Education
Amelia and Me
In the book The Good Path, it tells you how it was back in the Boarding Schools Era. But the movie “Where the Spirit...
Education
Boarding School Era
Native American people had to be courageous during the boarding school era because they had already suffered from disease and starvation. Some of the...
Education
Where the Spirit Lives
In the book, “Where the Spirit Lives”, people from the Black Foot tribe were taken to a Residential School in Canada. A Residential school...
Education
The Native American Boarding School
The Native American children were taken away from their families and put into boarding schools to learn the white man's way of life. Boarding...
Community News
Swarm Team Reaches out to native youth
The new owners of the Minnesota Swarm professional lacrosse team in St. Paul build outreach program to the Native people in the Twin Cities...
Editorials
Calling All Leech Lake College Graduates!
My name is Elizabeth Sherman and I am currently conducting research on Leech Lake tribal members who are educated with a Bachelors, Masters and/or...
Community News
Whats new
Sharon Romano New Director of the DIW
Sharon Romano has been selected as the new director of the Department of Indian Work (DIW), a program...
Latest Reservation News
Mille Lacs Band invests in wind turbines
The Corporate Commission of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe has become a major investor in a wind turbine project that could create up...
CD Review
Northern Cree and Friends a great powwow album
Jamison Mahto
Indigenous In Music CD Review
jamison@iicoc.com, www.iicoc.com
Northern Cree and Friends
Vol. 5/Long Winter Nights
Round Dance Live CD Review
The Cree Nations occupy lands and...
Latest Urban News
Red Ink, a play within a powwow, premieres at Mixed Blood...
This month, the premiere of Red Ink (billed as “plays-within-a-powwow”) will open at Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis. Written by seven Native playwrights, Red...
Latest Urban News
Section 8 waiting list just gets longer
As more Minnesotans lose their jobs and confront economic uncertainty, they may turn to Section 8, the federal government’s largest low-income housing assistance program,...
Latest Urban News
MN Mdewakanton Dakota Oyate descendents not owed land or money
A federal appeals court has ruled against a large group of Mdewakanton Dakota Indians attempting to claim a share of the lands and gambling...
Columnists
It Aint Easy being indian
Picture this: it’s the mid-80s, a summer day during former President Ray-Gun’s Star Wars administration. My mom Omi is walking back with her niece...
Columnists
Fon du lac follies
My sons and I went out to tap maple trees. The crew consisted of my son Matthew, his S.O. Jackie, and sons Joseph and...
Columnists
Fon du lac follies
My younger sister Doris Ann also died recently, she was 61. It is hard for me to write about my sister and friend. She...
Columnists
Fon du lac follies
It may just be my memory but winter always takes a couple of our elders. My mother-in-law, Geraldine Dow, died recently. She lived a...
Columnists
Native Issues in the Halls of Government
House panel nixes nukes
When I worked for the Minnesota House of Representatives’ Public Information Office in the mid-90s, I got a front-row view of...
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Community Calendar
April 3 & 17, May 1 & 15
Breakfast of Champions -
Elders Fundraiser
Eggs, sausage or bacon, oatmeal, toast and beverage - all for $5....
Community News
IT Laddu launches TheCityGuide.in beta
TheCityGuide.in enables local search in 12 major cities of India including Agra, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi/NCR, Pune,...
Native Blogs
Diabetical Dialogs @ Franklin Avenue
Have you ever gotten a real life experience crossed up with a dream? Well it happened to me just the other night. Having attended...
