Tuesday News

Noongom (today) is Primary Election Day in Minnesota! Have you voted yet? Check out http://mnvotes.org, the official Minnesota Secretary of State's voting information site, and find out how to vote and where your polling place is. Exercise your democratic right and VOTE!

• "Election 2012: Personal Responsibility" (Twin Cities Daily Planet) http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog/dick-bernard/election-2012-personal-responsibility
• "Minnesota Primary: Candidates Make Final Push for Votes" (St. Paul Pioneer Press) http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_21303947/minnesota-primary-candidates-make-final-push-votes
• "Minnesota Primary Elections Take Place Today" (St. Cloud Times) http://www.sctimes.com/article/20120814/NEWS01/308140002/Minnesota-primary-elections-take-place-today
• "Minnesotans Head to Polls Today for Primary Election" (Bemidji Pioneer) http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/article/id/100042902/
• "Sundin, Ahlgren Face off in DFL District 11A Primary" (Cloquet Pine Journal) http://www.pinejournal.com/event/article/id/27231/
• "Three DFL Candidates Face off to Challenge Cravaack" (Cloquet Pine Journal) http://www.pinejournal.com/event/article/id/27291/
• "Where to Go and What to Do for MN Primary Election" (NBC KARE) http://www.kare11.com/news/article/986652/16/Where-to-go-and-what-to-do-for-MN-primary-election

Writer Jim Northrup (Fond du Lac) shares the joys of the 4th annual Ambe Ojibwemodaa language camp: http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13369&Itemid=1

Red Lake Nation's Chief Meskokonaye Youth Cultural Learning Camp hosted a delegation of Diné youths: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/article/id/100042900/

Cherokee One Feather highlights the life and baseball career of renowned pitcher Charles Albert Bender (White Earth): http://theonefeather.com/2012/08/groundbreaking-pitcher/

Charles Albert Bender (Photograph from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, published by Cherokee One Feather, 13 August 2012)

Residents of the condemned Seaway Hotel in Duluth, Minnesota, are concerned they will be homeless by this fall: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/240000/

Seaway Hotel residents Vincent White and Deanna Stiffarm (Photograph by Bob King for the Duluth News Tribune, published 14 August 2012)

Commemorations of the Dakota-United States War of 1862 continue: http://www.startribune.com/local/166063436.html

The Grand Traverse Band's Grand Traverse Resort and Spa is highlighted in this Michigan Golf feature: http://www.michigangolf.com/departments/features/grand-traverse-resort-spa-acme-13327.htm

Wisconsin tribal nations work in opposition to the state's hunting season for ma'iinganag (wolves): http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/14/wisconsin-tribes-struggle-to-save-their-brothers-the-wolves-from-sanctioned-hunt-129021

White Tiger Mining has concluded its exploration agreement with Animbiigoo Zaagi'igan Anishinaabek First Nation and Aroland First Nation: http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-08-14&val=376753&cat=material

The new play Medicine Boy by Waawaate Fobister (Grassy Narrows Anishnaabe) gets a rave review by S. Bear Bergman on the blog Mooney on Theatre: http://www.mooneyontheatre.com/2012/08/13/review-medicine-boy-anishnaabe-theatre-performance-2012-summerworks-review/

Treaty #3 youths met with Ontario Aboriginal Affairs minister Kathlene Wynne: http://www.wawataynews.ca/archive/all/2012/8/13/treaty-3-youth-impress-aboriginal-affairs-minister_23283