Leech Lake has been awarded a $1.7 million federal Recovery Act Broadband Opportunity Program to create three public computer centers and upgrade ten others across the reservation: http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2010/07/05/daily4.html
Filmmaker and student Savannah Parisian (Bois Forte) has received an award for her short documentary "I Am Anishinaabe": http://sacurrent.com/film/story.asp?id=71321
Savannah's film can be viewed on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg8CB8T04KM
A letter to the Duluth News Tribune advocates bringing back Ni-Mi-Win powwow days to Duluth's Spirit Mountain: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/173138/
A family's home on the Fond du Lac Reservation was a total loss after a fire yesterday morning: http://www.fox21online.com/news/house-fire-total-loss
Former Red Lake Indian Health Service nurse Helen Blanche (Sweeny) Kaasa is remembered in this Bemidji Pioneer obituary: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/obituary/id/100020056/
George Neeland (White Earth) is remembered in this Bemidji Pioneer obituary: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/obituary/id/100020109/
Frank Stech, Jr., (White Earth) is remembered in this DL-Online obituary: http://www.dl-online.com/event/obituary/id/54037/
More on schools, including Cass Lake-Bena Secondary, Ponemah Elementary, Red Lake Senior High, and Waubun Secondary, involved in the federal school turnaround program: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/article/id/100020142/
More on the movement to protect Eagle Rock, a site sacred to Michigan's Anishinabeg, from potential negative effects of a proposed Kennecott Minerals copper and nickel mine: http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/97670769.html
Writer Ernest Hemingway's experiences among Michigan's Anishinabeg are briefly noted in this feature: http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=15192
More on the severe flooding that affected the Chippewa Cree citizens of Rocky Boy's Reservation: http://nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3880:tribal-leaders-awaiting-word-on-flooding-aid&catid=54&Itemid=30
Turtle Mountain citizens question the safety of Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] trailers: http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9526&Itemid=33
Native News Update for July 2, 2010: http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9514&Itemid=131
Wisconsin law enforcement officials allege that casinos may be used for money laundering in drug rings: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/crime_and_courts/blog/article_2e08be46-8946-11df-9396-001cc4c03286.html
Teen Marvin B. Charette III (Red Cliff) was found tragically drowned in Lake Superior on Monday:
- "Body Recovered from Lake Superior" (Superior Telegram) http://www.superiortelegram.com/event/article/id/43727
- "Drowning Followed Party, Says Bayfield County Sheriff's Office" (FOX KQDS) http://www.fox21online.com/news/drowning-believed-accidental-bayfield-county
- "Investigation in Bayfield County" (KDAL) http://kdal610.com/news/articles/2010/jul/07/death-bayfield-county/
- "Man Who Drowned in Lake Superior May Have Run from Police" (Duluth News Tribune) http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/173157/
- "Red Cliff Drowning Victim May Have Been Fleeing Police" (Duluth News Tribune) http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/173127
- "Red Cliff Teen Drowned after Falling from Cliff" (Northland's NewsCenter) http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/97819459.html
- "Teen Drowns after Fall from Lake Superior Cliff" (Chicago Tribune) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-cliffdeath,0,5295791.story
- "Washburn Man's Body Found in Lake Superior" (Duluth News Tribune) http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/173085/
Queen Elizabeth II met with a Nishnawbe Aski Nation delegation yesterday:
- "Queen Shows Interest in Treaties" (Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal) http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories_local.php?id=278033
- "Royal Meeting" (TBNewsWatch) http://www.tbnewswatch.com/news/99915/Royal-meeting
