Local Briefs
Regional and Local Briefs: October 2014
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BAD HEART BULL SELECTED FOR ECONOMIC
FELLOWSHIP
MINNEAPOLIS– The Business Alliance
for Living Local Economies, an Oakland, Calif.-based organization,
announced Jay Bad Heart Bull as a fellow for...
National Briefs
National Briefs: October 2014
FINAL ROUND OF PAYMENTS MADE IN COBELL
SETTLEMENT
HELENA, MT – Hundreds of thousands of
Native Americans received the final cash payments the week of Sept.
16 from...
Calendar
October 2014 Calendar
Through Nov. 15
“On Fertile Ground: Native Artists in
the Upper Midwest”
Join us to celebrate the wealth and
diversity of Native artists from this region. This exhibition...
Calendar
Weekend Calendar: Sept. 12-14
Sept. 12-14
Bob Brown Memorial/Mendota's 15th
Annual Traditional Wacipi
Emcee: Mitch Walking Elk; Arena
Director: Windy Down Wind; Host Drum: Scotty Brown Eyes; Co-Host
Drum: Luttle Thunder Birds; Men's...
Cover Story
Bdote Learning Center opens in South Minneapolis
On Aug. 25, a sunny morning in
Minneapolis, Bdote Learning Center opened. The historic beginning
marked the end of six years of planning and developing as...
The Arts
Native Man The Musical redefines Native masculinity
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The paradigm of Native American
manhood shifted with New Native Theatre's production of “Native Man
the Musical, Phase I,” performed at the Minnesota...
Latest Reservation News
Honor the Earth paddles in protest against Sandpiper pipeline
BEMIDJI, Minn. – An environmental
group took to the water on July 31 to protest a proposed oil pipeline
in northern Minnesota. About 20 members of...
Latest Reservation News
Ojibwe Language and Culture Camp Held at Ponemah
For the second year in a row, the Red
Lake Band of Chippewa Indians hosted an Ojibwe Language and Culture
Camp for youth. The camp was...
Latest Urban News
University faculty push for Ojibwe, Dakota languages to become majors
Some faculty members within the
University of Minnesota’s Department of American Indian Studies are
trying to preserve two languages indigenous to the state.
Currently, students don’t have...
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...