Tributes have poured into Facebook mourning the loss of a Whitehorse woman Shawn LeBeau, also known to community members as Shawn Lamb, was found two nights ago after a search by relatives, friends, community members, and officials. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement says, Lamb was found deceased east of Timber Lake late Tuesday evening, she had been missing since Saturday the 17th, there has been no official word on her cause of death.
The Bureau of Land Management’s rediscovery of massacre site renews calls for halt of a lithium mine project according to oral tradition, Thacker pass an area nestled between the Double H and Montana mountains in northern Nevada, was named Pehee Mu’huh or Rotten Moon by the Paiute people for its crescent shape and, the thirty-one men, women, and children who were massacred there by government soldiers in 1865. Part of that history was recorded within Bureau of Land Management’s own historical records and more recently by land managers in July during a land survey.
Wild rice or muhnumen in Ojibwe is sacred to indigenous people in the great lake’s region because it’s part of there creation story and because for centuries even a handful made a difference between life and starvation during harsh winters, but climate change invasive species and pollution are threatening the plant even as its cultivated sibling rises in popularity nationwide. Those threats make it crucial to teach young tribal members to harvest wild rice, respecting both the rituals and the environment, that’s what the leech lake tribal was doing last week northern north central Minnesota, taking students ricing for the first time of the vast water way.
