The Arts.
By Eddie Chuculate The Guthrie Theater’s free five-session acting from a Native perspective class reached capacity so quickly that workshop leader and actor Ernest Briggs (White Earth) hopes to see another one this summer or fall. “I was shocked that it filled up so fast,” said Briggs, 40, of Minneapolis. “We wanted to keep it […]
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By Dan Ninham While passing through the American Indian Cultural Corridor in Minneapolis one can stop at a gathering place on “The Avenue” known as “Pow Wow Grounds”, a coffee shop and one of a number of locally Native-owned businesses up and down Franklin Avenue and next to the renovated Minneapolis American Indian Center. According […]
By Deborah Locke White Earth Ojibwe Reservation enrollee Marcie Rendon has written three books in the Cash Blackbear series and recently published “Sinister Graves,” (Soho Crime, Oct. 2022). She is currently working on her fourth book. The award-winning writer agreed to an interview on how she found her way to the writing profession, and how the […]
Review by Deborah Locke After reading Marcie Rendon’s newest novel, Sinister Graves, for a few hours of during which time stood still, I noticed that I only had about 50 pages left. That was disappointing. I did not want the book to end so soon. Rendon, a White Earth Nation enrollee, wrote the third book […]
Review by Deborah Locke If I could get a message to Dennis E. Staples (Red Lake Nation), it would be this. Keep going. Do more. Understand what was right with “This Town Sleeps” (Counterpoint Publishing, 2020) and build from it the next time. Your story telling is vivid with believable characters in a setting that […]
Review by Deborah Locke Minnesota Historical Society Press produced another sweet children’s book, this one with grownup messages about seven important Ojibwe life lessons. Mashkiki Road: The Seven Grandfather Teachings (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2022) tells the story of three cousins who set out to gather sage and cedar from the forest for their Grandma […]
By Winona LaDuke Say you dreamed up an Anishinaabe musical, forty or so musicians, actors and dancers and had some epic stories to tell. That’s a snap shot of Anishinaabe Dibaajimowan, an Anishinaabe Story, featured in Bayfield, Wisc. at the Big Top Chautauqua. Michael Laughing Fox Charette had such a dream. And in the heart […]
Reviews by Deborah Locke Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story is a picture book so cute and full of meaning that you’ll want to run out and buy a copy for every three-year-old in your life. Sure, its plot is on the thin side. It’s about making […]
Review by Deborah Locke “Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers” features five generations of stories from a family living at Minnesota’s Upper Sioux Community near Granite Falls. The stories tell the impact on individual family members of big historical events like war and migration, and they give insight into the less dramatic details of […]
Review by Deborah Locke “We Are Meant to Rise,” edited by David Mura and Carolyn Holbook, consists of essays by American Indians and people of color recounting the 2020 murder of George Floyd, the effects of the pandemic in 2020, and much more. The book arrived in the mail, and then sat on my nightstand, […]
By Lee Egerstrom The COVID-19 pandemic and continuing outbreaks of variant strains hurt artists about as much as any group of creative entrepreneurs but Twin Cities public works projects are helping keep three Native American artists toiling in their fields. In early December, the City of Minneapolis held an open house at its new Public […]
