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Diane Lynn White May 24, 1966 ~ May 27, 2021 (age 55) Diane Lynn White, Ozhaawashko Giizhigookwe, age 55, of Ponemah, MN, journeyed to the Spirit World on Thursday, May 27, 2021 at Indian Health Services in Red Lake, MN. The wake will begin at 1:00 P.M. on Sunday, May 30, 2021 at the Ponemah Boys & Girls Club in Ponemah and continue until the service at 1:00 P.M. on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Interment will be at the White Family Burial Grounds in Ponemah. A full obituary will follow...
Waubi Spry August 2, 1979 - May 27, 2021 Waubi Mageed (Lussier) Spry, age 41, of Columbia Heights journeyed to the Spirit World on Thursday, May 27, 2021 at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN. She graced this Earth on August 2, 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota the daughter of Keith Lussier and Iva Spry. Waubi grew up in South Minneapolis and went to school at the City Inc. (SouthSide). She worked as a cashier at the Super America Station. She had five beautiful babies and three...
Robert Porter Tilton October 16, 1926 ~ April 25, 2021 (age 94) Robert Porter Tilton, age 94, beloved father, grandfather and great grandfather died on Sunday, April 25, 2021 at the Mahnomen Health Care Center, where he was a resident for the past four years. He was born at Freewater, Oregon on October 16, 1926 to Mark Sherman Tilton and Agnes Amelia (Priebe) Tilton. At young age he moved with his family to a homestead near Richie, Montana where with his older brother, Dale, he attended a...
DeFloeren Rude May 28, 2021 DeFloren Rude passed away peacefully on May 28, 2021, at Serenity Assisted Living at Dilworth, MN, at age 100. DeFloren Rude was born on September 28, 1920, in Beresford, SD to Edward and Cora Rude, the second oldest of four boys that survived birth. He was raised on his grandfather, Antone Rude's homestead near Gary, MN. He graduated from Gary Highschool at age 16. In 1941, he graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. He taught school in Rider, ND, for one...
Blaine Deran Martell, Jr. December 11, 1987 ~ May 28, 2021 (age 33) Blaine Deran Martell, Jr. of the Bear Clan and from Bemidji, Minnesota entered the spirit world on May 28, 2021, at the age of 33. Blaine was born on December 11, 1987, in Duluth, MN to Carmen Roy and Blaine Martell, Sr. Blaine was a bright, hilarious, kind and loving being: an energy that was infectious within itself. Anybody who knew Blaine knows how the room felt when you saw him walk in the door. No matter what the energy...
RED LAKE, MN - Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell Seki Sr., along with some department heads, reported to a group of tribal members and others at the Annual Red Lake State of the Band Address on Friday, May 28, 2021. It had been over a year since the last State of the Band Address was held in March 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic, medical martial law, new project developments, law enforcement, the opioid epidemic, child welfare and education were just some of the information reported on....
5 Red Lake High School Graduation held on Saturday, May 29, 2021 GRADUATES: James Allen Beaulieu III Mimi Beaulieu-Morgan Kia Nicole Birr, Ryan Joseph Blackcloud Aaron Chaboyea Diamond A. Cloud-Sayers Lailah Eliza Dow Kacie Graves Arianna Moonlight Greene Denali Hart Delwyn E. Holthusen III Yolanda J. Infante Kyriah M. Johnson Azlynn Caprice Jourdain Michael James Jourdain Jr. TierraRose Gaudalupe Kingbird Addalay Kutchara Taylor M. Lagou Morgan Margaret Loud Brycen James Lussier Aimee May...
For Jon Halper, owner of Top Ten Liquors stores in the Twin Cities, there were lots of good reasons to boost starting wages from $12 to $15 an hour. Sales have been strong, with the pandemic spurring a surge in alcohol consumption at home. He's got new stores on the horizon, and he wants to make sure the existing ones continue to offer good customer service. And then, there's the matter of finding workers. "It's become very challenging to hire people in the environment we're in," Halper said....
After more than a year of pandemic restrictions, many Americans are leaving their masks behind, making summer travel plans and joyously reuniting with family and friends. As more are vaccinated and new infections plummet, there is a sense that the worst of the pandemic is over in the United States. But for people like Michele Preissler, 60, the worst has just begun. Preissler lost her husband to COVID-19 in May, just as many restrictions were being lifted and life, for many, was starting to...
BALTIMORE – We should all have Jose Berrios' outlook on baseball, on pressure, on life. Feel like swearing when the Twins leave multitudes of runners on base all afternoon? Want to throw heavy objects at your TV when they give back a run on the first pitch of the 10th inning? Can't help averting your eyes when they put the tying and winning runs on base with only one out? "Not really," Berrios said chirpily after the Twins' 3-2 victory over the Orioles in 10 innings Monday at Camden Yards. "...
Two major airlines, American and Southwest, have postponed plans to resume serving alcohol on flights in an effort to stop a surge of unruly and sometimes violent behavior by passengers who have shoved, struck and yelled at flight attendants. Both airlines announced the policies this past week after the latest assault was captured on a widely watched video that showed a woman punching a flight attendant in the face on a Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento, California, to San Diego on...
TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday it 's not an isolated incident that over 200 children were found buried at a former Indigenous residential school. Trudeau's comments come as Indigenous leaders are calling for an examination of every former residential school site - institutions that held children taken from families across the nation. Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation in British Columbia said the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3...
BEMIDJI -- Mya Donnell aspires to build community in both a tangible and figurative sense. The TrekNorth senior sees her future as building sustainable, affordable housing for others and bringing together new friends from various walks of life. Donnell will graduate along with the rest of TrekNorth's class of 2021 on Friday, May 28. https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/education/7049363-TrekNorth-grad-Mya-Donnell-builds-optimistic-future...
There is a scam with automated calls hitting the Bemidji area aggressively today that indicates the US Border Patrol and Customs intercepted a package with your name on it and you need to press 1 to talk to them. These calls are coming from local Bemidji phone numbers. These calls are being spoofed, meaning the number is manipulated and could be coming from anywhere. If you receive these types of calls, disconnect immediately and do not provide any of your personal information. In some of these scam calls, when citizens do connect with these...
Cass County Attorney Ben Lindstrom reports: On May 27, 2021 a Cass County Jury found Raphael Ulisses Gurneau guilty of felony Ineligible Possession of a Firearm, felony Second Degree Assault, and gross misdemeanor Obstructing Legal Process. During the trial, Officers with the Leech Lake Tribal Police Department testified that law enforcement responded to a residence in Cass County on October 14, 2020 to investigate a disturbance. An Officer arrived and was let into the home and directed to a...
ST. PAUL - Minnesota is heading into Memorial Day weekend and leaving behind the last of its COVID-19 precautions. Health officials are still advising unvaccinated residents to wear face masks indoors and practice social distancing. But their words have less legal backing now that Minnesota has done away with its mask mandate, though local municipalities and businesses can still set their own coronavirus pandemic guidance. The remaining capacity limits for indoor events and gatherings expired...
(Bemidji, MN) (May 28, 2021) – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Paul Bunyan Communications Cooperative Annual Meeting actions were conducted by mail only. An election was held to consider recommended changes to update the Cooperative By-Laws. The proposed bylaw amendments were approved with 1160 in favor, 70 against. In conjunction, for the first time, the cooperative held two special online events for members. "Wizdom with Woz" was an exclusive event for the cooperative's business members and...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Red Lake man made his initial appearance in federal court today on charges of aggravated sexual abuse occurring on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. According to court documents, on July 3, 2020, Descart Austin Begay, Jr., 37, knowingly engaged in a sexual act with an individual by using force, threatening, and placing the individual in fear. Begay, who was arrested yesterday, is charged with one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of sexual abuse. Begay made his initial appearance today in U.S. District Court befo...
Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said Thursday. The First Nation said the remains were confirmed last weekend near the city of Kamloops, in B.C.'s southern Interior. In a statement, Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc said they hired a specialist in ground-penetrating radar to carry out the work, and that their language and culture dep...
BEMIDJI -- Destiny Stillday likes to help people and solve problems. Choosing between pursuing neonatal nursing and criminal forensics is her current dilemma, but whichever path she ends up selecting, the soon-to-be Voyageurs grad will surely leave her mark on the world. Stillday will graduate on Friday, May 28 along with the rest of the Voyageurs Expeditionary School class of 2021. https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/education/7048509-Voyageurs-Expeditionary-grad-Destiny-Sti...
WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s budget for fiscal year 2022. The Department of the Interior’s 2022 budget proposal totals $17.6 billion — an increase of $2.5 billion, or 17 percent, from the 2021 enacted level. This significant investment will help the Department address the climate crisis while creating good-paying union jobs and investing in healthy lands, waters, and economies in communities across the country. As the Administration continues to make progress defeating the pandemi...
WASHINGTON -- The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2022, including $1.3 billion in funding to invest in Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) initiatives that would support Native students and teachers from early childhood through college, an increase of $110.6 million from the 2021 enacted level. As the Administration continues to make progress defeating the pandemic and getting our economy back on track, the Budget makes historic investments that will help the country build back better...
WASHINGTON – The Biden-Harris Administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2022. The request for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is $2.7 billion, $609.9 million over the FY 2021 enacted level. As the Administration continues to make progress defeating the pandemic and getting our economy back on track, the budget makes historic investments that will help the country build back better and lay the foundation for shared growth and prosperity for decades to come. “The Interior Department plays an important role...
WASHINGTON, DC (May 28, 2021) - Today, May 28, the Biden Administration released the detailed annual budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. The proposal includes a total of $131.7 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which represents a nearly 23.5% increase to current enacted budget for FY21. The request includes $8.5 billion for the Indian Health Service (IHS) and $100 million for urban Indian health. The National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) and the Tribal Budget Formulation Workgroup (TBFWG) requested...
Ponemah School Kindergarten Graduation was held on Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Ponemah. Photographs by members of the community....
