Environment
Honoring Manoomin and fighting for its survival
By Winona LaDuke
“You can feel the wind talk to the rice.”
– Lew Murray, Rice Lake Village.
It’s Rice Lake Village on the White Earth...
Cover Story
U.S. to review dark history of Indigenous boarding schools
By AP
The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to “uncover the truth about the loss of...
Environment
Indigo Girls and Line 3 activists host Protect the Water concert
By Jim Walsh / MINNPost
Amy Ray spoke for many of the 100 or so Indigo Girls fans and human rights activists gathered on the...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Jayson Shaugabay: Warroad Warrior Hockey Player is 1st Round Draft Pick
By Dan Ninham
One of the top hockey players in Minnesota has been drafted in the first round in two major hockey leagues. He still...
Political Matters
Political Matters – July 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
Louise Erdrich wins the Pulitzer
I’ll admit that Love Medicine is the only Louise Erdrich novel that I’ve read. Anyway, Mazel Tov! to...
Environment
New work by Native artist to rise where ‘Scaffold’ stood
By Pamela Espeland / MINNPost
For a time in 2017, the northwest corner of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden was the scene of protest and controversy....
Community News
Auger was a fierce advocate for those in need
By Diane Wilson
On a warm afternoon in the summer of 2020, Sally Auger (Abenaki) stood on the newly purchased land that was growing the...
Book Review
A complex, masterful telling of how family ties can overcome trauma
Review by Deborah Locke
For me, a summertime book means not thinking too much. It means reading for pleasure and amusement and for a few...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – July 2021
By Ricey Wild
I know. I know, my loved ones, my relatives how it hurts; it is in our collective DNA and we carry the...
Cover Story
Covid pandemic gives mixed business results
By Lee Egerstrom
A year after the death of George Floyd caused riots in Minneapolis and after the global COVID-19 pandemic shuttered businesses across the...
Environment
Hemp and the New Green Revolution are game changers
By Winona LaDuke
Mid May’s New Green Revolution Pre Party - Farm Day at Winona’s Hemp went well. Alex White Plume, known as the “Hemperer”,...
News
Families, advocates mark day of awareness for Native victims
By AP
From Washington to Indigenous communities across the American Southwest, top government officials, family members and advocates gathered May 5 as part of a...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Lauren Sheets: Committed to Concordia-St. Paul University
By Dan Ninham
Lauren Sheets, 17, is a junior lacrosse player at Lakeville South High School in Lakeville, Minnesota. She has committed to play at...
Political Matters
Political Matters – June 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
Santorum is cancelled
In late May, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum was fired by CNN from his senior political commentator job after making...
Cover Story
New podcast addresses opioid abuse in tribal communities
By Erin Mathe
Jase Roe has vivid childhood memories of their mom coming home with big bottles of Vicodin prescribed for her pain. Roe didn’t...
Book Review
Tromblay’s memoir recounts painful truths, encourages advocacy
Review by Deb Locke
In his memoir “As You Were,” Duluth native David Tromblay wrote with an outcome in mind. It is: when you the...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – June 2021
By Ricey Wild
This past May 26 featured a Super Flower Blood Moon and total eclipse. It happened on my birthday, and I was excited...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19: The push is on to vaccinate our way to “herd...
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesota came roaring back to normalcy for the Memorial Day weekend and start of summer but the coronavirus threat lingers on with...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19: New rules, licenses coming for assisted living home care providers
By Lee Egerstrom
New protections for elders and others residing in long term assisted living-type facilities are coming on Aug. 1 along with new requirements...
Cover Story
COVID-19 still infecting Native Minnesotans
Lee Egerstrom
Minnesotans were told they can return to more “normal” activity as April came to an end although, it appears, the new “normal” also...
