Monday, October 29, 2012

Monday News

Chi-Miigwech to the many good people who made our LLTC Family Fun Night and Haunted Trail a huge Halloween treat. To our super-supportive students, employees, their families, and our community members who came out to celebrate with us, many thanks! To our volunteers, especially our Student Services, Learning Center, and Wellness Center employees and student leaders, many thanks!
Two of LLTC's finest zombies at the Haunted Trail's entrance
This Week @ LLTC:
  • All LLTC students and employees are warmly invited to Monday Drum and Potluck, happening at 12 noon in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig (Cedar Hall), in the Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204. Team 4 has a delicious Halloween-themed meal on the menu.
  • Agwajiing Wedaminod Outdoor Recreation Club meets Tuesday at 12 noon.
  • The Parents' Study Support Group meets Tuesday from 4-6 p.m. in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig's Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204.
  • Everyone is welcome to the free and fun Zumba sessions led by our very own Community Education coordinator Amy Erickson on Tuesday and Thursday, from 4:15-5:15 p.m., at the Cass Lake-Bena Elementary School gymnasium.
  • Student Senate meets Aabitoose (Wednesday) at 12 noon in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig's Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204.
  • STEM Club meets Thursday at 12 noon in Mitigominzh Wigamig's Migizi Room 110.
  • Student Services offers GED testing on Friday. For more information, please call 218-335-4220.
LLTC adjunct instructor and ACLU Greater Minnesota Racial Justice Project coordinator Audrey Thayer is quoted in this article on what implications the proposed Minnesota state constitutional amendment that would require photo identification of voters might have on populations including students, the elderly, and working class or those who use tribal government-issued IDs: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/247963/

This Friday, Leech Lake's own Niigaane Immersion School director Leslie Harper speaks at Carleton College: http://apps.carleton.edu/news/news/?story_id=904862

Upon the tenth anniversary of the death of Senator Paul Wellstone, Minnesota Public Radio highlights the plane crash memorial site which features a stone inscribed with a poem by LeAnn Littlewolf (Leech Lake): http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/10/25/daily-circuit-wellstone-memorial/

The new book This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made by Frederick E. Hoxie is reviewed by the Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2019521188_br26indiancountry.html

Red Lake Nation citizens Quentin Fairbanks, incumbent, and Tim Sumner are running for the position of Beltrami County District 4 Commissioner: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/28/two-red-lake-nation-members-run-for-county-commissioner-position-discuss-issues-at-candidate-fair-141722

Minnesota Indian Education Association 2012 award winners Kay Kirt and Patty Ervin are highlighted for their service in this Grand Rapids Herald-Review feature: http://www.grandrapidsmn.com/schools/news/article_7bf1a7de-1f86-11e2-9f56-001a4bcf887a.html

More on Minnesota's controversial hunting and trapping season for ma'iinganag (wolves) and White Earth standing up against it by becoming a wolf sanctuary:
Indigenous rights and environmental advocate Winona LaDuke (White Earth) shares her thoughts on the death of Russell Means (Oglala Lakota): http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/russell-means-a-hero-moves-on

Native Voices at the Autry features the play The Record Holders by Dennis Tibbetts (White Earth): http://www.westsidetoday.com/m1-8279/native-voices-at-the.html

More on the National Book Award-nominated The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain):
Congratulations to our colleagues at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Community College for being awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant to train more Anishinaabe teachers: http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/nw-wisconsin/Federal-Grant-to-Help-Prepare-More-Native-American-Teachers-in-Wis-176006841.html

Dr. Rick St. Germaine (Lac Courte Oreilles) is the Nation Indian Education Association's 2012 Educator of the Year Award winner: http://www.haywardwi.com/news/article_4de439cc-1f10-11e2-9469-001a4bcf887a.html 
Dr. Rick St. Germaine (Photograph by Terrell Boettcher, published in the Sawyer County Record, 25 October 2012)
Indian Country Today highlights some of the big news stories of last week: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/28/the-week-that-was-the-big-stories-in-indian-country-22-142594

More on the War of 1812 commemorations:
Wawatay Fobister's play Agokwe: Gay Love on the Rez, currently being produced by the Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta, examines what it means to be two-spirited: http://www.gigcity.ca/2012/10/28/gay-love-on-the-rez-award-winning-play-comes-out-in-edmonton/

Wapikoni mobile media labs are giving First Nations youths an outlet for creativity and reaching out to others: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Wapikoni+mobile+offers+creative+outlet/7455199/story.html

Columnist Colleen Simard (Anishinabe) ruminates on driving lessons: http://www.troymedia.com/2012/10/26/learning-how-not-to-drive/

Environmental Health News focuses on environmental health challenges facing First Nations citizens: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2012/contaminated-culture

An Orangeville Banner column suggests a tale from an Ojibwa First Nation community in Canada may be interpreted as being about an extraterrestrial visitation: http://www.orangeville.com/community/life/article/1525321--strange-tale-ojibwa-tale-of-a-skyman-visitor-may-have-been-alien

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