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COVID-19 update for April 8, 2021 By: The Brandon Sun Advertisement The province announced three new COVID-related deaths and 40 new screened or sequenced cases of the variants were detected Thursday. Of those 40, two were B.1.1.7 variants from the Prairie Mountain Health region, two from the Interlake-Eastern health region, one from the Southern Health-Sante Sud health region and 32 from the Winnipeg Health region. Three new screened or seq...

Brandon Sun By: Kimberley Kielley Advertisement The Boissevain Health Centre and Evergreen Place Personal Care Home have moved to critical (red) level due to a COVID-19 outbreak, which was confirmed at Thursday’s media conference with Manitoba chief provincial health officer Dr. Brent Roussin. "There are two cases related to the outbreak and neither involves patients or residents," a provincial spokesperson said. One case is currently activ...

NationofChange Young Indigenous organizers are taking the fight against oil pipelines to Biden With the Line 3 and Dakota Access pipelines threatening Indigenous land, youth from the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes ran 2,000 miles to deliver a powerful message to the new administration. Hundreds of people rallied in front of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington, D.C. on April 1 to deliver 400,000 petition signatures calling on the Biden administr...

Marion County April 6, 2021 A rendering in the office of Erin Belgarde, Strategic Planning Coordinator for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (TMBCI) in Rolette County, North Dakota, shows a dream becoming reality: the Turtle Mountain Recovery Center, a 100-acre campus with a central facility, supportive residences, confidence course, equine therapy stables, sweat lodge, medicinal garden and walking trails. “The students at Purdue did that for us,” Belgarde says of the campus d...

Brandon Sun Advertisement With dry conditions persisting, even more municipalities in Westman imposed partial or complete burn bans on Tuesday. As of Monday afternoon, at least 14 municipalities had imposed burn bans. A day later, on Tuesday, that number had risen to 22 municipalities. The province will not contradict these bans. The communities with full or partial burn bans in Westman are as follows: • Municipality of Two Borders — all burning banned • Municipality of Bre...

Young Indigenous organizers are taking the fight against oil pipelines to Biden Nick Engelfried Thank you for your interest in republishing this story. You are are free republish it so long as you do the following: You have to credit us. We prefer with a note at the top of the article that says it originally appeared on Waging Nonviolence with a link back to the original page where it appeared. For example, at the top of a republished article, a sentence like this should be included: This ...

Brandon Sun By: Tyler Clarke and Colin Slark Posted: A firefighter uses a hose to put out a fire in a house’s backyard near Roundell Road on Thursday afternoon. High wildfire danger levels have resulted in swaths of burn bans and travel restrictions to be put in place throughout the province. (Drew May/The Brandon Sun) High wildfire danger levels have resulted in swaths of burn bans and travel restrict...

April 6, 2021 A rendering in the office of Erin Belgarde, Strategic Planning Coordinator for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (TMBCI) in Rolette County, North Dakota, shows a dream becoming reality: the Turtle Mountain Recovery Center, a 100-acre campus with a central facility, supportive residences, confidence course, equine therapy stables, sweat lodge, medicinal garden and walking trails. “The students at Purdue did that for us,” Belgarde says of the campus design. The Tur...

$59M settlement addresses 1800s Ojibwe land grabs in Minnesota and North Dakota The Pembina Band of Chippewas — whose descendants today include members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and White Earth Band of Ojibwe — were forced to sign away millions of acres of land, some for 10 cents an acre. A settlement offers additional compensation. Written By: Patrick Springer | × Studio portrait of the Pembina Band of Chippewa delegation taken in Washington, D.C....

Settlement coming on Pembina lawsuit against federal government   Photograph provided by the National Museum of the American Indian Studio portrait of the Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) Delegation. Taken in Washington, D.C., in 1880. A settlement is finally on the way in a dispute some 150 years old, in one of the earliest lawsuits filed claiming the federal government had mishandled trust moneys it held for Native American tribes. "It was what I call FILO, first in, last out," Native American...