You should be at least a year away from a major life change, like a marriage or divorce. You will receive help with the paperwork and licensing process. Right now, we have a shortage of homes to provide care for babies, preschoolers and teenagers. Teens (ages 12 -17) need foster families with a flexible work schedule, people who can get them off to school. After school, most teens need a supervision, an after school program, activities or job. supervised situation.

Some programs provide assistance with fees for providing care for foster children – you must explore this on your own. At home parents, in most situations, are needed now for infants, toddlers and preschool children. Foster parents are reimbursed a basic rate for providing care for all children but not extra for child care, after school or summer programs. Foster families are not reimbursed for child care.

Whether it’s for a few months or years you can make a difference in a child’s life!

Live in Hennepin County? Call Kelly 612.348.8060 Email: kelly.sarenpa@co.hennepin.mn.us	Live in Anoka County? Call Lori 763.422.7199 Email: lori.erickson@co.anoka.mn.us

Kelly Sarenpa
Senior Social Worker
Foster Care Recruitment & Intake
MC960
612-348-8060 (f)612-348-4918

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At the Prairie Island Community Center at 6:00 on July 2, 2008. Please bring a dish to pass.

See you there.

Sharon

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Barry Carter barryc@indigenousway.net

There is a war going in the state of Virginia and the United States against Native Americans.    Virginia is on the front lines of this war and Prince William county is the front lines in VA.

There are 70,000 Native Americans under attack as I write.

In 2008 over two dozen anti-Native American bills were passed by the Virginia State legislature.

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Bison return to Minnesota prairies

Bison are once again roaming free on the prairies of Minnesota.The release of the large animals is part of the state’s sesquicentennial celebration. The bison were released onto 220 acres of land in Washington County Saturday morning. More than 200 people showed up to see the return of the large animals return to the nature at the Belwin Nature Center in Afton. Experts say that the Bison are critical to the environment because they spread seed and kill unwanted plants on the prairie. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO

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KFAI’s Indian Uprising, June 29, 2008 from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. CDT #272

The American Indian Movement (AIM), is an Indian activist organization in the United States. AIM burst onto the international scene with its seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

AIM was co founded in Minneapolis in 1968 by Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, Herb Powless, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton-Banai, and many others in the Native American community, almost 200 total. Russell Means was another early leader.

In the decades since AIM’s founding, the group has led protests advocating Indigenous American interests, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the United States. AIM has often supported other indigenous interests outside the United States, as well.

AIM’s original mission included protecting indigenous people from police abuse, using CB radios and police scanners to get to the scenes of alleged crimes involving indigenous people before or as police arrived, for the purpose of documenting or preventing police brutality.

As is true with many national liberation movements (PLO, African National Congress), ideological differences emerged within AIM over the years. In 1993, AIM split into two main factions, each claiming that it was the authentic inheritor of the AIM tradition, and that the other had betrayed the original principles of the movement.

One group, based in Minneapolis, MN and associated with the Bellecourts, is known as the AIM-Grand Governing Council <http://www.aimovement.org> , while the other segment of the movement, led by, among others, Russell Means, was named AIM-International Confederation of Autonomous Chapters <http://www.americanindianmovement.org> – Excerpts: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement>

Guest:  Steve Blake (Red Lake Ahnishinahbaeotjibway), Director, Twin Cities American Indian Movement

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Indian Uprising is a KFAI Public & Cultural Affairs program relevant to Native Indigenous people, broadcast each Sunday on 90.3 FM Minneapolis and 106.7 FM St. Paul. Volunteer producer & host is Chris Spotted Eagle.

For internet listening, visit www.kfai.org, click Play under ON AIR NOW or for listening later via their archives, click PROGRAMS & SCHEDULE > Indian Uprising > STREAM.  Programs are archived for two weeks.

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Hello,

I just wanted to take a minute of your time to introduce one my favorite new artist. Her name is Crystal Shawanda and she is truly an amazing talent! 

Crystal pours her heart & soul into her music, because it is her lifeline.  A Native American, Crystal grew up on the Wikwemikong Indian Reserve in Ontario , Canada .  Her last name, “Shawanda” literally translates to the album title, “Dawn of a New Day” – and a new day is what music has given Crystal .   CLICK BELOW TO READ MORE

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