Cover Story
The Phillips Aquatic Center to Open this Spring
BY CAMILLE ERICKSON
The new Phillips Aquatic Center is on track to open early this spring, becoming the first indoor, year-round swimming facility in the Minneapolis...
Cover Story
Lower Sioux Healthy Meals – a Model
BY LEE EGERSTROM
When registered dietician Stacy Hammer asks people how they feel, she hears plenty of simple answers that make sense at face value but...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
IT AIN’T EASY BEING INDIAN: Feb 2018
BY RICEY WILD
Happy VD all you Snags and Snagettes! Teasing yooz of course, but for real, be careful out there. Ya never know. Moi? I’m...
The Arts
The Scaffold: A missed opportunity for healing?
BY DAVID BORN
Hippocrates once wrote, “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” In Minnesota, time has failed...
Political Matters
POLITICAL MATTERS: Feb 2018
By Mordecai Specktor
Bde Mka Ska
On Google Maps, the large body of water on the western edge of Minneapolis now is marked “Bde Maka Ska.”...
Book Review
Rendon’s first novel is a classic, superb whodunit
BY DEBORAH LOCKE
In “Murder on the Red River,” Marcie Rendon wrote the kind of book that will bother you when you need to put...
Business
Pow Wow Grounds serves wild rice and history along with coffee
BY LEE EGERSTROM
Thirsty coffee drinkers stopping by the Pow Wow Grounds in South Minneapolis know there is much more available there than a cup of...
Opinion
Cop violence rampant in Indian Country
BY MARK ANTHONY ROLO
It wasn’t that long ago that a few Minneapolis cops would go rogue and spend their time on duty harassing the...
News
WHAT’S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY: Feb 2018
Rice becomes first tribal police chief on POST Board
Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed Mille Lacs Band Police Chief Sara Rice to the Minnesota Board of...
News
Lake Calhoun officially recognized as Bde Maka Ska
Bde Maka Ska is now the official name of the lake previously known as Lake Calhoun, following county and state approval of a request...
Cover Story
Treasure Island Center links St. Paul with its Mdewakanton past
BY LEE EGERSTROM
You can’t miss it. Smack dab in the middle of Downtown St. Paul, a square-block anchor building with bold signage now announces to...
Cover Story
Barry Runs for District 62B House
BY CAMILLE ERICKSON
“I am answering a call to serve,” asserted Korina Barry (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) as she announced that she will seek the District 62B...
Passing On
PASSING ON: Dennis Smith Lothert Sr.
Dennis Smith Lothert Sr.
June 23, 1946 - December 5, 2017
Dennis Smith Lothert Sr. – (Hey Man) Wambdi Isnana, meaning Lone Eagle –age 71 of...
The Arts
Canadian series shows pre-Columbian New World as complex, sophisticated
BY DEBORAH LOCKE
Two points stand out from the eight-episode Canadian-produced series “1491: The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus.” First, indigenous people from North,...
Community News
WHAT’S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY: Jan 2018
Cobenais Appointed to Governor's Council
(By Michael Meuers) Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton appointed Jerald Cobenais of Red Lake as the “Red Lake Band of Ojibwe Delegate...
Environment
HTE to bring legal action challenging MNPUC
In December, Honor the Earth vowed to bring legal action challenging the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MNPUC) 4-1 vote to approve the Final Environmental Impact...
Opinion
Trump’s Sad Relationship With American Indians
BY MARK ANTHONY ROLO
Donald Trump has never had much of a history with Americans Indians, but during the course of his first year in...
News
NEWS BRIEFS: Jan 2018
LEECH LAKE FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST OPIOID MAKERS
CASS LAKE, MN – On December 19, 2017 the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe approved the filing of...
News
The Circle’s 2017 Native Author’s Breakfast Fundraiser
The Circle’s Annual Native Author’s Breakfast Fundraiser, held on December 15th, was one of the most successful fundraisers in the eight years we have...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
IT AIN’T EASY BEING INDIAN: Jan 2018
BY RICEY WILD
I’m bringing back the greeting, “Happy New Year!!!” This very important wish was taken from us last year and anyone who was caught...
