Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Gaabi Boucha: Gaabimasiget in Warroad High School
By Dan Ninham
Gaabi Boucha is a sophomore at Warroad High School in Warroad, MN. He is a three-sport athlete in football, hockey, and baseball.
“My...
Political Matters
Political Matters – February 2021
By Mordecai Speckor
Laura Waterman Wittstock passes
Before anything else this month, I want to remember one of the truly extraordinary leaders in the Native community,...
Environment
On language and legacy: Wakáŋ Tipi
By the Lower Phalen Creek Project
The first European known to have visited the area known to the Dakota as Imnižaska, or Saint Paul, was...
Native Arts
Artist blends traditional Ojibwe designs with contemporary styles
By Brad Hagen
Native Americans are often rendered invisible to the wider population due to stereotypes and misconceptions about who we are, factors that are...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – February 2021
By Ricey Wild
Well, well, well, never a dull moment, ennit? I would really enjoy some peace but not monotony. Like many around the world,...
Cover Story
Indigenous organizations collaborate to feed their most vulnerable
By Kathryn Styer Martinez/MPR News
It’s the first big snowstorm of winter. Bob Rice and Angel Swann are out running errands and picking up food...
Cover Story
Biden to pick Rep. Haaland as interior secretary
By AP
President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, according to two people familiar with the decision, a...
Environment
Winter Count: Mississippi River
By Winona Laduke
November 20. 2020: Army Corps of Engineers issues 404 permits to cross waters of Minnesota, based on the findings of the Minnesota...
Environment
Ojibwe bands ask for halt on Line 3 construction
By Dan Kraker/MPR
The Red Lake and White Earth Bands of Ojibwe have asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals to pause the ongoing construction of...
News
State programs help Native warriors become employed civilians
By Lee Egerstrom
For Jeff Isachsen, like for a lot of Native Minnesotans, it was far easier to become a member of the armed services...
Opinion
Restoring our connections to each other and the natural world
By Ricky Defoe and Janet Keough
As the year gets ready to renew itself, we have a chance to heal ourselves, our human communities, and...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
LeRoy Staples Fairbanks IV: Bringing AAU Summer Season to Cass Lake-Bena
By Dan Ninham
The wave of top level Minnesota Section 8 basketball talent is continuing to rise at Cass Lake-Bena High School. One of the...
Political Matters
Political Matters – January 2021
By Mordecai Specktor
Cancelling Henry Sibley
As I mentioned in the December issue of The Circle, I attended Sibley High School. In gym class, we wore...
News
ILTF’s Will In A Box helps Native Americans with land transfers
By Hannah Broadbent
Like many American Indians, my family has land in our district on the Sisseton Whapeton Oyate Reservation (in South Dakota). Also, like...
Book Review
“The Brave” is compelling, but could do without the stereotypes
Review by Deborah Locke
This book, “The Brave” by James Bird, about a boy who overcomes a disability and hard start in life, could have...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
Ricey Wild – January 2021
By Ricey Wild
A thought to share with yooz. By this time in my middle age I thought that I would ‘get it’ by now,...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Wrapping up 2020 but not the end of COVID-19 pandemic
By Lee Egerstrom
As the year 2020 winds down, the outlook for the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota can be described as improved but far from...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Vaccinations start as COVID-19 deaths and infections hit milestones before the...
By Lee Egerstrom
Vaccines for preventing the COVID-19 virus began arriving in Minnesota a week before the Christmas holidays even as the state was reaching...
Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 vaccines arrive: A long wait still ahead for most Natives...
By Lee Egerstrom
The long-awaited COVID-19 vaccines are now reaching the states, Minnesota included; but the grass may again be green before most Native Minnesotans...
Covid-19 Pandemic
More than half of Native American workers are in risky jobs...
By Lee Egerstrom
A research group has pulled together data that show Native American workers and other
minorities are at greater risk of becoming infected by...
