Monday, August 13, 2012

Monday News

Boozhoo and a warm welcome to Leech Lake Tribal College's incoming president, Dr. Don Day, whose tenure as our campus leader begins on Aabitoose (Wednesday). We are happy to have him be a part of LLTC.
This Week @ LLTC:
  • The deadline to register for fall semester classes at Leech Lake Tribal College is NOONGOM (today), Monday, August 13, 2012. For more information, please talk to someone in our Student Services office, here on campus in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig (Cedar Hall), on the phone at 218-335-4220, or visit www.lltc.edu and click on "Prospective Students."
  • Faculty orientation continues this week in Mitigominzh Wigamig (Oak Hall), Mooz Room 100.
  • Aabitoose (Wednesday) is a bittersweet day for Leech Lake Tribal College; we celebrate the retirement of our much beloved outgoing president, Dr. Ginny Carney, and welcome our incoming president, Dr. Day. We wish the very best to both of these leaders and good people who have the wellbeing of Leech Lake Tribal College, its students, alumni, employees, and supporting community in their hearts.
  • LLTC will close early on Aabitoose for our employee picnic, happening at Stony Point Beach.
  • An Education Equity Organization Collaboration [EEOC] meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 11 a.m. in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig's Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204. 
  • Student orientation happens this Friday, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig. We look forward to seeing all of our new and returning students this Friday!
Tomorrow is primary election day across Minnesota, and, because of redistricting, some voters have new polling places:
Find your polling place at http://mnvotes.org or by visiting the official Minnesota Secretary of State's Polling Place Finder: http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us/

The Leech Lake-Cass County Wellness Court gets a comprehensive feature by Minnesota Public Radio: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/08/08/ground-level-price-of-safety-wellness/

Hennepin County Indian Child Welfare Act [ICWA] social worker Korina Barry (Leech Lake) is highlighted in this MinnPost feature: http://www.minnpost.com/community-sketchbook/2012/08/benefits-social-workers-who-come-tribal-community
Korina Barry (Photograph by Patrick O'Leary for the University of Minnesota, published in MinnPost on 8 August 2012)
Noongom (today) from 12-1 p.m. CDT, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Secretarial Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform holds a public webinar meeting featuring Bob Anderson (Bois Forte) among other participants: http://www.nativetimes.com/news/federal/7566-doi-to-hold-public-webinar-on-improving-trust-management

Fond du Lac's 34th annual Mash-ka-wisen Sobriety Powwow brought together friends and families supporting sobriety: http://www.pinejournal.com/event/article/id/27298/
2012 Mash-ka-wisen Sobriety Powwow and Sobriety Run (Photographs by Jamie Lund for the Cloquet Pine Journal, published 10 August 2012)
Red Lake Nation's Chief Meskokonaye Youth Cultural Learning Camp hosted a delegation of Diné youths: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/242762/

Arnold Eugene "Shiekie" Pemberton, Sr. / Giniiw (Red Lake) -- grandfather of our LLTC chief financial officer Shelly Pemberton -- is lovingly remembered in this Bemidji Pioneer obituary: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/obituary/id/100042848/
Our thoughts are with Shelly and the many friends and family of Mr. Pemberton.

Minnesota reflects on 150 years since the Dakota-U.S. War:
Art Walk Central in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, is a huge success in its first year, miigwech to sponsorship by organizations like the Saginaw Tribe's Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways: http://www.themorningsun.com/article/20120811/OPINION01/120819954/art-walk-central-is-something-to-be-proud-of

Lawyer Harold Monteau (Chippewa Cree) shares his thoughts on Native nations, citizenship, and identity in this Indian Country Today feature: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/native-nations-should-define-themselves

Red Cliff's new Frog Bay Tribal National Park is celebrated in this Wausau Daily Herald feature: http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20120812/WDH04/208120307/Mary-Bergin-travel-column-New-park-helps-preserve-Red-Cliff-Band-s-heritage
Frog Bay Tribal National Park's Lake Superior shoreline (Photograph by Mary Bergin for the Wausau Daily Herald, published 10 August 2012)
A group of people are walking across Canada to protest the Indian Act: http://www.saultstar.com/2012/08/10/taking-it-out-on-the-indian-act

Winnipeg, Manitoba-based columnist Colleen Simard talks about the passing of country music's Kitty Wells and what that means to her and her family: http://www.troymedia.com/2012/08/10/we-were-just-a-tribe-of-honky-tonk-indians/
Colleen Simard has also offered to talk to pop star Justin Bieber, who displayed stunning ignorance in recent remarks about First Nations people: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/330599

Poet David Groulx (Metis/Ojibwa) is highlighted in this Halifax, Nova Scotia, Chronicle Herald feature: http://thechronicleherald.ca/books/125941-a-tale-of-two-davids

Yesterday, the Oshkimaadziig Unity Camp held a gathering in Guelph, Ontario: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/krystalline-kraus/2012/08/activist-communique-anishinabek-action-oshkimaadziig-unity-

Saturday, Toronto's Planet IndigenUS featured writers Thomas King, Drew Hayden Taylor, and Brian Wright-McLeod: http://www.blogto.com/events/57207
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