Community News
WHAT’S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY: Nov 2017
Dream Big Campaign awarded
In October, the members of the Dream Big Campaign received an award from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office as part of...
News
American Indian activist Dennis Banks dies
BY JOHN COLLINS/MPR NEWS
Dennis Banks, a key figure in the American Indian rights movement that started in Minneapolis in the late 1960s, died Oct. 29th...
News
NEWS: Nov 2017
WALZ PICKS FLANAGAN TO RUN IN MN GOVERNOR’S RACE
ST. PAUL, MN – Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Walz has chosen state Rep. Peggy Flanagan as...
News
To ease tribal homelessness Leech Lake band takes back its land
BY JOHN ENGER/MPR NEWS
Jim and Gail Hinkemeyer just retired and they had their future all worked out. They'd dodge Minnesota’s cold winters with a cheap...
Cover Story
ADY’s Housing For Young Adults
BY LEE EGERSTROM
St Paul’s Ain Dah Yung Center has been helping Native children and families since 1983 but is now preparing to provide affordable, transitional housing...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
IT AIN’T EASY BEING INDIAN: Oct 2017
BY RICEY WILD
My big black ‘kitten’ The RZA (who is only four years old) was walking in front of me in the hallway with his...
Passing On
PASSING ON: David E. Larsen
David E. Larsen
December 3, 1941 - September 2, 2017
David E. Larsen, “Hpu Hpu” (Dobbie) “Wahinkpe Ohitika” meaning Brave Arrow, age 75 from Ca sayapi...
News
Lake Superior island returned to Grand Portage tribe
BY MPR NEWS STAFF
An island at the tip of north-eastern Minnesota has been returned to the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe.
The...
Political Matters
POLITICAL MATTERS: Oct 2017
By Mordecai Specktor
The next Standing Rock
Enbridge Energy’s proposed replacement of its Line 3 oil pipeline is meeting popular opposition – and some nonviolent civil...
Environment
Into the Mist: UN Declaration at Ten Years
BY WINONA LADUKE
As I drive home from Fargo towards evening, there are end-less fields of farm equipment, sugar beets, potatoes and corn. The land is...
Book Review
Traditional Native foods are highlighted in Sioux Chef’s cookbook
Review By Deborah Locke
The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
By Sean Sherman (author)
Beth Dooley (contributor)
Univ Of Minnesota Press
October 10, 2017
256 pages
So you think fry bread is a...
Environment
Fond du Lac Band restores wild rice to keep harvest tradition...
BY DAN KRAKER/MRP NEWS
On the shore of Deadfish Lake on the reservation of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in September,...
Business
Where building a business is also building for people
BY LEE EGERSTROM
For an entrepreneur like Tammy Loeffler, opportunities and problems have always been two sides of the same coin.
You seize the opportunities where...
Community News
WHAT’S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY: Oct 2017
First public Indigenous mural goes up in Duluth
On September 23rd, the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) unveiled Duluth’s first public Indigenous mural. The...
Local Briefs
NEWS BRIEFS: Oct 2017
LEECH LAKE RECEIVES $3.3M FOR TRIBAL VETERANS CEMETERY
CASS LAKE, MN – The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration announced in September that it...
Environment
Does Minnesota really need a new oil pipeline?
By DAN KRAKER/MRP NEWS
Ever since Enbridge first proposed its $7 billion Line 3 project three years ago – its largest pipeline project ever – the...
Cover Story
Sioux Chef picked as restaurant for new Minneapolis riverfront park
The Sioux Chef, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, and Minneapolis Parks Foundation will partner to open a riverfront restaurant and food service venue for...
Business
A Native Homecare Business Booms
By LEE EGERSTROM
The growing and unmet needs for Native health and home care weren’t going away. Patricia (Pat) Yager, who grew up at Bena on...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
IT AIN’T EASY BEING INDIAN: Sept 2017
By Ricey Wild
So…does anyone care what I think? I said this on a Saturday night when my two cats and my dog, The Mitz, were...
Native Arts
RUMBLE documentary gives credit to Native American musicians
Many artists and musical forms played a role in the creation of rock, but arguably no single piece of music was more influential than the...
