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ST. PAUL—A record number of Minnesotans died by suicide last year, leading the state's health commissioner to say Wednesday that more must be done to support people who are contemplating taking their lives. There were 726 suicide deaths reported in the state in 2015, up 6 percent from 686 in 2014. Half of the increase occurred among white men ages 25 to 34, according to the Minnesota Department of Health data released Wednesday. "We know suicides are preventable," Minnesota Health Commissioner Dr. Ed Ehlinger said in a statement. "We have s...
Reuben Wind, Jr. Born: Fri., Aug. 4, 1939 Died: Wed., Sep. 7, 2016 Visitation 1:00 PM Fri., Sep. 09, 2016 Location: Red Lake Community Center Traditional American Indian Service 10:00 AM Sun., Sep. 11, 2016 Location: Red Lake Community Center Reuben Wind, Jr., age 77, Minogiichigad which means Good Day, of Red Lake, Minnesota and the Marten Clan began his spiritual journey on September 7, 2016 at Altru Hospital in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Reuben was born on August 4, 1939 in Red Lake, MN the...
The Annual Cops and Bobbers Fishing Event was held at Fuller's Lake on Thursday, August 18, 2016, starting at 10 AM. Over 111 kids between the ages of 6-12 participated in this event, where they received T-shirts, fishing rods and had the opportunity to go on the lake in boats. Lunch was also provided for the participants. The event was sponsored by the Red Lake Department of Public Safety and Conservation Department....
Tracy Lynn Gale Born: Sun., Oct. 23, 1966 Died: Mon., Sep. 5, 2016 Visitation 5:00 PM Sat., Sep. 10, 2016 Location: Battle Point Community Center Traditional American Indian Service 10:00 AM Mon., Sep. 12, 2016 Location: Battle Point Community Center Tracy Lynn Gale, age 49, of Battle Point, Minnesota started her journey home on September 5, 2016. Her Ojibwe names are "Binesikwe" which means "Thunderbird Woman," and "Ogichidaaikwe" which means "Warrior Woman." She was born October 23, 1966, the...
Miioowezhi-odaminoyang Anishinaabeg (How we Play as the People) Fall 2016 Youth & Family Programs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nhXbEE47Y_1gwkDlqsdOmCue4uL7Ic83Q-M-AhPchvQ/pub...
NEW YORK — California and federal regulators fined Wells Fargo a combined $185 million on Thursday, alleging the bank's employees illegally opened millions of unauthorized accounts for their customers in order to meet aggressive sales goals. The San Francisco-based bank will pay $100 million to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency created five years ago, $35 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and $50 million to the City and County of Los Angeles. It will also pay restitution to affected customers. I...
The state of Minnesota took steps toward closing Woodbury-based Globe University and the Minnesota School of Business on Thursday after a judge ruled that the for-profit schools committed fraud in marketing and recruiting for their now-shuttered criminal justice program. In revoking the schools’ authorization to operate, the state’s Office of Higher Education said they won’t close immediately. The office will try to minimize disruption by evaluating what it called “teach-out” plans and other options for the approximately 1,700 Minnesota...
In a bold escalation of its effort to have Donald Trump and Mike Pence removed from the ballot in Minnesota, the DFL Party has taken its argument to the state Supreme Court. Ken Martin, the party’s chair, late Thursday filed a petition with the court asking it to order the Minnesota secretary of state to strip the Republicans’ names off the state’s Nov. 8 election ballot. There is urgency in resolving the issue, because early voting will begin in Minnesota Sept. 23. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-dfl-asks-state-supreme...
Jared Scheierl got the call while driving, his 12-year-old son beside him in the passenger seat. The man who had kidnapped and assaulted him in 1989 — when Scheierl himself was 12 — had led investigators to Jacob Wetterling’s remains. He looked at his son through tears. “I said, ‘Wow, you’re like one of the first people to know: They found Jacob Wetterling.’ ” http://www.startribune.com/wetterling-siblings-best-friend-overwhelmed-by-love-and-support/392790701/...
WASHINGTON – Democratic U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan’s biggest challenge in his re-election fight isn’t Republican rival Stewart Mills so much as GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Nolan’s northern Minnesota congressional district is a hotbed of Trump support, even among some Democrats. Stung by the loss of blue-collar jobs in recent years, many on Minnesota’s Iron Range welcome Trump’s searing criticism of trade agreements and environmental regulations, and his pledge to help those who have fallen behind in the tumultuous global economy. “W...
NEAR CANNON BALL, N.D. – Verna Bailey stared into the silvery ripples of a man-made lake, looking for the spot where she had been born. “Out there,” she said, pointing to the water. “I lived down there with my grandmother and grandfather. We had a community there. Now it’s all gone.” Fifty years ago, hers was one of hundreds of American Indian families whose homes and land were inundated by rising waters after the Army Corps of Engineers built the Oahe Dam along the Missouri River, part of a huge midcentury public works project approved by...
Brian Jakubowski held the pouch with $7,000 in cash that he’d just found on the street, and he didn’t hesitate. The Columbia Heights man, out for a bike ride with his five kids, pedaled the money and kids to the police station that night. But no one was there to take it. So he went back a couple of days later to turn it in. http://www.startribune.com/bicyclist-finds-7k-in-bank-pouch-in-street-turns-in-the-cash/392774821/...
Public meetings, typically staid and attended by few people other than elected officials, have become a noisy scene for ongoing protests about racial equity and police violence. On Wednesday alone, protesters drowned out two meetings, leading to citations and evictions at the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board headquarters and adjournment without completion of the agenda at Falcon Heights City Hall. Disruptive tactics — from chanting to heckling officials while they speak — have become increasingly common in meeting rooms across the Twi...
Supervalu Inc.'s struggles to shore up its grocery operations, including Twin Cities market leader Cub Foods and its Save-A-Lot discount unit, are being hurt by competition and price deflation, executives said Thursday. The Eden Prairie-based firm became the latest major grocery company to warn that its performance in the summer months would be below expectations. Executives cut their outlook for the rest of the company's financial year, which ends in April. Supervalu shares fell 9.5 percent to the lowest level since the day in July when it...
VIENTIANE, Laos – President Obama, ending his final trip to Asia in office, dismissed suggestions Thursday that his sometimes bumpy reception this week called into question the success of his policy of reasserting the United States’ role in the region. “The concern that I’ve heard is not that what we’ve done hasn’t been important and successful,” Obama said at a news conference in Vientiane. “The concern I’ve heard is, ‘Will it continue?’ ” “My hope and expectation is that my successor will in fact sustain this kind of engagement,” he said. ht...
OCETI SAKOWIN TERRITORY—On Thursday, September 8, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple officially activated the National Guard to assist security near the site of the demonstrations near Standing Rock, alarming many campers, water protectors and supporters at the Oceti Sakowin camp along the river. “When we first heard about the possibility of the National Guard coming, it was almost trauma response,” said Faith Spotted Eagle, Ihanktowan elder, who was present when the word came down. “A lot of people went numb because the idea of the militar...
CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA – Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Archambault II spoke with North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple on Thursday morning and was notified that the governor has been deployed the national guard to ensure safety of all citizens. The National Guard has been called in to assist state and county police in notifying drivers on Highway 1806 traveling south that there may be pedestrians on the road and cars may be parked on the side of the road. This is intended to keep all drivers and pedestrians safe. The National Guard w...
The North Dakota National Guard will be activated to assist local law enforcement responding to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests south of Mandan, according to an announcement on Thursday by Gov. Jack Dalrymple. Dalrymple said the decision was made "out of an abundance of caution" in order to free up law enforcement to patrol Morton County and the Bismarck-Mandan area. Several armed guardsmen will be posted at a checkpoint along Highway 1806 south of Mandan, which has been reopened. They will provide information about road hazards to drivers...
With a major court decision expected on Friday, authorities in North Dakota are doing their best to stir up fears about the #NoDAPL movement. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier -- who has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about lawlessness at the resistance campsites -- is planning to bring more law enforcement to the area in anticipation of the ruling, the Associated Press reports. “We are preparing and planning for all scenarios that may occur in response to the federal court ruling,” Kirchmeier's department said in a statement quo...
The leader of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota is urging calm ahead of a highly anticipated court ruling that could halt work on the contentious Dakota Access pipeline project. Thousands have gathered in and around the reservation to support the tribe's fight against the pipeline, which many fear could leak and contaminate the Missouri River. The tribe was successful in getting a temporary work halt on portions of the pipeline earlier this week. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/standing-rock-urging-calm-1.37540...
Commentary: An energy company plans a project that would destroy land Native people hold as sacred. Despite Native protests, neither state nor federal agencies intervene to protect those cultural sites. The project proceeds. The land is forever altered. Hundreds of Native people and their supporters converge on the site to protest and to grieve their loss. Given recent news, not to mention the choice of photo at the top of this story, you could be forgiven for assuming I’m describing current events at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dako...
BISMARCK, N.D., Sept. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- First Peoples Worldwide joins the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) for a historic gathering of Native American governments to demand accountability from Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline is slated to cross the tribe's treaty territory and drinking water without Free, Prior, and Informed Consent. Thousands of people from across the United States have joined the SRST to protest Energy Transfer Partners' building of the proposed 1,200-mile...
FORT YATES, N.D., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A tribal group protesting a pipeline that is to carry oil from North Dakota said it was disappointed the project was still going forward despite a temporary delay. Tribal groups are suing federal regulators over permits for the 1,134-mile pipeline because of threats to the Missouri River and other regional water ways. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which examined separately each water crossing, is accused of sidelining tribal interest. In response to a motion filed by tribal groups over the weekend, a...
The bulldozing of sacred Indigenous burial sites to make way for the embattled Dakota Access Pipeline is likely just one example within the systematic problem of how the U.S. federal Bureau of Indian Affairs often gives “cheap and easy” access to corporations to exploit natural resources on Native American land, according to a new investigation by In These Times. The six-month study found that the BIA, which administers the millions of acres of land in trust for Native American owners in the United States, appears to systematically favor in...
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) stands in solidarity with the sovereign Oceti Sakowin Oyate (the Great Sioux Nation), the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the American Indian Studies Association, and the many tribal nations in strongly opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The construction of the oil pipeline, stretching across Standing Rock Sioux lands on its 1,172 mile path from North Dakota to Illinois, would be a violation of the sacred trust between the US Government and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The...
