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By Miiskogihmiiwan P.C. Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center in St. Paul will be filled with music, storytelling, and community this weekend with two special events celebrating Indigenous creativity. Rock the Rez returns to the Twin Cities for its 2026 tour, hosting its second summer camp in the area from July 27–31 at Indigenous Roots. The […]
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A lack of housing for Native American elders has attracted development within the Twin Cities. In particular, The American Indian Community Development Corporation (AICDC) recently began the construction of affordable apartments in southern Minneapolis.The apartments are named "Bii Di Gain Dash Anwebi" (come in and rest); an Anishinaabe title for Native residents. Co-sponsored and managed […]
The long journey for justice is over for approximately 450 victims who were sexually abused as children by Jesuit Missionaries in Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Oregon, in the 1940s through the 1990s.The landmark settlement was announced March 25. It is the largest settlement between a religious order and sexual abuse victims in the history […]
A South Dakota Sioux Tribe security officer reported that hundreds of softball-sized red lights spun around his vehicle while driving home from work March 6 and that he had an encounter with two "translucent" beings, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.The man, who is unidentified in the report, said […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
