Red Lake Nation hosts candidate fair

The Red Lake Political Education Committee, a tribal non-profit and non-partisan organization, hosted a Candidate Fair & Breakfast on Oct. 22 at the Red Lake Seven Clans...

From the Editor's Desk: Listening to remember and speaking to change

On any South Dakota reservation, those who listen will hear elders saying, “Anagoptan!” It's a command to listen and pay attention to what's being said or...

Political Matters: Pipelines on the rez

Pipelines on the rez This is separate from the column topic this month (oil pipelines running on and near reservations in Minnesota), but it’s a positive sign....

It Ain't Easy Being Indian

As Rezberry’s Graves Registrar I work to help people find a burial site in the cemetery for their deceased family members. Then their names are entered...

Nick-izms: Rez Born, Urban Raised

If you are anything like me “Health and Wellness” is something that I aspire to do in all aspects of my life. For me it includes...

MPR News Briefs

Game day rally at U to draw crowds protesting NFL, DC team's mascot By Matt Sepic, MPR News Native American leaders and University of Minnesota students say they're...

Weekend Calendar: Nov. 1-2

Nov. 1 11th Annual Gathering for Our Children & Returning Adoptees Powwow Emcee: Jerry Dearly; Arena Directors: Windy Downwind and Kirk Crow Shoe; Host Drum: Maza Kute; Color...

November 2014 Calendar

Through Nov. 15 “On Fertile Ground: Native Artists in the Upper Midwest” Join us to celebrate the wealth and diversity of Native artists from this region. This exhibition...

What's New In The Community: November 2014

Migizi Communications receives $1.2 million grant MINNEAPOLIS – Migizi Communications, Inc. has received a $1.2 million federal grant to launch Native Youth Financially Independent. This five-year demonstration project...

Regional and Local Briefs: November 2014

NUCLEAR WASTE CHALLENGED BY TRIBE RED WING, Minn. – The Prairie Island Indian Community is joining three states in a lawsuit over the storage of nuclear...

National Briefs: November 2014

TULALIP CITIZENS GRIEVE AFTER SCHOOL SHOOTING TULALIP, Wash. – Leaders and citizens of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington expressed shock following a fatal shooting at a local public...

First S.D. Two Spirit Society honors and educates on the reservation

SISSETON, S.D. – Members of the newly-formed Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Two Spirit Society gathered on Sept. 26 to educate members of the tribe on LGBTQ Native...

From the Editor's Desk: Our languages and our worldviews

Those of us who grow up in privilege are required to acknowledge that privilege and do good things with that privilege. In Lakota culture, those of...

Reclaiming Indigenous Language

On the crisp, bright morning of September 5, dozens of South High School students and staff gathered together on the football field. After a few moments...

Under the Eye of Sauron: Oil, Gas, Corruption and Change in...

I wanted to write a story about strength and resilience. I wanted to write a story about the singers, the horse people and the earth lodge...

Profiles from Lakota Country: Native Americans in Education

When the topic of Education and Native Americans is brought up the view of a unsettling and disturbing history plays with a sequence of historical trauma....

OPINION: In the Moon of the Falling Leaves

I’ve just returned from New York City. There, I attended the People's Climate March, where 400,000 people walked the streets of the city, demanding that governments take...

What's New In The Community: October 2014

FOND DU LAC TRIBAL COLLEGE RECEIVES $1 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR PROJECTS CLOQUET, Minn. – The Environmental Institute at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College has...

Nick-izms: Rez Born, Urban Raised

Language is essential to our lives. It is how we define ourselves. It is how we recognize the world around us. It is how we name...

Political Matters: Sports and degradation

Sports and degradation I’m happy to report that school board officials in Coachella Valley, California, decided to change the name and mascot of the high school sports...