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  • Summary of major construction projects across the state during 4th of July holiday week

    Jul 2, 2012

    Here is a summary of the major construction projects going on around the state if you are planning to travel during the holiday week. Use special caution in the Duluth area where you will encounter many detours. Visit the www.511.org site often to see what the latest reports are to make your travel easier. DRIVE SAFE and take care. Twin Cities Metro area * Highway 169/Interstate 494 - Bloomington, Edina and Eden Prairie www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projects/169/ . • I-694 - Arden Hills and New Brig...

  • THE 24 SEVEN July 1, 2012

    Jul 2, 2012

    THE 24 SEVEN July 1, 2012 DOJ moves to shield Holder from prosecution The Justice Department moved Friday to shield Attorney General ... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=42918&L=19292&F=T ----------------------------------------------------------------- Secret wiretaps rock Justice Department Amid a fiery floor debate over contempt proceedings for Attorne... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=42918&L=19294&F=T ----------------------------------------------------------------- Army Corps OKs section of...

  • THE 24 SEVEN – July 2, 2012

    Jul 2, 2012

    THE 24 SEVEN – July 2, 2012 Mexicans set to vote in party with troubled past Jose Eduardo Salas is a young Mexican with a degree in mechanic... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=43186&L=19463&F=T ----------------------------------------------------------------- Syria top destination for Iranian arms shipments A U.N. Security Council committee has published a report on Ira... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=43186&L=19464&F=T ----------------------------------------------------------------- G...

  • LIFEGUARD - Seven Clans Casinos –Thief River Falls

    Jul 2, 2012

    ** POSITION OPENING ** LIFEGUARD RATE OF PAY: Depending upon experience LOCATION: Seven Clans Casinos –Thief River Falls, MN REQUIRED TRAINING AVAILABLE OPENS: June 29, 2012 CLOSES: July 13, 2012 POSITION OBJECTIVES: Under the direct supervision of the prevailing Life Guard Supervisor is responsible to oversee safety of the Water Park area for Seven Clans Casinos. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Oversees all activities within Water Park to monitor safety issues. • Maintains positive public relat...

  • Jul 2, 2012

    Maria Verdugo, a 20-year-old graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, barely remembers the presidential election of 2008 -- the one that spawned a youth movement that was singular in its scope and political effectiveness -- except for "something about Obama saying we needed a change."...

  • Jul 2, 2012

    Minnesota's first managed wolf hunting and trapping season, set for this fall, will be more than just controversial. It also will be a cultural clash....

  • Carnel Chamberlain Case: Anthony Bennett Charged With Assaulting Boy Before He Died

    Jul 2, 2012

    Carnel Chamberlain’s body was found last Thursday, concealed beneath the porch of his mother’s Michigan home. On Friday, charges were brought against a suspect: but not for murder. Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/267381/carnel-chamberlain-case-anthony-bennett-charged-with-assaulting-boy-before-he-died/#zbihk2yyyPD7d69y.99...

  • Jul 2, 2012

    MOUNT PLEASANT, MI — Police spent seven days searching for 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain, who went missing on June 21 from his home in Mount Pleasant on the Isabella Federal Reservation....

  • W. Wash. tribes say tribal fishing rights at risk

    Jul 2, 2012

    SEATTLE — More than 150 years ago, American Indian tribes in western Washington ceded much of the state to the federal government in return for guarantees of salmon and other fishing rights. Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/07/01/2201040/w-wash-tribes-say-tribal-fishing.html#storylink=cpy...

  • Jul 2, 2012

    MAKOTI, N.D. (AP) — The Three Affiliated Tribes has received the final permit approval for its plan to build an oil refinery on the Fort Berthold Reservation in northwest North Dakota....

  • Jul 2, 2012

    So many at-risk children on the Spirit Lake Reservation are abused, and tribal officials have done so little, that the federal government should declare a state of emergency, a regional official of the U.S. government wrote last month....

  • Jul 2, 2012

    FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man whose case has been the subject of appeals for tougher laws against domestic violence on American Indian reservations has pleaded guilty in federal court....

  • State is confronting assaults: More progress is essential to end Alaska's epidemic

    Jul 2, 2012

    The May 22 New York Times article, “For Native American Women, Scourge of Rape, Rare Justice,” should be a call to action for all Alaskans. Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - State is confronting assaults More progress is essential to end Alaska s epidemic...

  • Organic Farm Wins Grants for Native-Youth Programs

    Jul 2, 2012

    There’s more than corn, beans and squash growing at Dream of Wild Health, a 10-acre organic farm in Hugo, Minnesota. Programming for urban Native youth is also flourishing. The farm has just received a prestigious award from Youthprise for summer programs that teach American Indian kids ages 8 to 18 traditional agriculture, gardening, nutrition, cooking, leadership and teamwork. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/29/organic-farm-wins-grants-for-native-youth-programs-121351 http://indiancountrytodayme...

  • White Earth historian, spiritual leader and storyteller Andy Favorite will be missed

    Jul 2, 2012

    White Earth lost one of its best storytellers when Andy Favorite died in May. Favorite, who served as tribal historian and archivist and was a pipe-carrier for the tribe, loved Anishinabe culture and spirituality — and he had a way with words, says Mike Swan, tribal spiritual leader and head of the White Earth DNR. “He was very passionate when he started talking about some of these things,” Swan said. “It takes a certain amount of talent for anybody to get up in front of groups and tell stories and hold their interest — he had that charisma...

  • Jul 2, 2012

    The statistics took instructor Lisa Casey's breath: 60 percent of Native Americans have diabetes....

  • Aboriginals Seek to Raise Awareness of Role in Country’s Formation as Canada Day Is Marked

    Jul 2, 2012

    Canada Day—that country’s equivalent of the Fourth of July, the U.S.’s Independence Day—is fraught with ambivalence for aboriginals, and perhaps even more so this year, as the country marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/01/aboriginals-seek-to-raise-awareness-of-role-in-countrys-formation-as-canada-day-is-marked-121629 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/01/aboriginals-seek-to-raise-awareness-of-role-in-countrys-formation-as-canada-day-is-ma...

  • Jul 2, 2012

    Court documents released on Friday state that the tattoo-faced boyfriend who was the last to see a 4-year-old boy who went missing from his home at the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Reservation in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., had been abusing the boy....

  • Jul 2, 2012

    With a busy holiday weekend ahead, people on Pine Ridge are stepping into the roadways once again to end the illegal distribution of alcohol on the reservation....

  • Jul 2, 2012

    LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A man who was burned in a controlled grass fire in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay has filed papers to sue local authorities for negligence, saying they failed to spot him lying in a field and ignited the blaze on a dangerously windy day....

  • Jul 2, 2012

    A Michigan man has pledged to donate as much money as it takes to build a 40-bed children's home on the Pine Ridge reservation....

  • Native Teens Prepare for Higher Education With Indigenous Ways of Knowing Academy

    Jul 2, 2012

    Right now 24 Native American students are battling the odds—the odds that say half of them won’t graduate high school—by dedicating two weeks of their summer to the Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) summer academy at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/28/native-teens-prepare-for-higher-education-with-indigenous-ways-of-knowing-academy-120960 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/28/native-teens-prepare-for-higher-education-with-indigenous-ways-of...

  • Jul 2, 2012

    Chiefs from all five of Maine's tribes joined Gov. Paul LePage today in signing an historic agreement to create a Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It will examine child welfare practices that once resulted in large numbers of Indian children being forcibly removed from their homes. The ceremony in the State House Hall of Flags marks the first time that such an effort has occurred in the United States between Indian nations and a state government. Tribal members consider the agreement crucial to their healing...

  • Highway 212 still closed, but residents will be allowed back in when conditions improve

    Jul 2, 2012

    Highway 212 is expected to remain closed because of hazardous fire activity, but when conditions improve, law enforcement will allow family members affected by the Ash Creek fire to return to pick up personal items. They will only be allowed in with a permit from the Northern Cheyenne tribal headquarters in Lame Deer. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_b75edb62-1fbb-5f0a-a1d2-9ca344ef9e2b.html#ixzz1zT74Dm00...

  • Small Blaze, Big Loss: Wildfire Warrior Cut Down en Route to Quench Montezuma Flames

    Jul 2, 2012

    Anthony Ramon Polk would have been 31 on June 22. But the firefighter, who was working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), walked on June 8 while on assignment at the Montezuma Fire in the Baboquivari Mountains west of Tucson, Arizona. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/29/small-blaze-big-loss-wildfire-warrior-cut-down-en-route-to-quench-montezuma-flames-121189 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/29/small-blaze-big-loss-wildfire-warrior-cut-down-en-route-to-quench-montezuma-flames-1...

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