Political Matters
POLITICAL MATTERS: Native Issues in the Halls of Government
By Mordecai Specktor
How about those twins?
In my column last month, I wrote about the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) approving the name change...
The Arts
“Bring Her Home” shines light on missing and murdered Indian women
BY DEBORAH LOCKE
The exhibit “Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island” may be the most startling, energizing and troubling collection of art-work you ever...
Business
Plans in works to expand/upgrade Minneapolis American Indian Center
BY LEE EGERSTROM
Architectural and engineering studies are being considered for what may become a $12 million to $14 million expansion and modern remodeling project for...
Opinion
Stealing Indian kids continues
BY MARK ANTHONY ROLO
Even before the turn of the century the federal government and states routinely stole children from parents in Indian Country. After...
Letters to the Editor
Open Letter to Beltrami County
BY WINONA LADUKE
In late February, the Beltrami County Commissioners approved the Sheriff Department’s request for a mutual aid agreement with various northern Minnesota agencies to beef...
Environment
Solar Energy’s future nationally and in Minnesota
BY WINONA LADUKE
The Trump Administration recently announced a 30% tariff on imported solar panels to bolster, one assumes, a dying fossils fuels industry, and (possibly)...
Community News
WHAT’S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY: March 2018
Nevada Littlewolf named new CEO of the Tiwahe Foundation
The Tiwahe Foundation Board of Directors has named Nevada Littlewolf as the new President and CEO effective...
Cover Story
The Phillips Aquatic Center to Open this Spring
BY CAMILLE ERICKSON
The new Phillips Aquatic Center is on track to open early this spring, becoming the first indoor, year-round swimming facility in the Minneapolis...
Cover Story
Lower Sioux Healthy Meals – a Model
BY LEE EGERSTROM
When registered dietician Stacy Hammer asks people how they feel, she hears plenty of simple answers that make sense at face value but...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
IT AIN’T EASY BEING INDIAN: Feb 2018
BY RICEY WILD
Happy VD all you Snags and Snagettes! Teasing yooz of course, but for real, be careful out there. Ya never know. Moi? I’m...
The Arts
The Scaffold: A missed opportunity for healing?
BY DAVID BORN
Hippocrates once wrote, “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” In Minnesota, time has failed...
Political Matters
POLITICAL MATTERS: Feb 2018
By Mordecai Specktor
Bde Mka Ska
On Google Maps, the large body of water on the western edge of Minneapolis now is marked “Bde Maka Ska.”...
Book Review
Rendon’s first novel is a classic, superb whodunit
BY DEBORAH LOCKE
In “Murder on the Red River,” Marcie Rendon wrote the kind of book that will bother you when you need to put...
Business
Pow Wow Grounds serves wild rice and history along with coffee
BY LEE EGERSTROM
Thirsty coffee drinkers stopping by the Pow Wow Grounds in South Minneapolis know there is much more available there than a cup of...
Opinion
Cop violence rampant in Indian Country
BY MARK ANTHONY ROLO
It wasn’t that long ago that a few Minneapolis cops would go rogue and spend their time on duty harassing the...
News
WHAT’S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY: Feb 2018
Rice becomes first tribal police chief on POST Board
Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed Mille Lacs Band Police Chief Sara Rice to the Minnesota Board of...
News
Lake Calhoun officially recognized as Bde Maka Ska
Bde Maka Ska is now the official name of the lake previously known as Lake Calhoun, following county and state approval of a request...
Cover Story
Treasure Island Center links St. Paul with its Mdewakanton past
BY LEE EGERSTROM
You can’t miss it. Smack dab in the middle of Downtown St. Paul, a square-block anchor building with bold signage now announces to...
Cover Story
Barry Runs for District 62B House
BY CAMILLE ERICKSON
“I am answering a call to serve,” asserted Korina Barry (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) as she announced that she will seek the District 62B...
Passing On
PASSING ON: Dennis Smith Lothert Sr.
Dennis Smith Lothert Sr.
June 23, 1946 - December 5, 2017
Dennis Smith Lothert Sr. – (Hey Man) Wambdi Isnana, meaning Lone Eagle –age 71 of...
