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Was born to his father William John Mountain Sr. and mother Rosemary (Yellow) Mountain at Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 14, 1967. He was the 5th child of 13. Choppers attended Ascension Catholic School and Heart of the Earth Survival School, where he graduated. He survived a severe accident in the early 90s. He loved basketball and football, and when he was younger he was involved with the Boy Scouts. He loved his children: Anthony, Amber, Dillion, Sandra, Rosemary, and...
All districts on the Red Lake Reservation will be getting new community centers. The Ponemah Multi-use Community Center, the first on the list, is nearly complete. Little Rock is next on the list, followed by Redby, and then a new Red Lake Community Center will follow. Community meetings facilitated by Red Lake Economic Development and Planning staff have taken place in both Little Rock and Redby to facilitate and explore the needs of each community. Cultural design principles have been...
Twenty-one Red Lake youth, both boys and girls, took part in Red Lake Chemical Health's annual Hunting Camp which began after school on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. The group traveled to the camp site near the Rock Dam area on the River Road where they would remain until Friday, October 21. During those three days the group would take part in camping activities, traditional teachings, gun safety, drug and alcohol prevention education, diabetes education, traditional foods preparation and...
Twenty-one Red Lake youth, both boys and girls, took part in Red Lake Chemical Health's annual Hunting Camp which began after school on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. The group traveled to the camp site near the Rock Dam area on the River Road where they would remain until Friday, October 21. During those three days the group would take part in camping activities, traditional teachings, gun safety, drug and alcohol prevention education, diabetes education, traditional foods preparation and...
Twenty-one Red Lake youth, both boys and girls, took part in Red Lake Chemical Health's annual Hunting Camp which began after school on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. The group traveled to the camp site near the Rock Dam area on the River Road where they would remain until Friday, October 21. During those three days the group would take part in camping activities, traditional teachings, gun safety, drug and alcohol prevention education, diabetes education, traditional foods preparation and...
Twin Cities Public Television (tpt) recently announced that on September 25, the station was awarded an Upper Midwest Emmy for First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language, a documentary funded through Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment. First Speakers follows a new generation of Ojibwe scholars and educators racing against time to save one of Minnesota’s native languages. The organization received 26 nominations in 20 categories for the Upper Midwest Emmy Awards. About the Documentary A lan...
St. Paul, Minn. — A joint governmental agreement that allows the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe to use the state's financial filing system will hopefully eliminate a roadblock to economic success on the reservation. The Minnesota Secretary of State and the Leech Lake band of Ojibwe signed the agreement Friday, and marks a significant milestone for American Indians in Minnesota. Without the basic structures of an economy in place, such as a financial record system, many American Indian tribes s...
He watched the children play and run around. While they sat on woodpiles to rest, he offered them maple sugar cakes and told stories. He took them for rides in his birch bark canoe. He was Shaynowishkung. Few writings exist that reference Shaynowishkung, or Chief Bemidji, as he also was known, but those that do repeat the word “kind” in describing him, according to Robert Treuer. “This man put his imprint on this community in the way he treated people and his love for children,” Treuer has said....
Chapter 3 A deep black opened up to blossom the most intense shades of purple whizzing around everywhere. “Wow… this is incredible… what are those things?! Where are we?” I had never seen anything so beautiful. “We have been invited here, to the realm of the most fluent speakers in all of the Earth, the ubiquitous, uhm, well we can call them Ebbflo; beings qualitatively comparable to what you might expect creatures charged with yingyang upkeep to be like. You see, the Ebbflo are a very spec...
What: Several Minnesota home health care agencies, workers and disabled individuals recently filed a Complaint and a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order asking a Ramsey County District Judge to prohibit the Governor and the Commissioner of Human Services from implementing or enforcing a new law that reduces medical assistance reimbursement only for caregivers who provide services to relatives. The suit alleges that the new law is unconstitutional because it arbitrarily singles out those who provide home health care to relatives for...
On a mild Tuesday morning this month, 21-year-olds Cody Anderson and his fianceé, Sara Slaviero, pushed their baby stroller and 20-month-old son, Kaiden, past the Last Place on Earth and stood in line with about a dozen others before the downtown Duluth head shop opened....
Some of the synthetic marijuana products sold at the Last Place on Earth contain a chemical that may be illegal to sell and possess, according to experts who reviewed an analysis of the drugs’ ingredients — though the store’s owner says the ban is too vague and has challenged it in court....
WASHINGTON – The United States has reached a final settlement of a long-running lawsuit by the Osage Tribe of Oklahoma regarding the United States’ accounting and management of the tribe’s trust funds and non-monetary trust assets. Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division; the Interior Department’s Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes, Solicitor Hilary C. Tompkins, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Director Michael S. Black; the Treasury Department’s General Counsel George W. M...
Browning Man Pleads Guilty to Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury (U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana) U.S. Attorney Mike Cotter announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, Mont., on Oct. 20, 2011, Christopher Max Dawes, 33, of Browning, Mont., pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury. On April 24, 2011, the victim, Dawes, and their two young children were at the Medicine Bear Shelter. Dawes assaulted the victim, resulting in a broken jaw. The offense occurred at the Medicine Bear Shelter on...
LOS ANGELES - A history teacher amends his lessons on the civil rights movement to include the push for gay equality. A high school removes Internet filters blocking gay advocacy websites. Six gay students in Anoka sue their district, saying officials failed to protect them from bullies....
The struggle for power within the Cayuga Indian Nation today turned violent at the tribe’s government office building in Seneca Falls....
SENECA FALLS -- A pickup truck was driven through the front of the Cayuga Indian Nation's business office in Seneca Falls Friday in what state police believe is the result of an ongoing tribal leadership dispute. Read more: http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_1335f8b2-fc23-11e0-bedc-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1bhY4hnc0...
The U.S. Justice Department is settling a long-running Indian trust suit for $380 million, resolving accounting and management claims the Osage Tribe of Oklahoma filed in 1999....
American Indian activist Russell Means says he has cancer on the run and is more than 80 percent recovered. “I’m going to defeat this death sentence,” he said Thursday. Means, who turns 72 on Nov. 10, was diagnosed with throat cancer this summer. The prognosis was grim, he said, with estimates that he had a short time to live....
A Saskatchewan Party candidate is apologizing after suggesting First Nations people who get "handouts" sometimes spend it on drugs and alcohol....
ALAMOSA — An attempt by foster parents to terminate parental rights and adopt a half-Navajo child has resulted in a jurisdictional question in the Alamosa County Court: Does the case stay in the Alamosa District Court or should it be moved to the Navajo Nation’s Tribal Judicial System?...
Indian reservation post offices are on the list of 3,600-plus branches the U.S. Postal Service wants to eliminate in order to help fix the agency’s multi-billion-dollar annual deficits. One office on the list is at the bottom of the Grand Canyon on the Havasupai Nation in Arizona, two more branches are on the Coeur D’Alene’s Idaho reservation, and three are in Standing Rock Sioux Tribe communities in South Dakota; these and numerous additional reservation branches nationwide may close their doors....
BILLINGS - Former U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns told tea party supporters Thursday that President Barack Obama wants the "whole country to become like an Indian reservation." Read more: http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_8db1a550-fc0f-11e0-8bc0-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1bhbEEcyX...
It doesn’t take more than the ubiquitous Che Guevara t-shirt to know that corporate America loves to pimp other people’s culture for profits....
Yesterday in Washington, D.C., Clarence Lee Alexander of Ft. Yukon received the Presidential Citizen’s Medal from President Barrack Obama. Alexander was one of this year’s 13 recipients nationwide....
