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Rybak Addresses Achievement Gap for Native Students
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“We've
got to act like this is a crisis because it is,” Mayor R.T. Rybak
said of the achievement gap, at the beginning of a roundtable
discussion...
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Mayoral Candidates Speak on the Step-Up program for youth
Step-Up is a local summer program that
introduces teens to temporary employment and prepares them for future
careers. It runs 9 weeks, not including the courses...
Latest Reservation News
Schimmel Sisters Visit Red Lake
Beaming with excitement waiting for
the Schimmel sisters to come to Red Lake High School gym sits Amber
McNeal and her sister Diane. With a big...
Community News
What's New In the Community: October 2013
Denman-Wilke Named DIW Director
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Kathy
Denman-Wilke, joined the Saint Paul Area Council of Churches, as the
Department of Indian Work Director, on Thursday,...
Editorials
From the Editor's Desk: The meaning of Native Pride
The meaning of Native Pride
By Alfred Walking Bull
With the close of the powwow season,
sightings of the embroidered fashion bearing “Native Pride” will
be few and...
Columnists
Fond du Lac Follies
Fond du Lac Follies motored to Perch
Lake to harvest manoomin. My wife Patricia and I were going to
manoominike together as we had been doing...
Columnists
Political Matters: Defends/Stands Up for People
Defends/Stands Up for People
In my June column for The Circle, I
wrote about Ken Tilsen, the dean of civil rights lawyers in Minnesota
and a committed...
Columnists
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
Last month I ended my column talking
about the removal of my ancestors’ – and many others of my tribal
nation – remains from a cemetery...
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GED Grad Poised for Success
With recent high school graduation rates in the Native American community in the Twin Cities hovering between 21 and 44 percent, the obstacles seem...
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The Little Earth Red Bears baseball team wins big
The Little Earth Red Bears won the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Youth Baseball League Championship this summer in the 10 Year Old And...
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Contentions remain after alcohol vote on Pine Ridge Rez
Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe voted on Aug. 13 to end the reservation’s 124 year-old alcohol prohibition. The vote was in response to...
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Native Youth Perspective
The Circle is committed to presenting a variety of voices, including our youth. Brianna Skildum is currently a sophomore at Roosevelt High School in...
Editorials
From The Editor's Desk
Covering the news in Minnesota’s Native community is proving an interesting experience, as with any topic in Indian Country, there are universal elements of...
Columnists
Fond du Lac Follies
The Sobriety Powwow was held in Sawyer at Mashkawisen. It was the 30th something annual event.
Once again we set up our Free Coffee For...
Columnists
POLITICAL MATTERS: Native Issues In The Halls of Government
Gogebic Taconite’s scheme
Over the past three years, I’ve been sounding the alarm about the mining juggernaut rolling through the forests of northeastern Minnesota....
Columnists
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
WHAT I DID THIS SUMMER:
For this story I have only to look at my legs to describe what I did this summer. My lower...
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Culture/History Underlies Freedom to Marry
Members of the Minneapolis Two Spirit Society are celebrating along with other LGBT (Lesbian/ Gay/Bisexual/Transgender) Minnesotans and preparing for the state’s Freedom To Marry...
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Red Lake encampment battles pipeline on tribal lands
Since 1949, Enbridge Energy has been transporting crude oil through its more than six pipelines from Alberta, Canada through northern Minnesotan reservations and across...
Community News
WHAT'S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY
Flanagan Named Executive Director for Children’s Defense Fund
Peggy Flanagan, an experienced community organizer, advocate, teacher and trainer, has joined the Children’s Defense Fund-Minnesota (CDF-MN)...