Cover Story
Ties to culture are vital for Native American children in foster...
By Camille Erickson
Victor Walter (Bois Forte Ojibwe) used to cut hair for a living. While giving a haircut six years ago, Walter had a...
Local Briefs
News Briefs – August 2018
Vacant lot becomes outdoor classroom and garden
A vacant lot at Takoda Prep, the alternative high school at American Indian OIC in south Minneapolis, has...
Community News
What’s new in the community – August 2018
Walker forms Indigenous Public Art selection committee
In cooperation with a group of Native curators, knowledge keepers, artists, and arts professionals, including individuals of Dakota...
News
Record number of Native Americans running for office in midterms
By Leila Fadel and Talia Wiener/NPR
On a recent afternoon in Albuquerque, N.M., Deb Haaland sits with a thick stack of paper in front of...
Powwow Calendar
Powwow Calendar – August 2018
Aug. 10-12
2018 Grand Portage Celebration Powwow
The annual Grand Rendezvous and Powwow at Grand Portage includes reenactors from across the country and Canada as they...
Environment
Finding beauty in horses, hemp and solar panels
By Winona LaDuke
Let’s be honest, sometimes it’s hard not to hang your head with the challenges of these times. To counter this, I just...
Reservation News
Red Lake language camp rebuilds Ojibwe traditions
By John Enger/MPR News
All Photos by Monika Lawrence/MPR News
The Red Lake Band of Chippewa held its sixth annual Ojibwe Language camp in late July....
Environment
A very different justice: Red Fawn Fallis and the Hammonds
By Winona LaDuke
Early July marked two very different approaches to justice. One towards Native people and another towards non-natives Steve and Dwight Hammond, who...
Calendar
Community Calendar – August 2018
Thru Sept. 2
Every Spirit Tells a Story
Chholing Taha is a Cree First Nations artist based in Anoka, MN who uses Native imagery to express...
The Arts
“There There” tells contemporary urban Indian stories with ferocity and truth
There There: A novel
By Tommy Orange
Publisher: Knopf
Publication date: June 5, 2018
Hardcover: 304 pages
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Review by Deborah Locke
How did he do it? How...
Political Matters
Political Matters – August 2018
Dick Bancroft walks on
Dick Bancroft, a photographer who had many friends in the Native community, passed on to the spirit world on July 16....
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – August 2018
By Ricey Wild
My Unk Koon came by the other day. He walked up to my door, came in and slapped an uncovered fish filet...
Cover Story
WPLC Fights for Water Protectors
By Camille Erickson
The fight to protect Water Protectors who face state and federal charges from the Indigenous-led Dakota Access Pipeline resistance at Standing Rock...
Business
Dream of Wild Health’s entrepreneurial path to farming, education, community
By Lee Egerstrom
For some, Dream of Wild Health (DWH) is viewed as an organic, indigenous food farm in Hugo, north of the Twin Cities...
The Arts
“Seventh Generation Earth Ethics” is extremely relevant today
By Mark Anthony Rolo
In her seminal work “Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin,” scholar and Bad River Ojibwe member, Patty Loew uncovers...
Business
State Bonding Bill includes American Indian projects
By Lee Egerstrom
The familiar warning sign, “Slippery When Wet,” isn’t just for highways, exit ramps and overpasses anymore.
The Minneapolis American Indian Center has warnings...
Opinion
Boarding schools, border wall and the BIA
By Mark Anthony Rolo
While illegal immigration is not a pressing issue for the American Indian (when infact, it should have been as in why...
Community News
What’s New in the Community: July 2018
Invisible No More: Spotify’s first-ever playlist of Native musicians
Earlier this year, Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP) announced a project that amplifies the Native American...
Environment
The Bad Decision: PUC approves Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline route
By Winona LaDuke
Apparently $5 million is the price to buy a pipeline route in Minnesota. In an unprecedented process, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission...
Environment
Planting Victory Gardens for hope and peace
By Winona LaDuke
I am planting a Victory Garden. Well, a couple of them. They are full of heritage varieties of corn, beans, squash, potatoes,...
