Environment
Leonard Peltier gets to go home, after decades in prison
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after being imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Nichols-VanNett plays basketball for NCAA DI at IU Indy
By Dan Ninham
Shania Nichols-VanNett is from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. She is currently a basketball player for NCAA DI Indiana University Indianapolis...
Political Matters
Political Matters – February 2025
By Mordecai Specktor
Biden commutes Peltier’s sentence
In one of his last official acts, on Jan. 20, Pres. Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard...
Environment
Wazíya Winter-Wind Celebration honors the winter months
By K.E. MacPhie
January is called Witeḣi Wi or “The Time of Hardship Moon” in the Dakota language. So what a bright and wonderful idea...
Calendar
Community Calendar – February 2025
ONGOING
Grief Support Group
An open group that provides space for community members to connect with one another, share their experiences, learn new coping skills, gain...
Native Arts
The Fry Bread Band has tremendous talent
By Dan Ninham
For the past three years Joe Covert has been the social studies and music teacher at Nay Ah Shing School on the...
Book Review
A memoir that will make readers reflect and grow
Review by Deborah Locke
There is this saying that when a student is ready, a teacher will appear. With “Whiskey Tender A Memoir” by Deborah...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Aint Easy Being Indian – February 2025
By Ricey Wild
What about the price of eggs?! I hate to admit that I need laying chickens because I love eating their young. I’ve...
Cover Story
Natives win public service to higher urban offices
By Lee Egerstrom
The Twin Cities have some of the most diverse local political leadership teams to be found anywhere in the United States and...
Cover Story
Mural celebrates Frogtown/Rondo neighborhoods through a Native lens
By K.E. Macphie
After weeks of anticipation, a stunning new mural celebrating the Frogtown and Rondo neighborhoods through a Native lens was unveiled on Native...
Environment
ND is committed to punishing Water Protectors, not polluters
By Winona LaDuke
It’s eight years since the Water Protectors were cleared off the banks of Cannonball and Missouri River. It was a bitter ending...
National Briefs
New Briefs – January 2025
Minneapolis Invests in Affordable Housing Projects, Including NACC
Minneapolis, MN – The city of Minneapolis is investing in 11 affordable rental housing projects, including the...
Environment
‘Niimiwin’ art exhibit celebrates the powwow tradition
By Allison Herrera/MPR News
“Niimiwin” is the latest exhibit at All My Relations Arts in south Minneapolis. The title “Niimiwin” means “everyone dance,” a nod...
Native Arts
Winter Woodland Royalty Collection by Adrienne Benjamin
By Dan Ninham
Wendy Merrill (enrolled member and D2 Representative of the Mille Lacs Band) hosted the Adult Christmas Party on December 22, 2024 at...
Profiles: Native Americans in Sports
Foster inducted into Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame
By Dan Ninham
Shelly Foster was recently inducted into the 2025 North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame. She is a member of the Red...
Calendar
Community Calendar – January 2025
ONGOING
Grief Support Group
An open group that provides space for community members to connect with one another, share their experiences, learn new coping skills, gain...
Political Matters
Political Matters – January 2025
By Mordecai Specktor
Yintah means ‘land’
In my Dec. 2024 column, I wrote about threats to the environment and to tribal sovereignty posed by the incoming...
Joe Nayquonabe Sr.
Joe Nayquonabe Sr – January 2025
By Joe Nayquonabe Sr
(Editor’s note: Orignally published in August 2023 in the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe’s Ojibwe Inaajimowin newspaper.)
A long time ago and...
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
It Ain’t Easy Being Indian – January 2025
By Ricey Wild
“Happy” New Year? One hopes it will be. But the impressions I am getting, it may be more like “Hunker Down Year”...
Cover Story
Bison make a comeback with tribal help
By K.E. MacPhie
Earlier this year, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) brought bison back to the traditional land of the Dakota people for the first...
