It Ain't Easy Being Indian

I’m so excited about Halloween! It’s the only time I can wear my kitty-cat ears in public, but I’m thinking this year I want to get...

Regional and Local Briefs: October 2014

BAD HEART BULL SELECTED FOR ECONOMIC FELLOWSHIP MINNEAPOLIS– The Business Alliance for Living Local Economies, an Oakland, Calif.-based organization, announced Jay Bad Heart Bull as a fellow for...

National Briefs: October 2014

FINAL ROUND OF PAYMENTS MADE IN COBELL SETTLEMENT HELENA, MT – Hundreds of thousands of Native Americans received the final cash payments the week of Sept. 16 from...

October 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...

Weekend Calendar: Sept. 12-14

Sept. 12-14 Bob Brown Memorial/Mendota's 15th Annual Traditional Wacipi Emcee: Mitch Walking Elk; Arena Director: Windy Down Wind; Host Drum: Scotty Brown Eyes; Co-Host Drum: Luttle Thunder Birds; Men's...

Bdote Learning Center opens in South Minneapolis

On Aug. 25, a sunny morning in Minneapolis, Bdote Learning Center opened. The historic beginning marked the end of six years of planning and developing as...

Native Man The Musical redefines Native masculinity

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in;  The paradigm of Native American manhood shifted with New Native Theatre's production of “Native Man the Musical, Phase I,” performed at the Minnesota...

Honor the Earth paddles in protest against Sandpiper pipeline

BEMIDJI, Minn. – An environmental group took to the water on July 31 to protest a proposed oil pipeline in northern Minnesota. About 20 members of...

Ojibwe Language and Culture Camp Held at Ponemah

For the second year in a row, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians hosted an Ojibwe Language and Culture Camp for youth. The camp was...

University faculty push for Ojibwe, Dakota languages to become majors

Some faculty members within the University of Minnesota’s Department of American Indian Studies are trying to preserve two languages indigenous to the state. Currently, students don’t have...

Lawsuit filed over E. coli outbreak near Cloquet

A:liThe first lawsuit has been filed as a result of an E. coli outbreak on the Fond du Lac Lake Superior Chippewa reservation near Cloquet earlier...

Northern Minn. resort owner drops liquor license request

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in;  A northern Minnesota resort owner has withdrawn his application for a liquor license, citing pressure from the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe. Chris Freudenberg,...

From the Editor's Desk: Overcoming fatalism and claiming victory

The greatest enemy we face as Native people is fatalism. It defines our historic, current and future struggles. From the moment the earliest European settlers put...

Enbridge not good at math

Lorraine Little of the Enbridge Company keeps telling regulators and the public that 96 percent of the landowners along the proposed route of the Sandpiper Bakken...

It Ain't Easy Being Indian

If you are a regular reader of this column you must be familiar with my one of my major rants; the Bering Strait Theory. Yeah, I...

Political Matters: Washington's 'R' word

The rhetoric is escalating in the run-up to the Minnesota-Washington NFL game. A new stadium is under construction downtown on the site of the former Metrodome,...

Nick-izms: Rez Born, Urban Raised

As Native people, from a diverse world views, we have a lot more in common than we don’t. ‘Am I Indian enough?’, ‘Living in an...

Regional and Local Briefs: September 2014

NO WRONGDOING FOUND IN TASERING OF 8 YEAR-OLD ROSEBUD CHILD PIERRE, S.D. – Two months after an 8 year-old girl was tasered by a police officer in...

National Briefs: September 2014

VIDEO CALLS OUT FEDEX FOR WASHINGTON TEAM SPONSORSHIP PAWHUSKA, Okla. – The Native Voice Network released a video on Sept. 7, urging the courier company FedEx to end...

September 2014 Calendar

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Through Nov. 15 “On Fertile Ground: Native Artists in the Upper Midwest” Join us to celebrate the wealth and diversity of Native artists from...