Cover Story
New and revised directories make Native holiday shopping easier
By Lee Egerstrom
Seasonal gift shopping has become easier for Native Americans wanting authentic Native products this holiday season and to learn more about the...
Calendar
Community Calendar – December 2022
Thru Dec 15
Rosy Simas Danse
Rosy Simas Danse’s “she who lives on the road to war”, is an immersive installation and performance on global loss,...
Environment
Enbridge building to become museum/cultural center for Natives
By Winona LaDuke
It’s just been the month when Native people are remembered. That’s nice. Now we want more, like we want to protect that...
Environment
The Jingle Dress makes an appearance at the Metropolitan Museum
By Zibiquah
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, better known as The Met in New York City, hosted a most welcome addition to its numerous exhibitions...
Environment
Cash Blackbear Series author Marcie Rendon on the art of writing
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...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
The Red Guitar
By Arne Vainio, MD
Our son Jacob plays piano, but has recently started to play guitar.
Randy and I were best friends in high school. His...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Indigenous athletes helped earn 2022 MN Class AA Soccer 3rd Place...
By Dan Ninham
The cooperative soccer program of the CEC HS Lumberjacks, 2022 Minnesota Section 7AA Champions, consists of high school teams from Cloquet, Esko...
Political Matters
Political Matters – December 2022
It could’ve been worse
The Nov. 8 midterm elections did not deliver the mighty “red wave” that Republicans predicted – more like a pinkish puddle....
Passing On
Passing On – Kevin Lawrence Locke
Clarification: Throughout his adult life, Kevin Lawrence Locke (Leech Lake Ojibwe) was sometimes confused with hoop dancer and musician Kevin Locke, (Standing Rock Lakota)....
Uncategorized
It Aint Easy Being Indian – December 2022
By Ricey Wild
Well, I made it through another T-Day without blood being spilt or having the Rez Riders show up and eat up all...
Cover Story
Diversity under challenge in MN and at SCOTUS
By Lee Egerstrom
Native American students’ access to higher education may have dodged a bullet in Minnesota, for the time being, but it remains under...
Cover Story
The first indigenous Miss Minnesota Rachel Evangelisto prepares for Miss America...
By Dan Ninham
“Háu Mitákuyapi ye!Iyúškiƞyan wačhíyake ye! Wašíču iá “Rachel” emákiyapi ye. Dakhóta čhažé bduhé šni. Oyate mithawa kiƞ Húŋkpapȟa ewíčhakiyapi ye. Míš, Mní...
Calendar
Community Calendar – November 2022
Thru Nov 8
Voting Schedule MN
Minnesota allows any voter to request a ballot by mail. You can also vote in person. Minnesota offers early voting....
Health
Native American communities prioritize culture, recruitment to treat mental health
By Dan Kraker/MPR News
The shortage of Native American mental health clinicians is both a professional and a personal issue for Mary Owen.
“I’ve struggled with...
Environment
New legislative district expands the influence of Native voters
By Dan Gunderson/MPR News
Minnesota Senate District 2 boundaries were redrawn this year, shifting to the east to encompass the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe....
Environment
Creating a future with new Elementary Education Program at FDLTCC
By Dan Ninham
(Editor's note: The print version of this story was accidentally attributed to another writer.)
Nahin Gatica Cruz is a full-time junior student in...
Environment
A communal effort to preserve and share identities and cultures
By Lee Egerstrom
Mary Anne Quiroz, a co-founder of the Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center in St. Paul, and Victoria Marie, who has an Indigenous...
Book Review
Rendon’s Cash Blackbear new novel contained one major disappointment
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...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
LaFloe thinks basketball is good medicine
By Dan Ninham
Brook LaFloe comes from seven generations of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe) members on her paternal and maternal side but grew...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
Political Matters – November 2022
By Mordecai Specktor
Talon Metals prepares to dig
On Oct. 27, the United Nations issued a report on the climate crisis and the news wasn’t...
