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On October 13, 2014 the Northern Beltrami All Veterans Memorial will be dedicated during a program beginning at 2 pm at the Old School Center, in Kelliher, MN. The memorial is the result of two years of fund raising and construction by committee representing Northern Beltrami County and is now completed. The Memorial features a kneeling soldier from Operation Iraqi Freedom facing a Battle Ctoss made up of boots from WW ll, / Korea, and M-16 from the Vietnam War, and a helmet from the Korean War & Vietnam War. The central platform is flanked by...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Interior today announced that an additional $1 million has been transferred to the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund, bringing the total transferred in 2014 to more than $4.5 million. The Scholarship Fund was authorized by the historic Cobell Settlement and is funded in part by the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program). The Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance through scholarships to American Indian and Alaska Native students wishing to pursue post-secondary e...
Oct. 1, 2014 — For the sixth consecutive year, Victory Media has listed Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College among the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the nation doing the most to embrace America’s military veterans as students. The list was compiled through exhaustive research during which Victory Media researched and surveyed more than 10,000 Department of Veterans Affairs-approved schools nationwide. Methodology, criteria and weighting for the list were developed with the assistance of an...
(Flagstaff, Ariz. – September 30, 2014) – Now there's one more reason to visit Twin Arrows' Navajo Casino Resort. Wine Spectator's Restaurant Wine List Awards recently selected the resort's Zenith Steakhouse to receive the prestigious Award of Excellence. "We are honored to be recognized by the world's leading expert on wine for the caliber of food and wine at Zenith Steakhouse," stated Derrick Watchman, CEO of Navajo Gaming. "Our Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise and Twin Arrows Directors of Foo...
Within hours of hearing about an Ebola diagnosis in Dallas, rattled leaders in the Twin Cities Liberian community sprang to action....
With an estimated 10,000 e-mails about a controversial proposal to guide the participation of transgender athletes in high school sports already in hand, officials of the Minnesota State High School League heard the impassioned voices of parents, students and advocates Wednesday....
New state ratings reveal that dozens of Minneapolis and St. Paul schools are among the lowest-performing schools in Minnesota and are failing to close the achievement gap between white and minority students. Statewide, education officials identified 155 struggling schools. The ratings signal which schools are performing poorly and which are beating the odds among those that accept federal poverty money. "This is not about labeling schools as failing; it is about recognizing what is working and...
The U.S. Department of Education has named eight Minnesota schools — including six from Brainerd — as National Blue Ribbon Schools, an honor awarded to the nation’s best-performing schools....
DALLAS — The airline passenger who brought Ebola into the U.S. initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa, the hospital said Wednesday in a disclosure that showed how easily an infection could be missed....
Four months from now, winter snows willing, Nathan Schroeder and his team of Alaskan huskies will set off from Duluth on a grueling 400-mile journey up the North Shore — and back — in the reincarnated John Beargrease sled dog marathon....
WASHINGTON — Six people were implicated Wednesday in contract-rigging schemes involving the bribery of National Guard officials, and three individuals have pleaded guilty, prosecutors said....
DULUTH – With just over a month until the election, U.S. Sen. Al Franken and his Republican challenger Mike McFadden squared off for the first time in an early morning debate that found the incumbent defending his voting record on the Affordable Care Act, Iron Range mining jobs and the environment....
The cost of insurance on the MNsure health exchange is on the rise, state officials said Wednesday, though premium rates in the Twin Cities will remain lower than in many parts of the country....
Giving teens free birth control encourages them to use long-acting methods and greatly cuts the chances they will become pregnant or have an abortion, a new study finds....
MEXICO CITY — Military special forces grabbed alleged cartel leader Hector Beltran Leyva during a lightning raid at a restaurant Wednesday, the latest in a string of high-profile drug arrests in the country....
MOSCOW — The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has voiced regret about Russia's decision to cancel its participation in a major high school student exchange program....
So far, seven Northwest Territories and two Yukon First Nations have made public what their chiefs and councillors are paid, under the new First Nations Financial Transparency Act....
A Manitoba aboriginal group says the province's child welfare system is part of an ongoing "genocide" and needs to be completely overhauled....
NELIGH, Neb. — From the edge of a rye field teeming with grasshoppers, Willie Nelson and Neil Young sang on Saturday in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL project, warning through lyrics that a “company wants to build a tar sand pipeline where it don’t belong....
Almost a year ago, the Native Women’s Association of Canada applied to the Status of Women minister seeking funding for a program to combat violence against Indigenous women....
An anonymous nomination has put Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation in a position to win copy00,000. Thunder Valley is one of six finalists for the Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/10/01/pine-ridge-organization-finalist-100k-buckminster-fuller-challenge-157138...
Some 169 grants totaling more than $87 million to enhance law enforcement practices and sustain crime prevention and intervention efforts in nine purpose areas were recently announced by the Department of Justice. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/10/01/tribal-judicial-systems-receive-boost-tune-87-million-157139...
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has left intact an injunction that prevents two tribally-owned online lenders from doing business in New York....
A tribal court conviction can't be used to prove an Indian defendant is a repeat domestic violence offender, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday....
HELENA – Federal prosecutors can’t always use past tribal court convictions as proof of a defendant’s criminal history, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found in a Montana case....