It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – April 2022
By Ricey Wild
A long, long time ago, in a big city not too far from Rezberry, I had an active life and did stuff....
Cover Story
Augsburg launches full tuition scholarships for Natives
By Lee Egerstrom
Starting this fall with the 2022-23 school year, Native American students will have a first in the nation opportunity to receive full...
Cover Story
Rising health needs drive U’s effort to draw Native students to...
By Dan Kraker/MPR News
Medical student Fred Blaisdell has a few months to go before anyone calls him doctor, but the Oneida Nation tribal member...
Cover Story
More than financial aid for Natives and Indigenous students at Augsburg
By Lee Egerstrom
The launch of the full tuition financial aid program for Native American and Indigenous students at Augsburg University in February (see cover...
National Briefs
News Briefs – March 2022
Thomas Stillday awarded 2022 FPF Cultural Capital Fellowship
Bemidji, MN – Watermark Art Center has chosen Master Beader and Exhibiting Artist Thomas Stillday (Red Lake...
Environment
Director named to lead Missing/Murdered Indigenous Relatives office
The director of Minnesota’s new Office of Missing And Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) has been named. Juliet Rudie, a tribal member of the Lower...
News
DOI Solicits Nominations for Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Comm.
In remarks at the National Congress of American Indians 2022 Executive Council Winter Session in February, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that...
Environment
Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of ICWA
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider the constitutionality of Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) federal law which was created to rectify the displacement...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Seelye signs with NJCAA Dawson Community College (MT)
By Dan Ninham
Another Cass Lake-Bena HS Panther girls’ basketball player is heading out of state to play college basketball. She and her teammates are...
Political Matters
By Mordecai Specktor
Jim Denomie walks on
I was sad to learn that Jim Denomie, a very talented Anishinaabe artist, died March 1. He was from...
Book Review
Nesteroff superbly blends Native comedic voices with historical record
Review by Deborah Locke
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff (Simon & Schuster, 2021) examines the evolution of American Indian comedy,...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
What does is take to become a physician?
By Arne Vainio, MD
I will be talking to the first year medical students at the University of Minnesota, Duluth School of Medicine. I never...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – March 2022
By Ricey Wild
What in the bison snorts and loon shrieking is going on now? I’m rather puzzled going into WWlll without knowing how to...
Cover Story
AIM co-founder Clyde Bellecourt passes on
By Lee Egerstrom
Native Americans across North America and indigenous people worldwide have been paying tribute and recalling memories of Clyde Howard Bellecourt, 85, who...
Cover Story
Huber Mill, the latest bad idea for the environment and people
By Winona LaDuke
Out of the Deep South a lumber company, Huber Manufacturing, is proposing what may be the largest oriented strand board plant in...
Environment
COVID still confusing but help for MN Natives is on the...
By Lee Egerstrom
As January was giving way to February, Minnesota health providers and institutions were still under stress, the surge in COVID-19 and its...
Business
Data show costs/benefits for private business on reservation lands
By Lee Egerstrom
There are both perceived benefits and disadvantages to starting and operating a privately owned business from a base on Indian reservation land,...
Environment
Power and corruption = Disaster Capitalism
By Winona LaDuke
Government accountability is a challenge. Say that your tribal government signed a secret contract for $4.9 million of your tribal money with...
Health
Indigenous lifeways include prevention and risk-reduction activities
Minneapolis, MN – Many Indigenous communities acknowledge the circular, nonlinear nature of life. They center their life on the creator, community, and loved ones. This...
News
Friends of the Falls to negotiate acquisition of St. Anthony Falls
Minneapolis, MN – The Minneapolis City Council has approved having Friends of the Falls serve as the City’s agent in negotiations with the U.S. Army...
