Mission Statement

The mission of Red Lake Net News (RLNN) is to successfully report, build, promote, and provide quality news, timely information and entertainment–from a Native American perspective–about American Indians on the Red Lake Indian Reservation and their friends everywhere in the world. It will focus on the Internet Native Americans it can reach, with a unique and intelligent Website offering everyone an Internet place to find information, read about the current Red Lake news, while at the same time learn about other Native American events worldwide.

Readers can read about an endless variety of topics, including Red Lake Tribal government issues, state and federal legislation, health issues, people of the Red Lake Indian Reservation and other Indian Communities, the schools and their students–just to mention a few. And of course there are world-wide news events that are happening all around us all the time. RLNN plans on featuring a summary of reporting by other news media both world-wide and from other local Indian Communities, as well as links to their information.

Company Information

Red Lake Net News is a privately owned and operated company not affiliated with any other private, non-profit, religious or governmental agency worldwide, founded and build by Michael Barrett in September 2003.

This Website was made possible by a Venture Fund grant from the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota. Barrett is one Ojibwe Band member of the Red Lake Tribe, whose total membership is nearly 10,000. Each member of the Red Lake Band owns, in common, the Red Lake Indian Reservation, with a land and water base of over 1 million acres.

RLNN Policies

One of the policies of RLNN is to distribute all news and other information in a fair, impartial and objective manner, except in the case of opinions by either the publisher or editor, or with submitted material–although we would never change the content. All submitted material is subject to editing for clarity, grammar, spelling, and anything which may be deemed objectionable or offensive in nature. RLNN is geared to be acceptable by young children, as well as our elderly people.

All content within these pages is also copyrighted material and any use of the material in any form without the express consent of the owner is strictly prohibited. However, readers who wish to print the information and photographs, may do so for their own viewing pleasure only, and these copies are not to be distributed for profit in anyway. No photograph may be sold or distributed without the consent of Red Lake Net News and is for private individual use exclusively.

Contribute to (rlnn.com)

Red Lake Net News is all about you, the users. We provide news, information, and resources about issues affecting Indian people because the more information and knowledge we can acquire, the more informed and aware we will become, and

the more we will learn about issues that affect us.

With such a vast area to cover, rlnn.com realistically cannot cover everything. That is why we will be asking you to contribute to rlnn.com with your opinions, your ideas, and even your own articles on some of the things you feel are important. We all have something important to say no matter who we are, what we do, where we come from, and etc.

Red Lake Net News is going to need user submissions to create new resources for other users. If you found a resource you feel should be added to the Links section in rlnn.com, let us know and make a recommendation. If you have your own Web page, we will link directly to you from our site–in the same way we would ask that you provide a link to us.

If you find news articles about Native American issues that you feel others would also be interested in, send it to us and we will provide a link to it.

Ever thought about doing a little writing yourself? We welcome talented writers–and even those just starting to write. Those writers who have became good writers all had to start someplace. What better place to ‘break-in’ than on rlnn.com? The only way you will be rejected is based on the content of the story–nothing obscene, vulgar, offensive in nature, profane, etc. Just remember, children as well as the elderly are going to be logging on to rlnn.com. If you wouldn’t want your 5-year-old, or your grandmother to read something you wrote, why would we publish it either.

In the Student Works section is an area just for school age people to express themselves, too.

Not a writer but a photographer instead? Maybe a photojournalist? Send us your work and we will publish it in rlnn.com.

Although the plan is to update the site on a daily basis once it is fully functional, for now the goal is to be fully updated on a weekly basis. Every Monday there should be updates from the previous posting with new articles, new contributions–and more.

We also appreciate you taking the time to visit us and contribute if you do. Tell your friends about us, as well. If you like or dislike us, tell us that, too, and if you would, ‘why’ you feel that way. We want to improve every day that rlnn.com is alive and hopefully well on the Internet.

Legal and Privacy notice for Red Lake Net News (rlnn.com) on the Internet.

Red Lake Net News is committed to protecting one’s privacy on-line.

General Privacy Issues

Red Lake Net News recognizes the privacy concerns of visitors to our site on the Internet www.rlnn.com and the importance of protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information collected from them. As a general rule, no personally identifiable information, such as a visitor’s name, address, email address, or telephone number, will be readily available to everyone when it is collected on the Website. If such information is collected, it is solely for contacting purposes only.

One exception to this rule is in the case of OPINIONS by our readers. Red Lake Net News will not publish any such opinion without the express consent of the writer, and a name ‘must’ be attached to the opinion. Red Lake Net News feels that if you are willing to submit an opinion about anything, if you are committed and believe in what that opinion is, then you won’t have any reservations about including your name as the writer. (An unnamed submission takes away its crediability.)

Your Personal Information

At some areas in our Website, Red Lake Net News allows users to send email, provide feedback, and some other functions within the site. Red Lake Net News uses this information only for the purpose specifically intended. Red Lake Net News does not collect, package, sell, trade or otherwise distribute for commercial purposes the personal information provided to it from users of rlnn.com. Red Lake Net News does not employ a user’s personal information submitted to this site for research, advertising, marketing or sales purposes.

IP Addresses

Red Lake Net News does not save any information about its users’ IP addresses. IP addresses typically are sent from the user’s browser to their service provider to the web server the user is visiting and contain information about a user’s service provider, system type and browser brand.

Requests for Advertising rates and information

Red Lake Net News may obtain information from a user when he or she requests information on-line about the opportunities for advertising. Any submissions of these types become the property of Red Lake Net News and may be used to solicit requests.

Security

We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from: unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, and accidental loss.

Other Links to Sites not affiliated with rlnn.com

Red Lake Net News may establish relationships with business partners which allow visitors to rlnn.com to ‘link’ or ‘click through’ to sites operated by these partners. In some cases, the site may be branded or co-branded with the Red Lake Net News logo, however, the other site is in no way operated, maintained or edited by Red Lake Net News. Red Lake Net News is not responsible for the content or privacy policies of any third party sites that may be linked to the Website of Red Lake Net News. Third party sites are covered by their own privacy policies, and are in no way blanketed by the privacy policy of Red Lake Net News.

Terms and Conditions

Red Lake Net News is provided for your personal use only. The news, information and other material on this site is copyrighted by Red Lake Net News of Red Lake, Minnesota, or by other information providers who have licensed their content for electronic publication by Red Lake Net News through special arrangements.

Users of this service may not reproduce, republish or redistribute material on Red Lake Net News in any form without the express written consent of Red Lake Net News or the copyright holder if that does not belong to Red Lake Net News.

Neither Red Lake Net News nor any of its information providers shall be liable in any way to you or other parties for delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in the material published on rlnn.com.

By using this site, you also agree that you will not upload any copyrighted material to the site without the consent of the copyright holder, except as otherwise stated.