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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...

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...

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 – 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...

Community Calendar – March 2024

ONGOING 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...

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...
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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...

First-of-its-kind statewide plan to combat homelessness in Minnesota rolls out...

By Katelyn Vue/Sahan Journal and MPR News An ambitious plan to coordinate Minnesota’s response to homelessness across agencies – shaped by those who have directly...

Community honors Henry Boucha with screening of “Electric Indian”

By Dan Ninham “The Electric Indian” documentary film was publicly screened at the pre-game event for the Hockey Day Minnesota in Warrord in January. The...

New book about the Ho-Chunk removal exposes ethnic cleansing in MN

By Lee Egerstrom A new book about Ho-Chunk experiences in Minnesota should prove once and for all that “Minnesota Nice” does not describe the state’s...

New Briefs – February 2024

Echo series brings new Native superhero to living rooms A new Marvel Comics-inspired series called Echo focuses on the deaf Native American anti-hero/superhero. Native American...

Native groups team with the U to stop commercial tobacco smoking

By Lee Egerstrom Native people wanting to shake loose from commercial tobacco addition now have a new tool to help them through the modern technology...

MnDOT drivers keep Indigenous languages alive one snowplow at a time

By Gracie Stockton/MPR You may have heard of Betty Whiteout, Ctrl Salt Delete, Sleetwood Mac or Plowy McPlowface – past winners of the Minnesota Department...

Aitken a team first thinker as MSU-Moorhead Women’s Rugby Coach

By Dan Ninham Athena Aitken (Leech Lake Ojibwe and Hocak) has been the coach for Minnesota State University-Moorhead (MSUM) Women’s Rugby Club since 2012. The team...

Political Matters – February 2024

By Mordecai Specktor Mille Lacs Band vs. Tamarack nickel mine I’ve written a bit about the Talon Metals Corp. scheme to mine nickel in Aitkin County....

Community Calendar – February 2024

ONGOING Reading tutors needed for AIMS Reading Partners is a national education nonprofit that mobilizes communities to provide students with proven, reading support they need to...

Did I ever really thank you for that?

By Arne Vainio MD How long have I known you? Since I started at the clinic over seventeen years ago. From the first day you...