Calendar
Community Calendar of Events – April 2024
ONGOING
Call for Native Artists
Native American artists, performers, and culture bearers looking to exhibit, enhance, or share their artistic talents and cultural knowledge are invited...
The Arts
Native viewers will love the Native characters in this scifi series
By Fern Williams
I recently finished binge-watching seasons one and two of “Resident Alien” on Netflix, and I couldn't resist starting it over because even...
Book Review
You could lose yourself in these vivid works of art
Review by Deborah Locke
This review is a kind of two-fer. I’m telling you about an exhibition catalog full of cool paintings by Ojibwe and...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – April 2024
By Ricey Wild
As I sat in my chair (throne, actually)I heard periodic thumps like a car door being shut. I looked outside but nothing!...
Cover Story
NIH awards $12 million grant to study how Indigenous culture...
By Lee Egerstrom
The Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health has received a five-year, $12 million grant to work with tribes and urban groups to...
Cover Story
UofMN fields comments on plan to return Cloquet Forestry Center lands...
By Ava Kian/MinnPost
Wayne Dupuis remembers a time when he was hunting with his father on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and came upon...
Environment
The Thunder Sticks lead the Anishinaabe way of life, even in...
By Dan Ninham
The Thunder Sticks pool team is captained by David Goodman, enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, in Vadnais Heights,...
News
News Briefs – March 2024
USA Today Named MN Lt. Gov. Peggy Flannagan to Women of the Year List
AP – USA TODAY’s Women of the Year has added Peggy...
Environment
Navy names ship after White Earth Native James D Fairbanks
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesota state and White Earth Nation officials were on hand Feb. 21 in Washington, D.C. when the U.S. Navy announced it is...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Jon DePerry has been teaching physical ed for over 30 years
By Dan Ninham
JonDePerry has been a basketball coach and a physical education teacher in the Twin Cities for over 30 years. He is currently...
Political Matters
Political Matters – March 2024
By Mordecai Specktor
In the desert
The plan earlier this year was to get out of the snow and freezing cold in Minneapolis for a few...
Calendar
Community Calendar – March 2024
ONGOING
MN Inclusion grants
The MN Inclusion Initiative, funded through the Department of Human Services, is a grant program dedicated to promoting inclusion efforts for people...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
By Arne Vainio, MD
(Editors note: this article was written in written 2016.)
George Earth and I traveled across Minnesota and then across South Dakota...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – March 2024
By Ricey Wild
Wild Doritos and Diamonds
Did I get your attention? Okay, so I add coffee toffee crunch ice cream and pain patches plus...
Cover Story
First-of-its-kind statewide plan to combat homelessness in Minnesota rolls out...
By Katelyn Vue/Sahan Journal and MPR News
An ambitious plan to coordinate Minnesota’s response to homelessness across agencies – shaped by those who have directly...
Cover Story
Community honors Henry Boucha with screening of “Electric Indian”
By Dan Ninham
“The Electric Indian” documentary film was publicly screened at the pre-game event for the Hockey Day Minnesota in Warrord in January. The...
Cover Story
New book about the Ho-Chunk removal exposes ethnic cleansing in MN
By Lee Egerstrom
A new book about Ho-Chunk experiences in Minnesota should prove once and for all that “Minnesota Nice” does not describe the state’s...
News
New Briefs – February 2024
Echo series brings new Native superhero to living rooms
A new Marvel Comics-inspired series called Echo focuses on the deaf Native American anti-hero/superhero. Native American...
Environment
Native groups team with the U to stop commercial tobacco smoking
By Lee Egerstrom
Native people wanting to shake loose from commercial tobacco addition now have a new tool to help them through the modern technology...
Environment
MnDOT drivers keep Indigenous languages alive one snowplow at a time
By Gracie Stockton/MPR
You may have heard of Betty Whiteout, Ctrl Salt Delete, Sleetwood Mac or Plowy McPlowface – past winners of the Minnesota Department...
