Calendar
Weekend Calendar: Aug. 8-9, 2015
Aug.
8
“Honoring
Community through Strength and Healing”
Natives
Against Heroin invite the community for its First Annual Traditional
Powwow to sing and dance for those who have overcome addiction,...
Cover Story
Ojibwe Culture Celebrated at Ponemah Round House
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For the third year in a row, the Red
Lake Band hosted an Ojibwe Language and Culture Camp for youth
from July...
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Minnesota’s tribes face threat from currency markets
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On the beautiful North Shore, citizens
of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe often keep one eye
looking out over...
Latest Reservation News
Dayton: Mille Lacs walleye woes require special session
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DFL Gov. Mark Dayton is proposing a
special legislative session in August to consider an emergency
financial aid package for resorts and...
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Appeals court upholds DNR decision to deny permit to bear researcher
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A three-judge panel of the Minnesota
Court of Appeals has upheld a state agency's decision to keep
researcher Lynn Rogers from putting...
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Federal officials reject threatened status for wolves
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on
June 30 rejected a petition to classify the gray wolf as threatened
under the federal...
Latest Urban News
Confronting Calhoun: a bike ride meets the living legacy of white...
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Independence Day 2015. We were
Indigenous, Eritrian, Nigerian, Korean, Sudanese, Black-American,
White, Puerto-Rican, Columbian, parents, dancers, teachers, artists,
queer, avid cyclists, borrowing bicycles...
The Arts
A Goldilocks show at Bockley Gallery: Not too big, not too...
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Minneapolis warehouse district’s Wyman Building in September 1984,
dealer Todd Bockley has carved out an idiosyncratic...
Editorials
Letters: Welcome Back to MPS Native Families
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It’s hard to believe we’re
approaching yet another school year here in Minneapolis. Native
families will spend this month scrambling to hold...
Community News
What's New In The Community: August 2015
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Bemidji’s American Indian Resource
Center names new director
(By Lee Egerstrom) Bill Blackwell Jr.
became director of the novel, two-school American Indian Resource
Center...
Local Briefs
Regional and Local Briefs: August 2015
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FDL SCORES ANOTHER COURT WIN AGAINST
CITY OF DULUTH
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Fond du Lac
Band of Ojibwe does not owe...
National Briefs
National Briefs: August 2015
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CHOCTAW ACTIVIST DEATH BEING
INVESTIGATED IN MISSISSIPPI
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – A private
autopsy is under way for Rexdale W. Henry, a 53-year-old man...
Columnists
Nick-izms: Rez Born, Urban Raised
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Back to School
It’s this time of year that those of
us with children are busy getting kids ready for school. We...
Editorials
From the Editor's Desk: Learning lessons from the past, going forward
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Every six months, Isaac Iron Shell, Sr.
would take his cattle to the stock market and sell what he
could. Shortly thereafter, his...
Editorials
GUEST COLUMN: Trahant Reports
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Presidential Debate season begins on
Aug. 6
What do you do with sixteen
candidates? It’s a thorny problem for Republicans. Why’s
that? Because right now...
Calendar
August 2015 Calendar
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Through Aug. 21
The World Through Our Eyes
The World Through Our Eyes is an
exhibition of works by eight Two Spirit artists...
Cover Story
Rally Against Pipeline Expansion
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On June 6, more than 5,000 colorful,
committed marchers snaked through the streets of downtown St. Paul
from the banks of the...
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A History of Owamni Yomni: Lock Closures Signal Healing for Mississippi...
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To the Dakota, the only waterfall on
the Mississippi and its surroundings is known as Owamni Yomni
(Whirlpool), revered for centuries as...
Latest Reservation News
Mille Lacs diversifies with ties that bind
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When his peers in the Native American
Finance Officers Association honored Joe Nayquonabe, Jr. this spring
as their Executive of the Year,...
Latest Reservation News
First Leech Lake Two Spirit Awareness Day held
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June 17 marked an historic moment in
Minnesota Indian Country: the first Two Spirit LGBT Awareness Day on
the Leech Lake Reservation...
