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Weekend Calendar: March 28, 2015
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March 28
Fix-It Tech Clinic
A community technology education event
providing free computer hardware repair, education and technical
support.
Have a computer question or issue? If
your computer or laptop...
Columnists
It Ain't Easy Being Indian: April 2015
A few months ago my son Steve visited
me and my friends at the Risky Raccoon Kasino Hotel where we were
staying for a powwow. My...
Columnists
Political Matters: U.S. Steel vs. manoomin
In late March, Minnesota Gov. Mark
Dayton said that the state’s environmental standard for protecting
manoomin (wild rice) was outdated scientifically and was threatening
industrial development Up...
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Weekend Calendar: March 20-22, 2015
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March 20
Aliveness Project NNHAAD HIV Testing
Day
In observance of National Native
HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, local organizations serving Native American
communities...
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Weekend Calendar: March 14-15, 2015
March 14-15
Cherish the Children Traditional Pow
Wow
Co-emcees: Jerry Dearly and Reuben
Crowfeather; Host Drum: Oyate Teca; Head Dancers: Kyle Bear Heels and
Trina Fast Horse. The first...
Editorials
From the Editor's Desk: Remembering identity across generations
The weather, as is its nature this
time of year, brings up memories of things past and the things
without which, we continue to live.
The news...
Editorials
Guest Column: Trahant Reports
The power of Native voters …
beginning of a beautiful trend
I have been writing for years about
the success – well, at least mostly – of...
Columnists
Nick-izms: Rez Born, Urban Raised
Being 'Indian' enough
This month I wanted to write about
being Indian, Native American, First Nations, the original People
from Turtle Island, tribally-specific names, etc. I wanted...
Columnists
It Ain't Easy Being Indian: March 2015
After 10 years without I have
satellite again thanks to my Brother Mike W. I’m absolutely
addicted to the H2 channel when it’s about Ancient Aliens...
Cover Story
The Art of Resistance
Art is powerful. For Indigenous
communities, art is medicine with incredible healing properties. It
is a way to create beauty in the messy process of decolonization....
Cover Story
Understanding Racial Tension in Rapid City
A 41-year-old man was charged with
disorderly conduct for his behavior during a Rapid City Rush hockey
game in January, during which Lakota children from the...
Latest Urban News
Out & About: March 2015
A Conversation with Eve, Winona and
Louise
“Until we can trust our own
hearts, we cannot have a revolution.”
Eve Ensler’s words permeated
throughout the auditorium at the...
Latest Reservation News
Mushkooub Aubid: Passing of a Great Leader
"They
just can't go to a hospital and take a body from the ER and put it
back into the station wagon and drive away," Aitken...
Editorials
What Would Ingrid Do? War and Peace in Columbia
“We must recognize that
we have hit bottom and that war dehumanizes and dehumanizes us,"
– Juan Manuel Santos,
President of Columbia
This month marks the 15th
anniversary...
The Arts
REVIEW: "The Road Back to Sweetgrass"
By Linda LeGarde Grover
Publisher: University of Minnesota
Press
September 2014
194 pages
Anishinaabe author, Linda LeGarde
Grover (Boise Forte Band of Ojibwe) contributes to the nation’s
literary achievement in...
The Arts
Celebrating George Morrison, the founder of Native modernism
Artist George Morrison was born in a
Native American fishing village near Lake Superior, but his art
career took him all around the world.
He studied at...
Community News
What's New In The Community: March 2015
Four tribal students win big at MN
High School League Dance Tournament
Left to right: Jordyn Spry, Jensen Spry
(both Grand Portage Band), Clarissa Pederson (Lac Courte...
Local Briefs
Regional and Local Briefs: March 2015
FOND DU LAC BAND TO SPEND $3 MILLION ON
MORE MODERN LOOK AT CASINO
DULUTH, MN – The Fond du Lac Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa Indians...
National Briefs
National Briefs: March 2015
SENATE FAILS TO OVERRIDE KEYSTONE XL
VETO
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate
failed on March 4 to override President Barack Obama's veto of
legislation approving the Keystone...