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Building Tribal Energy Sovereignty
By Lauren Boritzke Smith
The construction of over 122 electric vehicle charging stations has begun, connecting Minnesota’s Tribal communities along major corridors with neighboring Tribes in...
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New Mikwanedun Audisookon Center to break ground
By Lee Egerstrom
Groundbreaking ceremonies are planned for Oct. 15 in south Minneapolis when the Indigenous Peoples Task Force (IPTF) brings communities together to celebrate...
Environment
The new Indian wars: Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher
By Winona LaDuke
The business of Indian Hating is a lucrative one. It’s historically been designed to dehumanize Native people so that it’s easier to...
Environment
New home for U of MN American Indian Studies Department
By Lee Egerstrom
The University of Minnesota currently has 10 students enrolled in the nation’s only four-year major language program for the Dakota language. This...
Environment
Minnesota Natives fighting to keep Ojibwe language alive
By K.E. Macphie
Anongong: Miigaading (Star Wars: A New Hope) brought the Ojibwe language to the big screen last month as just one more step...
News
IIOs are decolonizing and indigenizing American Sign Language
By Dan Ninham
The Indigenous Interpreter Organization (IIO) was founded in 2024 with a mission to provide and create accessibility in Native spaces with exceptional...
Environment
Leech Lake secures $3.6M federal grant for wild rice processing
By Lee Egerstrom
The U.S. Department of Commerce is providing a $3.6 million grant to help the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe develop a wild...
Book Review
Book salutes the fiercely resistant Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
By Lee Egerstrom
A prominent historian and anthropologist with important past ties to the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe has a new book published chronicling...
Book Review
Rendon’s newest novel focuses on MMIW
Review by Deborah Locke
Marcie Rendon did it again. She wrote a book that kept me awake and reading well past a reasonable bedtime, with...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Elias Jourdain excels as starting offensive Lumberjacks lineman
By Dan Ninham
The Bemidji High School Lumberjacks football team is coming off a 55-0 homecoming win versus St. Cloud Tech. The total team effort...
Calendar
Community Calendar – October 2024
Ongoing
Immunization clinics
Free walk-in immunization clinics for infants through 18 years old.. For info: https://www.hennepin.us/en/residents/health-medical/childhood-immunizations.
• Oct 11: 3pm to 6pm, Lake Country School, 3755 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis.
•...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
Memories of Manoomin (wild rice) and a recipe
By Arne Vainio M.D.
(Editor’s note: this was orginally pubished in 2021.)
Tashia Hart is putting together a cookbook featuring manoomin (wild rice) and other wild foods of...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – October 2024
By Ricey Wild
Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain. *ahem* I am a great and utter being!!!
I also boogited myself awake with...
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Excitement about Flannagan’s possible rise to Gov.
By Lee Egerstrom
The recent Democratic National Convention opened with all of America learning about Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. It ended with a new...
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FDL joins tribal nations and states in suits against social media...
By Lee Egerstrom
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has joined other Upper Midwest tribal nations in seeking court protection for Native...
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Returning to Mni Sose, the Missouri, eight years after Standing Rock
By Winona LaDuke
“No one wants to have oil in their water” – Natali Segovia, Water Protector Legal Collective
It’s about the water. I’m returning to...
Environment
Land Back in Minnesota takes different paths
By K.E. MacPhie
On the heels of 11,778 acres being returned from the Chippewa National Forest to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in June...
Environment
SMSC provides emergency assistance amid food shortage
By Melissa Olson/MPR News
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has made $3 million in emergency funds available to tribal nations amid the ongoing food shortage...
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Dr. Wyatt heads EM for Hennepin Healthcare
By Lee Egerstrom
With two decades of life saving emergency medical work behind him, Dr. Thomas Wyatt has been named chief of Emergency Medicine for...
Environment
Anangong Miigaading – Star Wars in Anishinaabemowin
By Winona LaDuke
“Gi-ga-miinigoowiz Mamaandawizi- win: May the Force be with you….”
Anishinaabemowin is being spoken in a Galaxy long ago and far away. That’s the...
