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When: Monday, Aug. 27th - 31st, 9:00am – 3:00pm Where: Headwaters Music and Arts, 519 Minnesota Ave NW, Bemidji Who: Ages 9-18, cost to attend is $125 per participant Headwaters Art Camp is a week-long day camp for ages 9-18. Students will find themselves immersed in a fast paced program riffing on the theme of Dragons and Dragonflies from 9:00am to 3:00pm. Participants will learn about a wide variety of art media while touching on story-telling and the natural world with local artist instructors Jamie Lee, Susan Kedzie, Mary Therese, Tom D...
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (Aug. 17, 2018) — Hy-Vee, Inc. announced today that the flu vaccine is available at its more than 250 Hy-Vee Pharmacy locations throughout its eight-state region without an appointment or prescription. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends people 6 months and older get a flu vaccine each year to prevent getting and spreading the flu virus. In addition, Hy-Vee Healthy You mobiles can be reserved for flu vaccine clinics as a convenient health and wellness benefit for a company’s employees. Cli...
Minnesota Historical Society staff are excitedly preparing for the start of the Minnesota State Fair next week. Performances of History-on-a-Schtick!, a wacky musical romp through Minnesota history, return to the Schell's Stage in the West End Market every day at 9:30 and 10:30 am. This year's not-to-miss moment is the debut of a brand-new song about Paul Bunyan's overlooked girlfriend, Lucette Diana Kensack. Visitors can also pick up a self-guided History Walking Tour brochure to discover some...
For decades, Native American reservations have been havens for the gambling industry in states with anti-casino legislatures. Can we count Big Pot in too? The Justice Department said Thursday it will no longer prosecute federal laws regulating the growing or selling of marijuana on reservations, even when state law bans the drug. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/12/native-american-reservations-now-free-to-legalize-marijuana/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eaf77a597b62...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (August 17, 2018) - With a focus on North American Indigenous artists, Travois First Fridays jurors selected nine professionals to share their artwork as part of a visual art exhibition series at the Travois office in the Crossroads Art District, 310 W. 19th Terr. in Kansas City, MO. The next First Fridays event will be on Friday, September 7, with Joseph Erb (Cherokee) and his exhibition: "ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᎦᏅᎯᏓ (Long Men): the native streams and rivers of the land." "Joseph Erb creates art...
Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school returned to school Wednesday for the start of the new year, six months after the devastating shooting shook their community in Parkland. In the wake of the mass shooting, President Donald Trump established a school safety commission, chaired by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, which convened for the fifth time Thursday. DeVos made clear to lawmakers in June that exploring the role of guns in making schools safer was not part of the "commission’s charge," and in keeping with that tone, the d...
Last year, Camille Watkins’s day as a fourth grade teacher got a little longer. The elementary school where she taught had been named one of Florida’s 300 lowest-performing schools. That meant the school was required to add an extra hour of reading instruction to the day, something Watkins found grueling. https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/08/16/florida-longer-school-day-study/...
When: Saturday, September 15th, 7:00pm Where: Headwaters Music & Arts is located at 519 Minnesota Ave NW Bemidji, MN 56601 Contact: headwatersschool@yahoo.com | 218.444.5606 Cost: $10 general admission and $5 for students & seniors 62+ Headwaters Music & Arts welcomes Kiki, Greg and Sabbastion to Bemidji for an evening of music and magic 7pm Saturday, September 15th. dancing Light is from Walker, MN. The band fuses folk, classical, rock and pop genres, and sees themselves as being in the transport business. Kiki says, “If we do our job well, we...
CALGARY—A PhD student is creating a database of every Indigenous woman and girl who has either gone missing or been killed in Canada and the U.S. since 1900, with plans to use the data to craft an atlas mapping the crisis across North America. Annita Lucchesi, a PhD candidate at the University of Lethbridge, wanted to include rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women in her now-completed MA thesis — but came to the conclusion that accurate numbers don’t exist. https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2018/08/17/indigenous-phd-st...
At the Oromocto First Nation, grass dancers are stomping the ground, clearing the grass of sticks and rocks while their fringed, bright regalia sways to a beat, like grass blowing in the wind. Summer on Turtle Island means powwow season. All summer long in Canada, drum groups, dancers and spectators have been clearing their weekend schedules to get to the nearest gathering. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/powwow-new-brunswick-oromocto-dances-drumming-1.4780744...
On March 8, 1918, Simon Bamberger, the governor of Utah, gave his blessing for a wedding to take place in the state capitol. Chief White Elk, a distinguished Cherokee and an American war hero, would marry Burtha Thompson, a half-white, half-Native American woman who went by Princess Ah-Tra-Ah-Saun. The wedding was a grand, public affair. A prestigious local jeweler donated an 18-karat Tiffany wedding band, and a local military commander honored the chief’s service by bestowing full military honors on the ceremony. The wedding was also c...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a grant for $8,950 for the Spirit Lake Tribe, of the Devils Lake area, as part of its program to stimulate commercial and manufacturing development in rural areas. The funds will allow the tribe to conduct a study of the feasibility of manufacturing clothing at the tribe’s industrial building in Fort Totten. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/government-and-politics/4487150-usda-approves-rural-development-grants...
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - A federal investigation into the City of Pocatello for possible discrimination is now complete. Back in 2016, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes asked the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate possible discrimination by the city in its lease agreement at the airport. https://www.localnews8.com/news/faa-makes-decision-on-discrimination-investigation-against-city-of-pocatello/783018109...
FORT HALL — Dozens of residents who were evacuated Thursday because they were in the path of a raging wildfire on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation are being allowed back into the affected area. The blaze was reported around 4 p.m. off Ross Fork Creek Road about 3 miles east of the Interstate 15 Fort Hall exit. Fort Hall authorities reported Thursday evening that nearly 50 houses were evacuated because of the 2,500-acre wildfire. https://www.postregister.com/news/local/fort-hall-residents-evacuated-thursday-due-to-wildfire-ar...
NEW YORK—The FBI is seeking the public’s help in rounding up more than a half-million dollars’ worth of artworks that were stolen in 1983 from the New York City home of an artist known for his scenes of the American West. The missing art may be linked to a former police detective whose 1985 killing was never solved. https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-seeks-help-to-find-stolen-art-depicting-old-west_2627223.html...
Nespelem —By vote of 8-6, the Colville Business Council on Thursday rejected a proposed resolution to expel former CBC member Edwin Marchand. The action came after a read-out of a CBC Rules Committee recommendation to expel Mr. Marchand, based on findings that he had committed an unethical act by failing to repay a travel-related overpayment. The Rules Committee held a hearing on the matter on July 9, when Mr. Marchand was still a member of CBC but before CBC reorganization on July 12. Mr. Marchand did not win re-election and when the new C...
OKMULGEE, Oklahoma — The Creek Freedmen lawsuit has sparked debate as to what is the determining factor of Muscogee (Creek) citizenship and whether or not descendants of those listed on the Creek Freedmen rolls of the Dawes Commission have the right to enroll as citizens of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Muscogee (Creek) citizen Joe Anderson said his hope is for citizenship to be kept as it is. https://mvskokemedia.com/citizens-respond-to-creek-freedmen-case/...
A man accused of shooting three people on the Morongo Indian Reservation this year — killing one of them — must stand trial on murder and attempted murder charges, a judge ruled Friday, Aug. 17. Adrien Sotomayor, 32, is accused of killing 55-year-old Gilbert Trevino of Beaumont and wounding two other men on Jan. 10. https://www.pe.com/2018/08/17/man-must-stand-trial-in-fatal-morongo-indian-reservation-shooting/...
