Book Review
Rendon’s newest novel focuses on MMIW
Review by Deborah Locke
Marcie Rendon did it again. She wrote a book that kept me awake and reading well past a reasonable bedtime, with...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Elias Jourdain excels as starting offensive Lumberjacks lineman
By Dan Ninham
The Bemidji High School Lumberjacks football team is coming off a 55-0 homecoming win versus St. Cloud Tech. The total team effort...
Calendar
Community Calendar – October 2024
Ongoing
Immunization clinics
Free walk-in immunization clinics for infants through 18 years old.. For info: https://www.hennepin.us/en/residents/health-medical/childhood-immunizations.
• Oct 11: 3pm to 6pm, Lake Country School, 3755 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis.
•...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
Memories of Manoomin (wild rice) and a recipe
By Arne Vainio M.D.
(Editor’s note: this was orginally pubished in 2021.)
Tashia Hart is putting together a cookbook featuring manoomin (wild rice) and other wild foods of...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – October 2024
By Ricey Wild
Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain. *ahem* I am a great and utter being!!!
I also boogited myself awake with...
Cover Story
Excitement about Flannagan’s possible rise to Gov.
By Lee Egerstrom
The recent Democratic National Convention opened with all of America learning about Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. It ended with a new...
Cover Story
FDL joins tribal nations and states in suits against social media...
By Lee Egerstrom
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has joined other Upper Midwest tribal nations in seeking court protection for Native...
Cover Story
Returning to Mni Sose, the Missouri, eight years after Standing Rock
By Winona LaDuke
“No one wants to have oil in their water” – Natali Segovia, Water Protector Legal Collective
It’s about the water. I’m returning to...
Environment
Land Back in Minnesota takes different paths
By K.E. MacPhie
On the heels of 11,778 acres being returned from the Chippewa National Forest to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in June...
Environment
SMSC provides emergency assistance amid food shortage
By Melissa Olson/MPR News
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has made $3 million in emergency funds available to tribal nations amid the ongoing food shortage...
Cover Story
Dr. Wyatt heads EM for Hennepin Healthcare
By Lee Egerstrom
With two decades of life saving emergency medical work behind him, Dr. Thomas Wyatt has been named chief of Emergency Medicine for...
Environment
Anangong Miigaading – Star Wars in Anishinaabemowin
By Winona LaDuke
“Gi-ga-miinigoowiz Mamaandawizi- win: May the Force be with you….”
Anishinaabemowin is being spoken in a Galaxy long ago and far away. That’s the...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
MN Lynx Alissa Pili appears at Back 2 School Basketball Jam
By Dan Ninham
The Back 2 School Basketball Jam came to the Twin Cities and was held at the Minneapolis Sports Center on August 17-18....
News
FCC adopts an alert system for missing Indigenous people
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching a new nationwide alert code for missing and endangered Indigenous people who do not fit the criteria...
Calendar
Community Calendar – September 2024
ONGOING
MAIC Events
Check out MAIC’s new updated website and events listings, including events that happen weekly: Sewing Circle, Running Club, Drum and Dance, Pickup Basketball,...
Political Matters
Political Matters – September 2024
By Mordecai Specktor
A Native woman governor
Minnesota is one of 28 states that has never had a woman governor. That could change in 2025, if...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
Its Aint Easy Being Indian – September 2024
By Ricey Wild
My crime spree continues unabated thus far. It was prid’ner the end of August when two of the Rezberry Riders showed up...
Cover Story
MN Indigenous Foods for thought and for nourishment
By Lee Egerstrom
Native food groups and their culinary experts are making Native and non-Native Minnesotans more aware of the healthy and environmental benefits of...
Cover Story
Gatherings Café menu: Indigenous, healthy, and gourmet
By Lee Egerstrom
The recently reopened Gatherings Café at the Minneapolis American Indian Center is a reconnection for the center with the explosive Indigenous food...
Environment
Natives in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition
By The Associated Press
At summertime social powwows and spiritual ceremonies throughout the Upper Midwest, Native Americans are gathering around singers seated at big, resonant...
