discovery, Contains Healthy Antioxidants

    Mar 29, 2012

    A new study by Tufts University reveals popcorn may contain higher levels of healthy antioxidants known as polyphenols than some fruits and vegetables, reported CBS News. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/03/28/popcorn-likely-an-indigenous-discovery-contains-healthy-antioxidants-104821 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/03/28/popcorn-likely-an-indigenous-discovery-contains-healthy-antioxidants-104821#ixzz1qVQfKQ3J...

  • Mar 29, 2012

    The province of Saskatchewan and Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations have joined forces....

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