It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – May 2022
By Ricey Wild
To pick up where I left off last month, I was interviewed by Indian Country Today.com via ZOOM. In my estimation it...
Cover Story
Tribal rights take giant step forward
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesota sovereign tribes’ rights took giant leaps forward during March with court decisions and local government actions, but following patterns of the...
Cover Story
Cohasset City Council stops Natives from testifying on mill
By Winona LaDuke
This is a story of how democracy is supposed to work, and how it does not. This is a story about the...
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Migizi chosen for Estee Lauder/Amanda Gorman Writing ChangE
By Hana Broadbent
“We’ve been ramping up our programming this week to keep our students busy, so our office has been lively,” said Migizi’s Lead...
Environment
Mobile vaccine program for children in Hennepin County extended
By Lee Egerstrom
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has announced it is continuing funding for Hennepin Healthcare’s Pediatric Mobile Clinic that takes vaccines...
Environment
IAAC comes to TC to increase indigenous representation in sports
By Dan Ninham
The 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) DI Women’s Final Four recently came to the big city of Minneapolis. University of South...
Political Matters
Political Matters – April 2022
By Mordecai Specktor
Peggy Bellecourt journeys on
A little more than two months after her husband, Clyde Bellecourt, died, Peggy Bellecourt journeyed to the Spirit World...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Sean Morrison Strives to be a leader for the North Woods...
By Dan Ninham
Sean Morrison will be graduating this year at North Woods HS. He is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe....
News
Native Americans rally at capitol in support of funding bill
Sixteen Twin Cities American Indian organizations and their supporters filled the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda in St. Paul on March 25 to highlight a...
Book Review
Dakota Voices and the Importance of Storytelling
Review by Deborah Locke
“Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers” features five generations of stories from a family living at Minnesota’s Upper Sioux Community...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
By Arne Vainio
(This article was written in 2015. The video mentioned here is no longer online.)
I’ve been writing this column for a few years...
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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
