Thursday, October 25, 2012

Thursday News

Reminder: Family Fun Night tomorrow, Friday, October 26, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., here at Leech Lake Tribal College!
Noongom @ LLTC:
  • STEM Club meets at 12 noon in Mitigominzh Wigamig (Oak Hall), in Migizi Room 110.
  • The Parents' Study Support Group meets 4-6 p.m. in Giizhiikaandag Wigamig (Cedar Hall), in the Benny Tonce Memorial Drum Room 204.
  • Dance away your fall blues at Zumba, led by Community Education coordinator Amy Erickson, happening from 4:15-5:15 p.m. in the Cass Lake-Bena Elementary School gymnasium.
Check out the October 2012 issue of Leech Lake's DeBahJiMon: http://llojibwe.org/news/deb2012/newsOct2012web.pdf

*Health Advisory* Pregnant women are recommended to get flu and whooping cough vaccines to protect their newborns from these diseases: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/panel-pregnant-women-get-whooping-cough-shot

More on the proposed Minnesota state constitutional amendment that would require government-issued photo identification for voters: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/voter-id-amendment-takes-spotlight

More on Minnesota's controversial hunting season for ma'iinganag (wolves): http://www.kare11.com/news/article/994306/396/Eve-of-wolf-hunt-disagreements-running-rampant

Netting season for adikamegwag (whitefish) on three northern Minnesota Lakes begins in November: http://samcook.areavoices.com/2012/10/24/whitefish-netting-to-open-on-three-lakes/

Bemidji State University's American Indian Resource Center has five finalists for the director position: http://www.cisionwire.com/bemidji-state-university/r/bemidji-state-university-names-five-finalists-for-directorship-of-american-indian-resource-center,c9324233

The University of Minnesota-Duluth Department of Social Work has been awarded $440,000 Health Resources and Services Administration grant to get more qualified social workers into rural communities including Fond du Lac and Leech Lake: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/247699/

North Dakota U.S. Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp has an editorial in Indian Country Today: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/a-voice-for-indian-country-in-the-u-s-senate

Poet, writer, and all-around talented, award-winning ikwe Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain) gives a free public reading tonight at the University of Indianapolis as part of the Allen and Helen Kellogg Writers Series: http://news.uindy.edu/2012/10/24/writers-series-to-open-with-native-american-poet/

More on the National Book Award-nominated The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain):
More on Wisconsin's hunting and trapping season for ma'iinganag: http://www.wjfw.com/print_story.html?SKU=20121024105527

Lac du Flambeau citizens "powwow the vote": http://www.haywardwi.com/news/article_9a7a1f3a-1df9-11e2-aed6-0019bb2963f4.html

Many Indigenous Catholics are celebrating the canonization of St. Kateri Tekakwitha: http://www.simcoe.com/news/article/1524519--crowd-celebrates-sainthood-for-lily-of-the-mohawks

More on the state of Indigenous languages in Canada as shown by census data:
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