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Peltier welcomed home after release from prison
By Allison Herrera and Chandra Colvin/MPR Native News
Native American activist Leonard Peltier traveled to Belcourt, N.D., on after being released from a Florida prison on...
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Trump/DOGE slash federal spending: tribes wrestle with economic impact
By Lee Egerstrom
All Americans were wondering as February came to a close how efforts in Washington to abolish programs, slash government work forces and...
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Future MN Native mental and physical health starts on playgrounds
By Lee Egerstrom
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) as started a $6 million campaign with partners to provide facilities and conduct research on ways to...
Environment
Shagobay, A Great Chief of the Anishinaabe
By Winona LaDuke
In celebration of this America’s President’s Day, I would like to offer a story of a great chief and leader of the...
Environment
“Take Back the Truth” website is an oily rewrite of history
By Winona LaDuke
It’s eight years since Highway 1804 and the Missouri River were cleared of Water Protectors, yet the story continues. It’s an ongoing...
Environment
MIA’s Teen Perspectives art program works toward exhibit
By Eddie Chuculate
For multidisciplinary artist Graci Horne (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), 41, participating the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' (Mia) Teen Perspectives program is a way...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Brynn Green competed in the 2025 MN HS Gymnastics State Meet
By Dan Ninham
Brynn Green is from the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. She is an eighth grade student at Redwood Valley Middle School. Green...
Political Matters
Political Matters – March 2025
By Mordecai Specktor
Trump threatens Kalaallit Nunaat
I checked The Circle website for references to “Greenland” and two article showed up.
There was a Sept. 2011 article...
Environment
9-year old publishes her first book – Fishing by Torchlight
By K.E. MacPhie
Kiki Garcia is - in the words of her own book - ready for adventure! At only nine years old, Kiki has...
Calendar
Community Calendar – March 2025
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MAIC Events
See events at the Mpls American Indian Center on their updated website. MAIC events listings: Sewing Circle, Running Club, Drum and Dance, Pickup...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
On becoming a doctor in Indian Country
By Arne Vainio MD
The whole getting into medical school thing was not something I was aiming for. My parents owned the Good Luck Tavern...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – March 2025
By Ricey Wild
On aging: OMG!!! How can one be aching while sleeping in a soft bed?! I’ve slept on floors before and woke up...
Cover Story
Trump questions Native American birthright
Trump’s long-standing desire to end birthright citizenship took a dramatic turn in late January with the issuance of an executive order aimed at eliminating...
Business
NATIFS buys historic Co-op Creamery Building on Franklin
By Lee Egerstrom
In January announcements, the North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS) nonprofit group and the Seward Community Co-op announced NATIFS has purchased...
Environment
Indigenous nutritional gets a voice in Federal Dietary Guidelines
By Lee Egerstrom
A federal scientific panel formulating guidelines for nutrition programs for the next five years has reached out to include American Indian and...
Environment
Solar heat and hempcrates a great combo
By Winona LaDuke
During one of the colder, iciest and foggiest days on the Lower Sioux Reservation in southwest Minnesota in mid-January, a team of...
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Traditional healing gets boost from research study
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesota and the federal Medicaid program need to recognize American Indian culture and practices with traditional healing and better define health and...
Environment
Leonard Peltier gets to go home, after decades in prison
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after being imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Nichols-VanNett plays basketball for NCAA DI at IU Indy
By Dan Ninham
Shania Nichols-VanNett is from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. She is currently a basketball player for NCAA DI Indiana University Indianapolis...
Political Matters
Political Matters – February 2025
By Mordecai Specktor
Biden commutes Peltier’s sentence
In one of his last official acts, on Jan. 20, Pres. Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard...
