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The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has announced a new round of grant funding that will help local partners offer new or expanded home visiting services in 22 counties, three tribal nations and 13 non-profit agencies. The new round of grants authorized by the 2017 Legislature includes $32.2 million in state funds for the grant period from May 2019 to December 2022 to support family home visiting – a proven way to benefit at-risk children, promote life-long health and reduce the need for future community spending on social programs. T...
Paulette Marie Gibson August 26, 1945 - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 Service Information MN Chippewa Tribe Building 1308 East Franklin Ave Monday, April 22, 2019 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM Paulette Marie Gibson (Lussier), age 73 of Minneapolis Minnesota journeyed to the Spirit World on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Paulette was born on August 26, 1945 the daughter of Paul S. Lussier and Genevieve Johnson in Red Lake, Minnesota. She was a kind, strong, generous person who loved her...
A virus appears to be the cause behind a rash of polio-like illnesses that struck Minnesota last fall, causing paralyzing symptoms in several children, including one girl who lost all motor function and remains hospitalized. Researchers from Minnesota and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that they found Enterovirus-D68 in the spinal fluid of one of six children who suffered acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM. http://www.startribune.com/virus-i...
BEMIDJI-Andrea Goodwin's eyes welled up before her name was even called. Bill Blackwell, Jr., executive director of the American Indian Resource Center at Bemidji State University, had dropped too many hints: her same-computer-same-time work ethic and the time she volunteers tutoring and mentoring other students, including Blackwell's wife, who's working toward the same social work degree. https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4601237-we-need-you-our-communities-american-indian...
WASHINGTON — Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller's report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller's removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president. Trump was largely thwarted by those around him who refused to go along. Mueller laid out multiple episodes in which Trump directed others to influence or curtail the Russia investigation after the special counsel's appointment in May 2017. Those efforts "were m...
The former partner of an ex-Minneapolis police officer on trial for fatally shooting Justine Ruszczyk Damond testified that he feared for his life when a silhouette suddenly appeared outside their squad vehicle, but he didn't immediately know whether deadly force was needed. Toward the end of officer Matthew Harrity's roughly five-hour testimony Thursday, the prosecution asked whether he'd been able to identify the silhouette's features or determine if she was armed before Mohamed Noor fired...
PARIS - Paris police investigators think an electrical short-circuit most likely caused the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, a police official said Thursday, as France paid a daylong tribute to the firefighters who saved the world-renowned landmark. A judicial police official told The Associated Press that investigators made an initial assessment of the cathedral Wednesday but don't have a green light to search Notre Dame's charred interior because of ongoing safety hazards. htt...
BERLIN - A former Nazi guard has been charged with 5,230 counts of accessory to murder at the Stutthof concentration camp during the final months of World War II, German prosecutors said Thursday. Prosecutors in the northern city of Hamburg said Thursday that the 92-year-old suspect, whose name they didn't release, is accused of assisting in the "malicious and cruel" killing of mainly Jewish inmates through his work as an SS guard at the camp between August 1944 and April 1945....
BEMIDJI-A Bemidji educator wants to encourage a more positive discourse at his school. Dan Ninham, a physical education teacher at Bemidji Middle School, and his wife Susan, an administrative officer at Red Lake Comprehensive Health Services, have hung a series of motivational posters in the middle school with phrases in a handful of Indigenous languages, including Ojibwemowin, and their English translations: "Niminwendam omaa ayaayan" next to "I am happy you are here" and "Gidebweyenimin" next...
ST. PAUL – Minnesota gained 1,300 seasonally adjusted jobs in March while the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 3.2 percent according to figures released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). The U.S. unemployment rate was 3.8 percent. Minnesota total over-the-year growth rebounded back into positive territory in March as employment was up 7,605 or 0.3 percent over last March. February’s seasonally adjusted job loss was reduced through revisions by 1,000 jobs to 7,800 jobs los...
RED LAKE - New kindergarten students, 5 years old by September 1st of this year, were invited up to the Red Lake Early Childhood Center on Tuesday, April 16 and Thursday April 18, to register for the upcoming kindergarten class beginning in September of the 2019-20 school year. Every child who registered for Kindergarten at the Round-Up received a tote bag full of supplies to help them develop pre-Kindergarten skills, and one in five families received a door prize....
On Thursday, April 19, 2019, Bemidji's Trek North Seventh Grade Class visited Oshkiimaajitahdah's Sugar Bush Camp on the Red Lake Indian Reservation....
Denver, Colo., April 18, 2019 - The American Indian College Fund is celebrating the 30th anniversary of providing access to a higher education for Native Americans. In honor the anniversary, the College Fund will host the Flame of Hope Gala on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 in Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway, in New York City from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Headline entertainment will be by Brooke Simpson. The College Fund will honor Kimberly Blanchard, a world-renowned international tax attorney and partner in the...
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians has legalized marijuana for recreational use, becoming the second in Michigan to do so. The tribe's board of directors voted in favor of legalization at a meeting in Munising on Tuesday. The new law takes effect May 15. https://www.indianz.com/News/2019/04/18/sault-ste-marie-tribe-becomes-second-to.asp?fbclid=IwAR0NBXPdToYnH708now1CLGBf_yWikno9etAdEH8_dSuhaiAJbOGkHx66_s...
On Saturday, April 13, 2019, Easter activities were held at all District Community Centers....
It took some improvisation, but Minneota was finally able to pull away from Red Lake in the Class 1A quarterfinals Thursday at Maturi Pavilion. After falling behind by 10 points early in the first half, the Vikings made adjustments and rallied for a 66-46 victory over the Warriors. "We knew Red Lake played a very disruptive defense," Minneota coach Chad Johnston said. "They pressure you all the time. You can't really duplicate that in practice. For about three-fourths of the game, we ran a new...
It took some improvisation, but Minneota was finally able to pull away from Red Lake in the Class 1A quarterfinals Thursday at Maturi Pavilion. After falling behind by 10 points early in the first half, the Vikings made adjustments and rallied for a 66-46 victory over the Warriors. "We knew Red Lake played a very disruptive defense," Minneota coach Chad Johnston said. "They pressure you all the time. You can't really duplicate that in practice. For about three-fourths of the game, we ran a new...
From KKCQ Radio Fosston 8A East Championship – #1 Cass Lake Bena 84 vs. #3 Red Lake 41 The Cass Lake-Bena Panthers never trailed as they advanced to the Section 8A Championship game. The Panthers closed the first half on a 32-4 run and took a 41-12 lead into halftime. Cass Lake-Bena connected on 14 three pointers from seven different players as they improved their overall record to 28-1. The only loss suffered by Cass Lake-Bena came on February 5th when they lost at home to Mahnomen/Waubun 6...
From KKCQ Radio: 8A Section Championship – #1 Red Lake 74 vs. #1 Stephen Argyle 59 The Red Lake Warriors took a 3-0 lead five seconds into the game and never looked back as they are headed to the State Tournament for the second time in three years. Gerika Kingbird got the opening tap and got fouled scoring on a layup just five seconds into the game to get the Warriors off and rolling. Kingbird made the free throw to finish the three-point play and Red Lake led 3-0. The Storm would take a 4-3 l...
RED LAKE - The Red Lake Warriors hosted their first round of the Boys 8A East Sub-Section Tournament on Thursday, March 7, 2019, playing against the Blackduck Drakes. Although Red Lake had defeated Blackduck twice during the regular season, the Drakes played well and trailed the Warriors by just 2 points at the end of the first half, 25-23. The Warriors outscored Blackduck in the second half, and coupled with a height advantage, held on to win 62-54 and move on to the next round which will be...
From KKCQ Radio in Fosston 8A East Championship – #2 Fosston 47 vs. #1 Red Lake 58 The Red Lake Warriors jumped out to an 8-0 lead and never trailed enroute to the win over Fosston. The victory puts the Lady Warriors into the Section 8A championmship game on Friday, March 8th against Stephen-Argyle (7:00 pm on 96.7 FM). The Greyhounds scored their first points with 14:46 remaining in the first half and eventually cut the deficit to two at 11-9. That would be as close as the Greyhounds would g...
FROM KKCQ SPORTS 8A East Semifinal – #5 Kelliher Northome 34 at #1 Red Lake 75 The top seeded Red Lake Warriors ended the first half on a 20-3 run enroute to their win over Kelliher/Northome. It was the third win for the Warriors over the Mustangs this season. Autumn Holthusen led the Lady Warriors with 20 points as Red Lake improved to 19-7 overall. Gerika Kingbird connected on four three pointers and scored 17 points for Red Lake with Angel McClain pitching in with 19 points for the Warriors....
LONGMONT, Colorado (April 18, 2019) – In November 2018 in Denver, Colorado, First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) convened representatives of 15 tribes and Native nonprofit organizations alongside natural resource professionals and experts in Native law and policy to begin a dialogue. That dialogue was about tribal stewardship of land, natural resources and sacred sites. It was about barriers to this stewardship. It was about how traditional ecological knowledge is uniquely adapted to local environments and essential to all c...
Five Maine tribes — the Aroostook Band of Micmacs, the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Penobscot Indian Nation, the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indian Township and the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Pleasant Point Reservation — are receiving almost $4.26 million through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Indian Housing Block Grant. The block grant program funds affordable housing activities in safe and healthy environments on reservations, native communities and villages. https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/maine-t...
While April's full moon will reach its peak at 7:12 a.m. Friday morning, the best views from Earth's surface will come as it rises Thursday and Friday evening. Another interesting aspect is that the moon will be in the Virgo constellation, and that it will share the sky with the sun for about an hour during Saturday's morning hours. https://expo.mlive.com/news/g66l-2019/04/5e788961a67138/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-mesmerizing-full-pink-moon-for-thursday-friday.html...