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Natives travel to Guatemala to learn from the Mayans

By Dan Ninham As part of their ongoing efforts to promote and preserve indigenous languages, Dr. Mary "Fong" Hermes, a University of Minnesota professor, and...

Jack Brown is looking for college opportunities next season

By Dan Ninham Jack Brown is a member of the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe. He is a graduating senior looking for an opportunity to...

Ojibwe Girl Scout awarded Bronze Cross Lifesaving Award

Senior Girl Scout Ilona Delaney (Miskwaa’Benaisi’Kwe, Mikanaak’Ikwe) was honored April 28 for heroically risking her own life to save her mother and grandmother from...

Community Caledar – May 2024

Ongoing 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...

By Arnie Vainio MD (Editors note: written in 2014.) I just got back from Atlanta, Georgia. As a board certified family practice physician I need to recertify...
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It Aint Easy Being Indian – May 2024

By Ricey Wild When I write that I’ve been through a lot recently, believe me. I don’t want to share just now what happened because...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 – 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...

Community Calendar of Events – April 2024

ONGOING 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...

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...

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...
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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!...

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...

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...

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 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...