Latest Reservation News
Lawsuit filed over E. coli outbreak near Cloquet
A:liThe first lawsuit has been filed as a
result of an E. coli outbreak on the Fond du Lac Lake Superior
Chippewa reservation near Cloquet earlier...
Latest Reservation News
Northern Minn. resort owner drops liquor license request
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A northern Minnesota resort owner has
withdrawn his application for a liquor license, citing pressure from
the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe.
Chris Freudenberg,...
Editorials
From the Editor's Desk: Overcoming fatalism and claiming victory
The greatest enemy we face as Native
people is fatalism. It defines our historic, current and future
struggles. From the moment the earliest European settlers put...
Editorials
Enbridge not good at math
Lorraine Little of the Enbridge
Company keeps telling regulators and the public that 96 percent of
the landowners along the proposed route of the Sandpiper Bakken...
Columnists
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
If you are a regular reader of this
column you must be familiar with my one of my major rants; the Bering
Strait Theory. Yeah, I...
Columnists
Political Matters: Washington's 'R' word
The rhetoric is escalating in the
run-up to the Minnesota-Washington NFL game. A new stadium is under
construction downtown on the site of the former Metrodome,...
Columnists
Nick-izms: Rez Born, Urban Raised
As Native people, from a diverse world
views, we have a lot more in common than we don’t. ‘Am I Indian
enough?’, ‘Living in an...
Local Briefs
Regional and Local Briefs: September 2014
NO WRONGDOING FOUND IN TASERING OF 8
YEAR-OLD ROSEBUD CHILD
PIERRE, S.D. – Two months after an 8
year-old girl was tasered by a police officer in...
National Briefs
National Briefs: September 2014
VIDEO CALLS OUT FEDEX FOR WASHINGTON
TEAM SPONSORSHIP
PAWHUSKA, Okla. – The Native Voice
Network released a video on Sept. 7, urging the courier company FedEx
to end...
Calendar
September 2014 Calendar
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Through Nov. 15
“On Fertile Ground: Native Artists
in the Upper Midwest”
Join us to celebrate the wealth and
diversity of Native artists from...
Community News
What's New In the Community: September 2014
AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION
ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD MEMBERS
The American Indian Cancer Foundation,
a national nonprofit committed to eliminating cancer and its impact
on American Indian families, announced...
Calendar
August 2014 Calendar
Aug. 13
Circle of Generations Teaching
Circle
Dakota Language with Neil McKay, 4-5
p.m.; Teaching Circle, 5 to 7:30 p.m.; Tipi Painting with Endaso
Giizhik (Robert Desjarlait); and Nagamowin...
Passing On
Passing On: Ivan Randal Wanstall
Ivan Randal Wanstall
November 13, 1963 – July 11, 2014
The son of Marshall Edward and Elaine
Sage Wanstall, Ivan Randal Wanstall took his spirit journey on...
Columnists
Fond du Lac Follies
By now we
should all know that Lex Porter of the Fond du Lac Reservation should
be recognized as one of the Code Talkers who helped...
Columnists
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
In another dazzling display of
culturally entrenched racism against the First Peoples of Turtle
Island Ted Nugent called us “Unclean vermin” who “don’t
qualify as people.” He...
Columnists
Political Matters: PolyMet and the race for auditor
End of an era
In a recent email from Alfred Walking
Bull, The Circle’s editor, I was reminded that this edition
of the newspaper would include Jim...
Cover Story
The Gift: Iroquois Nationals at the World Lacrosse Championships
“Lacrosse is our gift to the world.
The game is a microcosm of the big game of life. We are in that arena
right now.”
Chief...
Cover Story
The Age of AIM:The American Indian Movement turns 46
Clyde Bellecourt was naked, locked in
a dark, solitary cell in the bowels of Stillwater State Prison.
Almost two weeks had passed since the 32 year-old...
Latest Reservation News
Honor the Earth Launches ‘Love Water Not Oil’ Northern Tour
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DULUTH, Minn. – From August to
September, Honor the Earth will sponsor an organizing and outreach
tour in northern Minnesota, aimed at engaging...
Editorials
Letter to the Editor: Former SPPS Indian Education Supervisors speaks out
To the editor
I am writing concerned about the
article on June 19 entitled, “American Indian parents demand
changes in St. Paul School programs. It seems to...
