Business
Wondering where to go? Follow Adobe DeSigns’ lead (Jan 2017)
By Lee Egerstrom
If you’ve wandered through the newer sports and entertainment venues in the Twin Cities, or parked in recently built business and educational parking...
News
NATIONAL BRIEFS (Jan 2017)
US COURT OF APPEALS RULES AGAINST STANDING ROCK DAPL
Washington, DC – In late December, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
Environment
Enbridge Round Two with Tanks? (Jan 2017)
By Winona LaDuke
Tribal unity is a lesson from Standing Rock. Thousands of people joined with the Lakota Nation to oppose the Dakota Access (AKA Dakota...
Editorials
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK (dec 2016)
Trump wins: now we must unit and fight
Donald Trump won the election, much to everyone’s surprise and in many cases, horror. I personally thought...
Passing On
PASSING ON (dec 2016)
Mildred Carol Ann Longbody-Swartz December 12, 1939 – November 4, 2016
Mildred Carol Ann Longbody-Swartz was born Dec. 12, 1939, in Cloquet, the eighth of...
Nickisms
Rez Born, Urban Raised by Nick Metcalf (dec 2016)
When Politics Become Personal
By Nick Metcalf
As many of you, I’ve been sorting through the reality of a Trump Presidency. I’m mostly still in shock....
Political Matters
POLITICAL MATTERS: Native Issues in the Halls of Government –...
The looming Trumpocalypse
It should be abundantly clear by now that Donald Trump suffers from some kind of mental illness, and that it probably wasn’t...
Letters to the Editor
LETTER TO THE EDITOR (dec 2016)
Don’t forget the Office of Indian Men’s Health
As the Obama administration winds down its eight years of oversight and support of the health care...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
IT AIN’T EASY BEING INDIAN (dec 2016)
By Ricey Wild
To understand what happened with this farce of an election that voted in the most monstrous of human beings as the leader...
Community News
WHAT’S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY (Dec 2016)
MHS Announces New Director of American Indian Initiatives
The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) has appointed Joe D. Horse Capture as the new director of American Indian...
News
LOCAL BRIEFS (dec 2016)
NODAPL UPDATE
Water Protectors at NoDapl have been attacked by law enforcement with water cannon in freezing weather, tear gas, rubber bullets, and concussion...
National Briefs
NATIONAL NEWS BRIEFS
ELOUISE COBELL HONORED WITH MEDAL OF FREEDOM
WASHINGTON, DC – The late Elouise Cobell was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 22.
Cobell, who...
Environment
Indian Country moves closer to the sun; takes Saga Solar with...
By Lee Egerstrom
Northern Minnesota’s Indian Country is reaching out to the sun for clean energy and is finding innovative ways to get it.
In the...
Environment
NoDAPL: The Beginning is Near
By Winona LaDuke
Standing Rock is an unpredicted history lesson for all of us. More than any moment I recall since Wounded Knee, the Vietnam...
Business
NATIVE Act aims to promote Native tourism
One major exhibit in the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa’s Atisokanigamig (Legend House) shows how the Ojibwe people – over centuries – migrated to Northern...
Calendar
October Calendar
Oct. 4 - Nov. 8
Let’s Get Cookin’
The Indian Health Board of Minneapolis will be hosting a weekly, family-based nutrition education and cooking class series...
Passing On
Mavis Jolene Resemius
Mavis “Marvelous” Jolene Resemius
June 12, 1957 - September 15, 2016
Mavis “Marvelous” Jolene Resemius, age 59, of Morton, formerly of St. Paul, passed away Thursday,...
Columnists
Moosie and Trump
Moosie checked in recently and was all morose about the upcoming presidential election. He’s voting for Hillary because he likes women, a lot, but...
Columnists
We’ve Got A lot In Common
By Nick Metcalf
This month, I’d like to write about an issue that I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about it. I’ve...
Editorials
Standing with Standing Rock On September 20, David Archambault II, chairman...
On September 20, David Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva, Switzerland.
“I am...
