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Heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to expand an air quality alert originally for northern Minnesota to much of the state. The current alert expires at 6 a.m. Thursday. Areas under the alert include Hibbing, International Falls, Roseau, Bemidji, East Grand Forks, Moorhead, Brainerd, St. Cloud, Rochester, Mankato, the Twin Cities and the tribal areas of Leech Lake, Red Lake, Fond du Lac, Mille Lacs, Upper Sioux and Prairie Island. Fine particle levels are expected to be unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as people who have asthma or other b...

CORRECTED: 2 Bemidji men arrested during multi-agency human trafficking operation  Six people, including two men from Bemidji, were arrested during a recent human trafficking operation in Beltrami County over the course of two days. Written By: Pioneer Staff Report | 12:28 pm, Jun. 28, 2021 × Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the two Bemidji men arrested were working under subcontractors on the Line 3 replacement project, Enbridge has confirmed though two of those arrested were indeed working on the project they were not from Bemid...

Dakota people in what is now Minnesota began using glass beads to decorate clothing, bags, and household items in the mid-nineteenth century. The practice both reinforced and transformed Dakota art, allowing Native artists to preserve a creative tradition that continues in the twenty-first century. Before European trade introduced glass beads to North America around 1500, Dakota and other Native people made beads from shells, stones, bones, and teeth. Artists used long-bone beads called hairpipe (traditionally made from bison and later from cattle) to adorn clothing like breastplates. They wo...

Minnesota asks Washington to repeal Indian banishment Minnesota's request to overturn a federal law that threw Dakota and Winnebago Indians out of the state can become a way to teach about mistreatment over the years, Native Americans and a state legislator say. Written By: DL News Staff | 3:54 pm, May. 29, 2009 Minnesota's request to overturn a federal law that threw Dakota and Winnebago Indians out of the state can become a way to teach about mistreatment over the years, Native Americans and a state legislator say. The 1863 law banning the two tribes has been replaced w...

Indigenous, historic preservation groups object to wind project near Jeffers Petroglyphs The project, the first large-scale wind and solar plant in the state, would impair the 'viewshed' of the historic site.  February 4, 2021 — 6:01pm Text size Copy shortlink: The Big Bend project planned for southern Minnesota would be one of the state's biggest wind farms, and paired with a large solar plant, would be different from any other power project in the state. But Big Bend's proximity to the Jeffers Petroglyphs site — sacred to Ind...