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Each year officials with the Minnesota Department of Education put together a list that reveals how schools and school districts measure up. Schools and districts are measured in four areas – student participation in taking state standardized tests, test scores, attendance and graduation rates. The end result of this list is called Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP. AYP measures the ability levels of students within the following subgroups: all students; American Indian/Alaskan Native students; A...
Time flies when you're having fun. Case and point: it's almost October! And there's even more fun to be had at Seven Clans Casino this weekend. With October comes Oktoberfest Days! Celebrate with great food at Warroad this Friday and Saturday. This also means the end of our September online promo! If you haven't yet, don't forget to sign up to win two WILD Hockey tickets. Jackyl and Adlers Appetite are performing at our Red Lake location in two weeks - tickets are sure to sell out quickly, so...
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Celebrating Community, $15 at a time Towns that play together, stay together. That’s why we’re introducing Community Days at Seven Clans Casino Red Lake. Just show us your ID on your town’s Community Day, and you’ll receive $10 in free play and a $5 blackjack match play. On us! Sunday - Red Lake Reservation Day Monday - Bemidji/Cass Lake/Bena Day Tuesday - Clearbrook/Gonvick/Bagley Day Wednesday - Blackduck/Kelliher/Northome Day Thursday - Nebish/Puposky/Tenstrike/Turtle River Day Seven Clans r...
If you • are an artist who creates two or three dimensional art • present your work in photographs (web site, gallery, juried exhibitions, portfolio, catalog, etc) • want to improve your skills to create images with correct exposure, color, background, focus and impact that are commensurate with the quality of the art • want to better understand the functions built into your camera that will help you show your work at its best… Then Photography 101 for Artists taught by experienced local photographer and presenter Cal Rice is for you! You...
Equay Wiigamig Group Facilitator’s Talking Circle Training for Women interested in conducting a Talking Circle Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 Confidentiality is our priority– Closed Sessions *no childcare provided* Refreshments and snack will be provided. For more information please call: Darlene Lussier between 9:00 A.M. –3:00 p.m. weekdays: Please call 218-679-3443 to Register– deadline is Monday, Octo-ber 3, 2011 @ 12:00 noon. Vickey Fineday, Women’s Advocate Work#: 218-554-7425 Cell#: 218-766-2753 Fax#: 218-5547-7325 Crisis Line: 1-800-943...
The school's enrollment also remains a financial concern for the district. With so few students in one of its largest buildings, the district estimated this spring that the per-student cost of operating North could be roughly $13,100, compared to the district average of $8,762 per student. Seven miles away at Southwest High, consistently ranked among the state's best schools, eight times as many students are crammed into a smaller building. For Kale Severson, a 2001 graduate and president of the North High School Alumni Association, the...
The Twin Cities Tar Sands Action group marched in downtown Minneapolis on Monday, Sept. 26, and called on President Obama to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would transport synthetic crude oil from the Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries in the Midwest, and southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Native American leaders and local environmental activists — some of whom were arrested as part of Keystone Pipeline protests in front of the White House this summer — warned that the pipeline would destroy wetlands, continue to feed our add...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A judge has dismissed one of two lawsuits over whether black slaves once owned by members of the Cherokee Nation have the right to tribal citizenship....
Scott Tucker used questionable business practices to become a millionaire. Now the mysterious and secretive businessman from Kansas is spending his fortune to become a famous auto racer....
Wayne Coons felt a sense of panic when he realized that the $350 payday loan he got over the Internet was costing him hundreds of dollars more than he thought....
WASHINGTON – Retired Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, the immediate past chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, made headlines earlier this year when he decided to put $1 million of his unused campaign cash to use establishing a Center for Native American Youth in the heart of the nation’s capital at the Aspen Institute think tank. The money was there to do good, but over the last eight months he’s seen some challenges—sometimes from Natives who are wary of non-Indian prescriptions for Indian communities. Throughout, he’s worked as...
RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA -- A nonprofit agency claiming to provide social services for the local Native American community recently fired the bulk of its workforce after questions were raised by the employees regarding the organization’s true intent and purpose and lack of working capital to cover paychecks....
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. — The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians is one of 61 communities selected to receive funding in order to address Tobacco Free Living, Active and Healthy Living, and Increased use of High Impact Quality Clinical Preventative Services in seven Upper Peninsula counties that serve as the tribe’s service area. This was announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The tribe’s community health department will receive $2.5 million or $500,000 annually for five years....
More than four years ago, we wrote about the quirky kidnapping case involving (then) 4-year-old Raven Laws, some local Native-Americans and a quasi-Indian tribe based in Alabama....
A new U.S. government report highlights serious gaps in mental health care for many American Indians and Alaska Natives, groups that suffer from problems including a teenage suicide rate more than twice the national average. Read more: http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/national/article_562fc008-e9d7-5093-8742-de82f2451208.html#ixzz1Ziuk7y5F...
Pieces of American Indian history are coming to the Becker County Museum to show why they still matter....
A Spokane woman faces federal charges, accused of selling bald eagle parts to an East Spokane pawn shop....
MISSOULA — A Ronan woman admitted to stealing nearly $10,000 from a Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal program in federal court last week....
Family alcoholism, emotional vulnerability, and the lack of community and education put aboriginal youth on a path to solvent abuse, violence and, all too often, suicide. These are the findings of The Office of the Chief Coroner’s Death Review of the Youth Suicides at the Pikangikum First Nation 2006–2008....
Almost from the first meeting among Europeans, Ojibwe (aka Chippewa) and Sioux, the relationship took a downward slide in Minnesota. From the time of the Treaty of du Chien in 1825, the tone was set for decades of misunderstanding, impatience and expectation between all involved....
SAN FRANCISCO - On Monday, October 10 American Indians in the San Francisco Bay area will recognize Indigenous Peoples Day on Alcatraz Island. The event is being sponsored by the International Indian Treaty Council and American Indian Contemporary Arts....
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An attorney for African-Americans in the Cherokee Indian tribe said on Saturday the legal campaign to stop the tribe from purging its citizenship rolls of non-Indians will continue despite the dismissal of a lawsuit against the tribe....
