Book Review
Powwow story for children will dance into your heart
Review by Deborah Locke
The young Ojibwe girl, Josie, wants more than anything to dance for the first time at the summer powwow. This sweet...
Book Review
Story of Ho Chunk Congresswoman inspires and entertains
Review by Deborah Locke
While still a little girl, Sharice Davids (Ho Chunk) raced through the house doing high kicks and air punches, just like...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – May 2021
By Ricey Wild
“Well...we made it this far”, said my nephew, Jerone at intervals heading out of the Cities. He was seven years old and...
Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19: The Great Outdoors may be calling, but don’t throw caution...
By Lee Egerstrom
The message came down in late April from the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state capitols...
Cover Story
Mpls and housing discrimination covenants
By Lee Egerstrom
Racial covenants on property have been illegal in Minnesota for more than 50 years but still remain on long-established mortgages and leasing...
Cover Story
Native-owned /tribal enterprises still struggling in Minnesota
By Lee Egerstrom
Christina (Tina) Valtierra and Robert Blake are living proof the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a heavy hand on Native-owned and operated businesses...
Environment
The Boy Scouts: land grabs, sexual abuse, and bankruptcy
By Winona LaDuke
Let’s put it this way, the Boy Scouts are supposed to be good guys. And now they’ve got some challenges. We will...
Environment
Line 3 construction brings complication, controversy to Fond du Lac Reservation
By Dan Kraker/MPR
About a month ago, Taysha Martineau walked out of the protest camp she built in a small patch of woods near her...
Environment
Among ‘lessons’ from COVID: New and old ways Native students learn
By Lee Egerstrom
A Native American mother who is also a Minneapolis librarian says there a lots of lessons to be learned about teaching children...
Environment
The celebration over, Haaland now faces a long to-do list at...
By kirk Siegler/ NPR
With so much land under federal control in the West, it’s long been said the secretary of the interior has much...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Zaaga’Igan Buffalo: Leading Duluth East HS Greyhound basketball team
By Dan Ninham
Zaaga’Igan Buffalo is representing his people in every step he is taking. His people are not only the Red Cliff Band of...
Political Matters
Political Matters – April 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
Putting Columbus back on a pedestal
The idea for this column – when it began back in the mists of time – was...
Uncategorized
Jones’s book blends horror with the striking ordinariness of life
Review by Deborah Locke
(Editor’s note: Spoilers ahead.)
If you only read one horror/slasher novel in your life, make it “The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham...
Local Briefs
New Briefs – April 2021
Water Protectors Keep Up Pressure on Line 3 Funders in Duluth
(Duluth, MN) On March 31st, Water Protectors marched through downtown Duluth to call out...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – April 2021
By Ricey Wild
Some guy named “Raccoon Eyes” posted on a Native page I follow. I looked him up and it turns out he is...
Passing On
Passing On – April 2021
Christopher Joseph Warren
December 30, 1964 - March 8, 2021
Chris was born December 30, 1964, in Breckenridge, Minnesota to Lyle and Wally Ann Warren. He...
Cover Story
COVID worse than cold for MN homeless this winter
By Lee Egerstrom
New low-income housing, temporary shelters and a variety of government and nonprofit organization programs have greatly helped the Native American population cope...
Covid-19 Pandemic
White Earth, Mahnomen County collaboration leads to one of highest vaccination...
By Dan Gunderson/MPR
Ever since Minnesota began distributing coronavirus vaccines to the public, Mahnomen County in northwestern Minnesota has consistently run ahead of the pack,...
Environment
Being a Water Protector at Line 3 is hard work
By Hannah Broadbent
“Imagine that one day you wake up and find out that a pipeline company wants to run a thirty-inch pipe pumping 640,000...
Environment
Tribal Nations in MN ask Walz to pause Line 3 work...
By Dan Kraker/MPR
The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council is asking Gov. Tim Walz to temporarily stop the ongoing construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline...
