Monday News

Noongom (today) is Constitution and Citizenship Day. Read LLTC adjunct instructor and American Civil Liberties Union Greater Minnesota Racial Justice Project coordinator Audrey Thayer's letter to the Bemidji Pioneer on the significance of the document and our Constitutional rights: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/citizens-need-know-their-constitution

This Week @ LLTC:

• All students and employees are warmly invited to Monday Drum and Potluck happening each Monday at 12 noon in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig (Cedar Hall), in the Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204.
• Native American Flute Club meets Monday at 5 p.m. in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig's Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204.
• The Indigenous Foods Coalition meets Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig's Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204.
• The Parents' Study Support Group meets Tuesday and Thursday from 4-6 p.m. in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig's Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204.
• Everyone is invited to the free and fun Zumba classes, taught by our very own LLTC Community Education coordinator Amy Erickson, happening Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:15-5:15 p.m. at the Cass Lake-Bena Elementary School gymnasium.
• LLTC Student Services offers American Indian College Fund scholarship application helping workshops on Aabitoose (Wednesday) and Thursday at 12 noon in Mitigominzh Wigamig (Oak Hall), in Mikinaak PC Lab 111. For more information, contact LLTC Student Services advisor Roselynn Jones.
• Great River Pizzeria sells pizza-by-the-slice on campus every Aabitoose at 12 noon in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig's Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204, unless otherwise noted.
• LLTC STEM Club meets Thursday at 12 noon in Mitigominzh Wigamig's Migizi Room 110. For more information, contact LLTC STEM retention specialist Fawn Grauman-White.
• LLTC AICF SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE DUE THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. Check with LLTC Student Services for the exact time of the deadline. Apply online at http://www.collegefund.org.

Fond du Lac, Carlton County, and Cloquet law enforcement officials are investigating an attempted robbery at gunpoint that happened at a house party in Cloquet:

• "3 People Accused of Holding up Cloquet House Party" (Duluth News Tribune) http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/243476/
• "Police: Three Arrested after Partygoers Are Held Up at Gunpoint at Cloquet Home" (Cloquet Pine Journal) http://www.pinejournal.com/event/article/id/243397/publisher_ID/36/

67 year-old Sandra Shabiash (Fond du Lac) is remembered in this Duluth News Tribune obituary: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/obituary/id/243277/

It's the time of year to celebrate manoomin (wild rice):

• "To Find Truly Wild Rice, Head North to Minnesota" (NPR: The Salt) http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/16/161138628/to-find-truly-wild-rice-head-north-to-minnesotaJoe Hoagland and Chris Salazar harvest manoomin (Photograph published by National Public Radio, 16 September 2012)
• "Wild Rice Is Delicious to Man, Habitat to Wildlife" (Detroit Lakes Tribune) http://www.dl-online.com/event/article/id/69962/

More on the potential for invasive Asian carp to move into the Great Lakes: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/study-no-high-risk-great-lakes-asian-carp-paths

Indian Country Today reviews the new book Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis edited by Zoltán Grossman and Alan Parker (Chippewa Cree): http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/16/indigenous-resilience-pacific-rim-nations-offer-innovative-adaptations-to-climate-change-133778

Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota continues to find the balance between protecting youth and maintaining the rights of people convicted as sex offenders: http://www.dl-online.com/event/article/id/69996/

United Tribes Technical College held its 43rd annual United Tribes International Powwow this past weekend: http://bismarcktribune.com/lifestyles/hometown/united-tribes-international-powwow/article_32df050e-fd40-11e1-9607-001a4bcf887a.html

The Treaty of 1854 is being commemorated by the Madeline Island Museum: http://washingtonexaminer.com/wis.-museum-to-celebrate-ojibwe-treaty/article/feed/2030878

More on Wisconsin's controversial hunting season for ma'iinganag (wolves): http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/mailbag/bill-sumner-hunting-fine-but-wolf-hunt-wrong/article_9f04c008-40e9-5f43-b079-84e27f853b4a.html

More on the harvesting of a single omashkooz (elk) for Wisconsin Anishinaabe ceremonial purposes:

• "Chippewa Tribes Plan to Harvest One Wis. Elk" (ABC WQOW) http://www.wqow.com/story/19542972/chippewa-tribes-plan-to-harvest-one-wis-elk
• "Elk 'Harvest' Causes Flap" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/elk-harvest-causes-flap-d96rjn0-169920636.html
• "Ojibwe Plan to Kill Elk Alarms Wis. DNR" (Native American Times) http://www.nativetimes.com/news/wildlife/7796-ojibwe-plan-to-kill-elk-alarms-wis-dnr
• "Ojibwe Shoots Elk in NW Wis." (Native American Times) http://nativetimes.com/news/wildlife/7815-ojibwe-shoots-elk-in-nw-wis
• "Ojibwe Tribal Member Shoots Elk" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/elk15-jh6s7v0-169866016.html
• "Ojibwe Tribal Member Shoots Elk as Part of 'Ceremonial Harvest' in Wis., Despite DNR Criticism" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) http://www.startribune.com/local/169837986.html
• "Ojibwe Tribal Member Shoots Elk in Northwestern Wisconsin" (Duluth News Tribune) http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/243252/
• "Ojibwe Tribal Member Shoots Elk in NW Wis." (Winona Daily News) http://www.winonadailynews.com/news/state-and-regional/wi/article_bda4d4e5-b557-5d77-b116-55a538a4ee1e.html
• "Tribal Elk Hunt Provokes Criticism" (Hudson Star-Observer) http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/event/article/id/103020/publisher_ID/19/
• "Tribal Leader Shoots Elk for Ceremony over Disproval from DNR" (WHBL) http://whbl.com/news/articles/2012/sep/15/tribal-leader-shoots-elk-for-ceremony-over-disproval-from-dnr/

Lac Courte Oreilles Community Health Center offers weight management counseling for citizens of all ages: http://www.haywardwi.com/news/article_2638cf6c-fdbb-11e1-953d-001a4bcf887a.html

Comedian Ryan McMahon (Metis/Ojibway) is the first Native comedian to have a one-hour special, "Ryan McMahon: UnReserved," on CBC: http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Local/News/2012-09-17/article-3076442/UnReserved-comedy-tour%26mdashMonday-night!/1

An automobile crash near Brokenhead Ojibway Nation resulted in several children being injured and hospitalized: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/casino-crash-sends--several-kids-to-hospital-169998986.html

Racism in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is negatively affecting many cultural groups including Anishinabe, Cree, and Jewish people: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/i-shouldnt-have-to-say-this-but-169998736.html

Canadore College in North Bay, Ontario, has a new First Peoples' Centre: http://www.nugget.ca/2012/09/14/canadore-opens-first-peoples-centre

English royalty Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and his wife Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, visited Ontario and participated in a Beausoleil First Nation smudging ceremony:

• "Edward and Sophie Woo Ontario Royal Watchers" (Toronto Sun) http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/16/edward-and-sophie-woo-ontario-royal-watchers
• "Prince Edward Reads to Canadian Church Congregation" (Monsters and Critics) http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/royalwatch/news/article_1703706.php/Prince-Edward-reads-to-Canadian-church-congregation

The art of the late Roy Thomas, whose Anishnawbe Art Gallery remains a vibrant part of Thunder Bay's art scene, is celebrated in this Thunder Bay NewsWatch piece: http://www.tbnewswatch.com/opinion/235604/OPINION-The-gift-continues

The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto hosts the War of 1812 exhibit, "Sovereign Allies / Living Cultures: First Nations of the Great Lakes": http://thevarsity.ca/2012/09/17/gallery-profile-sovereign-allies-and-living-cultures/
More on the exhibit from the official ROM site: http://rom.on.ca/exhibitions/special/first_nations.php

Northern Ontario timber news: http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/mining/2012/09/New-life-for-north-shore-forestry-mills.aspx

Former professional hockey player John Chabot (Kitigan Zibi Anishinabe Algonquin) now works with First Nations youth: http://www.thepeoplefirst.com/johnchabot.html

Residential school survivors' and victims' advocate Kevin Annett / Eagle Strong Voice continues the quest for justice following atrocities committed at church- and state-run boarding schools: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september152012/iclcoj-ka.php