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Melanie Lea Spears July 23, 1957 - May 10, 2022 Melanie Lea Spears, 64, of Minneapolis, MN, journeyed to the spirit world on Tuesday, May 10th, 2022, at Hennepin County Medical Center. Melanie was born on July 23rd, 1957, the oldest of seven children to James Owen Morgan and Phyllis Albertina (Barry) Morgan. A member of Crow Creek, Dakota Tribe of Fort Thompson, SD. She grew up in Bloomington MN, graduated from John F. Kennedy High School. Received her Bachelor’s Degree from Macalester C...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 – COVID-19 Weekly update Red Lake Nation: Active cases: 15* *9 in Red Lake *1 in Redby *2 in Little Rock *3 in Ponemah *0 who resides off-res but tested at RL IHS Of the 15 active cases: *7 are minors *7 individuals are fully vaccinated *9 tested positive with an at-home test kit *1 is in the hospital Total cases: 2,253 Total Recovered: 2,238 Deaths: 19 At the March Regular Council Meeting, the Red Lake Tribal Council voted unanimously to lift all COVID-19 mandates via R...
For more than 150 years, the U.S. government pursued an explicit policy of destroying Indian families and culture as the nation took over lands once occupied by Indigenous people. A primary weapon in that effort was a system of hundreds of Indian boarding schools - 21 in Minnesota - that separated children from their parents and sought to assimilate them into the predominantly white, European-oriented U.S. culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Those findings are contained in a report released...
Children who lash out in homes and protective placements are increasingly being dropped off at the M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital, prompting the creation of a makeshift shelter in an ambulance garage. While hospitals have always been a place of last resort for children in emotional or behavioral crises, Fairview leaders said counties and social service providers are using their pediatric emergency room at an unprecedented rate. Normally expecting one or two such cases a month,...
Employers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are looking to hire some 700 people this summer as pandemic-weary travelers are expected to take to the skies in a big way. Officials at MSP are predicting this summer will be the busiest since 2019 - before COVID-19 decimated air travel. To prepare for the anticipated throng, the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) held a job fair at Terminal 1 on Wednesday to lure potential applicants for jobs at airlines, air support firms,...
A 17-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting another teen Sunday in South St. Paul has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder and prosecutors filed a motion seeking to try him as an adult. Casimir Anthony Semlak of St. Paul was charged Wednesday by juvenile petition in connection with the death of Anthony Skelley, 17, the Dakota County Attorney's Office said. The charges include the felonies of intent but not premeditated murder, a drive-by shooting and commission of a crime of...
AT&T Co. rolled out a system in Minnesota and nearby states this week to more accurately pinpoint callers to 911 and alert the nearest emergency service. The company, which operates the nation's third-largest mobile network by subscribers, worked with Intrado Corp. to pick up GPS signals from cellphones calling 911 to route the call to the correct emergency center. GPS signals can be tracked down to about a 50-yard radius, giving emergency responders a better read on where callers are....
Minnesota will become the only state in the nation to require the appointment of an outside attorney to advise judges on whether to approve the sale of structured settlement payments for anyone who appears to suffer from mental or cognitive impairments. The change is coming through legislation approved unanimously Wednesday by the Minnesota Senate. The House passed the same bill last week by a vote of 121-4. The new law is expected to be signed by Gov. Tim Walz and go into effect Aug. 1. The...
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine - Ukraine's top prosecutor disclosed plans Wednesday for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south and the Kremlin left open the possibility of annexing a corner of the country it seized early in the invasion. Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said her office charged Sgt. Vadin Shyshimarin, 21, in the killing of an unarmed 62-year-old civilian who was gunned down while riding a bicycle in February, four days into...
May 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. government investigation into the dark history of Native American boarding schools has found "marked or unmarked burial sites" at 53 of them, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on Wednesday. Haaland, the first Native American cabinet member, announced the investigation last year. In releasing preliminary findings during a press conference in Washington, she spoke through tears and in a choked-up voice. "The federal policies that attempted to wipe out Native identity, language and culture continue to manifest in the...
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) today released its initial findings after a nine-month investigation into the fraught legacy of Indian Boarding Schools that the U.S. government ran or supported for a century and a half. The 106-page report-penned by Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Bryan Newland-details for the first time that the federal government operated or supported 408 boarding schools across 37 states, including Alaska and Hawai'i, between 1819 and 1969. About half of the...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland today released Volume 1 of the investigative report called for as part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive effort to address the troubled legacy of federal Indian boarding school policies. This report lays the groundwork for the continued work of the Interior Department to address the intergenerational trauma created by historical federal Indian boarding school policies. This investigative report is a s...
WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland today released Volume 1 of the investigative report called for as part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive effort to address the troubled legacy of federal Indian boarding school policies. This report lays the groundwork for the continued work of the Interior Department to address the intergenerational trauma created by historical federal Indian boarding...
Normally, when Raven Chacon is in the studio writing, composing or recording; he turns his phone off. However, earlier this week the Diné musician did not and when his phone started to blow up, he learned the news of a pleasant surprise. Chacon had won a Pulitzer. https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/pulitzer-winner-honored-and-humbled...
The Department of the Interior has released additional findings from an investigation into Native American boarding schools. The investigation found that at least 500 children died in these school systems and located more than 50 gravesites. NBC's Antonia Hylton reports. https://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/interior-department-report-finds-over-500-native-children-died-in-boarding-school-system-139803717720...
A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 500 student deaths at the institutions, but officials say that figure could grow exponentially as research continues. The U.S. Department of the Interior report released Wednesday expands to more than 400 the number of schools that were known to have operated across the U.S. for 150 years, starting in the early 19th...
Over Mother's Day weekend, First Lady Jill Biden visited Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine and met with Ukrainian mothers and children who have been forced to flee their home country because of Putin’s war. CNN (Opinion): Jill Biden: What Ukrainian mothers taught me about this war [Jill Biden, 05/11/22] You cannot go into a war zone and not come away unchanged. You don't have to see the sorrow with your eyes because you can feel it with your heart. The thing about grief is that it veils one's face. It's like a haze has descended. The tears of t...
The Inter-Generational Family Wellness Service Building Groundbreaking was held in Red Lake on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Located at 16000 Pike Creek in Red Lake, the new $17 million dollar facility will offer, Cultural Services, Family Wellness Services, Family Preservation, Reunification Services, ICWA, Foster Care, Behavioral Health, Elderly/Vulnerable Adult Services, Public Health, Elderly Nutrition Meals and Elder;y Maintenance. Construction is scheduled to be completed and operational in...
A Veteran's Ceremony took place at 12 noon and there was an Open House for newly remodeled Sah-kah-tay Hall and the new Sky Learning Center until 3 PM...
Leech Lake 2022 Spiritual Run held over the weekend in Leech Lake...
Red Lake Nation College MMIW Awareness Walk took place in Red Lake at 11 AM on Thursday, May 5, 2022. A good crowd showed up for the event, to raise awareness for missing and murdered Indigenious women. Lunch was provided, some T-shirts were given out and there were drawings after the walk for ribbon shirts and beaded MMIW earrings. For more information on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) visit: https://mmiwusa.org/...
The Red Lake Lady Warriors hosted the Blackduck Drakes in girl's softball action on Thursday, May 5, 2022. Blackduck scored runs on several hits in the seven innings of play, and two of their pitchers keep the Warriors from any real comeback rallys. The Drakes were also pretty solid in their defense, taking win win, 11-2. The loss put the Lady Warriors at 1-1 on the short season. The Warriors are scheduled to travel to travel to Kelliher-Northome on May 9 before hosting Pine River on May 12th,...
The Red Lake Warriors Baseball Team and Lady Warriors Softball teams were both winners in Bagley on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The Warriors won 15-4 and the Lady Warriors won 17-5. Both teams looked pretty good for only practicing a few times due to weather conditions. The Lady Warriors will host Blackduck on Thursday, May 5th, travel to Kelliher-Northome on May 9 and travel to Pine River on May 12th. UPDATED: Red Lake Warriors Baseball - 2021-2022 Schedule: https://www.redlakenat...
The Red Lake Warriors Baseball Team and Lady Warriors Softball teams were both winners in Bagley on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The Warriors won 15-4 and the Lady Warriors won 17-5. Both teams looked pretty good for only practicing a few times due to weather conditions. The Lady Warriors will host Blackduck on Thursday, May 5th, travel to Kelliher-Northome on May 9 and travel to Pine River on May 12th. UPDATED: Red Lake Warriors Baseball - 2021-2022 Schedule: https://www.redlakenat...
Red Lake High School Prom of Saturday, April 30, 2022...
