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Political Matters – October 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
Missing white woman syndrome
In September, I tried to avoid new coverage about the disappearance of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old white woman who...
The Arts
Nail biting thriller “Fire Keeper’s Daughter” keeps you on edge
Review by Deborah Locke
A few weeks back an affable Dakota guy in Birchbark Books in Minneapolis said that “Firekeeper’s Daughter” by Angeline Boulley (Ojibwe)...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – October 2021
by Ricey Wild
Apparently, I am a very interesting person. Especially when I go to the kitchen and stand there wondering why I went in...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor – October 2021
Thank you to the community,
Another name to be added to the never-ending list of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Nada M. Fronk (Leech Lake...
Cover Story
New Native Theatre is Native-centered theater
By Brad Hagen
For the majority of United States history, narratives involving the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island have been controlled and created by non-Indigenous...
Cover Story
Delta variant is surging in Minnesota. Tribes not immune
By Lee Egerstrom
Infections, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 and its more contagious delta variant are surging again in Minnesota even as vaccination rates increase....
Cover Story
Nearly 70 people arrested during Line 3 protest at Gov’s Residence
MPR News staff/MPR news
Several dozen people protesting against the Line 3 oil pipeline project were arrested on August 28 outside the Governor's Residence in St. Paul.
The...
Opinion
America’s real longest war was against Indigenous Americans
By Michael Meuers
From the Left (Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC) to Right (Wall Street Journal) Agree Today; The global war on terror isn’t ending, nor...
Environment
U.N. Issues Letter Regarding Violations of Anishinaabe Human Rights
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has taken the extraordinary measure to request a response from the United States...
Environment
Advocates hope White Earth wild rice case will boost ‘rights of...
By Dan Gunderson/ MPR News
Dale Greene grew up in north-central Minnesota, surrounded by wild rice, called manoomin in the Ojibwe language. The Leech Lake...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Robert McClain Jr.: Red Lake’s first NCAA D1 male basketball player
By Dan Ninham
(This post had the wrong author on it. The correct author name has been updated.)
Robert McClain Jr., 22, is an enrolled member...
Political Matters
Political Matters – September 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
‘Reservation Dogs’
We’ve been enjoying the new comedy series “Reservation Dogs,” which is streaming on Hulu. Created by Sterlin Harjo (Seminole Nation of...
The Arts
Tom Jones’ Strong Unrelenting Spirits Exhibit opens at Bockley Gallery
Bockley Gallery will have an exhibition of Native artist Tom Jones’ work from his recent portrait series Strong Unrelenting Spirits, shown earlier this year...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – September 2021
By Ricey Wild
So I’m sitting here and wondering; How did we get here? Kinda like a rock that hit shore and ended up in...
Cover Story
Sioux Chef’s Owamni Restaurant Opens
By Brad Hagen
I’m walking down the path alongside West River Parkway, a trail I’ve taken dozens of times. I walk under the third avenue...
Cover Story
MN’s Emerging Farmers program is sowing deep indigenous roots
By Lee Egerstrom
Native Americans from around reservations and in urban areas around the Twin Cities and Duluth are getting a boost from the Minnesota...
Environment
What are the treaties being invoked by Line 3 opponents?
By Yasmine Askari / MinnPost
While the U.S. government signed a series of treaties with the Anishinaabe people, including the Ojibwe, between 1825 and 1867,...
News
Northland Foundation makes first grassroots grants/Maada’ookiing program
By Lee Egerstrom
An innovative, grassroots community building program for Native communities in Northeast Minnesota has made its initial grants to 13 “change makers” designing...
Environment
Totem Pole travels to Washington D.C. for the environment
In 2013, the Lummi people of the Northwest began a totem pole journey in protest to a 50 million ton coal export terminal which...
Political Matters
Political Matters – August 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
Denmark and Poland
In the way of a pandemic travel report, I visited Denmark and Poland in July. The usual discomfort of airline...
