Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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Idle No More, Native Flash Mob in Bemidji, Minnesota on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 at the Paul Bunyan Mall. As protests swell, Attawapiskat chief stands firm on hunger strike The aboriginal interpretive centre on an island in the middle of the Ottawa River where Theresa Spence is living out her hunger strike is not an unhappy place. There are fires and drumming and even the occasional round of song. Native leaders have come from disparate parts of Canada to meet with the Attawapiskat chief who...
Idle No More, Native Flash Mob in Bemidji, Minnesota on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 at the Paul Bunyan Mall. As protests swell, Attawapiskat chief stands firm on hunger strike The aboriginal interpretive centre on an island in the middle of the Ottawa River where Theresa Spence is living out her hunger strike is not an unhappy place. There are fires and drumming and even the occasional round of song. Native leaders have come from disparate parts of Canada to meet with the Attawapiskat chief who...
Idle No More, Native Flash Mob in Bemidji, Minnesota on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 at the Paul Bunyan Mall. As protests swell, Attawapiskat chief stands firm on hunger strike The aboriginal interpretive centre on an island in the middle of the Ottawa River where Theresa Spence is living out her hunger strike is not an unhappy place. There are fires and drumming and even the occasional round of song. Native leaders have come from disparate parts of Canada to meet with the Attawapiskat chief who...
Idle No More, Native Flash Mob in Bemidji, Minnesota on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 at the Paul Bunyan Mall. As protests swell, Attawapiskat chief stands firm on hunger strike The aboriginal interpretive centre on an island in the middle of the Ottawa River where Theresa Spence is living out her hunger strike is not an unhappy place. There are fires and drumming and even the occasional round of song. Native leaders have come from disparate parts of Canada to meet with the Attawapiskat chief who...
RED LAKE HOSPITAL NOTICE The Hospital will have limited services available on Thursday, December 27, 2012, from 12 Noon until 5 PM, due to a critical computer system upgrade, which must be done during regular business hours. • No Clinic • No Medication Refills • True Emergencies Only Thank you for your understanding. We apologize for the inconvenience....
The Red Lake Nation Embassy 7th Annual Christmas Party was held on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at the Minneapolis Convention Center....
The Red Lake Nation Embassy 7th Annual Christmas Party was held on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at the Minneapolis Convention Center....
The Red Lake Nation Embassy 7th Annual Christmas Party was held on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at the Minneapolis Convention Center....
The Red Lake Nation Embassy 7th Annual Christmas Party was held on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at the Minneapolis Convention Center....
The Red Lake Nation Toy Drive for 2012 added a little more fun to the process by implementing a "Toy Drive Challenge." The Toy Drive Challenge will be an annual event. The department winning the challenge was awarded a traveling trophy, that will be passed on to the winner in 2013 with the groups name engraved on the trophy. This years winner was the Red Lake Accounting Department which raised $2,549.69. They used a several prong approach by having a raffle drawing, hosting a ribeye steak...
RED LAKE – By the fall of 2014, the Red Lake Nation will revolve around a new hub. The Red Lake Nation College and Red Lake Government Center will occupy buildings north of the powwow grounds on the bluff above Red Lake itself. The front elevation of the matching buildings will bear the silhouettes of wing-spread eagles. The $21.4 million USDA Rural Development loans were approved this month – more than $11.3 million for the 42,000-square-foot tribal college and $10.1 million for the 27,400-square-foot government center. The tribal college is n...
Perpich Arts High School will host its final information session for students from around the state who are interested in attending the two-year program for grades 11 and 12. The information session will be Saturday, Jan. 12, 1–3 p.m. Registration is not necessary. Perpich is located at 6125 Olson Memorial Parkway, in Golden Valley, just west of the State Route 55 and State Highway 100 interchange. Perpich Arts High School invites all interested sophomores and juniors to find out more about the school’s art-focused curriculum. Seven arts are...
BEMIDJI – Why would a young Native American man of Mohawk heritage leave his home in Bagley to pursue a missionary career on the Flathead Reservation in Montana?...
Melissa Ann Thompson, age 37, of Fargo, North Dakota journeyed to the Spirit World on Monday, December 24, 2012 at Tekakwitha Living Center in Sisseton. She was born on January 23rd, 1975 to Robert and Phoebe (Quinn) Thompson in Sioux City, Iowa. Missy received her education at The Tiospa Zina Tribal School and Aberdeen High School and at Weber-Basin Job Corp where she studied welding. Missy held many jobs in Fargo, Moorhead area as a non-traditional construction worker. She was skilled in...
Violent crime in Minneapolis increased in 2012, according to preliminary statistics. Reports of homicides, rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults and other violent crimes grew about 7.6 percent compared to 2011, when the incidence of violent crime hit the lowest levels in nearly three decades....
A whooping cough vaccine first introduced in the 1990s does not provide long-lasting immunity, state health officials said Wednesday, and helps explain why Minnesota has recorded more than 4,300 cases this year -- the highest number since World War II....
Xcel Energy Inc. faces more scrutiny from a federal panel reviewing the utility's requested 40-year extension of its license to store high-level nuclear waste at its power plant in Red Wing, Minn....
MANKATO, Minn. - Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday for the unveiling of a memorial to 38 Dakota men who were hanged 150 years ago to the day in what is the largest mass execution in U.S. history....
In the private hell of a mother's grief, the sounds come back to Judy Neiman. The SUV door slamming. The slight bump as she backed up in the bank parking lot. The emergency room doctor's sobs as he said her 9-year-old daughter Sydnee, who previously had survived four open heart surgeries, would not make it this time. ¶ Her own cries of: How could I have missed seeing her? ¶ The 53-year-old woman has sentenced herself to go on living in the awful stillness of her West Richland, Wash., home, where she makes a plea for what she wants since she c...
Researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford say they have found an association between countries that have more high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in their food supply and those that have higher rates of diabetes....
WASHINGTON - The government will reach its $16.4 trillion debt limit on Monday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told congressional leaders Wednesday, adding a new and possibly dramatic wrinkle to negotiations aimed at averting the fiscal cliff....
What makes a Native American a real Native American? Is it a certain amount of native blood or is it family ties? That is only one of the complex and controversial issues being addressed at what appears to be a constitutional crossroad on the White Earth Indian Reservation. Tribal leaders there are getting ready to lead the fight for a new constitution that would change a lot of things on the reservation, including eliminating the blood quantum law that currently restricts enrollment...
Now that Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has met with Liberal MP Justin Trudeau, the federal government is urging her again to end her two-week hunger strike and meet with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan. Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/after-spence-meets-with-trudeau-minister-reissues-plea-to-end-hunger-strike-1.1092033#ixzz2GG0vhdnC...
About 100 people participated in a flash mob in the Marlborough Mall food court Wednesday afternoon as part of the Idle No More movement. Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/First+Nations+stage+flash+mobs+highlight+Idle+More+movement/7746233/story.html#ixzz2GG27ntdu...
Conceived in November by four Saskatchewan women frustrated with the Tories’ latest omnibus budget bill, Idle No More is a First Nations protest movement looking to obtain renewed government guarantees for treaty agreements and halt what organizers see as a legislative erosion of First Nations rights. The movement’s most visible spokeswoman is Theresa Spence, chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation, the Northern Ontario reserve struck by an emergency housing crisis last year. Since Dec. 11, Ms. Spence has been on a hunger strike while camped on...
