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A new documentary featuring the Red Lake Reservation illustrates the values of Anishinaabe traditions and their significance to future generations of Anishinaabe youth. The film, produced by Darwin Sumner, Migizi Communications and the Minnesota Historical Society, was unveiled publicly Wednesday night at the Seven Clans Casino in Red Lake. The Anishinaabe Traditions documentary showed the history of the Red Lake Reservation, the most populous reservation in the state with 6,000 residents....
At least four residences and one business were struck by gunfire this week in drive-by shootings being investigated by the Red Lake Department of Public Safety. According to a press release: The drive-by shootings were reported on two evenings – May 30 and June 1 – in two different communities. The first call came in at 11:21 p.m. Three of the residences struck were occupied at the time of the shootings. The business also was unoccupied. One residence, which was vacant, also was subjected to arson. No one was injured in the incidents. Red Lak...
In Bemidji Youth Senior League Thursday evening, Red Lake took an early lead on Team Verizon in the first two innings and led 3-2 courtesy of the bats of Jaden Wood and Pat Tahahwah. Red Lake’s opponents eventually caught on to the pitching of Tahahwah and exploded for 7 runs and the gap was too much to overcome despite a group of Red Lake fans who made the trip to support the team. Jaden Wood came in to relieve Tahahwah and was able to silence Verizon’s bats by striking out 8 in three innings o...
RLHS Graduation 2011 - VIDEO...
Red Lake Nation Fuels Store Grand Opening Friday, June 3 - Free Lunch 11 AM - 2 PM - Prize Drawings throughout the day Celebrate the grand opening of the Red Lake Nation Fuels Store next to Seven Clans Casino Red Lake on Hightway 89 just 20 minutes north of Bemidji. Free Lunch 11 am. - 2 pm. - Hot dogs, pop, chips and cake. Assorted Prize Drawings throughout the day - including a gas grill Buy $20 in gas, get $5 in free play at Seven Clans Casino Red Lake SPECIAL DISCOUNTS ON WORLD FAMOUS RED...
Attention All Runners: If you are interested in participating in running or participating in running events there will be a potluck at the Little Rock Round House at 6p.m. Tuesday June 7th. We will be discussing running and running events for the next year. Native Thunder Runners are encouraged to participate...
Blackduck and Cass Lake-Bena will represent the East Sub-Section 8A in the section’s final four tournament Tuesday at Northland Community College in Thief River Falls. Thursday night at Bemidji State University Blackduck exorcised its BSU demons by capturing the East title with a 5-2 victory over CL-B. The win gave the Drakes the East’s top seed and they will face the West runner-up 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Panthers, who had their 14-game winning streak snapped, will be the East’s second seed and will play the West champion at 1 p.m. Those winne...
The Red Lake Nation Boys & Girls Club is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. A cold breakfast will be provided to all club members ages 6-18 years old without charge. Acceptance and participation requirements for the program and all activities are the same for all regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided at the following site and time: Red Lake Nation Boys & Girls Club Unit 1-Red Lake, serving 1:30-2:30pm,...
Jack White Sr., 79, of Ponemah, died Tuesday, June 1, 2011, at Neilson Place in Bemidji. A funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 5, at Ponemah Community Center in Ponemah, with Spiritual Leader Steve Jackson officiating. A wake will begin at 2 p.m., Friday, June 3, at Ponemah Community Center and will continue until the time of the service. Burial will be in the Family Burial Grounds in Ponemah, under the direction of the Cease Family Funeral Home of Bemidji. Pallbearers will be: Vincent...
Hoopa, Calif. - The AmeriCorps Hoopa Tribal Civilian Community Corps (Hoopa TCCC) is currently hard at work in Southeast Missouri, helping residents recover and rebuild after devastating flooding in April. The floods in Morehouse, Mo., damaged more than 270 homes, with only 150 homes identified as being salvageable. The AmeriCorps Hoopa TCCC team, made up of ten members, has been in the middle of the disaster recovery efforts, removing contents, mucking, and demolishing the interiors of the damaged homes, salvaging all they can for the flood...
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission said it cannot revoke a permit to build a high-voltage transmission line across the reservation of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe even though the commission may have erred in granting it in the first place....
The future has arrived at the Yurok Reservation in Northern California. Historically the entire reservation, including every public safety agency, were forced to share a single T1 line causing communications bottlenecks and slower than dial-up connections. Now, the Yurok community has a dedicated public safety line in order to access criminal databases and will soon have the ability to conduct live video training with their fire fighters, support clinics that can perform virtual telemedicine,...
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2011 – First Lady Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin today unveiled the federal government's new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices. MyPlate is a new generation icon with the intent to prompt consumers to think about building a healthy plate at meal times and to seek more information to help them do that by going to www.ChooseMyPlate.gov [http://www.choosemyplate.gov/] . The new MyPlate icon emphasizes the fruit, v...
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2011 – First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today unveiled the federal government's new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices. MyPlate is a new generation icon with the intent to prompt consumers to think about building a healthy plate at meal times and to seek more information to help them do that by going to www.ChooseMyPlate.gov [http://www.choosemyplate.gov/] . The new MyPlate icon emphasizes the fruit, vegetable, grains, protein and dairy food...
Blank Canvas Gallery and Education Center, a Minnesota nonprofit art organization, is announcing a wood carving workshop opportunity for individuals in the North Central Minnesota region. If you are able to provide any PSA's for us to help promote this learning experience before the registration deadline of June 15th we will greatly appreciate your help. Please feel free to contact us if you want any further information about our organization or this workshop. Thanks in advance for your help, Steve Beaubien, Communications Committee Wood...
For years, we've been hearing rumors that cellphones might cause brain tumors....
Nearly 800,000 Native Americans living on reservations must rely on federal prosecutors to go after major crimes, including sexual assault, murder and other felonies, because state law enforcement agencies lack the legal right to intervene in tribal affairs. The process involves a written plea to federal prosecutors to pick up these cases which the tribal courts are fiscally and legally unable to fully prosecute....
Two weeks ago, I went to New York with a delegation from the Republic of Lakotah, to utilize the annual meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII, May 16-27). The primary purpose of the trip was to utilize past and present allies in the indigenous struggle to aid us in visiting a small, select group of other Nation’s Missions and their Ambassadors to the United Nation to discuss the international character of treaties between my people, the Lakota, and the United States of America....
SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - The widow of a small-town doctor blames "excessive, overreaching and abusive" federal agents for her husband's suicide. She says FBI and BLM agents, using a shady informant, targeted dozens of people in a Native American artifacts sting, including her husband, who had merely found an artifact on a hike and brought it home....
VANCOUVER — A class-action lawsuit that could cost Ottawa millions of dollars has been filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia on behalf of aboriginal children affected by the "Sixties' Scoop." Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/life/natives+federal+government+millions+over+Sixties+Scoop/4870720/story.html#ixzz1OCzDhqE7...
A wide field of candidates are vying for the chance to be named chairman of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians as election for officials with the Tribe nears. In an election set for June 4, two balloted candidates and two write-in candidates are hoping to garner enough votes to win the seat....
MEXICO CITY - A Volkswagen bug decorated with more than 2 million glass beads glued on by hand by Mexico's Huichol Indians is soon to embark on a world tour....
WOLF POINT — Fort Peck Tribal elder Pauling Escarcega says her remote home in the remote southwest corner of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation is "God's Country."...
WOLLASTON LAKE, Sask. - Ottawa is sending in military planes to evacuate people from two northern Saskatchewan communities threatened by wildfires....
Tribal officials have placed fire restrictions on public activities within the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. As the potential for wildfires is hish, the threat to the Tribe's natural resources, wildlife, economic resources, security, health, welfare, and public safety is cause for major concern....
