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FROM www.NewsForNatives.com Department of Minnesota Wildlife,
an OFFICIAL BEAR ADVISORY

There is a grave difference between Black Bears and Grizzly Bears!

In light of the rising frequency of human/grizzly bear conflicts, www.NewsForNatives.com is now advising hikers, hunters, Campers, fishermen and people who live in remote areas of Minnesota, to take extra precautions and keep alert for bears while in the field.

Specifically, NFA is alerting people who will be in or near remote, wooded areas to wear noisy little bells and shiny pieces of metal on their clothing so that bears are alerted to your presence and are not startled into attack mode.  Also it is furthermore advised that everyone in those categories should keep a large volume canister of powerful Pepper Spray with them at all times.

These mentioned precautions will certainly help you if you should have an encounter with a bear but of course the best method is to keep alert, one method is to watch for fresh signs of bear activity.

Outdoorsmen should recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear paw prints and waste.

Keep in mind that a grizzly’s paw is larger and its claws are longer than that of a black bear.

Black Bear poop contains lots of berries and squirrel fur whereas Grizzly bear scat has little bells and shiny pieces of metal in it and smells like pepper.

For more humor, plus Native American politics and news; visit www.newsfornatives.com

Some Minnesota Sioux asked their Chief one Autumn if the winter was going to be a very cold one or a very mild one.

Not really knowing the answer but wanting to be prepared, the chief replies that the winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared.

Being a good and responsible leader, he then went to the nearest phone booth and called the National Weather Service and asked, “Is this winter to be cold?”  The man on the phone responded, “Yes sir, this winter was going certainly going to be very cold.”

So the Chief went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared for this cold Minnesota winter.

A week later, wanting to cover all of his bases, he called the National Weather Service again, “Is it going to be a REALLY cold winter?”  “Oh yes,” the man replied, “its going to be a REALLY cold winter.”

So the Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go deep into the forests and find every scrap of wood that they can find.  Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again and asks “Listen, how can you be so sure that this winter is going to be so cold?”  to which the Weather man replies “of COURSE it’s going to be cold, the Sioux have been collecting wood nonstop for weeks!”

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Brad “I never heard of a Sioux Chief named “One Autumn” [WiNK]

Why not ask the Indians what happens when you don’t control immigration!

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There was this old Indian who started working for this
construction company.

His first day on the job
the crew was worried about the dark clouds overhead.
He spoke up and said “It ain’t gonna rain”. Sure enough,
he was right! And so for months this went on, the crew
asked him everyday what the weather was gonna be,
and the old Indian would be right! Until one day, they
walked into the local diner and saw their old Indian
friend sipping on a mug of coffee. They approached
him and asked, “So old-timer, whats the weather gonna
be today?”. “Don’t know”, said the old man. “What?
What do you mean you don’t know?” they asked. He
said again, “Don’t know”. They were bewildered.
“Why not?” they asked. So the old Indian looked up
and said flatly, “My radio’s broke.”

I heard about some of these places in Minnesota that were either haunted by Natives or were haunted because of Natives… or something like that, anyway, thought you might get a kick out of reading about them, heck, if you live in Minnesopta, why not go viset some of them and let us know what you think of the stories. Take a few pictures for us too! : )

Burnsville – Benchwarmer Bob’s Restaurant –
Several employees have seen an apparition of an Indian in the basement hallway of the restaurant. The k-9 dogs for Burnsville Police will not enter that area of the restaurant

Litchfield – Ness Church –
This church is haunted by The Sioux Indians. Many reports say that the lights of the church turn on, strange figures appear, a little girl named Annie was buried it has been said that she will come out to your car at night and sit on top to of the roof of your car and if you drive off with her on your car she will haunt you for the rest of your life unless you let her get off on her own, and last at the stroke of midnight a car would appear and drive behind you and all of a sudden disappear once you hit the end of the rode.

Hutchinson – Harrington House –
On the north side of Park Elementary, there is a 1-story house, built around 1820, the first in our town of Hutchinson. The house was built by the Harringtons and was inhabited for 40 yrs by the Harringtons. One night, Litte Crow, a Crow Indian known around here as hero, spent the night with two of his friends, and both were shot in the house, one in the basement, and one on the top level. The ghosts of the two Indians haunt the house. Pictures fall, blood comes through the floor, and voices are heard. – November 2003 Update/ correction: Little Crow was a Sioux, not a Crow Indian. Little crow and his son were shot but a farmer while picking berries near Hutch. The son lived. Little Crow’s body was dragged into town, abused by the locals who put firecrackers in his ears and dumped in the local landfill.

Minneapolis – Treasure Island Casino –
The casino is located about 1 hour from the Minneapolis area near the Wisconsin / Minnesota border. Returning home from the casino (on Hwy 18 along the Mississippi river) alone after midnight, a witness reports he stopped his car on the shoulder of the highway to take a little nap as it was late and he was tired. Shortly after he closed his eyes, he heard the soft muted sound of footsteps walking towards his car. The footsteps sounded like a person with a broken leg because it was dragging one leg as it walked. He got up to see who it was because he didn’t want the cops to give him a ticket. He peered out of the car window to see an old man(?) with dark hallow eyes and frayed white hair leaning on the passenger window behind the driver’s seat. The old man was rotten and his clothes were tattered! That was all he could make out of the ghost before he quickly started his car and drove off in a hurry.

St. Paul – Marian Center (Old Mounds Park Hospital) –
The Marian Center in St. Paul is a nursing home located in what was once the old Mounds Park Hospital. It was closed as a hospital sometime in the 70’s and reopened as a nursing home in the late 80’s/early 90’s. The story is that an off duty policeman who was working as a security guard was shot and killed as he was getting off the elevator in the basement, which is where the morgue was located. There are four elevators in the building, but if you get on that particular elevator, no matter what direction it is going or what floor you push, it will go straight to the basement, open, and then close again before going to where it’s directed. The employee break room is in the basement but is rarely used, as you have to walk past the old morgue to get to it and there are strange noises there at night. There was also a tunnel from the basement leading to the old nurse’s dormitory, which was once used for storage. The maintenance men disliked using it because they reported hearing strange noise and lights flickering off and on. The property sits across the street from a group of Indian burial mounds.

Thief River Falls – Dead Man’s Trail –
Dead Man’s Trail is an old Indian trail that runs along the river. It’s been told that Indians have been seen along the trail, chilly breezes from out of nowhere, and people have mysteriously died years back on that trail. I’ve heard there is an old cave that had to be closed up and hidden in rocks for reasons unknown. Trails that were used by Indians many years ago can still be seen going across the river, which was much lower back then. When you walk along this trail, you can’t help but notice the dead silence.

the previous stories have come from http://onlyidol.com/index.php/2006/01/25/haunted-places-in-minnesota/