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On his first night in a new apartment after two years of homelessness, Mike Eagle Tail found himself bolting awake in his bed, expecting to hear the wail of police sirens or the sound of people crying out for help. Instead, for the first time in months, Eagle Tail heard only the faint sounds of his three sleeping children — Raymond, 9, Rolanda, 8 and Lakota, 7 — breathing softly from their bedrooms. Eagle Tail quietly eased his bulky frame through the apartment, checking on his children. http://www.startribune.com/despite-hu...
WASHINGTON — Investigators searched coast-to-coast Thursday for the culprit and motives behind the bizarre mail-bomb plot aimed at critics of the president, analyzing the innards of the crude devices to reveal whether they were intended to detonate or simply sow fear two weeks before Election Day. Three more devices were linked to the plot — two addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden and one to actor Robert De Niro — bringing the total to 10 in an outbreak of politically loaded menace with little if any precedent. Authorities warne...
WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a plan to lower prices for some prescription drugs, saying it would stop unfair practices that force Americans to pay much more than people in other countries for the same medications. "We are taking aim at the global freeloading that forces American consumers to subsidize lower prices in foreign countries through higher prices in our country," Trump said in a speech at the Department of Health and Human Services. http...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to dispatch at least 800 active duty troops to the southern border at the direction of a president who has sought to transform fears about immigration into electoral gains in the midterms as a caravan of thousands of migrants makes its way through Mexico. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to sign an order sending the troops to the border, bolstering National Guard forces already there, an official said Thursday. The action comes as President Donald Trump has spent recent days calling a...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar and state health leaders on Thursday called for mandatory national reporting of cases of acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, the polio-like disorder that has stricken as many as seven Minnesota children this year Mandatory reporting by doctors and hospitals could lead to improved tracking and understanding of the mysterious, paralyzing condition, according to a top Minnesota infectious disease official. It is already required for a number of diseases, including West Nile virus and influenza, but not for AFM. h...
Fewer than 4 out of 10 adults in the United States got flu shots last winter, the lowest rate in seven seasons and one likely reason why the 2017-18 season was the deadliest in decades. Reports released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide new details outlining the severity of the past flu season during which more people were killed than any seasonal influenza since the 1970s. http://www.startribune.com/drop-in-adult-vaccinations-fueled-deadly-2017-18-flu-season/498582831/...
BEMIDJI—A Bemidji man was sentenced to more than eight years in prison this week for a first-degree aggravated robbery in March. During a hearing Monday, Judge Paul Benshoof said he was imposing a higher-level sentence on Jordan Thompson, 25, because of the severity of the circumstances. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/crime-and-courts/4519301-bemidji-man-sentenced-8-years-first-degree-robbery-case...
Redby Elder's Dinner 2018 was held at the new Redby Community Center on Saturday, October 20, 2018. Elder's of the Redby Community received gifts, were treated to live music and a feast put on by the Redby Community....
Redby Elder's Dinner 2018 was held at the new Redby Community Center on Saturday, October 20, 2018. Elder's of the Redby Community received gifts, were treated to live music and a feast put on by the Redby Community. Photographs by members of the community....
The Red Lake Warriors ended their season with a 54-6 loss to Blackduck on Wednesday, October 17, 2018, in Red Lake. Red Lake finished it's season 0-7 on the year and the playoff games should be announced next week....
The Red Lake Warriors hosted Warroad in their Homecoming Game on Friday, October 5, 2018, losing 48-6....
RED LAKE - The Red Lake Lady Warriors, coming off a win on September 20th at home over Fon du lac, held off Kelliher-Northome on Thursday, September 27th in five-games to take the victory. Red Lake won the first game, lost the second, won the third game and lost the fourth to set up the final fifth game. winning the set 15-13. Earlier the Junior Varsity also lost 2-1 in their best of three game set, and the Junior High Team won 2-0. Red Lake is now 3-2 on the season and will be on the road for...
RED LAKE - The Red Lake Warrior Football team has their home opener on Friday, September 14, 2018, losing their third game of the season. The Warriors had to forfeit their first game on August 31 with Badger/Greenbush/Middle River because of a bus driver issue, and lost to Cass Lake-Bena on September 7, 38-14. They will travel to Red Lake County on September 21, host Warroad on October 5 and travel to Bagley on October 12....
Ponemah Labor Day Pow Wow: Saturday Afternoon Session The new 2018-19 O-Bah-Shiing (Ponemah) Labor Day Royalty. Princess: Jade Cloud Brave: KaVern Kingbird Obashing Singing Contest 1st Place-Warpaint 2nd Place-High Noon 3rd Place-Southern Boyz 4th Place-Standing Horse 5th Place-Red Willow 6th Place-Pipestone...
Ponemah Labor Day Pow Wow: Saturday Afternoon Session The new 2018-19 O-Bah-Shiing (Ponemah) Labor Day Royalty. Princess: Jade Cloud Brave: KaVern Kingbird Obashing Singing Contest 1st Place-Warpaint 2nd Place-High Noon 3rd Place-Southern Boyz 4th Place-Standing Horse 5th Place-Red Willow 6th Place-Pipestone...
Ponemah Labor Day Pow Wow: Saturday Afternoon Session The new 2018-19 O-Bah-Shiing (Ponemah) Labor Day Royalty. Princess: Jade Cloud Brave: KaVern Kingbird Obashing Singing Contest 1st Place-Warpaint 2nd Place-High Noon 3rd Place-Southern Boyz 4th Place-Standing Horse 5th Place-Red Willow 6th Place-Pipestone...
11 Treat Street - 5 PM - 8 PM - Red Lake Humanities Center October 31st - All ages welcome...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On October 14, 2018, fifty-four years to the day after winning Olympic gold in what has been repeatedly named the greatest race of all time, Oglala Lakota (Sioux) runner Billy Mills announced the fifth year of the Dreamstarter grant program to help American Indian youth bring their dreams to life. Ten native youth with projects around the theme of entrepreneurship will receive $10,000 grants from Running Strong for American Indian Youth to complete a project inspired by their dreams for themselves and their communities. ...
Incumbent Bobby Cameron defeated challenger Delbert Wapass to win re-election as chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in voting in Saskatoon on Thursday. Cameron's victory was greeted with loud applause when officials announced he had won with 727 votes to Wapass's 216. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/fsin-delegates-saskatoon-1.4877264...
The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with President Trump’s directive to lift a federal ban on high ethanol blended gas during the summer months, though not quickly enough for Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who Reuters reports is urging the EPA to lift the ban on a much quicker timeline. Lifting the ban is a policy shift that’s being celebrated by large-scale corn growers and decried by biofuel opponents. But the policy has implications for the food system too, as many food system reformers say the last thing U.S. farmers sho...
The federal government is poised to apologize for how it treated Inuit who were plucked from their communities across the North and taken to sanatoriums in southern Canada for tuberculosis treatment in the mid-20th century. The president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI), the organization that speaks for Inuit in Nunavut, made the announcement during its annual general meeting this week. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/tuberculosis-apology-inuit-1.4878043...
The U.S. Mint program of Native American dollar started in 2009. The series highlights annually changing reverses with designs commemorating the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the history and development of the United States. Seventeen proposed designs were introduced for the 2022 dollar. The year’s coin celebrates Ely Samuel Parker who was a trained lawyer, self-taught engineer, and Seneca tribal diplomat. http://www.coinnews.net/2018/10/25/2022-native-american-1-coin-candid...
The U.S. attorney’s office in Albany says Wednesday that 42-year-old Robert Jon Lazore, of Snye, Quebec, was sentenced earlier this week to 12 years, seven months in prison for conspiring to distribute oxycodone on the Akwesasne (og-wuh-SAHZ’-nee) Mohawk Indian Reservation in Franklin County. Lazore pleaded guilty in June. He admitted to operating a drug-running ring that obtained oxycodone pills 5,000 at a time from Canadian suppliers between 2008 and 2012. He was extradited to the U.S. in December after serving a prison term in Canada. htt...
A Wisconsin man has been cited for violating a state statute after he shot an elk across a roadway during the state’s inaugural elk hunt. Joe Wiltzius, 73, of Franklin, was charged with illegally shooting the first bull elk of the season by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the Journal Sentinel reports. https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/wisconsin-hunter-cited-for-illegally-shooting-elk-across-the-street...
