RED LAKE NATION

Minnesota

New Bemidji State degree teaches sustainability through Indigenous practices

Planning for the degree program began in 2018 with the help of a $600,000 grant initiative from a sustainability foundation.

Minnesota

Native women work to break the cycle of poverty, prison in Minnesota

Native American women make up less than 1% of Minnesota’s overall population but are 20% of the state's female prison inmates.

April 25, 2022 06:54 PM

Northland Outdoors

Minnesota DNR moves ahead with new bear permit area on Minnesota's Northwest Angle

The Red Lake Nation remains opposed to bear hunting but agreed to the new permit area proposal

April 08, 2022 12:06 PM

Minnesota

Amazon founder's ex-wife donates millions to Boys & Girls Clubs on 3 regional reservations

MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving away billions of dollars to charity.

March 28, 2022 06:04 PM

Latest Headlines

Minnesota

Red Lake, White Earth to be second, third tribal nations in US to host Indigenous Parent Leadership Initiative

Child development, leadership, democracy and culture are the core of the Indigenous Parent Leadership Initiative that will soon make its debut at the Red Lake and White Earth Nations come March.

December 06, 2021 06:01 AM

By Daltyn Lofstrom

Minnesota

EPA authorizes Red Lake Nation to set water quality standards

The United States Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced it had authorized the Red Lake Nation to set its own water quality standards, in a manner similar to a state.

December 02, 2021 04:00 PM

By Pioneer Staff Report

Business

EV charging network to link Minnesota, North Dakota reservations seeking freedom from oil

Clean energy groups on the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota and Red Lake reservation in Minnesota were awarded $6.7 million in federal funding to build out electric vehicle infrastructure in the tribal communities.

December 01, 2021 03:00 PM

By Adam Willis

Business

Red Lake to be a part of $6.6 million electric vehicle project

In an effort to connect Red Lake, Standing Rock and other Nations throughout the upper Midwest with electronic vehicle charging stations, Minneapolis-based Native Sun Community Power Development and over two dozen of its partners will make use of a recently awarded $6.67 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office.

November 22, 2021 10:00 AM

By Daltyn Lofstrom

Minnesota

Red Lake celebrates first charter school set to open fall 2022

Spirits were high Monday morning as around 50 members of the Red Lake community, tribal council and state politicians took part in the groundbreaking of the Endazhi-Nitaawiging charter school set to open in Red Lake in fall 2022.

October 19, 2021 05:30 PM

By Daltyn Lofstrom

North Dakota

'Your struggle is our struggle' : Progressive 'Squad' stands in solidarity with Line 3 opponents at Lake Bemidji

On Saturday, members of the progressive Congressional "Squad," including Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar, MN-5, Cori Bush, MO-1, Ayanna Pressley, MA-7 and Rashida Tlaib, MI-13, visited Bemidji to stand in unity with opponents of the Enbridge Line 3 replacement project.

September 04, 2021 06:27 PM

By Matthew J. Liedke

Minnesota

3 Native Mob gang members sentenced for assault, meth distribution in northern Minnesota

According to court documents, Robin Lee Lussier, also known as Ratchet, 32; Willard Duane Reed, III, also known as Left or Leftfield, 26; and Joshua Adam Hanks, also known as Souless, 25; were active members of the Native Mob gang. The gang is a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engage in and have engaged in acts of violence, including murder, attempted murder, robbery and assault.

September 02, 2021 09:33 AM

By Forum News Service

News

Funeral Monday for slain Red Lake police officer

Interment for Ryan Bialke, 37, of Bemidji, Minnesota, will be at the Greenwood Cemetery in Bemidji, according to his obituary. A wake will begin at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 1.

July 31, 2021 12:30 PM

By Forum News Service

News

Man accused of killing Red Lake officer faces five federal charges

David Brian Donnell Jr., 28, has been charged with five federal counts following a shooting incident on Tuesday, July 27. In the incident, 37-year-old Red Lake Police Officer Ryan Bialke died on the scene.

July 28, 2021 05:48 PM

By Forum News Service