Senior for Raiders girls’ basketball team is amazing role model
By Dan Ninham Celleia Simmons Merrill is Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota and she is also from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. She is a senior at Isle High School during the school day and competes with the Mille Lacs Raiders basketball team after school. The Raiders are a cooperative school between Isle HS and Onamia HS. […]
Tanisha Beetso returns to coach CLC women’s basketball
By Dan Ninham The Central Lakes College (CLC) Raiders in Brainerd, MN have drawn indigenous athletes, coaches and administrators to its athletic programs for several years. Tanisha Beetso, a member of the Navajo Nation, is a long way from her homelands in the four corners area of Farmington, NM. She is the assistant coach for […]