Cover Story
Delta variant is surging in Minnesota. Tribes not immune
By Lee Egerstrom
Infections, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 and its more contagious delta variant are surging again in Minnesota even as vaccination rates increase....
Cover Story
Nearly 70 people arrested during Line 3 protest at Gov’s Residence
MPR News staff/MPR news
Several dozen people protesting against the Line 3 oil pipeline project were arrested on August 28 outside the Governor's Residence in St. Paul.
The...
Opinion
America’s real longest war was against Indigenous Americans
By Michael Meuers
From the Left (Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC) to Right (Wall Street Journal) Agree Today; The global war on terror isn’t ending, nor...
Environment
U.N. Issues Letter Regarding Violations of Anishinaabe Human Rights
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has taken the extraordinary measure to request a response from the United States...
Environment
Advocates hope White Earth wild rice case will boost ‘rights of...
By Dan Gunderson/ MPR News
Dale Greene grew up in north-central Minnesota, surrounded by wild rice, called manoomin in the Ojibwe language. The Leech Lake...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Robert McClain Jr.: Red Lake’s first NCAA D1 male basketball player
By Dan Ninham
(This post had the wrong author on it. The correct author name has been updated.)
Robert McClain Jr., 22, is an enrolled member...
Political Matters
Political Matters – September 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
‘Reservation Dogs’
We’ve been enjoying the new comedy series “Reservation Dogs,” which is streaming on Hulu. Created by Sterlin Harjo (Seminole Nation of...
The Arts
Tom Jones’ Strong Unrelenting Spirits Exhibit opens at Bockley Gallery
Bockley Gallery will have an exhibition of Native artist Tom Jones’ work from his recent portrait series Strong Unrelenting Spirits, shown earlier this year...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – September 2021
By Ricey Wild
So I’m sitting here and wondering; How did we get here? Kinda like a rock that hit shore and ended up in...
Cover Story
Sioux Chef’s Owamni Restaurant Opens
By Brad Hagen
I’m walking down the path alongside West River Parkway, a trail I’ve taken dozens of times. I walk under the third avenue...
Cover Story
MN’s Emerging Farmers program is sowing deep indigenous roots
By Lee Egerstrom
Native Americans from around reservations and in urban areas around the Twin Cities and Duluth are getting a boost from the Minnesota...
Environment
What are the treaties being invoked by Line 3 opponents?
By Yasmine Askari / MinnPost
While the U.S. government signed a series of treaties with the Anishinaabe people, including the Ojibwe, between 1825 and 1867,...
News
Northland Foundation makes first grassroots grants/Maada’ookiing program
By Lee Egerstrom
An innovative, grassroots community building program for Native communities in Northeast Minnesota has made its initial grants to 13 “change makers” designing...
Environment
Totem Pole travels to Washington D.C. for the environment
In 2013, the Lummi people of the Northwest began a totem pole journey in protest to a 50 million ton coal export terminal which...
Political Matters
Political Matters – August 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
Denmark and Poland
In the way of a pandemic travel report, I visited Denmark and Poland in July. The usual discomfort of airline...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Native Americans in Sports – Ben Strong
By Dan Ninham
According to media reports, the last game of the 2021 NBA Finals series featuring the Milwaukee Bucks beating the Phoenix Suns 105-98...
Book Review
Designed for youth, its information is useful for readers of any...
By Deborah Locke
Some books you read straight through because it’s the only way. Some books read more like a restaurant menu where you pick...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – August 2021
By Ricey Wild
Besides the really horrible apocalyptic dreams I’ve been suffering, there is also a theme of ‘getting away’. Like most global citizens of...
Cover Story
Bringing broadband communication to tribes
By Lee Egerstrom
Business journals and mainstream media all across America are focusing attention on what many call “the new normal” post-pandemic way of working....
Cover Story
Minneapolis groups seeks to rename Columbus Avenue to Oyate
By Hannah Broadbent
“I don’t know how to talk about what it’s like to live on ‘Columbus Avenue’ without standing on a soapbox talking about...
