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...
Cover Story
He fought for self-determination in a time of assimilation
By Nia Macknight & Elizabeth Gillis
Photographer Nia MacKnight never met her great-grandfather John B. McGillis, but she did have a window into his storied life...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
Please remember him for me
By Arnie Vainio MD
“I don’t have the friends I thought I had. My family doesn’t understand me. I was told I should only grieve...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – January 2022
By Ricey Wild
Here we go again, hey-ho, hey-ho! This year I didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions to fail at, so I should be...
Cover Story
UofMN launches financial aid for Native American students
By Lee Egerstrom
Starting next school year, the University of Minnesota will offer full tuition free and greatly reduced tuition financial assistance to first year...
Business
Business is on a roll in Northern Minnesota tribal communities
By Lee Egerstrom
Northern Minnesota tribes have expanded their investments and roles in providing food security for their communities and in providing education and training...
Environment
George Morrison to be honored with new stamp series
By Dan Kraker/MPR News
Celebrated Minnesota artist George Morrison – who was born in a Native American fishing village along the North Shore of Lake...
The Arts
Artist, inspired by Hip-Hop, collaborates on mural at the Tweed Museum
By Brad Hagen
Jonathan Thunder, multimedia artist and member of the Red Lake Nation, has described his work as “...a story line that reflects my...
Environment
A Native man wants police reform in Duluth. His son wants...
By Dan Kraker/MPR News
Earlier this year, in a plaza in downtown Duluth, Blair Powless stood alongside dozens of other community members still hurting over...
