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...
Environment
Sex, fossil fuels, and matriarchal economics
By Winona LaDuke
In July of 2013, Ramsey County charged Mike Allen with agreeing to hire and engage in prostitution in a public place. Mike...
The Arts
“Girl Gone Missing” is another winning whodunit from Rendon
Girl Gone Missing
By Marcie R. Rendon
Cinco Puntos Press
June 2019
208 pages
Review by Deborah Locke
Darn that Marcie Rendon but she did it again. She wrote...
Political Matters
Political Matters – May 2019
By Mordecai Specktor
Mnisota Makoce
Minnesotans of a certain age remember the Hamm’s beer jingle from TV commercials. The catchy ditty was introduced by the Hamm’s...
Calendar
Community Calendar – May 2019 American Indian Month
Thru May 10
Mazinaakizige: American Indian Teen Photography
Two Rivers Gallery and the Minnesota Historical Society present the Mazinaakizige: American Indian Teen Photography exhibition. “Connection”...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – May 2019
By Ricey Wild
So, I sat outside for the first time on a late April night after this past brutal and seemingly unending winter season...
Cover Story
Bald Eagle Erectors keeps Native traditions alive
By Lee Egerstrom
Whether from the plains or from the lakes and woods, Native Americans have used their skills to build some of the most...
Cover Story
Tribes and public agencies spur efforts to fight the opioid crisis
By Lee Egerstrom
A sharp increase in deaths linked to opioid addiction in Minnesota and especially in Native communities is triggering alarm throughout the state...
Environment
Sleeping with the Wiindigo, and how to wake up
By Winona LaDuke
Way to go Fond du Lac. First you all throw us under the bus over a pipeline. All Minnesota Chippewa Tribes opposed...
Cover Story
Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program holds local workshop
By Liz Hill
This is not the first time – nor will it be the last – that the prestigious Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program has...
Political Matters
Political Matters – April 2019
By Mordecai Specktor
Ethnocide in the Amazon rain forest
We tend to think that Trump is our misfortune, a corrupt and incompetent leader for the United...
Calendar
Calendar of Events – April 2019
Thru April 30
MN Zoo Farm Babies
Cuteness abounds with baby chicks, piglets, lambs, calves, goat kids, and bunnies. Check out the special “egg” treats for...
The Arts
Collision and cooperation: A portrait of North Shore fur trade in...
Review by Deborah Locke
Gitchi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
By Timothy Cochrane
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota...
The Arts
New exhibit explores the history of the Jingle Dress
One hundred years ago in 1918-1919 when the global influenza pandemic killed millions worldwide, including thousands of Native Americans, a revolutionary new tradition of...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – April 2019
By Ricey Wild
My recent grocery list: “honey, jalapeños, tortillas, bananas, eggs, butter and cheese, tortillas chips, cinnamon bread and regurgitate”(?). My friends were helping...
Letters to the Editor
Letters from community youth
These letters are from the perspective of youth in our community who attended The Waybingay Program’s “To Release” workshop, which focused on prevention of...
