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Cover Story
2020 Census, The Numbers and Outcomes
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesota held on to an eighth congressional seat in the House of Representatives and to access for untold billions of dollars in...
Cover Story
Podcast helps uplift the importance of Indigenous resiliency
By Dan Ninham
The Tribal NEAR Science and Community Wisdom Project and Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota recently completed...
Local Briefs
New Briefs – June 2022
Report finds little progress reducing violence against Native American women
By Dan Gunderson/MPR
News report released May 17 by Amnesty International USA finds little progress has...
Environment
MN Legislature ends session without passing Native bills
By Lee Egerstrom
What looked like an eleventh-hour compromise to push through extensive bills in the Minnesota Legislature, including several for the Minnesota Indian community,...
Book Review
The Marrow Thieves depicts a dystopian futuristic North America
Review by Deborah Locke
The Marrow Thieves
By Cherie Dimaline
Publisher:DCB (imprint/Cormorant Books)
September 2017
260 pages
Reading age: 13 years and up
Grade level: 8 - 12
One of...
Cover Strory
Minnesotans play ‘the Creator’s game’ at the roots of modern lacrosse
By Jon Collins/MPR News
On an unseasonably cold and windy Sunday morning, dozens of players cluster together at the center of the football field at...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Croaker continues his boxing legacy as a Hall of Fame inductee
By Dan Ninham
Brad Croaker, 45, (Leech Lake Ojibwe) lives in Cass Lake, MN with his family including his partner Lori and five children: Bradley,...
Political Matters
Political Matters – June 2022
By Mordecai Specktor
Gun violence in the U.S.A.
It’s impossible to keep track of mass shootings in this country over recent years. (If you Google “mass...
Calendar
Community Calendar – June 2022
Ongoing thru Nov. 27
Alexandra Buffalohead: Shifting the Perspective
How do museum narratives obscure some histories in preference of telling others? In her installation, guest curator...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
Water is Life
By Arne Vainio, MD
I woke up early and drove to the spring in darkness. My mother always collected spring water at sunrise on Easter...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – June 2022
By Ricey Wild
My memory says it was late May, it could have been early June when I heard a parade approaching on Blaisdell Avenue...
Cover Story
Little Earth patrols work to fill safety gap after breach in...
By Melissa Olson
During the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd, members of the Little Earth Protectors, a Minneapolis neighborhood patrol, were caught...
Cover Story
New rules for Buy Indian Act take effect May 9
By Lee Egerstom
The U.S. Interior Department published final rules in April for its Buy Indian Act regulations, bringing closer to an end a process...
Calendar
American Indian Month Community Calendar – May 2022
Runs thru November 27
Alexandra Buffalohead: Shifting the Perspective
How do museum narratives obscure some histories in preference of telling others? In her installation, guest curator...
News
Down to the wire for Native nonprofit funding at MN Legislature
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesotans have come to expect time will run out before the Minnesota Legislature gets its work done, requiring special sessions, but urban...
Environment
May 19 deadline to submit concerns about new Line 3 abandonment
By Lee Egerstrom
Environmental groups and people possibly affected should the new Enbridge Energy Line 3 pipeline across northern Minnesota be abandoned are asking neighbors...
Environment
Yazzie makes debut feature film set in the Twin Cities
A Winter Love follows the story of Blue, a struggling Native artist getting by on odd jobs, music and teaching gigs. When Blue falls...
Cover Story
Snowsnake building workshop leads to the next snowsnake season
By Dan Ninham
Although there were still patches of snow in northern Minnesota in late April the snowsnake season is over. However, the prime time...
Political Matters
Political Matters – May 2022
By Mordecai Specktor
George Morrison postage stamps
April 22 was the First Day of Issue for U.S. postage stamps honoring the accomplished Oijbwe artist George Morrison...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Comes Flying twins lead state champion Bantam B1 PLSHA
By Dan Ninham
Chaske and Cuauhtli Comes Flying are in the ninth grade at Prior Lake High School. The twin brothers are Crow Creek Dakota...
