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Mino Oski Ain Dah Yung Opens
By Lee Egerstrom
Tribal leaders, government officials and social service providers from throughout the urban metro area met in St. Paul prior to Thanksgiving to...
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Elders become targets for scam artists during the holidays
By Lee Egerstrom
The holidays are a season of giving for most people, but scam artists increasingly turn it into a season of taking.
Native elders...
History
Thanksgiving is Time for Reparations
By Winona LaDuke
It’s Thanksgiving Morning. Everywhere in America. Thanksgiving needs to mean something to Native people. Something like justice and reparations.
I’m not going to...
Environment
Making deals with the Devil or with the Creator
By Winona LaDuke
Last month’s 383,000 gallon oil spill of the Keystone Pipeline in Edinburgh, North Dakota is the deal with the devil. For those...
News
Upper Midwest Native groups get big support from Bush Foundation
By Lee Egerstrom
The Bush Foundation in November awarded five Bush Prize for Community Innovation prizes and grants to organizations in Minnesota and the Dakotas...
Cover Story
MN History Center’s “Our Home: Native Minnesota” worth checking out
By Deborah Locke
First, a question. Would you agree that in the years since European settlers occupied Minnesota land and shoved Natives to reservations or...
Calendar
Community Calendar – December 2019
Thru Sept 2020
Julie Buffalohead Exhibit
Julie Buffalohead (Ponca Tribe) creates visual narratives told by animal characters that have personhood, agency, and individuality. Buffalohead connects the...
National Briefs
New Briefs – December 2019
‘The worst we have ever seen’: Statue depicting Sacagawea being removed
Charlottesville, VA (AP) – The city council in Charlottesville, Virginia, voted last month to move...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Strength sports is more than just deadlifts, it’s about community
By Dan Ninham
Powerlifting is a strength sport where the goal is to lift as much weight as possible. Your strength is measured by your...
Political Matters
Political Matters – December 2019
By Mordecai Specktor
Crises in the Southern Hemisphere
The repression of Indigenous nations in South America invites comparisons to what American Indians faced in the American...
Health
Minnesota has Hepatitis A outbreak, get vaccinated
Hepatitis A is a serious liver disease caused by the hepatitis A virus. It can make you very sick for weeks or even months....
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – December 2019
By Ricey Wild
Deja vu. I understood it to be a brain boogit as in feeling something has already happened before or a situation one...
Community News
What’s new in the community -december 2019
What a year for the MN Native Elder Games elders!
This past year has been another one for the Native Elder Games history books. A...
Cover Story
Mortgage costs higher on reservations
By Lee Egerstrom
Native American families have more difficulty accessing home mortgages for property on Indian reservation and pay higher interest rates for their loans...
Cover Story
Niijii Radio rises ‘out of the ashes’ to serve White Earth,...
By Natasha Rausch/Inforum
A brick building off State Highway 59 that used to serve as the Callaway School is now home to the White Earth...
Environment
Taking off the Gloves- Enbridge and their Aboriginal People’s Policy
By Winona LaDuke
“We commit to working with Indigenous communities in a manner that recognizes and respects those legal and constitutional rights and the traditional...
Business
My courtship with cannabis/hemp: treat her well
By Winona LaDuke
You can learn a lot from a plant. For the past four years I’ve been hanging out with cannabis plants. She’s an...
Cover Story
Not Your Mascot protests Washington DC team’s racist name
Native Americans and allies gathered outside the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Oct. 24 to protest the Washington Redskins’ racist name.
The rally was organized...
History
‘I’ve never told anyone’: Stories of life in Indian boarding schools
By Dan Gunderson/MPR News
Denise Lajimodiere’s interest in the Indian boarding school experience began with the stories of her parents.
“Mama was made to kneel on...
News
News Briefs – November 2019
2020 coin features Native Elizabeth Peratrovich
ANCHORAGE, AK (AP) – A young Alaska Native woman left an impression on Alaska’s territorial Senate in 1945, delivering...
