Review by Deborah Locke Mitch Caddo, a tribal operations executive with a Wisconsin Ojibwe nation, is charged with ensuring that the tribal president, Mack Beck, wins his next election. The plot of “Big Chief” by Jon Hickey (Ojibwe) (Simon & Schuster 2025) evolves around that upcoming election and the corruption that ensues. Dirty politics reign, […]
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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 of returning the gifts she learned over a lifelong career of participating in art workshops. The Center for Racial Health and Equity at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota […]
By K.E. MacPhie January is called Witeḣi Wi or “The Time of Hardship Moon” in the Dakota language. So what a bright and wonderful idea it was to offer people some space for connection and celebration for the season at the Wazíya Winter-Wind Celebration at Battle Creek Recreation Center on Saturday, January 11 in St. […]
By Dan Ninham For the past three years Joe Covert has been the social studies and music teacher at Nay Ah Shing School on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. By night for the past two years he and his select students have been performing rock and roll music with their band called Fry Bread. […]
By Allison Herrera/MPR News “Niimiwin” is the latest exhibit at All My Relations Arts in south Minneapolis. The title “Niimiwin” means “everyone dance,” a nod to the theme of the exhibit — the tradition of dance and powwow. Josie Hoffman is a direct descendant of the Grand Portage Anishinaabe and is the Emerging Curators Institute […]
By Dan Ninham Wendy Merrill (enrolled member and D2 Representative of the Mille Lacs Band) hosted the Adult Christmas Party on December 22, 2024 at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs Events and Convention Center in Onamia. Merrill asked Adrienne Benjamin (Mille Lacs Band) what she thought about doing a fashion show. “I did ask Adrienne […]
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 how the band resisted efforts to undo promises in 1855 and 1937 treaties with the U.S. government. Simply put, it hasn’t been an easy journey for the Ojibwe to hang […]
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 an intense story that starts with a woman’s scream at night in winter on a reservation. That scream introduced readers to the increasingly frustrating topic of missing and murdered indigenous […]
Review by Deborah Locke Ezra Cloud, an Ojibwe 15-year-old living in Northeast Minneapolis, is angry with his dad, fears and loathes a school bully – Matt — who will not leave him in peace, and is haunted by the premature death of his mother who died due to workplace toxic substances. The only light in […]
By Dan Ninham Jonathan Thunder’s journey as an artist started at a young age. “I was into drawing as a youth,” he said. “My high school councilor mentioned that with my drive to draw on anything and everything, that it might be a good idea for me to try going to college to learn more […]
Review by Deborah Locke It seems fair to conclude that most of us pay heed to a daylit sky: is the sun shining, is snow predicted, when is sunset? “Spirits Dancing – The Night Sky, Indigenous Knowledge, & Living Connections to the Cosmos” brings to life the science and cultural significence of an active cosmos […]
