Red Lake Nation News - Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA – Dennis J. Banks (Ojibwe), whose American Indian name was Nowa Cumig, co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM), actor, lecturer and author, has walked on and has begun his journey to the spirit world from complications developed after open heart surgery last week. He was surrunded by family and friends at the time of his death. He passed away at...

Dennis Banks, a longtime national American Indian activist who was acquitted in the famed 1970s Wounded Knee uprising trial, has died, his family said early Monday. Banks was 80 years old. "Our father Dennis J. Banks started his journey to the spirit world at 10:10 p.m. on October 29, 2017," reads a post on Banks' Facebook page signed by his children and grandchildren. "As he...

Leech Lake Tribal Elder and AIM Co-Founder Dennis Banks passed away October 29, 2017. Native News Online reported Sunday in a dispatch from Rochester, MN that Banks developed pneumonia following open heart surgery 10 days earlier. In a post to his personal Facebook page, signed by his children and grandchildren, the family stated: https://www.leechlakenews.c...

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson and CenturyLink have reached an agreement on CenturyLink’s pricing practices, Swanson’s office announced Monday. In July, Swanson sued CenturyLink, claiming the company had billed customers higher amounts than its sales agents had quoted. On Friday, an Anoka County judge signed a court order requiring CenturyLink to disclose all...

Two men were wounded in shootings near SuperAmerica stations in St. Paul at almost exactly the same time Sunday night, but they occurred in different neighborhoods and police said they were unrelated. The victims were hospitalized with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. Police are investigating the circumstances leading up to both shootings and had not...

KESHENA, Wis. — Menominee Tribal Police say a parent on the reservation found a packet of methamphetamine among her child’s trick-or-treat Halloween candy. The parent turned the small packet of crystal powder over to Menominee Tribal Police early Monday and officers say it tested positive for meth. The child did not ingest the powder. http://www.twinciti...

Dennis Banks, who helped found the American Indian Movement and engaged in sometimes-violent uprisings against the U.S. government, including the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973, died at age 80, his family announced Monday. Banks, whose Ojibwe name was Nowacumig, was one of several activists who founded AIM in Minneapolis in 1968, and he was a leader of the group’s...

The Dakota County sheriff’s office will stop collecting DNA samples without a warrant from defendants charged with certain violent crimes under a deal reached with a Rosemount man who sued over the legality of the practice. The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed suit in April against Dakota County Sheriff Tim Leslie on behalf of 68-year-old John David Emerson,...

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Monday weighed in on the racially charged feud surrounding the St. Paul mayor’s race. Dayton has endorsed Melvin Carter III, a former St. Paul City Council member who works for Dayton as head of the governor’s Children’s Cabinet. Carter, was the target of a series of political criticisms — attacks, some say — from the St. Paul Police...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians, special counsel Robert Mueller said Monday, while former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Manafort’s business partner pleaded not guilty to felony charges of conspiracy against the United States and other counts. The guilty plea...

BEMIDJI—A year after the disappearance of Cass Lake teen Jeremy Jourdain, the Bemidji Police Department has followed up on more than 120 leads. His family has held multiple fundraisers, conducted numerous community searches and created a reward fund, hoping to bring Jourdain home. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4351664-year-missing-jeremy-jourdain-was-...

NORTHERN TOWNSHIP—Five people were hurt Saturday in a two-vehicle crash in Northern Township, about four miles north of Bemidji. According to a Minnesota State Patrol report, a Ford Expedition carrying eight people was driving north on U.S. Highway 71 at about 8 p.m. As the expedition approached the intersection of the highway and Lakewood Drive Northwest, a Ford pickup...

"We are safe." In a short Facebook post at 10:39 p.m. on October 1, less than an hour after bullets rained on thousands of Las Vegas concertgoers, Lorraine Carver assured loved ones that she and her husband, Dennis, managed to escape unscathed. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4351577-husband-and-wife-survived-las-vegas-massacre-died-crash-two-weeks-later...

ST. PAUL – The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority (PFA) approved a $4.2 million grant to help Winsted pay for improvements to its wastewater treatment plant. The funding from the PFA’s Point Source Implementation Grant Program will help the city finance upgrades that reduce the discharge of phosphorus from the plant. Winsted, a city of about 2,400 people in McLeod...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — While kindergarten has the highest habitual truancy rate at the elementary level, overall, high school students are still by far the worst offenders. Habitual truancy, a measure that looks only at unexcused absences, gradually declines through fifth grade across APS, then begins to climb, hitting 25 to 26 percent in the high school years....

Election Day approaches with a long list of school building projects being pitched to metro area voters, some in surprising places. New elementary schools are envisioned in the Anoka-Hennepin, Wayzata and Prior Lake-Savage districts — moves one could expect of big or growing school systems in a typical election year. http://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

The taxman has caught up with the Buffalo Public Schools. The school district had to pay $7.5 million to the Internal Revenue Service this month for unpaid payroll taxes from the past three years. http://buffalonews.com/2017/10/29/buffalo-school-district-pays-7-5-million-to-irs-for-unpaid-taxes/...