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Celebrating 40 years of The Circle

Elaine Strongbow
Staff Reporter
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This year we will feature old articles, photos and pages from years gone by as we look back at 40 years of covering the Native community.

Facts about The Circle:

  • The Circle was originally an in-house newsletter of the Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC)
  • The Circle was started in 1980 by the Minneapolis American Indian Center.
  • A grant from the Dayton Hudson Foundation helped launch the paper.
  • The Circle’s first issue, Vol. 1, No. 1 was published March 1980.
  • The Circle used to published poetry, art, and other creative writing.

Elaine Strongbow
Staff Reporter,
Environment & Politics
Elaine Strongbow is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and has covered environmental and tribal sovereignty issues for The Circle since 2019. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and was a 2023 fellow of the Institute for Nonprofit News.

This reporting is made possible by readers like you.

The Circle is a nonprofit newsroom with no tribal affiliation, no corporate ownership, and no paywall. Independent Native journalism depends on reader support.
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