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Chippewa Herald
April 15, 2018
The nation's only dress rehearsal for the 2020 census, currently taking place in Providence, Rhode Island, does not include the citizenship question on ... The nation's most populous state also has the highest number of foreign-born residents, most of whom are naturalized U.S. citizens or hold some otherÃâà...
Chippewa Herald
April 14, 2018
TensorFlow has been used to do everything from helping NASA scientists find planets using the Kepler telescope, to assisting a tribe in the Amazon detect the sounds of illegal deforestation, according to Google spokesman Justin Burr. Google hopes users adapt the open-source code to discover newÃâà...
Chippewa Herald
April 14, 2018
While Chippewa Falls Senior High School's music department has 40-plus events each year, the department has rarely — if ever — gathered all its top ... The two-hour show touches on the past year's performances from Harmonics, Wire Choir, Jazz Band, various orchestras, top ensembles and studentÃâà...
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 13, 2018
Don Waller first visited the forests managed by the Menominee Nation in the 1980s while studying the effects of deer on seedling growth. ... science at Dartmouth College and a member of the Ojibwe tribe, for Waller to rigorously study the forests managed by the Menominee and Ojibwe tribes in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Public Radio News
April 6, 2018
The Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is the latest Wisconsin tribe to file a lawsuit against the makers and distributors of opioid prescription drugs. The 77-page lawsuit was filed in federal court against both drug manufacturers and stores like Walmart, Walgreens and CVS that fillÃâà...
Pine Journal
March 27, 2018
According to a public notice on the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa website, the RBC voted 3-2 to dismiss the petition because it was filed more than 90 days after the date of the first signature. The new petition will again ask for Northrup's dismissal for reasons of “malfeasance in the handlingÃâà...
Chippewa Herald
March 27, 2018
A taxi in front of the Russian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 26, 2018.Russia's Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev was summoned Monday to Poland's Foreign Ministry and said he will stay in Warsaw in the coming weeks, but "we will see" about other embassy employees.
Chippewa Herald
March 27, 2018
A poignant index on the abyss between our nation's aspirations and its realities was on display on Saturday, when many thousands of Americans took to the ... The students have directed the nation's attention to the deaths and injuries caused by easy access to needlessly powerful weapons, and theyÃâà...
Chippewa Herald
March 27, 2018
Cynicism, of course, was quickly restored to its normal place in the nation's discourse. Tired complaints were hauled out to discount the “March for Our Lives” visionaries who hit the pavements in locales across red and blue America on Saturday. Big demonstrations were nice but meant little. The NRA hadÃâà...
The Macomb Daily
March 26, 2018
Chippewa Valley High School junior David Volpini had a song from an original musical he wrote selected as a national finalist in the National ... attended Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and is in the school's Men's Choir, men's A cappella group, mixed A cappella ensemble, wind ensemble and marching band.
9&10 News
March 24, 2018
The Sasiwaans Immersion School was born out of a 2008 resolution by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. It's a comfortable place where children can absorb their language and cultural heritage. Director of the Anishinaabe Language Revitalization Department Howard Webkamigad says the tribe's hopeÃâà...
YES! Magazine
March 21, 2018
As an Ojibwe woman, I immediately realized that the depiction was an example of my ancestors' ancient spirit writings, or symbols, recorded on birch bark ... In addition to Murdoch, who's a member of the Serpent River First Nation Band of Ojibway, Christi Belcourt of the Michif Manitow Sakahihan Nation,Ãâà...
Chippewa Herald
March 21, 2018
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 13, 2017, file photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, confers with committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. With the 2018 primary season already underway, Burr and Warner areÃâà...
Park Rapids Enterprise
March 21, 2018
Northbird is an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, also has Red Lake lineage (Ponemah), and has worked as Environmental Program Manager for the past nine years, currently employed by the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. He lives on Midge Lake in Farden Township in northeasternÃâà...
Chippewa Herald
March 21, 2018
Burr said the committee's investigation revealed that the Russian cyber effort exposed "some of the key gaps" in the security of the nation's election ... Illinois, which held the second-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday, requested the assessment in late January but it was not completed in time for the primary.
Chippewa Herald
March 20, 2018
The facility is currently Mississippi's only abortion clinic. Abortion law experts say House Bill 1510, which passed the Mississippi House on Thursday and the Senate on Tuesday, and would ban most abortions after 15 weeks, could be the nation's most restrictive if signed into law. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis).
Duluth News Tribune
March 8, 2018
White Earth Secretary-Treasurer Tara Mason, left, lost a close censure vote Thursday at a special meeting of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Executive ... chief executive of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, and Archie LaRose, Leech Lake Reservation's secretary-treasurer-- have faced criminal charges in theÃâà...
KVRR
March 8, 2018
The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe will send an official letter of their decision to the White Earth Reservation Business Committee. The Reservation Business Committee within fifteen (15) days after receipt of the notice or charges shall in writing notify the accused of the charges brought against him and set aÃâà...
UpNorthLive.com
February 23, 2018
I'm not sure that we okayed all of the plans,” said Thurlow "Sam" McClellan, band chairman. “There's a lot of problems that are involved in this. A lot of areas that we have yet to shore up on, including our finances.” The band's council chairman says this project is just an election ploy. “These people that are proposing it areÃâà...
Mesabi Daily News (blog)
December 31, 1999
She is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe and the other of several other award winning books. “The Road Back to Sweetgrass” received the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Fiction Award. The short fiction collection “The Dance Boots” received the Flannery O'Conner Award.
Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
December 31, 1999
As Sault Ste. Marie readies to have the I-75 Business Spur redone, city leaders appreciate that part of the construction costs will be paid for with contributions from the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. The city has saved up $500,000 from the tribe's contributions over the past five years to payÃâà...
Indian Country Today Media Network
December 31, 1999
A member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior OJibwe, Kuckkahn-Miller will lead the integration of the Longhouse and the Indigenous Arts Campus with Evergreen's Native academic ... Tina Kuckkahn-Miller (Ojibwe) has been named Evergreen's Vice President of Indigenous Arts and Education.
UPMatters.com
December 31, 1999
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — As Sault Ste. Marie readies to have the Interstate 75 business spur that runs through the city redone, city leaders appreciate that part of the construction costs will be paid for with contributions from the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. In fact, the city has saved upÃâà...
The Lake Country Echo
December 31, 1999
BACKUS—Rural Renewable Energy Alliance, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and project partners will be recognized for their innovative solar work at this year's Environmental Initiative Awards May 23. ... "We are humbled to receive this award for this impactful project with the Leech Lake Nation.
Duluth News Tribune
December 31, 1999
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe weighed in Monday, March 19, on two bills at the Minnesota Legislature that would eliminate a state standard regulating the amount of ... Dale Lueck, R-Aitkin, the band's Executive Director Robert Budreau Jr. also objected to Minnesota's current listing of wild rice water.
Chippewa Herald
December 31, 1999
The aptly-named “Class Reunion,” Way's seventh original musical comedy, performed in March in Chippewa Falls each year, will take the audience to the ... Way is uniquely qualified to write about class reunions: Not only is he a former choir teacher at Chippewa Falls Senior High School, his band hasÃâà...