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Red Lake Celebrates Independence Day: Tuesday Evening Pow Wow Red Lake Singing Contest Result 6th Bad Nation 5th Young Kingbird 4th Red Creek 3rd P-Town Boyz 2nd The Boyz 1st Mandaree...
ST. PAUL – Communications technology company Pace International Inc. will invest $1.95 million and hire an additional 22 workers in an expansion of its facilities in Rochester. The company said it plans to add 9,000 square feet of offices and 9,000 square feet of warehouse space, bringing its total facility footprint in Rochester to 66,000 square feet. The new jobs will be phased in over three years. The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) is supporting the project with a $196,000 grant from the Job Creation Fund....
Headwaters Music & the Arts is an independent nonprofit established in 1992 in Bemidji MN. Its mission is to “Seek Music, Engage the Arts, Build Community” through a range of music and art initiatives for children and adults. Activities include a private and group music lessons, parentchild music classes, a youth strings program, pottery classes, art club, community performances, and a chess club. As a Headwaters program, the First City Singers are a non-audition volunteer group of men and women ages 55 and older who find the experience of sin...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Two of the three suspects in the kidnapping and assault of a 15-year-old Alexandria girl were best friends and had attended high school in Alexandria together, said the mother of one of them. Lisa Barker, mother of suspect Thomas Jay Barker, 32, lives not far from the trailer house where police say the three men held the teen prisoner even as family and law enforcement officers desperately searched for her in the days and weeks after she disappeared. http://www.twincities.com/2017/09/06/mom-two-kidnapping...
A 15-year-old western Minnesota girl who thought she was helping a friend’s father was instead kidnapped and held captive for 29 days during which she was repeatedly raped, tied up with zip ties and locked in a closet before escaping and swimming across a lake to safety, prosecutors said Thursday in announcing charges against three men. Court documents detail instances in which the Alexandria girl said she believed that the men were trying to kill her, including when she fought back as one of them tried to push her underwater in a bathtub, a...
The credit reporting agency Equifax said Thursday that hackers gained access to sensitive personal data – Social Security numbers, birth dates and home addresses – for up to 143 million Americans, a major cybersecurity breach at a firm that serves as one of the three major clearinghouses for Americans’ credit histories. Equifax said the breach began in May and continued until it was discovered in late July. It said hackers exploited a “website application vulnerability” and obtained personal data about British and Canadian consumers as well a...
President Donald Trump finally acknowledged opposition to the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline but came up with a new and curious claim about an issue that galvanized Indian Country over the last year. During a speech at an oil refinery about 40 miles north of the formerly massive #NoDAPL encampment in North Dakota, Trump again boasted of his decision to approve the final portion of the $3.4 billion project. Although almost all of it was completed before he came on board, he insisted no other politician would have taken action....
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA – Speaking before 700 of his faithful in Bismarck, North Dakota, President Donald Trump on Wednesday said opening the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) was “the right thing to do.” American Indians across Indian Country opposed the pipeline and resisted at Standing Rock for several months. Four days after assuming the presidency, Trump signed memorandum that will allow the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines to proceed. His action on the two pipelines reversed the Obama administration’s denial of both pipeline because...
FARGO, N. D. –– The Fortune 500 company answerable for building the Dakota Access Pipeline across unceded 1851 Ft. Laramie Treaty territory is seeking $1 billion in damages in a new lawsuit against organized opposition involved with the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) struggle to block the private oil infrastructure project. The company, Energy Transfer Partners, which led the consortium that began pumping the oil through the controversial $3.7-billion pipeline June 1, filed the massive claim in North Dakota U.S. District Court on Aug. 22,...
Sometimes doing the right thing comes with a cost. Shailene Woodley learned that the hard way in October 2016 when she was arrested for criminal trespassing during a Dakota Access Pipeline protest, she told Marie Claire U.K. during a recent interview. http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/entertainment/shailene-woodley-felt-caged-animal-jail-article-1.3477046...
The Saginaw Chippewa Tribe has won the right to disenroll a group of citizens, The Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun reports. The Fowler and Wheaton families say their ancestor appeared on an 1891 base roll. But a tribal judge said they can be removed in a decision issued earlier this month, according to the paper. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/08/30/saginaw-chippewa-tribe-wins-court-ruling.asp...
TAHLEQUAH —The Cherokee Nation registration office is processing tribal citizenship applications for Cherokee freedmen descendants following resolution of a decades-long legal struggle. “We’re happy and relieved this longstanding case is finally resolved, and now we are moving forward processing applications as quickly as possible,” said Cherokee Nation Attorney General Todd Hembree. https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/cherokee-nation-accepting-processing-freedmen-descendant-applications-tribal-citizenship/...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA TV) - A woman admits to her role in the shooting death of Vincent Brewer III on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in October. In a hearing in Federal Court Wednesday, Tiffanee Garnier, 31, changed her plea to guilty to crime of accessory after the fact. http://www.kotatv.com/content/news/Woman-pleas-guilty-in-her-role-of--Pine-Ridge-homicide--442938313.html...
The Blackfeet Nation has secured a $100,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security to assist with border protection efforts. The funds came from the Operation Stonegarden program. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana), who announced the award, said it will help the tribe protect America's 540-mile border with Canada. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/09/07/blackfeet-nation-secures-100k-federal-gr.asp...
Longmont, Colorado, Sept. 06, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) today announced the new grantees under its “Nourishing Native Children: Feeding Our Future” Project that is generously supported by funding from the Walmart Foundation. The 10 grants, of $15,000 each, total $150,000. The effort provides grants to Native American communities to continue or expand nutrition resources for existing programs that serve American Indian children ages 6-14. For many Native children, meals provided by their sch...
Major storm surge and 150 mph winds awaited South Florida even as Hurricane Irma was downgraded to a Category 4 storm in its crawl toward the U.S. mainland on Friday morning. The 5 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center showed maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, making it officially a Category 4 storm. The NHC still cautioned the storm was “extremely dangerous.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/hurricane-irma-thrashes-caribbean-slideshow-wp-123152970.html...