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CLEARBROOK — The tornado-threatening winds didn’t affect Sam Lavin Saturday night, as he led Clearbrook-Gonvick to a 36-12 9-man football win over Norman County West. “He can throw, he can run, we can do the option stuff with him,” Bears coach Casey Kroulik said of his quarterback. “Most importantly, he’s an incredible leader. He’s a little bit of everything, and we need him.” After a quick Panther three-and-out, Lavin and the Bears went to work early and got on the board via a three-yard rush by junior running back Tristan Bakke. http://w...
BEMIDJI—They held signs that read: "Babies' Lives Matter" and used "Amen" not just as a punctuation to prayer, but an expression of agreement. About 75 people gathered under a sheet of clouds outside Planned Parenthood in Bemidji on Saturday morning to protest the embattled nonprofit's sale of fetal body parts to researchers, and to "put an end to abortion," one ambitious protester said. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/3823264-protesters-gather-outside-bemidji-planned-parenthood...
RED LAKE—Preliminary results in Wednesday's referendum vote on alcohol sales at casinos on the Red Lake Indian Reservation were certified Thursday. The decision stands: Alcohol will not be sold at the Seven Clans Casinos in Thief River Falls or Warroad. The vote was for those properties only, Seven Clans in Red Lake was not considered in the vote and continues to be alcohol-free. In a 975 to 839 vote, the majority, 53.75 percent, voted no. The Red Lake Tribal Secretary's Office confirmed results Thursday morning. All members of the Red Lake B...
Kelliher/Northome 8, South Ridge 0 CULVER — Kelliher/Northome’s Cal Roosted scored the game’s only touchdown in the first half as the Mustangs (1-0) blanked the Panthers (0-1) in a low-scoring, defensive affair. Roostad caught a 32-yard pass off play-action from quarterback Giizhik Wagner to give the Mustangs their only score of the afternoon, while Chris Reiger ran in the point-after attempt for the two-point conversion. Goodridge/Grygla-Gatzke 38, Cass Lake-Bena 0 GRYGLA — Cass Lake-Bena was held scoreless in its first game of the season....
EAST GRAND FORKS — Blackduck’s defense did the job during Saturday afternoon’s season opener against Polk County West. The Drakes held Polk County West to just seven points and less than 200 yards of total offense. Polk County’s defense, unfortunately for the Drakes, was just as good. The Thunder held the Drakes to just 102 yards of total offense and defeated Blackduck 7-6 at East Grand Forks High School. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/sports/3823483-prep-football-polk-county-west-beats-blackduck-7-6-defensive-battle...
U.S. Sen Amy Klobuchar’s revealing new autobiography, book tour and dogged speaking schedule are reigniting talk that she is looking for new political conquests — maybe even an eventual run for the White House. “People have talked to me about it in the past,” Klobuchar said recently in her Minneapolis home. “When someone talks to you about it, you have to think about it in your mind, and I have, but the reason I wrote this book had nothing to do with that.” http://www.startribune.com/what-might-be-next-for-sen-amy-klobuchar/...
Teachers at a school in Bloomington want students to bring in iTunes gift cards on the first day of school. In Mahtomedi, third-grade students are asked to bring in a $50 check for “activity fees,” in addition to dozens of school supplies. Kindergartners at Lincoln Elementary in Faribault are expected to bring more than 30 supplies totaling at least $70. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-schools-want-75-pencils-50-checks-and-headphones-on-first-day-of-school/322640611/...
A woman was fatally shot Sunday morning in her Maplewood home, and police are seeking her husband for questioning. The victim, identified by police as April Marie Tennin, 41, was pronounced dead at the home on Woodland Lane, just east of Hill-Murray High School and near the intersection of Larpenteur and Century avenues N., said Police Chief Paul Schnell. Police and fire personnel arrived about 6 a.m. and found the woman’s body, Schnell said. Also in the home at the time were children ages 12, 15 and 16, Schnell added. Two of the children l...
WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Sunday threw his full support behind President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran, saying "it is the best path to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." "I strongly support the historic agreement and will do everything in my power to ensure that it stands," said Reid, D-Nev., in a news release. Reid is the 27th Senate Democrat to back the deal and the highest ranking in the Senate. His support will make it difficult for opponents to muster the veto-proof numbers needed in the S...
The death of civil rights icon Julian Bond last week gets me off the dime on commentary I resolved to make on my series of articles about the disappearance of thousands of Indians at the hands of other Indians in the disenrollment epidemic. Bond, poet and politician, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Poverty Law Center, was a force of nature on the level of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and in lamenting Bond’s passing the rumble of Indian self interest should rattle the windows like the bass line in a g...
Just a few weeks into the federal election, it's fair to say this campaign will see a dramatic rise in participation by indigenous voters. Already there are more than 40 First Nation, Métis or Inuit candidates seeking mainstream party nominations and a handful of ridings where all of the candidates are indigenous. As well, the main parties are making prominent political promises to First Nations, and there is much loud encouragement by the Assembly of First Nations, the Native Women's Association, and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, among...
Nineteen of 22 First Nations in the Northwest Territories are among 247 across the country that have yet to file their 2014-2015 financial statements on the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada website, despite the July 28 deadline. The 247 figure is as of this past Thursday, with those missing the deadline at risk of having some of their funding withheld. The federal department says communities that missed the deadline have been notified. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/transparency-act-deadline-missed-by-...
OMAK, Wash. - The Okanogan Complex Fires are burning throughout Okanogan County, including much of the Colville Reservation. Linda Saint and Mary Vasquez, members of the Coville Confederated Tribes, explained the fires are affecting everyone within the Confederated Tribes, because the fires, and the tribes, are so spread out. But, the community is working together to keep everyone safe. "We're members of the Colville Confederated Tribes," Saint explained. "I'm a member of the Methow, Okanogan, Chelan, Entiat, Wenatchee bands. This is my...
SPOKANE INDIAN RESERVATION—The Spokane Tribe of Indians has declared a State of Emergency due to wildfires that have hit the reservation. The ongoing drought combined with high temperatures, low humidity and wind have created extreme wildfire conditions. Tribal and Wellpinit BIA firefighters have coordinated with Stevens County, Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but resources continue to be heavily strained. The Spokane Tribe has also implemented a Reservation closure due to active fire c...
The Colville and Warm Springs Indian reservations, as well as the Yakama Nation, are all battling vicious wildfires sweeping across hundreds of square miles of the Northwest. Those are separate from the Okanagan Complex fire in which three firefighters were killed last week. As hundreds of thousands of acres burned, President Barack Obama on August 21 declared an emergency for Washington State. The order, which makes federal funds available, encompasses several counties as well as the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the...
The Bureau of Indian Affairs will help tribes conduct background investigations to ensure children are being placed in safe homes. The agency's Office of Justice Services will be on-call 24 hours a day for tribal social services agencies. They will be able to check the names of adults before placing children in a foster or temporary home. “The BIA-OJS Purpose Code X Program will provide tribal social service agencies with the information they need to protect the children they place into care in emergency situations when parents are unable to p...
Almost 58 percent supported allowing tribal members to smoke recreationally, 76.5 percent approved it for medicinal purposes. The tribe said the referendum results are advisory, meaning tribal leadership isn’t bound by them. The possibility comes on the heels of the tribe’s unsuccessful effort to open a casino in Kenosha. Just last month two California tribes were raided by federal and state authorities who said they seized at least 12,000 marijuana plants and more than 100 pounds of processed marijuana. http://forexreportda...
Cecelia Wallace stood in her garden in the Navajo community of Mexican Water, Utah, surveying her wilting, sun-scorched plants. The one-acre garden, a green oasis on the southern banks of the San Juan River, has been without water for almost two weeks. Wallace, 60, is one of thousands of Navajo residents downstream from Colorado’s Gold King Mine, which on August 5 began spewing toxic wastewater into the a river that feeds the San Juan, prompting farmers and ranchers to stop pumping water for their animals and crops. Read more at h...
Navajo President Russell Begaye has ordered police to confiscate large tanks full of water delivered to the reservation for farmers and ranchers to use for crops and livestock. The water, which arrived in 16,000-gallon tanks, was intended to fill the gap caused on August 5 when Environmental Protection Agency crews working at Colorado’s Gold King Mine accidentally released three million gallons of toxic wastewater into the Animas and San Juan rivers. The spill prompted Navajo officials in New Mexico, Utah and Arizona to close access to the r...
HARBOR SPRINGS, MICHIGAN—The Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, based in Harbor Springs, Michigan, has filed a complaint in the United States District Court, Western District of Michigan, against Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to confirm the Tribe’s treaty-protected reservation boundaries in order to best serve its citizens and to offer certainty to the local and state governmental departments with which it works. The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians is a federally recognized Indian tribe whose people have occupied the Lit...
There's a battle brewing between property owners on a lake in Ontario's Kawartha region and a First Nations group using the lake bed to seed and harvest rice. At the centre of the dispute is Pigeon Lake, located north of Peterborough near Bobcaygeon. Larry Wood, whose family has lived on the lake for more than 70 years, told CBC News the problem began about six years ago when a local man began seeding rice in the lake. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/property-owners-first-nations-square-off-over-rice-farming-in-ontario...
Merven Gruben's mom needed some cash for her upcoming trip to Paulatuk. So Gruben, a prominent businessperson in Tuktoyaktuk, went to his community's Northern Store to use the ATM machine. It's one of only two ATMs in the bank-less hamlet. Gruben needed $1,200 and took it out in two installments of $600. (There's a limit on how much you can take out in one withdrawal.) Both times, the machine charged him $6 for the transaction — about double what banks and other private ATM operators charge in other parts of N.W.T. and in Nunavut. h...
PIERRE | The mother of a girl who was injured after falling off a parade float during homecoming has filed a federal lawsuit against her daughter's tribal school, a police department and other agencies. Mission resident Tamaleon Wilcox is requesting a federal jury trial after a claim for $3 million was denied by the U.S. Department of Interior. The lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Pierre claims the junior high school student broke a leg bone and suffered other injuries when she fell off the float during the St. Francis Indian School...
Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, is getting it from all sides these days. Women are trying to boot him off the $20 bill in favor of a well-loved female figure like Eleanor Roosevelt. A bill was introduced in Congress in April to do that in advance of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment that gives women the right to vote. Jackson’s also under attack in an exhibit that opened last fall at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian titled Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and Ame...
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK– Lacrosse is coming home. For the first time ever, the FIL (Federation of International Lacrosse) will hold the World Indoor Lacrosse Championships (WILC) at the home of the game: The Onondaga Nation, capital of the Iroquois Confederacy. Honeysweet Productions, Executive Producer of WILC has announced today an exclusive partnership for its games to be televised on Universal Sports Network. Four games will be televised on Universal Sports including live coverage of the Gold Medal Championship Game on Sunday, September 27 at 4...