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...
News
Roseville seeks to change the name of Pocahontas Park
By Hannah Broadbent
Pocahontas Park in Roseville, Minn. is one more name on the long list of streets, parks and counties that bear titles representing...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Tre Holmes: Senior Is Leading The Hibbing HS Bluejackets
By Dan Ninham
There is a team leader among leaders on and off the basketball court at Hibbing High School in northern Minnesota this season.
Tre...
News
MHS’s Native American Museum Fellowship seeks to change narrative
By Brad Hagen
The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), an institution dedicated to preserving the history of Minnesota, is now accepting applications for the Native American...
Book Review
The lives of three remarkable American Indians
Review by Deborah Locke
Three biographies for children in grades three to five highlight the lives of important American Indian from the Upper Midwest: Charles...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – March 2021
By Ricey Wild
As I shared before, I watch too much news and their daily declarations of doom and distraction...um, destruction. It’s not my way...
Cover Story
NACC expands facilities to help with Covid-19 vaccines
By Brad Hagen
The Native American Community Clinic (NACC) in south Minneapolis has been serving the urban Native community since 2003, when they first opened...
Cover Story
Distance learning still a struggle for Native students
By Lee Egerstrom
Urban area students in younger grades are finding their way back into school classrooms while educators keep their fingers crossed that another...
Cover Story
COVID-19 vaccines: Native Americans say “bring it on”
By Lee Egerstrom
As January came to a close, greater supplies of COVID-19 vaccines were reaching Minnesota and there were signs Native Minnesotans were rolling...
Environment
Last Tango at the Red River: Enbridge and pipelines
By Winona LaDuke
It’s an amazing competition to be the last Tar Sands Pipeline. Enbridge wants to win. It already did. The last tar sands...
Cover Story
St. Paul attorney in running to become UofMN’s first Native American...
By Lee Egerstrom
D. Brandon Alkire, a St. Paul attorney representing various Native American and family causes, is among candidates recommended for election to the...
