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The Bemidji Police Department is continuing to request the public’s help in locating Matthew Charles Pulis, age 31. Matthew was last seen and heard from during the early morning hours of Saturday, October 20, 2012 in the downtown area of Bemidji. It is unknown if Pulis walked or was given a ride when he left downtown. The public is asked to check their backyards and any out buildings they may have. If Pulis attempted to walk home from the downtown area he may have sought shelter along the way d...
The Minnesota-based American Civil Liberties Union and Native Vote Alliance will be hosting a “Get out the Vote” event with “MysterySkin” folk music band on Friday, November 2nd, from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the Rail River Folk School, 303 Railroad Street SW, Bemidji, MN. This event is free and light refreshments will be served. Please contact (218) 444-2285 or (218) 368-2470 for further information. “MysterySkin” is a nationally recognized group that performs with fiddle, guitar and drum. Their music is eclectic, experienced, groovy and unique....
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MysterySkin - VOTE NO Join us in on November 6th at 5:00p.m for music, conversation and light refreshment served. Support vote NO TWICE and enjoy a great evening! Also from 7p.m - 10p.m (Local Artists) The First Friday Coffeehouse offers the community an opportunity to share stories, songs, music and poetry with friends and neighbors in a relaxing, supportive atmosphere. The event will take place at the Rail River Folk School 303 Railroad St. SW, Bemidji For more information or to RSVP please call 218-444-2285 This event will focus on the...
BEMIDJI – Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths recognized the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office this week for its efforts in lowering motor vehicle crash rates and fatalities in the county....
Minnesota is finally getting a taste of life in the cross hairs of two presidential campaigns....
Ramsey County is launching a project using GPS technology to instantly warn victims of stalking or domestic violence when a defendant is nearby, and then dispatch police....
Suppose I had gone to the Minnesota Legislature last year and said, "I have a complicated new program that could massively disrupt voting procedures throughout our entire state. I haven't yet figured out the details, and I have no idea of what it will cost. Maybe $100 million, or so. I have no evidence that it's needed, but I know it is. Just trust me and approve it."...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A tribal newspaper in Arizona is publishing a detailed voter guide for the first time ever. A New Mexico pueblo is sending kindergartners home with get-out-the-vote buttons for their parents. Tribes in Wisconsin are reaching out to young adults with a Rock the Vote event. Native American communities nationwide are working hard to tap about 3 million Native American voters, hoping to turn around low voter participation that has persisted in Indian Country for decades. The push is being headed by the National Congress of...
When Minnesota's first regulated wolf hunt opens Saturday, not all lands in the state will be open. Chippewa tribal lands are closed to wolf hunting and trapping, as is Voyageurs National Park. Affected Chippewa reservations include the Red Lake, White Earth, Bois Forte, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Fond du Lac and Mille Lacs reservations....
WINNIPEG - Provincial cabinet ministers and Canada's aboriginal leaders begin a two-day meeting Thursday on missing and murdered aboriginal women, but there is no sign that the two sides are any closer to an agreement on calls for a national inquiry....
The Narragansett Tribe in Rhode Island has been hard hit by Hurricane Sandy....
Out of the 50,000 Oglala Lakotas enrolled on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, 5,000 are likely to make it to the polls, said District of Oglala President Floyd Brings Plenty. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/31/oglala-district-president-says-few-likely-to-vote-on-pine-ridge-reservation-142314 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/31/oglala-district-president-says-few-likely-to-vote-on-pine-ridge-reservation-142314#ixzz2AyIJNZkN...
There are many circumstances in today’s post-September 11 world where more than one state-issued photo ID is needed. These include applying for a bank loan and applying for a job. Therefore, many government institutions—including federally recognized tribes—are creating photo IDs. Beginning this month, the Cherokee Nation—the largest Native American tribe—now issues a new version of their tribal enrollment card, known as the “Blue Card,” as a photo ID complete with tribal enrollment number. Read more:http://indiancountrytoda...
The general election is NEXT week – Tuesday, November 6. And although it’s too late for individuals to register to vote in this election, if you are registered please be sure to show up at the polls on Election Day or make sure your mail-in ballot is delivered to your election offices by Tuesday....
It would be a shame for Russell Means (1939-2012) to be remembered only as a maker of trouble, an unreasonable negotiator, and someone who pushed the limits of human behavior to the breaking point. I met him when I was an American Indian press reporter in Washington, D.C. back in the early 1970s. He was a board member of the news service, the American Indian Press Association. I was the editor of the Legislative Review, a monthly magazine reporting on national legislation and the federal courts. Read more:http://indiancountr...
A federal judge in Montana has shot down an attempt by Native American tribes to get better voting access....
OTTAWA–The federal department of Aboriginal Affairs’ internal watchdog unit found itself in the cross-hairs of a probe that found it broke rules, showed preferential treatment and did not adequately document its staffing and hiring decisions, according to internal documents obtained by APTN National News....
The tragic upbringing of a Hobbema man who took part in a Calgary home-invasion robbery was justification for leniency, a judge ruled Wednesday....
A written court order of exclusion was signed, sealed and delivered on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 by pro tem judge to the Hoopa Tribal Court, Christine Williams....
A group of Hoopa tribal members gathered signatures over the weekend on a petition calling for a referendum vote to equally divide $49.2 million in trust fund settlement money among the tribe’s membership....
BLAINE, Wash. -- The Upper Skagit Tribe will shutter the Semiahmoo Inn in December, and that means 200 employees will be out of work and the city of Blaine will take a huge financial hit....
FARMINGTON — In 32 years of criminal investigation on the Navajo Nation, Sammy Ahkeah looked into the murders of two victims of domestic violence, both women. The number of women who barely escaped death, however, Ahkeah cannot begin to count....
A new era in Minnesota hunting kicks off Saturday, as the gray wolf hunt starts at sunrise. But some area permit-holders are going to be disappointed....
Pedophilia, which was an indirect consequence of the Boarding School system. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/29/aside-from-the-u-s-governments-attempt-at-genocide-what-has-caused-the-most-egregious-cultural-harm-to-the-psyche-of-the-american-indian-people-141728 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/29/aside-from-the-u-s-governments-attempt-at-genocide-what-has-caused-the-most-egregious-cultural-harm-to-the-psyche-of-the-american-indian-people-141728#ixzz2AyTJp7ax...
