Environment
Scientists find 117 chemicals in Grand Portage fish and lake bottom
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By Lee Egerstrom
This is the first of a two-part series (read part two here).
An extensive three-year research study of lakes in and around the...
Community News
Bdote Learning Center celebrates its first 8th grade graduating class
As Bdote Learning Center completes its sixth year of operations, the school is celebrating its first eighth grade graduating class: The 8th Grade Graduating...
Political Matters
Political Matters – June 2020
By Mordecai Specktor
The police murder of George Floyd
“Certain conditions continue to exist in our society, which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Nate Howard shined as CLB Panther and LLLTC basketball star
By Dan Ninham
Boozhoo. Bimisebineshii indizhinikaaz: Greetings. My Indian name is Flying Bird. Awazisii nindoodem: My clan is Bullhead. Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag nindonjibaa: I’m from Cass Lake....
Book Review
The Tao of Nookomis: skilled at featuring Indians you know or...
By Deborah Locke
The Tao of Nookomis
by Thomas D Peacock
Illustrated by Rabbett Before Horses Strickland
Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing January 2020 (second edition)
212...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – June 2020
By Ricey Wild
So, I’ve had a lot of time to think. I tried to stop myself but could not. I have a personal library...
Covid-19 Pandemic
MN SNAP and Culture and Faith Covid-19 Update
By Hannah Broadbent
Little by little every week, pieces of regular life are coming back due to the Stay Safe Order, the newest phase in...
Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Testing and Contact Tracing: Its Importance to Native Communities
By Maurita Begay
Native American communities have been one of the most affected groups throughout history when it comes to widespread pandemics. The dire circumstances...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Demonstrators, property protectors, first responders should get COVID-19 tests
By Lee Egerstrom
Anyone who participated in demonstrations following the death of George Floyd, or encountered people who did, should consider getting tested for the...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Children set to return to Montessori American Indian Childcare Center in...
By Lee Egerstrom
For Janice LaFloe and staff at the Montessori American Indian Childcare Center in St. Paul, operating a preschool program without young children...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19: Indian Health Service increases testing, funds for tribal and urban...
By Lee Egerstrom
In a pair of announcements in late May, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it is awarding $1.25 billion to...
Covid-19 Pandemic
How to minister to a congregation amidst a pandemic? “Zoom it.”
By Lee Egerstrom
The Rev. Marlene Whiterabbit Helgemo and members of the All Nations Indian Church in south Minneapolis are finding crafty, high-tech ways to...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Tribes, Minneapolis remind voters they can avoid risk of COVID-19
By Lee Egerstrom
With tribal, municipal and state elections approaching, Minnesota voters are reminded they can access absentee ballots and register to vote by mail...
Covid-19 Pandemic
Tribal employers have limited access to federal COVID-19 small business aid
By Lee Egerstrom
The Center for Indian Country Development (CICD) warns that tribal enterprises are having a difficult time accessing federal Payroll Protection Program relief...
Cover Story
New database on Morrill Act & theft of Native land
By Hannah Broadbent
In 1862 Abraham Lincoln passed the Morrill Act. This law gave states public lands so that they may be sold or used...
Cover Story
Native Artists find ways to adjust during Covid-19 shutdown
By Hannah Broadbent
On a regular day Rafael (Rafa) Gonzalez, also known Hip-Hop artist Tufawon, wakes up in his South Minneapolis home and heads to...
Covid-19 Pandemic
MN Native communities coping, not conquering, COVID-19 outbreak
By Lee Egerstrom
Quick responses to the coronavirus health threat to Native Americans in both tribal and urban Minnesota communities appear to be holding the...
Cover Story
New Quit Partner helps Native smokers quit the Native way
By Hannah Broadbent
Cansasa, Asemaa – tobacco in Dakota and Ojibwe languages. We have traditional words for tobacco because it is a traditional medicine, but...
Environment
Desperate pipeline companies try to push ahead during pandemic
Winona LaDuke
This spring changed our world. That’s for sure. There’s a long ago story of how the Bat changed the world. And once again,...
Environment
Land O’ Lake’s Indian Maiden disappears from packaging
By Robert Desjarlait
It wasn’t noticed until April that the Land O’ Lakes iconic image of the Indian Maiden, Mia, was missing. The disappearance of...