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Red Lake students market Ojibwe cookbook (03/11)
Students on the Red Lake Reservation are marketing their own cookbook of Ojibwe and other recipes. “A Taste of Red Lake Cookbook” contains 150 recipes, along with students’ writing, artwork and photos. Recipes include Chairman Floyd Jourdain Jr's wild...
Red Lake families sue crisis management firm (02/27)
Nearly two dozen families from the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota are suing a crisis management firm. The families say MacNeil Environmental Inc. failed to provide an adequate emergency plan for the public school on the reservation. As a result,...
Reward offered for Red Lake Reservation shooting (01/31)
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people responsible for a shooting on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota. The incident occurred in December. Someone...
Indian businesses find success on the Internet (01/24)
The Internet is turning out to be a good place for tribal and Indian companies to do business. The Red Lake Nation of Minnesota started a website for its Red Lake Nation Foods company four years ago. Sales have...
Red Lake men charged with sexual abuse (01/15)
Two men from the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota have been charged in separate cases with sexual abuse of minors. Donald Wayne Clark, 26, was indicted with one count of aggravated sexual abuse for allegedly having sexual contact with a...
Red Lake Nation reopens commercial fishery (12/20)
The Red Lake Nation of Minnesota has reopened its commercial fishery. The Red Lake Fisheries is processing walleye now that the fish has rebounded. The company hopes to process 820,000 pounds. The fishery began in 1917 but closed in...
Protest planned at radio station in Minneapolis (12/06)
Native American activists and other minority leaders will protest today at the Minneapolis corporate headquarters of radio station KQRS. The station came under fire in October after the hosts of its popular morning program made insensitive remarks about Native Americans,...
Reservations account for high suicide rate (11/27)
The suicide rate for American Indians in Beltrami County, Minnesota, is 2.5 times higher that of whites, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Portions of the Leech Lake Reservation and the Red Lake Reservation lie within the county. One of the...
Radio station to apologize for offensive remarks (10/30)
A popular Twin Cities radio station will apologize for offending Native Americans in Minnesota. KQRS agreed to air apologies from the hosts of its morning program. Tom Barnard and Terri Traen blamed a high rate of suicides on "incest"...
Red Lake man sentenced to 24 years for murder (07/25)
A man from the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota was sentenced to 24 1/3 years in prison for murder. Jacob J. Lussier, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He admitted to firing a sawed-off shotgun at Harley Sayers, 23, after...
Red Lake Nation receives $1M Shakopee grant (04/10)
The Red Lake Nation has received a $1 million grant from a fellow tribe in Minnesota. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community awarded the grant so the Red Lake Nation can reopen a commercial walleye fishery. " It is very important...
Margaret Sayers, Ojibwe instructor, dies at 89 (04/04)
Margaret Sayers, an Ojibwe language instructor for Minneapolis public schools, died on March 23. She was 89. Sayers, a member of the Red Lake Nation, began her career as a teaching assistant, helping Indian students. She later started an Ojibwe...
FBI says Red Lake boys died from accidental drowning (04/04)
The FBI says a provisional autopsy shows two brothers from the Red Lake Nation in Minnesota died from accidental drowning. Tristan White, 4, and Avery Stately, 2, died of "probable fresh-water drowning," according to the Ramsey County medical examiner's office,...
Deaths put strain on Red Lake Nation once again (04/03)
Tragedy struck the Red Lake Nation of Minnesota again this week with the discovery of the bodies of two brothers who went missing last November. Tristan White, 4, and Avery Lee Stately, 2, were found encased in ice in a...
Column: Red Lake combats negative perception (04/03)
"The discovery on Sunday of the bodies of two little boys -- 4-year-old Tristan White and his 2-year-old brother Avery Stately -- two years after the horrific shootings at Red Lake High School means that we in the media again...
Missing brothers found dead on Red Lake Reservation (04/02)
Two young brothers who went missing last November were found dead on the Red Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. Tristan Anthony White, 4, and Avery Lee Stately, 2, were last seen in front of their home on November 22,...
Man pleads guilty to murder on Red Lake Reservation (02/16)
A 24-year-old man pleaded guilty on Thursday to second-degree murder on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota. Jacob John Lussier admitted he fired a sawed-off shotgun at Harley James Sayers, 23, after a party last September. Lussier said he had...
FBI still investigating missing Red Lake brothers (02/09)
The FBI continues to investigate the suspicious disappearance of two young brothers from the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota, the new special agent for the Minneapolis office said. Avery Stately, 2, and his brother, Tristan White, 4, went missing...
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