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Cover Story
Covid pandemic gives mixed business results
By Lee Egerstrom
A year after the death of George Floyd caused riots in Minneapolis and after the global COVID-19 pandemic shuttered businesses across the...
Environment
Hemp and the New Green Revolution are game changers
By Winona LaDuke
Mid May’s New Green Revolution Pre Party - Farm Day at Winona’s Hemp went well. Alex White Plume, known as the “Hemperer”,...
News
Families, advocates mark day of awareness for Native victims
By AP
From Washington to Indigenous communities across the American Southwest, top government officials, family members and advocates gathered May 5 as part of a...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Lauren Sheets: Committed to Concordia-St. Paul University
By Dan Ninham
Lauren Sheets, 17, is a junior lacrosse player at Lakeville South High School in Lakeville, Minnesota. She has committed to play at...
Political Matters
Political Matters – June 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
Santorum is cancelled
In late May, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum was fired by CNN from his senior political commentator job after making...
Cover Story
New podcast addresses opioid abuse in tribal communities
By Erin Mathe
Jase Roe has vivid childhood memories of their mom coming home with big bottles of Vicodin prescribed for her pain. Roe didn’t...
Book Review
Tromblay’s memoir recounts painful truths, encourages advocacy
Review by Deb Locke
In his memoir “As You Were,” Duluth native David Tromblay wrote with an outcome in mind. It is: when you the...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – June 2021
By Ricey Wild
This past May 26 featured a Super Flower Blood Moon and total eclipse. It happened on my birthday, and I was excited...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19: The push is on to vaccinate our way to “herd...
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesota came roaring back to normalcy for the Memorial Day weekend and start of summer but the coronavirus threat lingers on with...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19: New rules, licenses coming for assisted living home care providers
By Lee Egerstrom
New protections for elders and others residing in long term assisted living-type facilities are coming on Aug. 1 along with new requirements...
Cover Story
COVID-19 still infecting Native Minnesotans
Lee Egerstrom
Minnesotans were told they can return to more “normal” activity as April came to an end although, it appears, the new “normal” also...
Cover Story
Mpls community organizations helped keep peace during Chauvin trial
By Lee Egerstrom
With Minneapolis on pins and needles during the recent Derek Chauvin murder trial, the city reached out to seven community organizations to...
Environment
The Water Protector Spring is coming
By Winona LaDuke
Are you going to shoot us for a Canadian pipeline company? Or put another way, if this pipeline is such a good...
Covid-19 Pandemic
‘Our hearts are heavy’: COVID-19 deaths of tribal elders leave a...
By Dan Gunderson/MPR
Anton Treuer calls himself an Ojibwe language warrior. He’s been working to preserve and share the language for two decades. He spends a...
News
Chauvin guilty of murder, manslaughter in George Floyd’s killing
By Jon Collins, Riham Feshir, Brandt Williams & Matt Sepic/MPR
A Hennepin County jury on April 20th found ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Lexus Eagle Chasing comes up big for the Uof MN-Morris Cougars
By Dan Ninham
Lexus Eagle Chasing was a 5-8, junior guard on the University of Minnesota-Morris basketball team this past season. She is enrolled with...
Book Review
Powwow story for children will dance into your heart
Review by Deborah Locke
The young Ojibwe girl, Josie, wants more than anything to dance for the first time at the summer powwow. This sweet...
Book Review
Story of Ho Chunk Congresswoman inspires and entertains
Review by Deborah Locke
While still a little girl, Sharice Davids (Ho Chunk) raced through the house doing high kicks and air punches, just like...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – May 2021
By Ricey Wild
“Well...we made it this far”, said my nephew, Jerone at intervals heading out of the Cities. He was seven years old and...
Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19: The Great Outdoors may be calling, but don’t throw caution...
By Lee Egerstrom
The message came down in late April from the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state capitols...
