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Articles from the December 23, 2021 edition


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  • Norman Matthew Lightfeather

    Dec 23, 2021

    Norman Matthew Lightfeather January 5, 1965 - December 11, 2021 Norman Matthew Lightfeather, "Mickodegonab", began his journey in this life on January 5, 1965 at Cook Hospital in Cook, MN. His parents were Harry Lightfeather Sr. (Seine River First Nation) and Evelyn Geyshick Lightfeather (Lac La Croix Reserve). His journey on Mother Earth ended on December 11, 2021. Mickodegonab was raised on Seine River First Nation (Canada), Lac La Croix First Nation (Canada), Bois Forte Nation and Duluth,...

  • Donald "Don" Boyd

    Dec 23, 2021

    Donald "Don" Boyd April 4, 1964 - December 21, 2021 Donald "Don" Boyd, 57-year-old resident of Onamia, MN passed away on December 21, 2021. Visitation will begin at 6 PM on Sunday, December 26, 2021, at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Reservation. A Funeral Ceremony will begin at 10 AM on Monday, December 27, 2021, at the District 1 Community Center on the Mille Lacs Reservation with Nazhike officiating. Burial will be in the Boyd Family Burial Grounds. Arrangements are with...

  • Brandon Dakota

    Dec 23, 2021

    Brandon Dakota September 21, 1986 ~ December 20, 2021 (age 35) A full obituary will be published soon. Services Wake overnight Wednesday December 29, 2021 5:00 PM White Earth Community Center White Earth White Earth, MN 56591 Prayer Service Wednesday December 29, 2021 7:00 PM White Earth Community Center White Earth White Earth, MN 56591 Funeral Service Thursday December 30, 2021 2:00 PM White Earth Community Center White Earth White Earth, MN 56591 Interment following funeral service Thursday...

  • Cassy Joan McBride

    Dec 23, 2021

    Cassy Joan McBride April 14, 1984 ~ December 18, 2021 (age 37) Cassy Joan McBride, age 37, of Jamestown, North Dakota, passed away on Saturday, December 18, 2021, while visiting Cass Lake, Minnesota. Private family services will be held at a later date. Funeral services provided by Whispering Pines Funeral & Cremation Service....

  • Wayne Lee Thompson – Potter

    Dec 23, 2021

    Wayne Lee Thompson – Potter November 22, 1987 - Thursday, December 16, 2021 Wayne Lee Thompson Potter Journeyed to the Spirit World on Thursday, December 16, 2021 at his residence in Elk River, Minnesota. He was born on November 22, 1987 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Wayne Thompson and Shelly Potter. Wayne grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Pillsbury Elementary School in North East, Minneapolis, Minnesota, attended Coon Rapids Middle School and graduated from Coon Rapids H...

  • Misty Fawn Begay

    Dec 23, 2021

    Misty Fawn Begay June 25, 1972 - December 17, 2021 Misty Fawn Begay “Chan Nupa Win”, age 49 of Vermillion, SD was led by the angels to meet Jesus to join her daughters Shaylauna and Maliyah, her mom Delores and little brother Paul. Misty was born on June 25, 1972 to Sam K. Begay and Delores (Wilson) Larson. She attended Westside Elementary, Sisseton Middle School then Tiospa Zina Tribal School. Misty attended United Tribe Technical College and graduated with her Associates Degree in Early Chi...

  • Police: Moorhead family members died from carbon monoxide toxicity

    Dec 23, 2021

    Seven Moorhead family members found dead Saturday in their duplex died of carbon monoxide poisoning, Police Chief Shannon Monroe said Wednesday. Police found the Hernandez family during an evening welfare check after relatives had not heard from them since Dec. 16, Monroe said during a news conference. "Most were in their beds and appeared to be sleeping," he said. https://www.startribune.com/police-moorhead-hernandez-pinto-family-members-died-from-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/6...

  • Minnesota dials back COVID-19 antibody strategy as omicron rises to 50% of new cases

    Dec 23, 2021

    The now "dominant" omicron variant of the coronavirus is causing more than 50% of new COVID-19 cases in Minnesota, state leaders said Wednesday, prompting health systems to suspend use of two monoclonal antibody therapies that are ineffective against the strain. Omicron is widespread enough that it would be futile to give infusions of antibodies that don't work against it - Eli Lilly's bamlanivimab/etesevimab and Regeneron's casirivimab/imdevimab, said Dr. Ruth Lynfield, state epidemiologist....

  • Minnesota shoppers jammed stores this month, mostly found what they wanted

    Dec 23, 2021

    With just a few days left before Christmas, David Ayers-Moran of Minneapolis bounded into the Patina gift shop in Golden Valley and started looking for gifts for his mother. "I was in college doing finals, so I didn't have time," said Ayers-Moran, who picked up an oven mitt and hand towel. "My parents didn't want me to shop any earlier." In what's expected to be a record-shattering year for retail sales, supply chain issues pushed many consumers to do their buying earlier this Christmas...

  • High court to hold special session on vaccine requirements

    Dec 23, 2021

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court says it will hold a special session in just over two weeks to weigh challenges to two Biden administration policies covering vaccine requirements for millions of workers, policies that affect large employers and health care workers. The high court's announcement Wednesday that it will hear arguments in the cases Jan. 7 comes amid rising coronavirus cases and is an extraordinarily fast timeline. The court had not been scheduled to hear cases again until Jan. 10. A...

  • China orders lockdown of up to 13 million people in Xi'an

    Dec 23, 2021

    BEIJING - China ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases, setting off panic buying just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympic Games. State media reported that city officials ordered all residents to stay home unless they had a pressing reason to go out and suspended all transport to and from the city apart from special cases. One person from each household will be...

  • CDC: Life expectancy got a lot shorter in 2020

    Dec 23, 2021

    ROCHESTER, Minn. - Average life expectancy in the United States dropped from nearly 79 to 77 years in 2020. It was the largest drop in 75 years. Health officials said the shortening of life was due "largely because of increases in mortality due to COVID-19, unintentional injuries, heart disease, homicide, and diabetes." https://www.jamestownsun.com/newsmd/wellness/7330791-CDC-Life-expectancy-got-a-lot-shorter-in-2020...

  • White House Announces $10 Million in Funding Awards for Tribal Internet

    Dec 23, 2021

    Yesterday, the White House announced nearly $10 million in funding awards from the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and Agriculture that will be leveraged to expand access to affordable, reliable, and high-speed internet services to Tribal Nations. "This is just the beginning," Libby Washburn, Special Assistant to the President for Native Affairs at the White House, told Native News Online. "We have a lot of money going into broadband in Indian Country. This is just the beginning of that...

  • Biden's Interior Dept. Reverses Trump's Attempt to Strip Mashpee Wampanoag Lands of Reservation Status

    Dec 23, 2021

    The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe received on Wednesday an early Christmas gift from the U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday when it received notification from Assistant Secretary of the Interior – Indian Affairs Bryan Newland that the tribe's reservation has been confirmed. Today's decision reverses the action by the Trump administration's attempt in March 2020 to strip the tribe of its reservation, which includes 321 acres of land that was put into trust status during the Obama a...

  • Disenrolled Nooksack citizens face eviction

    Dec 23, 2021

    The federal government is investigating the Nooksack Tribe of Washington for potential civil rights and other violations as the tribe proceeds with evicting more than 60 formerly enrolled citizens who had been among hundreds disenrolled. The tribe is set to begin evictions on Dec. 28 of the 61 former tribal citizens and two of their children who are enrolled, who live in 21 federally funded homes on Nooksack tribal land. They are the last of a group of 306 who gained national attention when they were disenrolled from the tribe in 2018 and...

  • Statement on Omicron variant and holiday recommendations

    Dec 23, 2021

    Minnesota Commissioner of Health Jan Malcolm issued this statement today regarding the increase in spread of the Omicron variant in Minnesota and recommendations for upcoming holiday gatherings Minnesota is preparing for an increase in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks driven by the Omicron variant. As reported by CDC earlier this week, the Omicron variant is the dominant strain in the U.S., and based on laboratory data, we estimate it is now the dominant strain in Minnesota. This aligns with evidence we’ve seen that Omicron spreads much e...

  • Interior Department to Host Tribal Consultations on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

    Dec 23, 2021

    WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior announced today that it would begin nation-to-nation consultations with Tribes as it implements the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The law invests more than $13 billion directly in Tribal communities across the country to bolster community resilience, replace aging infrastructure, expand access to clean drinking water and help ensure that everyone has access to high-speed internet. “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is an unprecedented investment in Indian Country that will ensure that future generat...

  • Red Lake Urban Office-Duluth - Ugly Sweater Contestants 2021

    Danielle Fairbanks, RLUOD|Dec 23, 2021

    Red Lake Urban Office-Duluth - Ugly Sweater Contestants 2021...

  • DLI recovers more than $334K in back wages for construction workers

    Dec 23, 2021

    The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) has recovered more than $334,000 in back wages for construction workers who were not paid the correct prevailing wage or overtime wages. DLI's record-setting prevailing-wage investigation found AE2S Construction, LLC, doing business as EIM, a North Dakota company, performed electrical work on a project at a wastewater treatment plant in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, that was partially funded by a state grant and did not pay its employees the correct wage set under state prevailing-wage law. The...

  • Attorney General Ellison prevails at Supreme Court in effort to investigate wage theft allegations against downtown Saint Paul's largest landowner

    Dec 23, 2021

    Ruling underscores AG’s broad authority to investigate violations of state law in business, commerce, and trade December 22, 2021 (SAINT PAUL) – Today, in an opinion that underscores the Attorney General’s broad authority under State law to investigate violations of State law in business, commerce, and trade, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Attorney General Ellison’s office can move forward with its investigation into wage theft allegations against Madison Equities, a large Saint Paul property-management company that owns and operate...

  • Western Governors University Offers Tips for Busy Adults Resolving To Pursue a College Degree in the New Year

    Dec 23, 2021

    Redby, Minn. (Dec. 21, 2021) – The ongoing pandemic continues to impact the local workforce, causing many to reevaluate their careers and make resolutions to strengthen their skillsets as the New Year approaches. For many, this process will include going back to college in 2022 to earn an undergraduate or graduate degree and make themselves more marketable to potential employers. To aid in the decision-making process for those who are still considering their options, Western Governors University (WGU) is offering tips to keep top of mind w...

  • Red Lake Nation Boys and Girls Club Christmas Party 2021 - P2

    Red Lake Boys and Girls Club|Dec 23, 2021

    Red Lake Nation Boys and Girls Club Christmas Party 2021 held on December 21st....

  • Santa visits C's Daycare with gifts for everyone - P2

    Cs Daycare|Dec 23, 2021

    C's Daycare had a special visitor today, December 21, 2021, and he brought gifts to the daycare kiddies. Thank you, Santa!...

  • Red Lake Lady Warriors outpaced in second half, lose 65-57 at home to Clearbrook-Gonvick - P8

    Dawson Peterson, KKCQ Sports|Dec 23, 2021

    Red Lake, MN - The Clearbrook-Gonvick Bears earned their third victory of the season after an extremely physical and hard fought game versus the Red Lake Warriors, 65-57. The game started off with the Red Lake Warriors jumping out in front thanks to their usual run and gun style of offense. The Bears appeared to be a step behind and their energy was flat leading to Warriors TeAndra Pemberton-Kingbird to take advantage scoring 14 first half points. In the last eight games between the Bears and...

  • Red Lake Lady Warriors JV come from behind in second quarter to win 49-41 over Clearbrook-Gonvick - P8

    Dawson Peterson, KKCQ Sports|Dec 23, 2021

    Red Lake, MN - The Clearbrook-Gonvick Bears earned their third victory of the season after an extremely physical and hard fought game versus the Red Lake Warriors, 65-57. The game started off with the Red Lake Warriors jumping out in front thanks to their usual run and gun style of offense. The Bears appeared to be a step behind and their energy was flat leading to Warriors TeAndra Pemberton-Kingbird to take advantage scoring 14 first half points. In the last eight games between the Bears and...

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