BY RICEY WILD I summon calmness. I summon clarity. I summon spirit. I did not summon Purrince who is trying to lie in my lap while writing this. (I gave him a gentle ‘git’). In order to write I am playing music that not only takes me back in the day but is also happy. Pressure […]

BY DEBORAH LOCKE Lori Greene and James D. Autio agreed to do a Q&A on their work as artists and their contributions to the “Bring Her Home” exhibit. Greene is of Choctaw heritage and did a mosaic called “The Escape.” Autio is from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Band; his drawing is entitled “Out There.” […]

By Mordecai Specktor How about those twins? In my column last month, I wrote about the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) approving the name change for Lake Calhoun. The body of water in Minneapolis will now be known by its original Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska (pronounced beh-DAY mah-KAH-skah) – “White Earth Lake.” What […]

BY DEBORAH LOCKE The exhibit “Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island” may be the most startling, energizing and troubling collection of art-work you ever see. Eighteen American Indian artists from across the U.S. participated in the show at the Minneapolis All My Relations Gallery that casts a bright light on the continuing epidemic of […]

BY LEE EGERSTROM Architectural and engineering studies are being considered for what may become a $12 million to $14 million expansion and modern remodeling project for the Minneapolis American Indian Center. Late in February, the Center’s board of directors and planners were giving final touches to the plans and cost estimates. The preliminary work and feasibility […]

BY MARK ANTHONY ROLO Even before the turn of the century the federal government and states routinely stole children from parents in Indian Country. After decades of an assimilation policy that ushered in what became known as the Indian Boarding School Era, one might realize that stealing Indian kids from their families was nothing short […]