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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...
Cover Story
Mpls and housing discrimination covenants
By Lee Egerstrom
Racial covenants on property have been illegal in Minnesota for more than 50 years but still remain on long-established mortgages and leasing...
Cover Story
Native-owned /tribal enterprises still struggling in Minnesota
By Lee Egerstrom
Christina (Tina) Valtierra and Robert Blake are living proof the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a heavy hand on Native-owned and operated businesses...
Environment
The Boy Scouts: land grabs, sexual abuse, and bankruptcy
By Winona LaDuke
Let’s put it this way, the Boy Scouts are supposed to be good guys. And now they’ve got some challenges. We will...
Environment
Line 3 construction brings complication, controversy to Fond du Lac Reservation
By Dan Kraker/MPR
About a month ago, Taysha Martineau walked out of the protest camp she built in a small patch of woods near her...
Environment
Among ‘lessons’ from COVID: New and old ways Native students learn
By Lee Egerstrom
A Native American mother who is also a Minneapolis librarian says there a lots of lessons to be learned about teaching children...
Environment
The celebration over, Haaland now faces a long to-do list at...
By kirk Siegler/ NPR
With so much land under federal control in the West, it’s long been said the secretary of the interior has much...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Zaaga’Igan Buffalo: Leading Duluth East HS Greyhound basketball team
By Dan Ninham
Zaaga’Igan Buffalo is representing his people in every step he is taking. His people are not only the Red Cliff Band of...
Political Matters
Political Matters – April 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
Putting Columbus back on a pedestal
The idea for this column – when it began back in the mists of time – was...
Uncategorized
Jones’s book blends horror with the striking ordinariness of life
Review by Deborah Locke
(Editor’s note: Spoilers ahead.)
If you only read one horror/slasher novel in your life, make it “The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham...
Local Briefs
New Briefs – April 2021
Water Protectors Keep Up Pressure on Line 3 Funders in Duluth
(Duluth, MN) On March 31st, Water Protectors marched through downtown Duluth to call out...
