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MaLeigha Verna Mae Barron August 9, 2002 ~ April 14, 2023 - age 20 MaLeigha Verna Mae Barron, "Waa bishki binesi ikwe" meaning" White Thunderbird Woman", age 20, of the Bear Clan and Red Lake, MN, unexpectedly passed away Friday, April 14th, 2023, in Apple Valley, MN. She was born on August 9, 2002, in Fargo, ND, the daughter of Mikalanna Barrett and Filevritto Barron, Jr. MaLeigha grew up and attended school in Red Lake. MaLeigha was always happy, she'd light up any room she entered. She...
Bonita Nayquonabe April 25, 1955 - April 18, 2023 Biidwewekwe, Bonita Nayquonabe, age 67, of Onamia, MN, passed away on April 18, 2023. Visitation will begin at 8 PM on Sunday, April 23, 2023, at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. A Funeral Ceremony will be held at 10 AM on Monday, April 24, 2023, at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation, with Ombishkebines officiating. Upcoming Events Visitation APR 23. 8:00 PM -...
Beatrice Arlene Kitto Mah gah zu akan ahiye win "Brings the Rain Woman" April 18, 1939 - April 16, 2023 Beatrice A. Kitto, age 83 and 11 months of Proctor, MN passed away Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Miller-Dwan Hospital in Duluth. She was born April 18, 1939, in Virginia, MN, the daughter of Cleophus and Lillian (Ollikkala) Coffey. She graduated from Proctor High School in 1957, and from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1980. Beatrice also had a degree in Theology from United Methodist...
Jason Wayne Swan December 14, 1975 ~ April 16, 2023 (age 47) Jason Wayne Swan, age 47, unexpectedly passed away with family by his side on Sunday, April 16, 2023, in Cass Lake, MN. He was born in Minneapolis, MN on December 14, 1975, the son of Vicki Swan and Clifford Howard, Jr. Jason's nickname was "Little Sister," and his brother was referred to as "Big Sister". Jason was a hard worker who loved to keep busy. He stayed busy all of the time until his health started to fail him, then he still d...
Debra Gowell April 2, 2023 Debra Ann Gowell, age 68, passed away Sunday, April 2, 2023, at Rainy Lake Medical Center in International Falls, MN. Debra was born to Martin and Dorothy (Tibbets) Holm in 1955 in Aitken, MN. She is survived by her husband Jack Kingbird Jr.; daughters, Cammy (Chris), and Alisa; sons, Neil, and Ronnie (Amy), and Farrell; sister, Darlene (Bob); brothers, David, Dennis (Lois), and Darrell (Marcia); and three grandchildren, Ambrlyn, Ninamae, and Jonathan. She is preceded...
Winter Storm Watch URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Grand Forks ND 331 PM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 West Polk-Kittson-Roseau-Lake Of The Woods-West Marshall-East Marshall-North Beltrami-Pennington-Red Lake-East Polk- North Clearwater-South Beltrami-Cavalier-Pembina-Eastern Walsh-Grand Forks-Western Walsh-Including the cities of Crookston, East Grand Forks, Hallock,Karlstad, Lancaster, Roseau, Warroad, Greenbush, Baudette,Warren, Stephen, Argyle, Newfolden, Middle River,...
A U.S. District Judge sentenced a Bemidji woman to 20 years in prison for her role in a murder and assault on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. According to the press release, Alexia Gah Gi Gay Mary Cutbank, 21, received this sentence after pleading guilty to one count of aiding and abetting murder in the second degree and one count of aiding and abetting assault resulting in serious bodily injury in September of last year. A U.S. District judge sentenced Cutbank on April 18, 2023. Cutbank is...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Bemidji woman has been sentenced to 240 months in prison for her role in a murder and an assault that took place in August 2019 on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, shortly before 1:00 a.m. on August 12, 2019, Alexia Gah Gi Gay Mary Cutbank, 21, Mia Faye Sumner, 21, of Duluth, and Daniel Charles Barrett, 31, of Redby, entered the garage of a Red Lake residence where Daniel Alan Johnson was known to...
On Monday, April 17, 2023 around 12:00 A.M a vehicle was reported driving around the Red Lake area by a community member. Occupants from the vehicle were said to be making attempts at contacting children through a loud speaker in or on the vehicle. Officers later made contact with the vehicle in the Ponemah area after it was reported to be seen by a security guard. Red Lake Conservation and Red Lake Officers did make contact with the vehicle and its occupants. The occupants, a male and female re...
Weather forecasters, public works crews, property owners and local leaders across Minnesota kept a careful eye on rivers Wednesday as water levels continued to rise. Heavy rain Wednesday and Thursday will only exacerbate spring flooding, said Paige Marten, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Chanhassen. With an inch or two of precipitation possible over 24 hours, river crests may be higher than originally forecast and the high, rushing water could stick around longer. "More...
As floodwaters rise across Minnesota, the state is warning well owners about the possibility of water contamination. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) issued a news release Wednesday cautioning against using water from private wells for drinking, cooking or brushing teeth due to potential health risks. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, consuming contaminated water can cause diarrheal disease, including E. Coli or Salmonella infection. There are multiple steps...
Officials on Wednesday identified the man fatally shot Saturday after he fired at officers responding to a domestic dispute call in the small west-central Minnesota city of Cyrus. The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as 34-year-old Bryan Nygard of Cyrus, who died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) on Wednesday also released the names of two of the three officers involved in the use-of-force incident: Pope County...
Christine Mulcahy felt her disgust and revulsion turn to anger as she watched video footage of her frail 75-year-old sister being sexually assaulted by a male caregiver at her senior home in Burnsville. The aide, John Akonkoh, 53, could be seen repeatedly and aggressively attacking her while she lay naked on her bed at the Regent at Burnsville assisted-living home. The woman, who had dementia and was partially paralyzed from a stroke, tensed up and flinched as if in pain, according to a...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is leaving women's access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Friday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug mifepristone to take effect. The court is dealing with a new abortion controversy less than a year after its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright. At stake now is whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone ordered by a...
Minnesota could legalize recreational marijuana in the next month. A Democrat-led recreational marijuana bill has cleared a gantlet of committees, setting it up for votes in the DFL-controlled state Legislature. The Minnesota House, which passed a similar proposal two years ago that was blocked by Senate Republicans, is expected to vote on the bill Monday. A Senate vote could follow soon after. If approved, differences in the bills passed by each chamber would be reconciled in a conference...
Cameron Taylor knew that pleading guilty to a felony marijuana possession charge was the surest way to avoid prison and remain in his children's lives. Little did he know the felony would haunt him for the next decade. What is expungement? In Minnesota, expunging a criminal case means sealing, though not destroying, records related to a crime. This can include court documents, arrest records at police departments and data kept by other agencies. Official records of the event are not publicly...
A human body was recovered from the St. Croix River on Wednesday morning. The Hudson Police Department responded to a report of a possible body in the water at around 9:30 a.m., and retrieved it with assistance from the St. Croix and Washington County sheriff's offices. Officials have not yet identified the person. "Until the medical examiner can make a positive identification and the family has been notified, we will not be releasing any further information," the department said in its...
OTTAWA, Ontario - Almost 100,000 federal workers, including 35,000 from Canada's tax agency, went on strike Wednesday as Canada's largest public service union and the federal government continued to negotiate amid warnings of major service disruptions. Federal workers were hitting the picket lines across Canada during the country's tax season after the union and the government failed to reach a deal by a Tuesday evening deadline. Federal ministers provided an update on the Public Service...
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz pledged that Minnesota can be both a shining example of American prosperity and a firewall to the "forces of hatred and bigotry" in the first State of the State speech of his second term on Wednesday. The governor's fiery speech to a joint session of the DFL-controlled Legislature came as lawmakers head into the final stretch of their session, where they'll finalize a two-year state budget that is expected to tap much of Minnesota's $17.5 billion surplus. "We have a new...
There still may be a few chunks of ice on the lake, but this year's maple yield has already been simmered into syrup. Finally, our first taste of spring. Because sap is collected over several weeks from several different areas, no batch of syrup is the same. Each one tastes of our fierce winter, crusty spring snow, the brightening light, damp forest - and of our weather, water, soil and the legacies of those who "sugared" before us. The Ojibwe refer to the maple tree as aninaatig, and the...
A 35-year-old Bagley man has pleaded guilty to second-degree intentional murder in the 2020 shooting death of a man near Bemidji. Devin Charles Belcourt pleaded guilty today in Beltrami County Court. Beltrami County Attorney David L. Hanson reports that Belcourt admitted in court that he and two other suspects were attempting to rob the man at his home on Trengove Road on May 3rd, 2020 and that the victim's death resulted from that robbery. Belcourt and the other suspects then decided to burn...
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online. NEW YORK - Indigenous peoples around the globe agree that their health and the health of the planet are interdependent and in jeopardy. On day two of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, this fact-that Indigenous people make up 5% of the world's population but are responsible for 80% of its...
The New York Board of Regents has officially banned all uses of Indigenous imagery and names as school mascots, per a report from Albany-based paper Times-Union. The vote came unanimously Tuesday morning following a proposal announced by New York State's education department in November. Some districts have gotten ahead of the curve by preemptively changing their mascots, the Times-Union reports, but others attempted to make slighter changes in a bid to keep names like "raiders" or "warriors"...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Republican lawmaker who was unable to derail Deb Haaland's historic nomination as Secretary of the Interior had somewhat of a meltdown as he came face-to-face with the Native trailblazer at a hearing on Capitol Hill. Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minnesota) has made no secret of his support for a controversial copper mine on Ojibwe treaty territory in northern Minnesota. But he drew criticism as Democrats on the House Committee on Natural Resources accused him of mistreating Haaland...
GENOA, Nebraska - Dazhen Lasley chose to come to the Genoa boarding school Tuesday. His great grandfather Henry wasn't given a choice to come to the school nearly a hundred years ago. Dazhen found evidence of his great grandfather's time spent at the former boarding school when he found his relative's name carved into a desk. https://www.indianz.com/News/2023/04/19/its-really-meaningful-to-me-omaha-nation-students-visit-site-of-former-boarding-school/...
