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BEMIDJI, MN—September 4, 2015 -- The Northwest Minnesota Foundation (NMF) is delivering Strengths Based Nonprofit Teams, a course designed to help your nonprofit team be more engaged, productive and high performing. The workshop will help individuals discover his/her strengths and strengths of others. It will explain how each individual and their unique contributions affect the workplace. This two-day session will be offered in Bemidji at the Northwest Minnesota Foundation Conference Center on September 30 and October 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 1...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Greenlandic tattoo artist Maya Sialuk Jacobsen joins Anchorage-based Iñupiaq artist Holly Mititquq Nordlum in an exploration of the cultural significance of traditional tattooing at the Anchorage Museum. Facial and hand tattooing was common throughout the Arctic until western religion censured the practice at the turn of the 20th century, Now, a growing number of indigenous people from Greenland to Alaska have begun to re-evaluate traditional tattooing as a method for connecting and reclaiming culture. Drawing in...
Mesa, Arizona— United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. (UNITY) is encouraging all Native youth to participate in its #IwillLive campaign during the National Suicide Prevention Week, September 7-13, 2015. Earlier this year, the National UNITY Council (NUC), comprising of Native youth representatives from across the United States, passed the National Suicide Prevention Initiative resolution, later renamed the "I Will Live" Initiative, in an effort to further bring attention to the suicide epidemic among Native youth in Indian Country, and to s...
CITY OF BEMIDJI The City of Bemidji will be starting work on a storm sewer project in the intersection of 4th St NW and Minnesota Ave NW in downtown Bemidji. The project will start Tuesday morning, September 8, 2015, and the intersection will be closed with an anticipated completion date of September 30, 2015. Contact is Public Works, 333-1850. As part of a utility connection being completed at the Paul Bunyan Drive (Hwy 197) & Irvine Ave NW intersection, there will be a lane closure on Paul Bunyan Drive from just East of Walgreens to just...
Members of a statewide teachers’ union want to limit high-stakes student testing to fifth and eighth grades to refocus teacher time on broader learning rather than test-taking. Education Minnesota released a report Monday detailing how to improve assessments as state leaders engage in a larger debate about the issue. “Too many policy debates are shaped by people who don’t work in schools,” union President Denise Specht said. “We believe it’s time to bring in experts, educators, to make policy recommendations that are grounded in their real...
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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Confronted with the sudden death of their 18-year-old daughter, Fred and Dorothy McIntosh Shuemake made a defiant decision: they would not worry about any finger-pointing, whispers or family stigma. They directed the funeral home to begin Alison Shuemake's obituary by stating flatly that she died "of a heroin overdose." They aren't the first grieving American parents to cite heroin in an obituary as such deaths nearly quadrupled nationally over a decade, but it's rare, even in a southwest Ohio community headed toward a...
SAN FRANCISCO – Apple is finally getting serious about pushing into our living rooms. That ambition will be underlined at an Apple event in San Francisco on Wednesday, when the company plans to unveil an upgraded Apple TV, a device similar to a set-top box that brings video and music from the Internet to a television, according to people briefed on the product. http://www.startribune.com/apple-aims-higher-with-upgraded-apple-tv/325170881/...
Large customers of Xcel Energy Inc. that signed up for shared solar energy projects are getting squeezed by a new size restriction and may not get all the solar power or cost savings they expected. This problem affects Ecolab Inc. and Macalester College in St. Paul, St. Olaf College in Northfield and many government units and schools, including the city of Minneapolis and the St. Paul Public Housing Agency. http://www.startribune.com/big-power-users-face-potentially-smaller-harvest-from-community-solar-gardens-in-minnesota/3...
Public comment was divided and protesters from both sides, pro and con, were on hand when a public “scoping” meeting on a proposed Enbridge pipeline replacement took place in McGregor Aug. 25. Enbridge Energy LLC has applied to the state of Minnesota for a certificate of need to replace its Line 3 pipeline. Enbridge’s application for pipeline replacement has been submitted and deemed complete. The meetings represented the public’s first opportunities to provide input. The company will abandon its existing Line 3 in place and build a new Lin...
NAHATA DZIIL, ARIZONA– It was a historic day for Nahata Dziil as Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye and Vice President Jonathan Nez signed off on the purchase of Ole Red Barn Liquor which signified the end of liquor sales to the local community. The ceremony took place at the Nahata Dzill Commission Governance center on Thursday, August 3, 2015. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/no-more-red-barn-liquor/...
On September 3rd, the Tulalip Tribes Board of Directors passed a resolution to remove statute of limitations on sex crimes. According to Theresa Sheldon, Tulalip Tribes Board of Directors, “Removing the statute of limitations will give the power back to those who have suffered crimes against their spirit and bodies. Prior to this resolution, you only had three years to report a sexual violence crime to authorities. Now those years are no longer valid from this day forward.” http://lastrealindians.com/tulalip-tribes-removes-s...
STEPHEN FEE: Lisa Brunner spent her childhood on and around the White Earth Indian reservation, a huge tract of land in northern Minnesota that’s home to around 4-thousand Native Americans like her. Brunner grew up surrounded by domestic violence and since has become a leading advocate for Native victims of abuse. LISA BRUNNER: “It’s happening every day.” STEPHEN FEE: Native women in the U-S face some of the highest levels of violence of any group. According to the Justice Department, one in three Native women has been raped. And three out of...
To address a growing drug problem on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, the tribal council is reviving an historic punishment to banish dealers and suppliers. On Sept. 3, the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council unanimously passed a motion to ban all known drug dealers, or “undesirables,” from the reservation. Chairman Harry Barnes said banishment has been used as a punishment on the reservation before and they will start using it against accused drug dealers because federal law enforcement officials are not doing enough to prosecute them. “Th...
Over a century ago, Walter McClintock captured rare images of Native Americans and their culture. McClintock was the son of a wealthy businessman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He developed an interest in the American West after he went there in 1895 to recover from typhoid fever. A year later, he returned to the West. This time he went as a photographer. His job was to take pictures for a federal investigation of national forests. While there, he came into contact with the Blackfoot community in northwestern Montana, and began a life-long...
SEATTLE (AP) - Fraud charges have been filed against a fish and game enforcement officer with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community accused of misusing tribal funds. According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court last month, Robert Scott Miller faces nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of theft of tribal funds. He was arrested on Thursday and released on bond. The complaint alleges Miller used his position as a fish and game officer to embezzle funds and property from the Swinomish Tribe in northwest Washington. It says he used...
A man was shot and killed in an officer-involved shooting last night after he opened fire on a Hoopa Tribal Police officer near Weitchpec, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reports. The suspect allegedly fired a gun at the officer following a pursuit. Humboldt County Sheriff’s Lt. Wayne Hanson notified media via a text that read, in part, “Officer returned fire striking suspect. Suspect is deceased. Officer is not injured.” The shooting occurred at 8:30 p.m., Hanson reported. http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2015/sep/5/man-sho...
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN —Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, has announced he will lead the “Longest Walk 5 – War on Drugs,” along a three-thousand mile route from California to Washington, D.C. The Longest Walk 5 – War on Drugs will begin on February 13, 2016 in La Jolla, California and end in Washington, DC on July 15, 2015. “Today, I announce a walk across America to draw attention to and seek guidance on drug-related issues that are causing devastation on Indian reservations and communities in the United States,” st...
Alternative histories are popular in fiction—what if Columbus hadn’t “discovered” America, what if the Confederacy had won the Civil War, what if the Nazis had invented the atomic bomb first? Harry Turtledove writes some pretty good novels on such themes, except Indians are always bad or unnecessary in his alternative histories. He even has the New World populated by Homo Erectus when the white folks get here, because, of course, our pre-human ancestors are far more exciting and interesting than actual Indians. I was waiting for a novel f...
When the head of the Assembly of First Nations recently laid out his organization's priorities in the upcoming federal election, he re-issued a plea for Indigenous Peoples to head to the polls. National Chief Perry Bellegarde also made an admission: he hadn't voted in the last federal election and wasn't sure whether he would vote in this one. Bellegarde reasoned he needed to stay non-partisan as national chief — but also spoke of personal ideologies. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/first-nations-face-real-life-barriers-to...
WINDOW ROCK, ARIZONA—Three days after Navajo Nation President requested aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for recovery funds from the August 5 mine spill that released three million gallons of toxic waste in Colorado, the federal agency denied the request on Friday. August spill was caused by a subcontractor working for the EPA that accidentally released the toxic waste into the Animus River from the Gold King Mine, near Durango, Colorado. The toxic waste made its way into the San Juan River that flows into the Navajo I...
For now, one of the newest entries into the Twin Cities radio scene is a couple of people sitting behind a folding table covered with a mess of cords, two computer monitors and a microphone. Inside the nondescript University Avenue building in St. Paul, in a space shared with a Hmong art studio, a friendly bulldog and some pails to catch the drips from a leaky roof, a growing group of ambitious amateur broadcasters is trying to build something that sounds like the diverse neighborhood that surrounds its makeshift studio. htt...
Novelist Louise Erdrich was presented with the Library of Congress prize for American fiction on Saturday in recognition of her three-decade literary career. In the Q&A at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, that followed, Erdrich – the author of Tracks, Love Medicine and The Round House and a key voice in contemporary American literature – offered insight into the worldview from which she writes, one heavily influenced by her own experiences as a mixed-race Native American. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/se...
OMAK, WASHINGTON – On Monday, September 7, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will travel to the active North Star Fire, located approximately 12 miles north of Nespelem, Washington. The North Star Fire has burned more than 205,000 acres, primarily on the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, and evacuations are in effect for approximately 3,000 single residences. More than 1,000 personnel, including state and federal firefighters, are working to contain the fire. While there, she will receive a briefing from the Incident M...
David Rogers officially returned to his Nez Perce tribal origins in October 2013, when he was hired as the tribe’s Chief of Police in Lapwai, Idaho. Twenty-two months have now passed and the improvements in staffing, vehicles, morale, programs and public acceptance have been phenomenal. ICTMN had an opportunity to talk with Chief Rogers about the changes he’s implemented. Rogers had 41 years in criminal justice and had spent the previous 15 years running the Indian Country Training Initiative for Cops Office. During that time he visited nea...
