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RED LAKE - Fourteen (14) Red Lake runners will participate in the 30th running of the Twin Cities Marathon. Considered by many to be the most beautiful urban marathon in America, the 26.2 mile road race through scenic Minneapolis/St Paul will draw runners from all fifty states, Mexico, Canada, and 13 other countries. A feast for runners and supporters will be held prior to the race at the Minneapolis American Indian Center on Saturday, October, 1st at 6:00 p.m. Elder, and renowned Native...
The Community Education Red Lake School District Advisory Council Annual Meeting was held on Wednesday, September 28, 2011, at the Red Lake Casino and Events Center. Beginning at 6 PM, youth leadership and Community Education Awards were presented, along with a Red Lake Walleye feast, and Dan King, President of the Red Lake Nation College, was the keynote speaker. The MC for the event was Community Education Director, Vicky Graves. Community Education is set up to be a Holistic project for all...
Chapter One “Do you remember when you were a kid, you saw needless pain and violence, starvation, false hopes, and imaginary lines people drew to divide themselves in all sorts of nonsensical ways, and you wanted so desperately to change things? You know how everyone says, “That’s just the way things are, you can’t change it, no one can, so don’t feel bad”. Well over time you let this logic teach you how to break your own heart and leave your mind, spirit, and every internal voice...
After a contentious summer, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe voted in a special election Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1,421 to 1,364 in favor of Donald “Mick” Finn as the new secretary/treasurer over his opponent, Donald “Donnie” Headbird. The unofficial percentage is 51 percent for Finn and 49 percent for Headbird. If the results stand, Finn will replace former Secretary/Treasurer Michael Bongo, who was voted out of office Feb. 8. Finn won the first special election June 28 by six votes over Headbird: 1,104 or 50.14 percent for Finn and 1,098 or...
In Bemidji, Minnesota, a town with a history of angry race relations, a few well-placed Ojibwe words have opened the way for mutual trust and respect. When we ran into other Ojibwe in the border towns of my youth, we would point our lips at each other and say, “Boozhoo, Aaniin,” which roughly translated means, “Hi, what’s happening?” We would be happy to see another Ojibwe in that often-unfriendly territory and discreetly share our kinship. Generations of Indians recall having their...
ATTENTION RED LAKE DEER HUNTERS A drawing will be held on January 3, 2012 for: Marlin Model x7 .270 Winchester rifle with 3x9 scope Avenger Pro Sniper Tree Stand The Red Lake Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife program is requesting voluntary submission of ADULT deer for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and Tuberculosis (TB) testing. This testing is being done to help protect the health of Red Lake’s deer herd. To qualify for the raffle, bring the deer (or the intact head and at least 6...
St. Johns and St. Antipas Episcopal Church members are invited to come and meet the new Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota on Monday, October 3, 2011, from 9 AM - 11 AM at St. Johns Episcopal Church in Red Lake (Church on the hill, Red Lake). Get acquainted, visit, eat and pray....
RED LAKE LITTLE LADY WARRIOR VOLLEYBALL Who: 1st through 5th grades Where: Red Lake Elementary School Gymnasium When: Sundays, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November 6, 13, 20, 27 December 4, 2011 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Coach: Nicole Desjarlait Parents will need to drop off students at the Red Lake Elementary School gym and pick up the students when practice has ended. Please bring comfortable clothing such as, shorts, tennis shoes, clothes that are comfortable to practice in. Sponsored by Red Lake School District #38 Community...
The USGS is working with Native American communities and organizations to understand climate change impacts to their land and neighborhoods. Projects include interviews with indigenous Alaskans to understand their personal observations of climate change, as well as studying how climate change is impacting sand dunes and posing risks to the Navajo Nation. The USGS also just signed an agreement with the National Congress of American Indians to foster greater understanding and implementation of...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2011 — U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Bruce Nelson announced today that FSA has significantly reduced the number of civil rights complaints in fiscal year 2010 to the lowest level in the agency's history, while increasing the number of loans and dollar amount obligated to programs dedicated to minority and women farmers for fiscal year 2011. "The loan numbers reflect the significant progress we have made in the effort to equally serve all eligible applicants for FSA program...
It’s not over, but a lot of Native Americans thought it was when a federal judge in Washington, D.C. signed the history making court order on Aug. 4 this year. This was a judgment which was suppose to end the lengthy class action lawsuit filed by Native Americans on June 10, 1996 against the U.S. Secretary of Interior, Assistant Secretary of Interior-Indian Affairs, and Secretary of Treasury over mismanagement of Individual Trust Money Accounts for Native Americans in this country by representatives in our federal governme...
About 100 people were arrested on September 26 after climbing police barriers on Parliament Hill as they protested against further development of the Alberta Oil Sands....
The giant energy company that wants to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline from northern Canada across six U.S. states to destinations in Texas and Oklahoma has successfully ignored the protesters, brushed off the climate-change scientists and convinced the feds that higher-priced gasoline is good for us. Now it’s face-to-face with the Sioux nations....
A coalition of the families, women's groups and First Nations organizations has sent an urgent appeal to B.C.'s premier, saying the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry is in serious jeopardy....
An American Indian tribe in San Diego County has been engaged in a four-month standoff with a military contractor that refuses to leave its reservation, according to documents recently filed in U.S. District Court....
B.C. is acknowledged as a funnel for the growing exportation of Canadian ecstasy, but the U.S. Justice Department and other authorities have identified another trouble spot: the native territories that straddle the Canada-U.S. border at Akwesasne....
SIOUX FALLS -- The U.S. government has settled three lawsuits against the Oglala Sioux Tribe that had sought to recover more than $800,000 in federal grant money. Read more: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/u-s-government-tribe-settle-debt-lawsuits/article_d3e0ba14-e9e2-11e0-baab-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1ZLIFiqHz...
Preliminary discussions about witness protection at B.C.’s Missing Women Inquiry have pitted police against women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, threatening to turn back the clock more than a decade on relations between the two groups....
Linda Grow was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and grew up in the west end of the city, graduating from Sault Area High School in 1962. She is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and remembers as a young adult how poverty-stricken other Native families were during the ’70s and on into the ’80s....
Recently a research was made on the tribal owned payday loan companies (TULSA, Oklahoma). The report says that 30 percent of payday loan complaints that are filed at Better Business Bureau relate to 7 companies of Tulsa in Miami....
Since the launch of the White House Native American Youth Challenge in early July, young people across Indian Country have been answering the President’s call to submit their stories of leadership and service in their communities. Native youth have been active and engaged throughout the summer; hundreds attended the National United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) conference in Minnesota, the National Intertribal Youth Summit in New Mexico hosted by several federal agencies, and the Let’s Move in Indian Country Lacrosse event on the...
Montana is a state with a rich history of working together. Neighbors help neighbors. We have a long tradition of working hard for a brighter future for our kids and grandkids....
KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — The Mohave County Medical Examiner has determined that an infant's death was caused by an accidental bathtub drowning....
Scripps Research Institute Professor Cindy Ehlers has been awarded a prestigious $3.6 million MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the risk factors for alcoholism in Native Americans....
(NewsCore) - A controversial student bake sale designed to satirize affirmative action was a virtual sellout Tuesday, The Daily Californian reported. Read more: http://www.myfoxla.com/dpps/news/controversial-california-student-bake-sale-is-virtual-sellout-dpgonc-20110928-fc_15232539#ixzz1ZLMZ2htA...