It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – November 2022
By Ricey Wild
Happy Native American Heritage Month! I celebrate all of you for many reasons, your just being here in the now is one...
Cover Story
Voice of the People: Oyate Hotanin reimagines justice
By Jaida Grey Eagle and Amy Nelson
Produced in partnership with Greensprings Media
Flowers, art and beauty have a unique way of bringing people together. For...
Cover Story
One woman’s mission to turn out the Native vote in MN’s...
By Melissa Townsend and Sam Stroozas / MPR News
Voting began Sept. 23 for the midterm elections including more than 200 state races including governor...
Environment
How to steal a state: Enbridge has a pony in Wisc....
By Winona LaDuke
In its boldest move yet, Enbridge the Canadian pipeline company is going to try and take the governorship of Wisconsin. That’s to...
Environment
A fall tradition: Bringing in the wild rice harvest
By Dan Gunderson/MPR News
It all starts with building a wood fire early in the morning to create the bed of glowing coals needed to...
Calendar
Community Calendar – October 2022
Thru Oct 27
Four Sisters Farmers Market
The Four Sisters Farmers Market is an Indigenous-focused farmers market centered on providing increased access to affordable, healthy, culturally appropriate local...
Environment
650 geographic features with “squaw” in them to be changed
By Dan Ninham
In a press release from the U.S. Department of Interior on September 8, it was announced the Board on Geographic Names (BGN)...
Book Review
Dennis Staples could be one of the finest writers in...
Review by Deborah Locke
If I could get a message to Dennis E. Staples (Red Lake Nation), it would be this. Keep going. Do more....
Political Matters
Political Matters – October 2022
By Mordecai Specktor
SEMI-FASCISTS ON THE BALLOT
This might well be the last installment of “Political Matters” available to readers of The Circle prior to the...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Zetah-Cornelius, versatile athlete for Bemidji HS Lumberjacks
By Dan Ninham
Sage Zetah-Cornelius is from the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Bad River Ojibwa tribe. Her native name is Bidwemisekwe. She is a...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
Homecoming
By Arne Vainio, MD
(This article was written in 2015.)
My wife Ivy and I traveled south in the middle of these troubled times. She has...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – October 2022
By Ricey Wild
The end of each month is when I start shivering with anxiety that I won’t have enough essentials till I get paid...
Cover Strory
As inflation soars, access to Indigenous foods declines
By Associated Press
Blueberry bison tamales, harvest salad with mixed greens, creamy carrot and wild rice soup, roasted turkey with squash. This contemporary Native American...
Cover Story
Return of rare Ojibwe horse lifts spirits — but still needs...
By Dan Kraker/MRP News
Em Loerzel grew up hearing stories about the Ojibwe horse from her uncle, about small ponies that would roam free near...
Calendar
Community Calendar – September 2022
Thru Sept 16
“Indigenous” Solo Art Exhibition by Shaun Chosa
Shaun Chosa, a Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa tribal citizen and painter/graphic design artist, will...
Environment
Concert brings together multiple music genres in defense of water
By Winona LaDuke
The Loire River is the longest river in France. This year, the riverbed is dry for the first time in the history...
Environment
Fond du Lac Band celebrates return of sacred sites
By Dan Kraker/MPR News
Just over a century ago, a work crew dug up the remains of nearly 200 Ojibwe people from a burial ground...
Native Arts
Mashkiki Road teaches young children the seven Ojibwe life lessons
Review by Deborah Locke
Minnesota Historical Society Press produced another sweet children’s book, this one with grownup messages about seven important Ojibwe life lessons. Mashkiki...
News
Zine inspired by global Indigenous sovereignty movements
By Dan Ninham
The dream of Dakota tribal member Waziyatawin and her non-profit Makoce Ikikcupi, meaning land recovery in Dakota, came to reality three summers...
Political Matters
Political Matters – September 2022
By Mordecai Specktor
Free Leonard Peltier
In 1978, I began corresponding with Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement (AIM) activist serving two consecutive life sentences for...
