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Covid-19 Pandemic
Children set to return to Montessori American Indian Childcare Center in...
By Lee Egerstrom
For Janice LaFloe and staff at the Montessori American Indian Childcare Center in St. Paul, operating a preschool program without young children...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19: Indian Health Service increases testing, funds for tribal and urban...
By Lee Egerstrom
In a pair of announcements in late May, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it is awarding $1.25 billion to...
Covid-19 Pandemic
How to minister to a congregation amidst a pandemic? “Zoom it.”
By Lee Egerstrom
The Rev. Marlene Whiterabbit Helgemo and members of the All Nations Indian Church in south Minneapolis are finding crafty, high-tech ways to...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Tribes, Minneapolis remind voters they can avoid risk of COVID-19
By Lee Egerstrom
With tribal, municipal and state elections approaching, Minnesota voters are reminded they can access absentee ballots and register to vote by mail...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Tribal employers have limited access to federal COVID-19 small business aid
By Lee Egerstrom
The Center for Indian Country Development (CICD) warns that tribal enterprises are having a difficult time accessing federal Payroll Protection Program relief...
Cover Story
New database on Morrill Act & theft of Native land
By Hannah Broadbent
In 1862 Abraham Lincoln passed the Morrill Act. This law gave states public lands so that they may be sold or used...
Cover Story
Native Artists find ways to adjust during Covid-19 shutdown
By Hannah Broadbent
On a regular day Rafael (Rafa) Gonzalez, also known Hip-Hop artist Tufawon, wakes up in his South Minneapolis home and heads to...
Covid-19 Pandemic
MN Native communities coping, not conquering, COVID-19 outbreak
By Lee Egerstrom
Quick responses to the coronavirus health threat to Native Americans in both tribal and urban Minnesota communities appear to be holding the...
Cover Story
New Quit Partner helps Native smokers quit the Native way
By Hannah Broadbent
Cansasa, Asemaa – tobacco in Dakota and Ojibwe languages. We have traditional words for tobacco because it is a traditional medicine, but...
Environment
Desperate pipeline companies try to push ahead during pandemic
Winona LaDuke
This spring changed our world. That’s for sure. There’s a long ago story of how the Bat changed the world. And once again,...
Environment
Land O’ Lake’s Indian Maiden disappears from packaging
By Robert Desjarlait
It wasn’t noticed until April that the Land O’ Lakes iconic image of the Indian Maiden, Mia, was missing. The disappearance of...
Sports
Coach Darrell “Son” Shaugabay committed to helping kids
By Dan Ninham
Historically, Warroad, Minnesota was a large Ojibwe village on the Lake of the Woods at the northwestern tip of the state bordering...
Political Matters
Political Matters – May 2020
By Mordecai Specktor
Coronavirus in Indian Country
Are readers of The Circle taking precautions against the deadly onslaught of the coronavirus? Washing your hands frequently? Wearing...
Calendar
Community Calendar – May 2020
THINGS TO DO ONLINE
Exoplanet Coloring Pages with NASA
Download the Exoplanet Coloring pages and color with NASA. Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System. Free....
Book Review
“Manifesto” fiercely explains why you need your native language
Review by Deborah Locke
The Language Warrior’s Manifesto:
How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds
Minnesota Historical Society Press
January 28, 2020
208 pages
You...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – May 2020
By Ricey Wild
So, how are yooz all doing? Bored at being in ‘lockup?’ Tired of not doing what you want to anytime you feel...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Will COVID-19 emergency relief trickle down to Native entrepreneurs?
By Lee Egerstrom
Native American entrepreneurs operate what clearly are small businesses – either alone or with family members and with no more than a...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Social distancing saves lives while pulling tribes down together
By Lee Egerstrom
Tribal economies, health care systems and governments are disproportionately harmed by preventive measures such as social distancing that have closed hospitality and...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Tribes and nearby communities take huge hits from COVID-19 casino shutdowns
By Lee Egerstrom
A pair of new economic studies show tribes in Minnesota and throughout the country are facing billions of dollars in lost revenues...
Cover Story
Missing Indigenous people sparks activists, self-taught searchers to help families awaiting...
By Natasha Rausch
Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a three-part series on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the...
