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Cover Story
MAIC set to reopen in May
By Lee Egerstrom
The Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC) has a full day of festivities planned for it grand re-opening of the center on May 1...
Cover Story
Minnesota ties to Pennsylvania prisoners combine accomplishments and disappointments
By Lee Egerstrom
The bonds between a Minnesota church and Native people with Indigenous prisoners in Pennsylvania are still under stress with both an accomplishment...
Environment
Land, treaties and the new round of Indian Wars
By Winona LaDuke
The l867 treaty was intended to provide a secure homeland for the Anishinaabe people forever. The treaty was signed by our leaders...
Environment
Red Lake Elementary School Archery Program empowers youth
By Dan Ninham
Just over 21 years ago Red Lake Elementary School physical education teacher Denise Houle saw a niece competing in the National Archery...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Neadeau signs with the University of MN-Morris Cougars
By Dan Ninham
Aiden Neadeau is a member of the Red Lake Ojibwe Nation. He is a graduating senior at Bemidji High School and was...
Political Matters
Political Matters – April 2024
By Mordecai Specktor
Take me out to the ballgame
The 2024 Major League Baseball season is underway and I was just perusing the Twins schedule. I...
Calendar
Community Calendar of Events – April 2024
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Call for Native Artists
Native American artists, performers, and culture bearers looking to exhibit, enhance, or share their artistic talents and cultural knowledge are invited...
The Arts
Native viewers will love the Native characters in this scifi series
By Fern Williams
I recently finished binge-watching seasons one and two of “Resident Alien” on Netflix, and I couldn't resist starting it over because even...
Book Review
You could lose yourself in these vivid works of art
Review by Deborah Locke
This review is a kind of two-fer. I’m telling you about an exhibition catalog full of cool paintings by Ojibwe and...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – April 2024
By Ricey Wild
As I sat in my chair (throne, actually)I heard periodic thumps like a car door being shut. I looked outside but nothing!...
Cover Story
NIH awards $12 million grant to study how Indigenous culture...
By Lee Egerstrom
The Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health has received a five-year, $12 million grant to work with tribes and urban groups to...
Cover Story
UofMN fields comments on plan to return Cloquet Forestry Center lands...
By Ava Kian/MinnPost
Wayne Dupuis remembers a time when he was hunting with his father on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and came upon...
Environment
The Thunder Sticks lead the Anishinaabe way of life, even in...
By Dan Ninham
The Thunder Sticks pool team is captained by David Goodman, enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, in Vadnais Heights,...
News
News Briefs – March 2024
USA Today Named MN Lt. Gov. Peggy Flannagan to Women of the Year List
AP – USA TODAY’s Women of the Year has added Peggy...
Environment
Navy names ship after White Earth Native James D Fairbanks
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesota state and White Earth Nation officials were on hand Feb. 21 in Washington, D.C. when the U.S. Navy announced it is...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Jon DePerry has been teaching physical ed for over 30 years
By Dan Ninham
JonDePerry has been a basketball coach and a physical education teacher in the Twin Cities for over 30 years. He is currently...
Political Matters
Political Matters – March 2024
By Mordecai Specktor
In the desert
The plan earlier this year was to get out of the snow and freezing cold in Minneapolis for a few...
Calendar
Community Calendar – March 2024
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MN Inclusion grants
The MN Inclusion Initiative, funded through the Department of Human Services, is a grant program dedicated to promoting inclusion efforts for people...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
By Arne Vainio, MD
(Editors note: this article was written in written 2016.)
George Earth and I traveled across Minnesota and then across South Dakota...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – March 2024
By Ricey Wild
Wild Doritos and Diamonds
Did I get your attention? Okay, so I add coffee toffee crunch ice cream and pain patches plus...
