Ernest Wabasha -September 2, 1929 – March 28, 2013

Ernest “Ernie” Wabasha (age 83) of the Lower Sioux Community, journeyed to the Spirit World surrounded by family and loved ones on Thursday, March...

Cancer Survivor Sues HealthPartners for Discrimination

Roger Jeffers (Sisseton Sioux), a 50-year-old bladder cancer survivor, says that he was the victim of racial discrimination while seeking treatment for post-chemotherapy-related health...

Bluedog makes it to final rounds of the Battle of the...

This month, Bluedog will be one of four bands competing in the final round of Battle of the Blues Bands on April 7th (4:30-7:30...

WHATS NEW IN THE COMMUNITY:

Maria Bird collaborates with AICF to raise funds for Cancer American Indian Cancer Foundation (aicaf.org) is partnering with artist Maria Bird (Navajo/Hopi/Santa Clara Pueblo),...

Expanded Violence Against Women Act to cover some Indian women

Advocates for Indian women in Minnesota are hailing a decision by Congress to reauthorize and expand the Violence Against Women Act. For years, the law...

Wounded Knee Fortieth Anniversary Honored

People came from the Four Directions to gather at the historic village of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, on...

River Water Walkers draw attention to pollution in Mississippi River

A group of walkers led by Native women are carrying a copper pail of water from the headwaters of the Mississippi in Minnesota to...

Political Matters: Native Issues in the Halls of Government

Meeting the activists In late March I motored over to the Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC), from the far east of the Powderhorn neighborhood, for...

It ain’t easy being indian

Quite by accident I was awake very early this past Palm Sunday. I flipped through my few TV channels and ended up watching a...

Fond du Lac Follies

Fond du Lac Follies jetted to Phoenix, Arizona for an event at the Heard Museum. My wife Patricia accompanied me.  We didn’t make our...

POWWOW CALENDAR APRIL 2013

April 6 29th Annual Circle of Nations Powwow   Traditional powwow. Morris, MN. University of Minnesota, Morris.   MC: Jerry Dearly. AD: Tracy Peterson. Host Drum:...

Community Calendar April 2013

April thru June SMSC Mobile Unit Spring Schedule The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) helps local organizations and Minnesota tribal communities through its mobile medical clinic, the...

Reaffirming our relationship with Ma'iigan

As Minnesota DNR rushed a hunting season shortly after Ma'iigan was taken off the Endangered Species List. Supporters of Ma'iigan take to the state...

Reaffirming our relationship to Ma'iigan

I was appalled after seeing ¼ of the wolf population taken out in one hunting season. I have three primary concerns in regards to the...

EWCS Honors Pat Bellanger With Song

The Elders' Wisdom Children's Song (EWCS) program honored Anishinabe Ojibwe elder Pat Bellanger on February 12th at a celebration at Sanford Middle School in...

Acclaimed author Louise Erdrich among Earth Train passengers to D.C.

Acclaimed Anishinabe author Louise Erdrich was one of about 70 Minnesotans who boarded the Earth Train bound for the Forward on Climate Rally in...

Land grab cheats North Dakota tribes out of $1 billion, suits...

Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for...

WHATS NEW IN THE COMMUNITY:

Native Woman Finds Her Birth Mother, Who Turned Out To Be Native Super-Model Susan Fedorko found her birth mother when she was 40 years old....

OPINION: Remembering Jancita Eagle Deer

This morning I awoke thinking of Jancita Eagle Deer.  I am sure she is watching us, from the other side, the side of the...

Native Issues in the Halls of Government

Sulfide Mining Update It's time to take another look at the grand plans to ravage northern Minnesota and kill off the remaining wild rice. Yes,...