Columnists
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – August 2020
By Ricey Wild
Pretty sure I’ma be calling Rezberry Housing for some repairs soon. Due to my last most unfortunate accident, I’m in a wheelchair...
Community News
Community thanks AIM for protection
The Native American Community Clinic (NACC), University of Minnesota Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC) and Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI) hosted a gratitude...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Often overlooked impacts of COVID-19: mental health stress, anxiety and fear
By Lee Egerstrom
Minnesota health officials, the Mayo Clinic, and experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are voicing concern about how...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Food left on table: 150,000 eligible Minn. families missing out on...
By Eddie Chuculate
As the coronavirus has broken United States food-supply chains, and grocery stores in Minneapolis closed or disrupted due to rioting, free groceries...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Native schools in Minneapolis prepare to open during pandemic, bemoan online...
By Eddie Chuculate
Although American Indian schools in Minneapolis are awaiting a state mandate on reopening this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, a consensus is...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Minnesota opens long-term care facilities to family, friends declared essential caregivers
By Lee Egerstrom
Caring for an elderly or other person in a long-term care facility has just gotten easier for families and friends who can...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Dental care: Cautiously returning to a new “normal” for the foreseeable...
By Lee Egerstrom
Putting health care on hold as precaution against the coronavirus pandemic was a balancing act for patients and medical specialists who had...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Is the Second Wave of the Coronavirus Here?
By Maurita Begay
There is prevalent speculation that we are entering a “second wave” of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. But is this...
Cover Story
Covid/protests bring food shortages and community support
By Lee Egerstrom
The burning and damage to Cub Foods and Target stores in south Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd in May turned...
Cover Story
Residents comes together to protect Little Earth Housing Complex
By Hana Broadbent
We all remember where we were when we heard about the death of George Floyd. It’s a moment in time that touched...
Environment
Statues to brutal colonizers are falling everywhere
By Winona LaDuke
"Historian Here: Tearing down a statue is not erasing history. Putting up a statue on land whose original caretakers you can’t name...
Cover Story
Natives face obstacles to voting most everywhere. Is MN different?
By Lee Egerstrom
Native Americans and Alaskan Natives face obstacles to voting this year, researchers say, and it may be too early to tell if...
Environment
Pipelines: How risky do you wanna be?
By Winona LaDuke
Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) continues to be an embarrassment to state regulatory authorities, slogging ahead with what we might call the...
Health
Domestic violence advocacy service created by Natives for Natives
By Maurita Begay
StrongHearts Native Helpline is a national nonprofit organization based in Minnesota dedicated to providing advocacy services for domestic violence and dating violence...
Environment
Protesters bring down Columbus statue
By AP and MPR News
On June 9th, protesters in Minnesota pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the State Capitol amid continuing anger...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Chris Jourdain: continuing the Red Lake youth basketball movement
By Dan Ninham
The youth basketball movement at the Red Lake Nation travels throughout Indian Country and beyond. Life lessons are learned with wins and...
Political Matters
Political Matters – July 2020
By Mordecai Specktor
Columbus has fallen
We’re halfway through 2020 and the hits keep coming.
I’ve generally kept away from the protests seeking justice for George Floyd...
Book Review
Encyclopedia of Am. Indian History & Culture – a different kind...
Review by Deborah Locke
A two-page photo spread in the “Encyclopedia of American Indian History & Culture” shows Natives as sentinels, single file and hand-in-hand...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – July 2020
By Ricey Wild
One thing I know for sure is that I was born “Indian” as written on my birth certificate. I now know that...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Two Native Orgs doing their part by providing Covid-19 tests to...
By Hannah Broadbent
As of June 28th, 30.4. million Covid-19 tests have been given across the country. Labs all over the U.S. are backlogged trying...
