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Game day rally at U to draw crowds protesting NFL, DC team’s mascot By Matt Sepic, MPR News Native American leaders and University of Minnesota students say they’re expecting thousands of people to turn out for a protest against the Washington Redskins when the team plays the Vikings a week from Sunday at TCF Bank […]
...As the Canadian federal government prepares to introduce its budget, the Council of Canadians is calling for the allocation of significant resources to protecting the Great Lakes as a Commons, a Public Trust and a Protected Bioregion. The Council of Canadians outlines how and why in a new report entitled Our Great Lakes Commons: A […]
The fourth-ranked team’s refusal to travel on another nation’s passports sidelines it from a championship, but nets a teachable moment on Native sovereignty. In the doldrums of summer, a news story involving the travel obstacles of a world-class Native lacrosse team introduced the wider public to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy – inventors of the game – […]
As Congress debates a response to the BP oil spill, a new report from the National Wildlife Federation details a full decade of oil spills, gas leaks and other disasters involving fossil fuels across the country, including several incidents in Minnesota. Report author Tim Warman says it includes a map that indicates not a single […]
You’re here to bring back our game. This is the Creator’s Game. We don’t play it for ourselves – we play for Creator.”With these words, Clint Letch, president of the Native American Law Enforcement Summit (NALES), kicked off a four-day lacrosse camp at the Fond du Lac Reservation in northern Minnesota on July 26, the […]
Minnesota Public Radio NewsLong plagued by poor student performance and still reeling from a 2005 tragedy, the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation School District was stung last spring when two of its schools ranked among the state’s lowest performing.But the district is fighting to overcome that designation, armed with a turnaround plan that has teachers working […]
A Minneapolis lawyer with roots in Northeastern Minnesota and the American Indian community has been appointed the U.S. magistrate judge for the District of Minnesota to be seated in the Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and United States Courthouse and Customhouse in Duluth.Leo Brisbois, 48, of the Twin Cities suburb of Eagan, recent president of […]
The Heart of the Earth charter school for Native Americans in Minneapolis was torn down at the end of August, the same time that Joel Pourier was sentenced for embezzleing almost $1.4 of the school funds, prompting the school’s shut down. The former Heart of the Earth Charter School director will spend up to ten […]
Many in the Minneapolis American Indian community are coping with the news that Dr. Carol Krush, a trusted doctor who has practiced in the community for nearly forty years, is struggling with cancer. On June 11, 2010, Dr. Krush was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a disease that starts inside bone marrow, where new blood […]
I believe that a peaceful cultural revolution will soon occur and that non-Native Minnesotans will, by showing appropriate respect for Native people, be changed for the better. I also believe that current Minnesota Dakota Natives as well as the exiled from Minnesota Dakota Oyate will return to their sacred traditional Minnesota homelands and reclaim/regain them […]
Porcupine, South Lakota: The Board of Directors for Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Incorporated, a non-profit organization in Porcupine, SD, and located on the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota Nation invited Michelle Kahn-John, PMH, NP; Chief of Behavioral Health; Darlene Wilcox, Ph.D., LP, Clinical Psychologist; and Franklin R. Freeland, Ed.D., Chief Executive Officer, Fort Defiance Indian Hospital Board, Incorporated, […]
