Cover Story
Pure love on the dance floor: Celebrating the jingle dress tradition
By Tim Nelson/MPR News
You can hear Mikah Whitecloud Hart coming from a long way away. She’s a jingle dress dancer, one of a group...
The Arts
Books teach importance of resilience, and kindness to animals
Reviews by Deborah Locke
The Dancers
A new children’s book, “The Dancers” by Thomas Peacock could be subtitled “Dancing With Your Heart.” The story is narrated...
Calendar
Community Calendar – July 2019
Thru Aug 17
Brad Kahlhamer’s Bowery Nation+Hawk+Eagle Exhibit
Bockley Gallery announces its first exhibition of works by multimedia artist Brad Kahlhamer titled Bowery Nation+Hawk+Eagle. The exhibit...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – July 2019
By Ricey Wild
Boozhoo! There is a serious topic I’ve been wanting to write about; Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (#MMIW). The reason I put...
Cover Story
Discrimination still barrier to health in IC
By Lee Egerstrom
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has gathered poll result proof that the general public still has problems recognizing the everyday...
Cover Story
Exhibit is first major show of artwork by Native women
By Marianne Combs/MPR
Walking up to the main exhibition hall on the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s second floor, you might think you’ve come to the...
Environment
The stars, G5 cell towers, and electromagnetic radiation exposure
By Winona LaDuke
Our ancestors navigated by the stars. Today most of us need a cell phone to know where we are going. That’s sobering....
News
Duluth renames city park in Ojibwe language
By Dan Kraker/MPR News
It’s official. After unanimous approval from the Duluth City Council last December, a downtown park has now been renamed in the...
Opinion
The Wall of Forgotten Natives must not be forgotten
By Niharika Bhavsar
“He’s on heroin, and there’s nothing I can do. His mom died of an overdose. You’d think that would make someone want...
Environment
Water Protectors lock down to stop Line 3
On June 3rd, Water Protectors, supported by the Ginew Collective, Northfield Against Line 3 and other groups, halted work at an active construction site...
Environment
The last tar sands pipeline
By Winona LaDuke
In early June, I traveled to Enbridge’s Shareholder meeting in Calgary, in Alberta Canada. Outside, laid off oil workers screamed, “Build that...
The Arts
“Hearts of Our People” co-curators talk about the exhibit
By Deborah Locke
In 2014, an advisory committee to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts met to start work on an exhibition devoted to American Indian...
Political Matters
Political Matters – June 2019
By Mordecai Specktor
On the road again
In May, I had the good fortune to visit Europe again. My wife and I flew to Copenhagen where...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – June 2019
By Ricey Wild
Here we go into the summertime; powwows, trips, camping and whatever fish are worth catching. Tis the season for enjoying the outside...
Calendar
Community Calendar – June 2019
Thru June 21
Bring Her Home 2019
Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island exhibit will highlight the ongoing epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous...
Cover Story
The Hemperer and the Governor
By Winona LaDuke
It’s twenty years since Alex White Plume planted his first hemp crop on Wounded Knee Creek, here on the Pine Ridge reservation....
Cover Story
Native adoptees have painful past as family separations continue
By Camille Erickson
Jane Harstad gave birth in 1986 to her first child, a son. Soon after, a pediatrician asked for her family’s medical history....
News
Navigation Center remains open through May
By Lee Egerstrom
Spring has come to Minnesota and this means weather is far less life-threatening for homeless people living on the streets or holed...
Cover Story
Minneapolis school is immersing students in Dakota and Ojibwe
by Elizabeth Shockman/MPR News
Immersion schools are not uncommon. But immersion schools that attempt to offer two different languages in one building are rare.
Bdote Learning...
News
Nothing irks some white people like accurate history
By Bob Collins/MPR News
The usual suspects have gotten their feelings hurt – again – because the Minnesota Historical Society has pointed out that Minnesota...
