Education
Imnížaská intertribal drum works with High School
By K.E. MacPhie
The Imnížaská intertribal drum group is familiar with performing for and educating students about Tribal traditions and the history of drumming. They...
News
News Briefs – April 2025
Leech Lake TT Local will hold powwows in TC
(Written by K.E. MacPhie) – The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is notorious in the Minnesota circuit for...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Three Native men work the same state tournament game
By Dan Ninham
History was made during a recent 2025 Minnesota State Girls High School Basketball Tournament game. The three person official’s crew were comprised...
Political Matters
Political Matters – April 2025
By Mordecai Specktor
Ma’iingan, Brother Wolf, in danger
The Musk (Trump) administration continues apace to dismantle the federal government. And a number of the changes wrought...
Book Review
Rendon’s new book delivers fast-paced plot set in Red River Valley
Review by Deborah Locke
One characteristic of a gifted writer is the ability to present a character who is so compelling, so believable, that you...
Joe Nayquonabe Sr.
A long time ago and today
By Joe Nayquonabe Sr. (transcribed by James Clark)
Editor’s note: Orignally published in April 2024 in the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Inaajimowin newspaper.
This subject...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – April 2025
By Ricey Wild
In order to settle down and prepare to write this column I made some stress relief tea. I settled into my chair,...
Cover Story
Peltier welcomed home after release from prison
By Allison Herrera and Chandra Colvin/MPR Native News
Native American activist Leonard Peltier traveled to Belcourt, N.D., on after being released from a Florida prison on...
Cover Story
Trump/DOGE slash federal spending: tribes wrestle with economic impact
By Lee Egerstrom
All Americans were wondering as February came to a close how efforts in Washington to abolish programs, slash government work forces and...
Cover Story
Future MN Native mental and physical health starts on playgrounds
By Lee Egerstrom
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) as started a $6 million campaign with partners to provide facilities and conduct research on ways to...
Environment
Shagobay, A Great Chief of the Anishinaabe
By Winona LaDuke
In celebration of this America’s President’s Day, I would like to offer a story of a great chief and leader of the...
Environment
“Take Back the Truth” website is an oily rewrite of history
By Winona LaDuke
It’s eight years since Highway 1804 and the Missouri River were cleared of Water Protectors, yet the story continues. It’s an ongoing...
Environment
MIA’s Teen Perspectives art program works toward exhibit
By Eddie Chuculate
For multidisciplinary artist Graci Horne (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), 41, participating the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' (Mia) Teen Perspectives program is a way...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Brynn Green competed in the 2025 MN HS Gymnastics State Meet
By Dan Ninham
Brynn Green is from the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. She is an eighth grade student at Redwood Valley Middle School. Green...
Political Matters
Political Matters – March 2025
By Mordecai Specktor
Trump threatens Kalaallit Nunaat
I checked The Circle website for references to “Greenland” and two article showed up.
There was a Sept. 2011 article...
Environment
9-year old publishes her first book – Fishing by Torchlight
By K.E. MacPhie
Kiki Garcia is - in the words of her own book - ready for adventure! At only nine years old, Kiki has...
Calendar
Community Calendar – March 2025
ONGOING
MAIC Events
See events at the Mpls American Indian Center on their updated website. MAIC events listings: Sewing Circle, Running Club, Drum and Dance, Pickup...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
On becoming a doctor in Indian Country
By Arne Vainio MD
The whole getting into medical school thing was not something I was aiming for. My parents owned the Good Luck Tavern...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – March 2025
By Ricey Wild
On aging: OMG!!! How can one be aching while sleeping in a soft bed?! I’ve slept on floors before and woke up...
Cover Story
Trump questions Native American birthright
Trump’s long-standing desire to end birthright citizenship took a dramatic turn in late January with the issuance of an executive order aimed at eliminating...
