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Lower Sioux builds hempcrete homes
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By Marcie Rendon
The Lower Sioux Community in southwest Minnesota is combining a vision for sustainable housing with the environmentally sound use of hemp. While...
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Native translations are being added to more road signage in USA
By Associated Press
A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed...
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SMSC boost investment in MN-made clean environment products
By Lee Egerstrom
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), an early “Angel investor” in a Minneapolis startup company that may make automobiles less environmentally hazardous...
Environment
Heid E. Erdrich named First-Ever Poet Laureate for Minneapolis
The City of Minneapolis’ Arts & Cultural Affairs Department and The Loft Literary Center announced the appointment of Heid E. Erdrich as the first-ever...
Environment
Understand Native Minnesota grants campaign
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesota kindergarten through high school educators who want financial help for developing Native American content and securing materials for their classrooms have...
Environment
Exhibit tells viewers Native Americans are still here and we matter
Review by Deborah Locke
If I told you that an exhibit was fabulous and that you should run, not walk, to see it within the...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
NAIAHF Inductee Ryan Salmon advocates for community with volleyball
By Dan Ninham
By day Ryan Salmon (White Earth Ojibwe) is the Tribal Liaison for White Earth and during the night he’s the Owner/Director for...
Calendar
Community Calendar – January 2024
Ongoing
Reading tutors needed for AIMS
Reading Partners is a national education nonprofit that mobilizes communities to provide students with proven, individualized reading support they need...
News
The 10 biggest changes to hit Minnesota in 2023
After winning narrow majorities in both chambers of the Legislature and securing control of the governor’s office. In the five months that followed, they...
Political Matters
Political Matters – January 2024
By Mordecai Specktor
Return of the buffalo
When I was a boy growing up in St. Paul, we often visited Como Zoo. In the 1950s,...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – January 2024
By Ricey Wild
Again with another story, ay? Some of you may have read how my nephew Jerone and my son Steve (who were both...
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PIIC’s Net Zero community goals
By Lee Egerstrom
The Prairie Island Indian Community (PIIC) is making great strides towards becoming a Net Zero climate change community. The tribe hosted state officials,...
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PIIC leaders move on. Is Congress in the future?
By Lee Egerstrom
Newly elected Community Tribal Council members of Prairie Island Indian Community will select new officers this month, replacing both its president, Johnny...
Business
Distributors of Indigenous foods highlights MN connection
By Lee Egerstrom
The holiday season brings a cultural mix of gift-giving with friends and loved one and celebrating specials foods. Tribal and Indigenous entrepreneurs...
Business
Fanning the Flames: Native-run solar thermal company ignites careers
By Emily Haeg Nguyen
Heating accounts for the majority of energy used in an average U.S. household. The cost of this heat, especially in many...
News
Native voters could decide major elections in 2024
By Ximena Bustillo/NPR
Grassroots efforts to get Native American voters to turn in their ballots for the 2024 election are in motion across swing states...
Native Arts
Read this book and you may yearn to see a clear...
Review by Deborah Locke
It seems fair to conclude that most of us pay heed to a daylit sky: is the sun shining, is snow...
Environment
Casts light on ancient wisdom while teaching Ojibwe
Review by Deborah Locke
A book about the Ojibwe language with large type and about the length of an essay sat on my book pile...
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Political Matters – December 2023
By Mordecai Specktor
PolyMet scheme hits another snag
In late November, an administrative law judge issued a report that recommended that the Minnesota Department of Natural...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Howes a game changer for Cloquet HS varsity soccer team
By Dan Ninham
Rizal Agaton Howes is an enrolled Muscogee and a descendant of the Fond du Lac Ojibwe. His Ojibwe name is giniwens, meaning...