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NEW PLATEAUS Stomping-Ground Culture 2: Our Grandparents
While I was still "up north" as we say, visiting my family in Blackduck, I decided to stop out at each of the grandparents' places. Some may consider this dull, but it was enlightening. Heres why: A...
Posted on 11/19/11 at 12:31 AM
IT'S GOOD TO BE IN N.D. Somalis make, eat lefse. What's next? Lutefisk?
We had a story on our front page today about Somali immigrants in Jamestown learning to make the Norwegian potato bread lefse as part of their efforts to learn English. It's a good story and you shou...
Posted on 12/21/10 at 3:51 PM
THE GAY AGENDA It's a Pangea out there
Today's Forum carried an article entitled "Cultures Unite at Pangea" and went on to describe an event yesterday where cultural diversity in our community was on display and celebrated. Well, I though...
Posted on 11/14/10 at 10:33 AM
Bigotry is always ignorant 
In response to Jason McDonald’s foolish sentiment that an immigrant who can’t read or write English is a “waste of life” (“U.S. citizens must read and write,” Jan. 9), a little literacy and education on his part is clearly in order.
By Meg Brown , January 23, 2011
Malice, maybe; ignorance, surely
By Judith Jensen , January 15, 2011
Immigrant voices: Two exhibits tell why people come to America
Two exhibits at Moorhead’s Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County come from different places but share a similar theme.
By John Lamb , January 11, 2011
Weekend Watch: ‘Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration’
Tuesday
International documentary photographer Barbara Beirne focuses on the faces of teenagers thrust into the American life through her traveling collection “Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration” showing at the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, 202 1st Ave. N., Moorhead.
January 06, 2011
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Hjemkomst Center sponsors essay contest
The Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead is sponsoring the “My Journey, My Story” essay contest.
December 21, 2010
HCSCC holding essay competition
The Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County is sponsoring a “My Journey, My Story” essay competition for students ages 13 to 19 who are immigrants or whose parents are immigrants.
December 19, 2010
LSS takes role in resettling refugees
Administrative responsibilities in ND assumed under agreement with state
Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota now will assume most of the administrative responsibilities involved in resettling refugees in the state under an agreement with state officials.
By Associated Press , October 02, 2010
Immigrant population in North Dakota stays fairly steady
Of state’s foreign-born, about 56% not citizens
GRAND FORKS – The numbers of foreign-born residents of North Dakota remained fairly steady from 2008 to 2009, but new immigrants are rapidly substituting for older, according to estimates released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.
By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications Co. , September 30, 2010
Advocate groups question whether refugees receive enough support
Is the U.S. government giving adequate support to newly resettled refugees?
September 26, 2010
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Struggling to succeed
Bhutanese bent on getting ‘American’ rightBefore his refugee cash assistance dried up this spring, Hari Lamitarey popped “job interview” into Google.
September 26, 2010
Refugees win case over wage dispute
A group of young Bhutanese refugees took their case all the way to the North Dakota Department of Labor this summer – and won.
September 26, 2010
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Photos open views into pasts of Clay County and Ellis Island
As a young British war bride, Esther “Betts” Henry traveled by boat across the Atlantic Ocean in 1946, settling in Downer, Minn., to make a new life with her husband, Lamont Henry, an American soldier who met Betts and married her in Liverpool, England.
By Sherri Keaton , August 09, 2010
Report: Immigrants important to Minnesota
Rural economies especially tied to immigration
MINNEAPOLIS – Immigrants are important to Minnesota’s economy, especially in rural areas, a new report shows.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , November 13, 2009
Halgrimson: Immigrant’s life story offers inspiration
Joy K. Lintelman is a professor of history at Concordia College in Moorhead.
By Andrea Hunter Halgrimson , June 13, 2009
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