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It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – February 2024

By Ricey Wild Boozhoo Cousins! Last month I choked on a small fistful of M&Ms. I thought that was IT for me but I have...

Lower Sioux builds hempcrete homes

By Marcie Rendon The Lower Sioux Community in southwest Minnesota is combining a vision for sustainable housing with the environmentally sound use of hemp. While...

Native translations are being added to more road signage in USA

By Associated Press A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed...

SMSC boost investment in MN-made clean environment products

By Lee Egerstrom The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), an early “Angel investor” in a Minneapolis startup company that may make automobiles less environmentally hazardous...

Heid E. Erdrich named First-Ever Poet Laureate for Minneapolis

The City of Minneapolis’ Arts & Cultural Affairs Department and The Loft Literary Center announced the appointment of Heid E. Erdrich as the first-ever...

Understand Native Minnesota grants campaign

By Lee Egerstrom Minnesota kindergarten through high school educators who want financial help for developing Native American content and securing materials for their classrooms have...

Exhibit tells viewers Native Americans are still here and we matter

Review by Deborah Locke If I told you that an exhibit was fabulous and that you should run, not walk, to see it within the...

NAIAHF Inductee Ryan Salmon advocates for community with volleyball

By Dan Ninham By day Ryan Salmon (White Earth Ojibwe) is the Tribal Liaison for White Earth and during the night he’s the Owner/Director for...

Community Calendar – January 2024

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

The 10 biggest changes to hit Minnesota in 2023

After winning narrow majorities in both chambers of the Legislature and securing control of the governor’s office. In the five months that followed, they...

Political Matters – January 2024

By Mordecai Specktor Return of the buffalo When I was a boy growing up in St. Paul, we often visited Como Zoo. In the 1950s,...
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It Aint Easy Being Indian – January 2024

By Ricey Wild Again with another story, ay? Some of you may have read how my nephew Jerone and my son Steve (who were both...

PIIC’s Net Zero community goals 

By Lee Egerstrom The Prairie Island Indian Community (PIIC) is making great strides towards becoming a Net Zero climate change community. The tribe hosted state officials,...

PIIC leaders move on. Is Congress in the future?

By Lee Egerstrom Newly elected Community Tribal Council members of Prairie Island Indian Community will select new officers this month, replacing both its president, Johnny...

Distributors of Indigenous foods highlights MN connection

By Lee Egerstrom The holiday season brings a cultural mix of gift-giving with friends and loved one and celebrating specials foods. Tribal and Indigenous entrepreneurs...

Fanning the Flames: Native-run solar thermal company ignites careers

By Emily Haeg Nguyen Heating accounts for the majority of energy used in an average U.S. household. The cost of this heat, especially in many...

Native voters could decide major elections in 2024

By Ximena Bustillo/NPR Grassroots efforts to get Native American voters to turn in their ballots for the 2024 election are in motion across swing states...

Read this book and you may yearn to see a clear...

Review by Deborah Locke It seems fair to conclude that most of us pay heed to a daylit sky: is the sun shining, is snow...

Casts light on ancient wisdom while teaching Ojibwe

Review by Deborah Locke A book about the Ojibwe language with large type and about the length of an essay sat on my book pile...

Political Matters – December 2023

By Mordecai Specktor PolyMet scheme hits another snag In late November, an administrative law judge issued a report that recommended that the Minnesota Department of Natural...