Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Senior for Raiders girls’ basketball team is amazing role model
By Dan Ninham
Celleia Simmons Merrill is Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota and she is also from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. She is a senior at...
Calendar
Community Calendar – March 2023
Thru March 26
Visions from the Land: Native Interpretations
James Autio, Gordon Coons, Anna Johnson and Ivy Vainio: each artist uses a different technique or process...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
We Need You
By Arne Vainio, MD
He wasn’t my patient, but he told his mother he was having suicidal thoughts and he needed to be seen right...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – March 2023
By Ricey Wild
Recently, in my self-isolation and health limitations, I have come to miss some people in my life, but I will never tell...
Cover Story
Beyond Land Acknowledgement Fund
By Lee Egerstrom
Thanks to a seed grant from a Minneapolis church congregation, the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) has launched a new program to...
Cover Story
Cultural warriors now entrepreneurs with a Native flair
By Lee Egerstrom
A pair of Twin Cities Native women with common bonds evolved over time to become advocates for cultural arts and understanding and...
Environment
Native Americans had fewer opportunities to work remotely during pandemic
By Lee Egerstrom
The Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank and its Center for Indian County Development (CICD) have turned up data showing what you may have...
Environment
Audrey Thayer elected Bemidji City Council At Large Councilor
By Dan Ninham
There are regional and national indigenous women leaders who are not only being elected into political office but are being re-elected as...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Tanisha Beetso returns to coach CLC women’s basketball
By Dan Ninham
The Central Lakes College (CLC) Raiders in Brainerd, MN have drawn indigenous athletes, coaches and administrators to its athletic programs for several...
Political Matters
Political Matters – February 2023
By Mordecai Specktor
Water is life
In a victory for Minnesota’s Ojibwe bands and environmentalists, the Biden-Harris administration took action in late January to protect the...
Calendar
Community Calendar – February 2023
Thru Feb 18
Gaa-miinigoowiziyan - What We were Given
This exhibit showcases cultural knowledge and art forms revitalized by their organization and their Anishinaabe connections. The...
Arnie Vainio MD - Health
Zoongide’ewin is the Ojibwe word for courage
By Arne Vainio M.D.
Something incredible happened in 2020. Former First Lady Michelle Obama posted on Twitter and Instagram on National Doctor’s Day and requested people comment on loved...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – February 2023
By Ricey Wild
When I die, I plan to be cremated. I think about it often without being morbid. In fact, I even made myself...
Cover Story
STOP Act signed into law
By Lee Egerstrom
President Joe Biden signed into law on Dec. 21 the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act, bringing closure to a multiyear,...
Cover Story
Program to help BIPOC entrepreneurs underway in TC
By Lee Egerstrom
National organizations have teamed up with local development promoting groups to launch an extensive program to assist Native American and other minority...
Environment
Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride and Reparations in the Homeland
By Winona LaDuke
"Reparations are the act or process of making amends for a wrong. To Repair. The United Nations explains: Adequate, effective, and prompt...
Environment
States Take Action To Codify Abortion Rights
By Diane Pavlat
A political act aimed to restrict women’s rights. In June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v Wade...
News
Henry Boucha honored, documentary in the works
By Dan Ninham
The Warroad community was invited to honor hockey legend Henry Boucha on December 29, 2022 at the Warroad Hockeytown USA Classic prior...
Environment
“Carry it On” documentary features singer/songwriter Buffy St Marie
By Winona LaDuke
I was that little five-year-old girl who sat and listened to every song of Buffy Sainte Marie’s first album. It was an...
