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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:...
Calendar
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...
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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...
Education
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...
Cover Story
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...
Cover Story
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...
Latest Reservation News
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...
Community News
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....
Editorials
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...
Columnists
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,...
Columnists
Fond du Lac Follies
The Fond du Lac Reservation's language camp will be held on June 13, 14, 15, and 16. Once again the location will be Kiwenz...
Calendar
COMMUNITY CALENDAR March 2013
March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Native Foster Parents Needed!
Volunteers of America-MN is looking for skilled parents who appreciate the difficulties of childhood! Youth ages...
Columnists
It ain’t easy being indian
Four years ago this past month I chopped my hair off with rusty scissors and the result was horribly hilarious. I wrote that I...
Cover Story
Off-Rez Enrollees Fight For Salazar Payments
A group of Standing Rock Sioux Tribal members known as Active Citizens for Tribal Truth (ACTT) are fighting for the equal dispersal of funds...
Cover Story
Family of murder victim still looking for justice
This month marks the third anniversary of the violent assault and murder of Saint Paul resident and Native American community member Richard Vincent Brown...
Community News
WHATS NEW IN THE COMMUNITY:
David W. Anderson inducted into Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame
The Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame has inducted David Anderson (Choctaw/ Ojibwe), of Famous Dave's, into...
Newsflash
OPINION:Why "Idle No More" matters
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence enters her third week on a hunger strike outside the Canadian capital building, and thousands of protesters in Los Angeles,...
Latest Urban News
U.S. Dept. of Interior to spend $1.9 billion on fractionated lands
The U.S. Department of the Interior plans to spend $1.9 billion to clean up decades of mismanagement of Indian land, an effort that likely...
Latest Reservation News
Red Lake shooting survivors travel to Connecticut to support Newtown community
A group of survivors from the 2005 shooting at Red Lake High School traveled to Connecticut in late December to offer support to residents...
Columnists
Political Matters: Native Issues in the Halls of Government
Idle No More
I just got back from the Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis, where an Idle No More flash-mob round dance took place. What...
