Regional and Local Briefs

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } RED LAKE NATION CANDIDATES FILE FOR ELECTION RED LAKE, Minn. – More than 30 Red Lake candidates filed for seven seats on the...

National Briefs: April 2014

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } SCHIMMELS PROFILED IN HBO SPECIAL LOUISVILLE, Ky. – HBO’s “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” profiled the much-vaunted Native American women's college basketball sisters...

What's New In The Community: April 2014

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Saint Mary's Student Jennifer Waltman Earns Bush Fellowship Award Jennifer Waltman, a Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota student in the Doctor of...

VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: All My Relations presents provocative images in Maggie...

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in;  When you think of your cultural and ethnic identity, is there a piece of cloth – a sown or painted tapestry, a beaded...

Fond du Lac Follies

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }I really like winter. The cold and the snow stay outside my little HUD house. I especially like the tree shadows on...

It Ain't Easy Being Indian

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Yet more wintry weather is on the way and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. I mean,...

Political Matters: Next steps for PolyMet

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }In March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency weighed in on the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the PolyMet sulfide mine, near Babbit,...

April 2014 Calendar

Ongoing NACC MNsure Navigators are still able to assist those who have no income or who are low-income in applying for Medicaid and MinnesotaCare. If you attempted...

What's New In The Community: March 2014

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Rachel Limon wins 2013 Minnesota Consular Corps Award Rachel Limon, International Trade Representative of the...

Facing Pipelines and Mines

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Tribal Governments Push Ahead In Anishinaabe Akiing some new mining proposals, and pipelines threaten the water and land of this region. This past...

Tribes Begin Defense Against Keystone XL

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Spiritual Encampments Planned Along Proposed Route With the release of a U.S. State Department environmental impact study of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that...

From the Editor's Desk: Thinking Beyond Our Own Salvation

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Whether by flood, fire or rapture, almost every culture has its own form of eschatology. There seems to be no end in...

Lacrosse Clinics Teach Culture and Engage Community

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Indigenous Lax kicked off its first lacrosse clinic on Feb. 15 with special guest speaker and Edmonton Rush...

Political Matters: Mining in the Penokee Hills

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Mining in the Penokee Hills I’ve devoted several recent “Political Matters” columns to the environmental threat posed by sulfide mining in northeastern Minnesota,...

Fond du Lac Follies

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } C'mere I want to tell you a story. Once upon a time, no wait, that is the wrong story. How about...

It Ain't Easy Being Indian

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Just now as of this writing I confirmed plans to attend the Stop the Wolf Hunt rally in St. Paul, Minn....

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What's New In the Community: February 2014

HONOR THE EARTH GRANTS OVER $120,000 TO INDIGENOUS PROJECTS CALLAWAY, Minn. – Honor the Earth, in collaboration with the Headwaters Fund, the Indigo Girls, Medicine...

Native Business Grows With Values and Guidance

Business continued to grow in the Minneapolis Native American community with the latest class of graduates from the Fall 2013 Plan It! Entrepreneur Training Program on Jan....

Thousands Pack Final Hearing for Proposed PolyMet Mine

Minnesota Public Radio News can be heard on MPR's statewide radio network or online at minnesota.publicradio.org . The public's last chance to speak in front of hundreds about...