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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...
Cover Story
MN Indian Country not immune to COVID-19 or economic fallout
By Lee Egerstrom
Every Minnesotan – Native and Non-Native – is affected by the COVID-19 strain of the global coronavirus pandemic that is spreading from...
Cover Story
Indian Country leaders urge Native people to be counted in 2020...
By Kirsten Carlson
Native Americans living on reservations and in traditional villages were the most undercounted people in the 2010 U.S. Census. This year, tribal...
Environment
Hemp is about transforming our communities
By Hannah Broadbent
There have always been leaders who have paved the way in the fight for tribal sovereignty. Leaders who have thought of different...
Environment
When the bat challenged the Wiindigo
By Winona LaDuke
Think of crisis as opportunity. The Chinese characters for crisis are wei ji. Danger and opportunity. That’s now. Take a breath, maybe...
Business
Henry Boucha is more than a hockey legend
By Lee Egerstrom
This time of year people want to talk hockey when they encounter Henry Boucha.
Not now. Hockey – all sports – has hit...
The Arts
Sky Hopinka’s “Disfluencies” stays in your head for days
By Hannah Broadbent
It’s a special experience to see a work of art that stays in your head for days after. I can still see...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Pete Nez brings Diné philosophy to basketball and track teams
By Dan Ninham
“Ya’at’eeh,” said Pete Nez, 39. “I am from Dinetah (Navajo Nation) and I am Kinyaa'áanii (Towering House) born for Ta'neeszahnii (Tangle people).”...
Political Matters
Political Matters – April 2020
By Mordecai Specktor
Rampaging microbes
In my column last month, I talked with filmmaker and curator Missy Whiteman about the third installment of the INDIgenesis film...
History
Celebrate 40 Years of The Circle Newspaper – April 2020
Celebrating 40 years of The Circle
This year we will feature old articles, photos and pages from years gone by
as we look back at 40 years...
Calendar
Community Calendar – April 2020
Please verify that events are still happening before attending them.
If you have an online activity (website, radio, Zoom, podcast, etc) that you would like...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – April 2020
By Ricey Wild
Welcome to the New World Order. Interesting times we live in now, ennit? Global citizens are battling a viral pandemic that we...
Cover Story
Governments seek answers as crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous...
By Sarah Mearhoff and Dana Ferguson
Editor's note: This is the 2nd installment of a three-part series on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous...
Cover Story
Tensions arise between Natives, Non-Natives in Indian Country
By Lee Egerstrom
Despite political successes for the Native community in Minnesota in recent years, 2020 has started with tension building between Native and Non-Native...
Opinion
Why we must continue to Rock the Native Vote
By Winona LaDuke
It’s 2020 and the stakes are high. In every area of civil society, from the rights of women, the right to clean...
Business
Solar Bear founder wants solar everywhere, especially in Indian Country
By Lee Egerstrom
Robert (Bob) Blake, founder of the Solar Bear solar installation company based jointly in Minneapolis and at Red Lake, is taking his...
Cover Story
Healthcare for the homeless clinic/drop-in center opens in Wakiagun
By Lee Egerstrom
The Hennepin County Healthcare for the Homeless program has taken over a drop-in clinic at the Anishinabe Wakiagun complex while Wakiagun uses...
News
Ellison: Mille Lacs band still has 61K-acre reservation
By AP
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asserted in February in a legal filing that the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation still exists, a statement that...
Book Review
“The Night Watchman” based on 1950s battle to save reservations
By Deborah Locke
In her latest novel “The Night Watchman,” Louise Erdrich tells the story of her grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, and his 1950s battle with...
Political Matters
Political Matters – March 2020
By Mordecai Specktor
Zombie apocalypse on the rez
And now for something completely different: In “Blood Quantum,” the second feature film from director Jeff Barnaby (Mi’gmaq),...
