Latest Urban News
Native American economic condition still nearly invisible in Minnesota
Nonprofit organizations that deliver social services to Native Americans in Minnesota still struggle to quantify economic conditions for the Native population. They grapple for...
Community News
March What's New in the Community
IHB Buys Prime Franklin Avenue Real Estate
Dr. Patrick Rock (Leech Lake), CEO of the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis (IHB), announced that the Minneapolis-based...
Cover Story
IHB Opens its Doors to a New Model of Patient-Centered Care
Dr. Patrick Rock, CEO of Indian Health Board (IHB) medical and dental clinic in the heart of Minneapolis’ Philips Neighborhood, says every year it’s...
Cover Story
Reclaiming Bde Maka Ska for the Future Generations
When I first interviewed Kate and Carly Beane (Bad Heart Bull) for Rake Magazine in 2006, they had recently moved to Minnesota, the homeland...
Community News
February Whats New In The Community
Artist Kruse donates birchbark artwork to Children’s Hospitals
Pat Kruse and his son, Gage, members of the Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, along with...
Calendar
February Calendar of Events
Thru July 2016
Why Treaties Matter traveling exhibit
This exhibit explores relationships between Dakota and Ojibwe Indian Nations and the U.S. government in Minnesota. Learn how...
Latest Urban News
How do we grieve the death of a river?
“Our people blocked the road. When the troops arrive, we will face them.”
– Ailton Krenak, Krenaki People, Brazil
This eighteen months saw three of...
Columnists
Learning The Art of Love
This month because of Valentine’s Day I want to write above love. I want to share how I learned about love. First, I want...
Columnists
Suppressing the Indian vote
The passage of the Snyder Act of 1924, during the Calvin Coolidge administration, admitted American Indians born in the United States to full U.S....
Editorials
Duty to Warn: Northern Minnesota and the PolyMet Project
PolyMet’s Tailings “Pond” could someday create a dead St. Louis River and a dying Lake Superior. Is that an acceptable risk to take?
In the December 23rd...
The Arts
Artist interview: painter and flute-maker Jeffery Chapman
Jeffrey Chapman (Ojibwe) is a Minneapolis-based artist, flute maker, art historian and teacher. His artwork sits between two worlds: complexity and simplicity, humorous and...
Latest Reservation News
Tribal protesters charged for gathering fish and wild rice
Four Ojibwe tribe members have been charged for gathering wild rice and setting gillnets during a protest last summer. In an attempt to strengthen...
Cover Story
Deconstruction for Mother Earth
The ground may be covered with snow, and temperatures wintertime cold, but an entire new “green” industry with job training is being created in...
Cover Story
Feds to Assume Jurisdiction at Mille Lacs Ojibwe Reservation
Things have gotten so bad on the Mille Lacs Reservation that Melanie Benjamin, the Ojibwe band’s chief executive, closed the doors to her annual...
Calendar
January 2016
Thru July 2016
Why Treaties Matter traveling exhibit
This exhibit explores relationships between Dakota and Ojibwe Indian Nations and the U.S. government in Minnesota. Learn how...
Passing On
Marcus Lee Roberts
Marcus Lee Roberts
September 4, 1980 - December 9, 2015
Marcus Lee Roberts, age 35 of Bloomington, entered the Sprit World unexpectedly Wednesday, December 9, 2015....
Columnists
Change is Hard but Inevitable
As I reflect on 2016, I’d like to share a few experiences of change. What I’ve come to know about living is that change...
The Arts
Photography exhibit features rare portraits of Red Lake people
Singing Our History: People and Places of the Red Lake Nation, will be at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota...
The Arts
Four art exhibitions along Native American Cultural Corridor to see
At this very moment there are four pride-inducing art exhibitions in South Minneapolis that are showcasing the rich and abundant visions of Native artists....
Columnists
Killing Phil Quinn
Killing Phil Quinn
The Nov. 15 fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black man, in north Minneapolis, triggered an upsurge in activism directed...
