Red Lake Nation News - Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

ST. CLOUD — A jury on Friday found a 25-year-old St. Cloud man guilty on four felony counts related to the June 2021 murder of a Minnesota woman who was shot in the head and left on the side of the road. After a 13-day trial, the Stearns County jury found DeAntae D. Davis guilty of one count of premeditated first-degree murder, one count of aiding and abetting first-degree...

Jurors have convicted a St. Paul man of murder for the 2021 shooting of another man following an argument. Larry Rucker, 41, was found guilty last week by a Ramsey County District Court jury of second-degree murder and illegal possession of a gun in connection with the shooting of Demond "Anton" Bingham, 48, in St. Paul's North End neighborhood in August 2021. Sentencing is...

HMO profits from state government programs more than doubled last year to about $675.8 million, a Star Tribune analysis shows, partly because enrollees required fewer health care services than expected. The jump in operating income continued a pandemic trend of growing HMO profitability across the country due to historic enrollment expansion. Membership surged after states...

“We were thrown to the four winds.” That's how Francene Ambrose describes the fate of her people when, in 1954, the U.S. government terminated its relationship with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. This article was originally published on Underscore.news, a nonprofit, public-service news team based in Portland, Oregon. The U.S. had obtained Western Oregon by treaty...

Four years after being denied entry into her graduation ceremony because she wore an eagle plume on her graduation cap, Larissa Waln is finally getting a bit of justice as her family settled their lawsuit against the Dysart Unified School District in Arizona. “My family filed this lawsuit to protect Native peoples’ right to honor our religious beliefs and academic...

Foster Care Month in May offers an opportunity to recognize foster parents for providing care and stability to children in crisis across Minnesota. Children in crisis often experience mental health challenges from trauma and family disruption. Indeed, mental and behavioral health is the most significant unmet health need for children and teens in foster care. As many as 80% of...

A red flag warning was issued earlier today by the National Weather Service for northwestern parts of Minnesota. Despite the warning only going from noon to 8 p.m. Monday, they expect more warnings to go out over the next few weeks until plants begin to green up. NOAA works closely with the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center to determine if the level of dry vegetation, mixed...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday. Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11. The government is also...

FAIRFIELD, CT – The 83rd Annual Peabody Nominees have been announced, and WSHU’s Still Newtown podcast has been nominated for the prestigious Peabody Award by unanimous vote from the Board of Jurors. According to their website, the Peabody Awards “honor excellence in storytelling that reflects the social issues and the emerging voices of our day.” Still Newtown is an...

Tuleah Palmer, who has spent more than 20 years serving non-profit and human services organizations in northern Minnesota, will deliver Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College’s 2023 Commencement address as the recipient of the 39th Distinguished Minnesotan award. First presented in 1981, the Distinguished Minnesotan award acknowledges the contributions of...

OTTAWA – The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) has joined with other Indigenous organisations and Canadians to ask the government to declare a state of emergency to end the genocide against Indigenous women, girls, transgender, two spirit, and gender-diverse people. NWAC is also demanding that rather than claw back essential funding to enhance the safety of...