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Don L. Kingbird April 27, 1972 ~ July 5, 2021 (age 49) Don Louis Kingbird, Ogichidaas "Little Warrior", began his journey surrounded by his loving wife and family on July 5, 2021. He was born April 27, 1972 to Carol May and Jerry Kingbird, Sr.. Don grew up in Duluth and Red Lake, attending Red Lake Schools. Don was very active in athletics in his youth. He excelled in cross country running, basketball, boxing, hockey, and track. An accomplished and well respected singer, Don began singing with...
Taylor Sharee Whitefeather July 19, 1997 ~ July 3, 2021 (age 23) Taylor Sharee Whitefeather "E'yanimweweyashik" (Thunder Sounding Away Woman) of the Bullhead Clan, of Red Lake, Minnesota, passed away on Saturday, July 3, 2021. Taylor was born July 19, 1997, to Dustin Perkins and Melissa Whitefeather in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She grew up in Ponemah, MN where she went to elementary school. Taylor attended middle school and high school in Red Lake, and later she worked at Seven Clans Casino in Thi...
Lorraine Baity-Jackson July 9, 1962 ~ July 5, 2021 (age 58) Lorraine Baity-Jackson, age 58, of Fosston, MN and formerly of White Earth, MN, passed away unexpectedly on Monday (July 5th) near St. Cloud, MN. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday (July 10th) at the White Earth Tribal Community Center with Pastor Tim Brown officiating. Interment will be in St. Columba Episcopal Cemetery, White Earth. Visitation will start at 6:00 p.m. on Friday (July 9th) and continue until the...
Red Lake celebrated it's own Independence Day on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 starting with a feast at 4 PM at the Red Lake Humanities Center, followed by the first of three-days of pow wows and other activities. Earlier in the day a Horseshoe Tournament was held at the Redby Community Center. Redby Community Center Horseshoe Tournament Winners 1st Corky Clark (Redby) 2nd Willfred K (Cass Lake) 3rd Josh Neadeau (Red Lake) 4th Raven Roberts (Redby) Johnny Smith 5-Man Singing Contest 1st Place-Mandaree...
Red Lake celebrated it's own Independence Day on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 starting with a feast at 4 PM at the Red Lake Humanities Center, followed by the first of three-days of pow wows and other activities. Earlier in the day a Horseshoe Tournament was held at the Redby Community Center. Redby Community Center Horseshoe Tournament Winners 1st Corky Clark (Redby) 2nd Willfred K (Cass Lake) 3rd Josh Neadeau (Red Lake) 4th Raven Roberts (Redby) Johnny Smith 5-Man Singing Contest 1st Place-Mandaree...
Red Lake celebrated it's own Independence Day on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 starting with a feast at 4 PM at the Red Lake Humanities Center, followed by the first of three-days of pow wows and other activities. Earlier in the day a Horseshoe Tournament was held at the Redby Community Center. Redby Community Center Horseshoe Tournament Winners 1st Corky Clark (Redby) 2nd Willfred K (Cass Lake) 3rd Josh Neadeau (Red Lake) 4th Raven Roberts (Redby) Johnny Smith 5-Man Singing Contest 1st Place-Mandaree...
Red Lake celebrated it's own Independence Day on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 starting with a feast at 4 PM at the Red Lake Humanities Center, followed by the first of three-days of pow wows and other activities. Earlier in the day a Horseshoe Tournament was held at the Redby Community Center. Redby Community Center Horseshoe Tournament Winners 1st Corky Clark (Redby) 2nd Willfred K (Cass Lake) 3rd Josh Neadeau (Red Lake) 4th Raven Roberts (Redby) Johnny Smith 5-Man Singing Contest 1st Place-Mandaree...
A suspected "traffic altercation" prompted a gunman in an SUV to fatally shoot a father driving his teenage son home from a baseball game on a highway in Plymouth before fleeing Tuesday night. The shooting occurred about 10 p.m. on southbound Hwy. 169 just south of the Rockford Road exit, police said. The search is on now for the suspect and the vehicle he was driving, which police describe as a light-colored SUV, possibly a Ford Expedition, Chevrolet Tahoe, Suburban or similar vehicle. Police...
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's office has concluded that the state's utilities mismanaged natural gas procurement after a historic winter storm in the South, leading them to overbill their customers for $380 million in wholesale gas costs. The office said Wednesday it is recommending the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) allow utilities to recover only 53% of the roughly $800 million in costs they are trying to pass down to consumers, saying the companies could have reduced...
July 7, 2021 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison recommended today that the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (“PUC”) prohibit Minnesota’s natural gas utilities from charging utility ratepayers in Minnesota almost $380 million of the increased gas costs they paid during the 2021 President’s Day weekend. Comments filed with the PUC show that the Attorney General’s investigation uncovered numerous instances in which Minnesota’s natural gas utilities could have reduced natural gas purchases during the price spike but fai...
[ST. PAUL, MN] — Governor Tim Walz announced that Minnesota has reached the goal set by President Biden and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to vaccinate 70% of the state’s 18-and-older population by July 4. CDC data shows that 3,034,281 Minnesotans age 18 years and older have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Minnesota is only the second state in the Midwest to meet President Biden’s goal, and it leads the Midwest in the percentage of the overall population fully vaccinated (52%). “This is a remarkable achieve...
Mourners on Wednesday night blocked off the intersection where a Minneapolis police squad had crashed into and killed an innocent driver during a police pursuit the day before. Using their cars, they barricaded the intersection from all sides, rejecting police requests to open up the intersection. One irate driver confronted the crowd, sending people running in a panic, and then left. Cheryl Frazier said family and friends would remain at the site all night. The victim was her brother, Leneal...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn said Wednesday his kidney cancer has returned, just months after he shared a positive development about his health with the public. "Be assured, I will continue to fight for America and serve the people of Minnesota's First Congressional District with the highest level of energy and enthusiasm," Hagedorn said in a statement. "I remain upbeat and view the future as bright." The Republican, who represents southern Minnesota, learned he had stage 4 kidney c...
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said Wednesday it will require its 1,100 employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of August. The regional unit of the nation's central bank will allow some employees to be exempt from vaccination for medical or religious reasons. Everyone else will need to get it to stay employed there. The policy will also be in effect for new hires. The Minneapolis Fed is one of the first large employers in the Twin Cities to put a vaccine mandate in...
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Wednesday it won't consider holding a wolf hunting or trapping season until 2022 at the earliest. The agency said in a statement that it's taking longer than expected to update its 20-year-old wolf management plan, and it's now expected to be done by March. "We will use our updated plan as we determine whether and how to use various management tools to ensure continuation of a healthy and sustainable wolf population in...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home Wednesday, with police killing four suspects and arresting two others hours later amid growing chaos in a country already enduring gang violence and protests of his increasingly authoritarian rule. Three police officers held hostage by the suspected gunmen were freed late Wednesday after police surrounded a house where some of the suspects were hiding,...
The Minnesota Senate adjourned after more than three weeks in special session, ending a surprise inquiry into a half dozen administration officials that led to one commissioner's resignation. Democrats in the minority successfully pushed to end the extended special session on Wednesday instead of taking up the confirmation of two more appointees: Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Sarah Strommen and Board of Animal Health President Dean Compart. Both were expected to be confirmed by...
Deanna Rae StandingCloud has jokes. She also has the voice, and the skill. Now, she just needs more opportunities to show it. StandingCloud, Red Lake Nation, from Minneapolis, is one of the few female powwow emcees in a typically male-dominated field. Now that in-person powwows and other social gatherings are coming back after a monthslong pandemic hiatus, StandingCloud is ready for her voice to be heard. https://www.startribune.com/female-powwow-emcees-make-voices-heard-in-m...
MONROE, Mich. - A yearlong effort to have a statue of Gen. George Armstrong Custer removed from downtown Monroe, Mich. has resulted in little action by the city officials in the small city 40 miles south of Detroit via I-75. The statue was installed to honor its local hero, George Custer, who spent his childhood there and met his future wife. Dedicated on June 4, 1910 by President William Taft in recognition of the heroism and valiant efforts of the Michigan Brigade at Gettysburg in 1863, the...
A letter signed by over 200 celebrities, Democratic donors, Indigenous environmental activists and allies urging President Biden to shut down construction of Enbridge Line 3 was delivered to the White House on Wednesday. Actor Mark Ruffalo moderated a press call about the letter in which he and others urged the Biden administration to follow through with its promises to reduce the country’s reliance on fossil fuel, address climate change and support Indigenous rights. Winona LaDuke reminded Biden that Indigenous voters played a key role in h...
St. Paul, MN: A new way to help senior men share their talents, foster friendships, reduce isolation and loneliness, and improve health and well-being has taken rural communities in other countries by storm and is spreading to Minnesota. Anyone interested in learning more about “Men’s Sheds” is invited to join an online meeting at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, July 21 to see if they are something older farmers and other rural Minnesota men would enjoy. “We know it’s important for retired and semi-retired men to stay occupied, but sometimes they can...
July 7, 2021 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison today joined a broad bipartisan coalition of 37 attorneys general in suing tech giant Google for alleged antitrust violations related to its app store, Google Play. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, Attorney General Ellison and the coalition accuse Google of using its dominance to unfairly restrict competition with the Google Play Store, harming consumers by limiting choice and driving up app prices. The suit alleges that Google illegally requires all a...
Red Lake celebrated it's own Independence Day on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 starting with a feast at 4 PM at the Red Lake Humanities Center, followed by the first of three-days of pow wows and other activities. Earlier in the day a Horseshoe Tournament was held at the Redby Community Center. Redby Community Center Horseshoe Tournament Winners 1st Corky Clark (Redby) 2nd Willfred K (Cass Lake) 3rd Josh Neadeau (Red Lake) 4th Raven Roberts (Redby) Johnny Smith 5-Man Singing Contest 1st Place-Mandaree...
Red Lake celebrated it's own Independence Day on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 starting with a feast at 4 PM at the Red Lake Humanities Center, followed by the first of three-days of pow wows and other activities. Earlier in the day a Horseshoe Tournament was held at the Redby Community Center. Redby Community Center Horseshoe Tournament Winners 1st Corky Clark (Redby) 2nd Willfred K (Cass Lake) 3rd Josh Neadeau (Red Lake) 4th Raven Roberts (Redby) Johnny Smith 5-Man Singing Contest 1st Place-Mandaree...
A Grand Opening event was held at the Red Lake C-Store on Thursday, July 1, 2021 from 11 AM to 1 PM. Some of the activities including free samples from Hot Stuff Pizza, a build your own sundae bar, a pizza eating contest, gunny-sack races, bouncy houses, and prizes....
