IRONWOOD — Members of multiple tribal nations this past weekend began a sit-in encampment called the Animikiiwadiswan (Thunderbird Nest) Encampment on Ottawa National Forest land adjacent to the proposed Copperwood Mine project site in Gogebic County, approximately 3 miles south of the ...
LANSING — The Michigan State Board of Canvassers Monday voted to accept Independent State Senate candidate Sara Cambensy's qualifying petitions after hearing a recommendation from Michigan Elections Director Jonathan Brater, as well as from lawyer Mark Brewer, Cambensy and Cambensy’s ...
SCHOOLCRAFT TOWNSHIP — Injuries were reported as the result of a small plane crash Friday evening in rural Houghton County. According to the Michigan State Police Spl/Lt. Ashley Miller, Seventh District public information officer, the crash was reported at 7:45 p.m. Friday evening. Miller confirmed that MSP responded to a small plane crash that occurred on Township Park Road in Schoolcraft Township. Miller said a full report had not been filed as of Monday morning. "There were no fatalities, however, I believe there were injuries." Miller did not have name(s) of the injured nor ...
NEWBERRY — A corrections officer at Newberry Correctional Facility in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula digitally altered a Native American prisoner’s ID to depict him wearing a feathered headdress, stereotypical Indigenous attire and facial paint, a lawsuit filed in Michigan state court in ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. Journalist Sierra Nadeau recalls the moment, while researching an article on boarding schools for Native Americans, that “my heart ...
