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
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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...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Aitken a team first thinker as MSU-Moorhead Women’s Rugby Coach
By Dan Ninham
Athena Aitken (Leech Lake Ojibwe and Hocak) has been the coach for Minnesota State University-Moorhead (MSUM) Women’s Rugby Club since 2012. The team...
Political Matters
Political Matters – February 2024
By Mordecai Specktor
Mille Lacs Band vs. Tamarack nickel mine
I’ve written a bit about the Talon Metals Corp. scheme to mine nickel in Aitkin County....
Calendar
Community Calendar – February 2024
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Reading tutors needed for AIMS
Reading Partners is a national education nonprofit that mobilizes communities to provide students with proven, reading support they need to...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
Did I ever really thank you for that?
By Arne Vainio MD
How long have I known you? Since I started at the clinic over seventeen years ago. From the first day you...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – February 2024
By Ricey Wild
Boozhoo Cousins! Last month I choked on a small fistful of M&Ms. I thought that was IT for me but I have...
Cover Story
Lower Sioux builds hempcrete homes
By Marcie Rendon
The Lower Sioux Community in southwest Minnesota is combining a vision for sustainable housing with the environmentally sound use of hemp. While...
Cover Story
Native translations are being added to more road signage in USA
By Associated Press
A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed...
Cover Story
SMSC boost investment in MN-made clean environment products
By Lee Egerstrom
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), an early “Angel investor” in a Minneapolis startup company that may make automobiles less environmentally hazardous...
Environment
Heid E. Erdrich named First-Ever Poet Laureate for Minneapolis
The City of Minneapolis’ Arts & Cultural Affairs Department and The Loft Literary Center announced the appointment of Heid E. Erdrich as the first-ever...
