Political Matters
POLITICAL MATTERS: December 2017
By Mordecai Specktor
Remembering Dennis Banks
When I started writing about American Indian issues, about 40 years ago, I began hearing stories about Dennis Banks, a...
Environment
Water Protectors, Monster Slayers and the Enbridge Hearings
BY LE BOYD AND WINONA LADUKE
For the past four years Dawn Goodwin, of Rice Lake, Minn., has driven thousands of miles, and missed weeks of...
The Arts
Interview with artist Julie Buffalohead
BY DEBORAH LOCKE
(To see the article in this issue about Julie's exhibit see: http://thecirclenews.org/the-arts/julie-buffaloheads-art-gives-no-answers-to-the-viewer/
When did you know that you wanted to be an artist?
I...
The Arts
Julie Buffalohead’s art gives no answers to the viewer
BY DEBORAH LOCKE
The thing about Julie Buffalohead’s newest exhibit of art at the Bockley Gallery is this. You can second guess her till the cows...
Business
Native Youth lead the way toward environmental & economic sustainability
BY ELAINE SALINAS
As a bitter cold February wind swept across the plains of North Dakota, and the Water Defenders at Standing Stone stood their ground,...
Business
From Santa to Super Bowl, holiday season looms large in Indian...
BY LEE EGERSTROM
While Native artists, retailers and food companies all try to hitch a ride with Santa Claus this time of year, an expanded St....
Community News
WHAT’S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY: Dec 2017
FDLTCC wins marketing and communications award
The Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet, Minn. was honored with a Bronze Medallion award for...
Environment
Black Snake Chronicles: KXL Returns and Wiindigo Economics
BY WINONA LADUKE
As the plagued Keystone Pipeline spills 200,000 gallons of oil near the Sisseton Dakota reservation, the Nebraska Public Service Commission made a convoluted...
News
NEWS BRIEFS: Dec 2017
HENNEPIN COUNTY BOARD VOTES TO CHANGE LAKE CALHOUN NAME
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners voted Nov. 28th to remove the name...
Cover Story
Peggy Flanagan could become the highest ranking Native woman to hold...
BY CAMILLE ERICKSON
“It matters that people see themselves reflected in the leaders that represent them, "said state Rep. Peggy Flanagan (DFL-St. Louis Park).
Joining U.S. Rep....
Cover Story
Dr. Wyatt new Emergency Department Director at HCMC
BY LEE EGERSTROM
Dr. Thomas E. Wyatt (Loyal Shawnee and Quapaw Tribes of Oklahoma) became director of the Emergency Department at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in July....
Uncategorized
PASSING ON: Roland Columbus
Roland “Trulo” Columbus
April 22, 1933 – October 14, 2017
Roland “Trulo” Columbus (Anpetu-Tawa) age 84 of Redwood Falls, formerly of the Lower Sioux Community, entered...
Uncategorized
IT AIN’T EASY BEING INDIAN: Nov 2017
BY RICEY WILD
At this writing I woke to a Winter Wonderland. Yeah, the meteorologists did predict snow coming but somehow, even after a lifetime...
Opinion
Opinion: Justice For All
BY NEO BHAVSAR
The over representation of Native Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system marks a systemic problem within our society. Even though there is...
Political Matters
POLITICAL MATTERS: Nov 2017
By Mordecai Specktor
The politics of mining
After straddling the fence for years on the introduction of copper-nickel mining to northeastern Minnesota, Gov. Mark Dayton came...
Book Review
Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year
BY DEBORAH LOCKE
In her book of 50 very short essays originally published in the Duluth Budgeteer, Linda LeGarde Grover gives mini lessons on Ojibwe history,...
News
Water Protectors Protest Wells Fargo Bank in Duluth
TEXT/PHOTOS BY WECOPWATCH
On October 23, 2017 Water Protectors from Camp Makwa Front Line Camp blockaded Wells Fargo Bank branch in Duluth, Minn. to oppose the...
Environment
Enbridge: The last big pipeline battle
BY WINONA LADUKE
In late October, I attended the Enbridge pipeline hearings by the state of Minnesota. It’s been a long haul, I feel like I...
Business
Want to reach a market? Climb a tree and ‘holler’
BY LEE EGERSTROM
After more than three decades of offering marketing and business advice to start-up Native entrepreneurs, small business owners, nonprofit groups and tribal leaders,...
Opinion
Borinquén (Puerto Rico): A Rebirth
BY WINONA LADUKE
What does Puerto Rico’s catastrophic hurricane teach us about ourselves, how we treat each other and the future? The Taino name for the...
