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...
Environment
Hemp the New Green Revolution online course begins in February
By Hannah Broadbent
Hemp – a strain of cannabis containing less than .3% THC (tetrahydrocannabinol is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that produces the feeling...
Political Matters
Political Matters – February 2022
By Mordecai Specktor
Remembering Thunder Before the Storm
Clyde Bellecourt, a co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and a committed defender of Native communities and...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
James Jourdain: Rising Star with Red Lake Nation College Basketball
By Dan Ninham
The Red Lake Nation College Migizi started a men’s basketball program last fall of 2021. A women’s basketball program will be starting...
Book Review
If you want stark clarity and unbridled truth, read these essays
Review by Deborah Locke
“We Are Meant to Rise,” edited by David Mura and Carolyn Holbook, consists of essays by American Indians and people of...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
I see spirits all around me now
By Arne Vainio
He was nearing death. This moment was inevitable and he hadn’t eaten anything in the past ten days. Three days ago he...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – February 2022
By Ricey Wild
If I had been me, I would have thought that years ago I could expect some wilted, dead flowers and last year’s...
Cover Story
As COVID fueled the drug crisis, Native Americans hit worst
By the Associated Press
Rachel Taylor kissed her fingertips and pressed them to the crow sewn onto a leather bag on the couch in the...
Cover Story
Native artists make big splash within Twin Cities public art projects
By Lee Egerstrom
The COVID-19 pandemic and continuing outbreaks of variant strains hurt artists about as much as any group of creative entrepreneurs but Twin...
Environment
Search for Indian boarding school records gets a boost
By dan gunderson/MPR News
The U.S. Department of the Interior and the Minnesota-based Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition have signed an agreement to collaborate...
Environment
Fear/stubbornness kept her from getting routine health screenings
By Amanda Ubongen/MDH
Throughout our lifetime we experience different seasons, some of which test our resiliency. For Danielle Crowell, the past few months have been...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Gardner comes full circle back to Warroad HS Warriors hockey
By Dan Ninham
One of the top scoring hockey players in the state of Minnesota made a full circle coming back home to Warroad HS...
Political Matters
Political Matters – January 2022
By Mordecai Specktor
(WARNING: There are plot spoilers for the movie “Don’t Look Up,” which is streaming on Netflix. It’s enormously popular, so you might...
