Ojibwe Culture Celebrated at Ponemah Round House

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } For the third year in a row, the Red Lake Band hosted an Ojibwe Language and Cul­ture Camp for youth from July...

Minnesota’s tribes face threat from currency markets

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On the beautiful North Shore, citizens of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe often keep one eye looking out over...

Dayton: Mille Lacs walleye woes require special session

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } DFL Gov. Mark Dayton is proposing a special legislative session in August to consider an emergency financial aid package for resorts and...

Appeals court upholds DNR decision to deny permit to bear researcher

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } A three-judge panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld a state agency's decision to keep researcher Lynn Rogers from putting...

Federal officials reject threatened status for wolves

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on June 30 rejected a petition to classify the gray wolf as threatened under the federal...

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...

A Goldilocks show at Bockley Gallery: Not too big, not too...

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in;Since opening his first gallery in the Minneapolis warehouse district’s Wyman Building in September 1984, dealer Todd Bockley has carved out an idiosyncratic...

Letters: Welcome Back to MPS Native Families

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } It’s hard to believe we’re approaching yet another school year here in Minneapolis. Native families will spend this month scrambling to hold...

What's New In The Community: August 2015

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } 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...

Regional and Local Briefs: August 2015

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } FDL SCORES ANOTHER COURT WIN AGAINST CITY OF DULUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe does not owe...

National Briefs: August 2015

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } CHOCTAW ACTIVIST DEATH BEING INVESTIGATED IN MISSISSIPPI PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – A private autopsy is under way for Rexdale W. Henry, a 53-year-old man...

Nick-izms: Rez Born, Urban Raised

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Back to School It’s this time of year that those of us with children are busy getting kids ready for school. We...

From the Editor's Desk: Learning lessons from the past, going forward

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in Every six months, Isaac Iron Shell, Sr. would take his cattle to the stock mar­ket and sell what he could. Shortly there­after, his...

GUEST COLUMN: Trahant Reports

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in;  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...

August 2015 Calendar

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Through Aug. 21 The World Through Our Eyes The World Through Our Eyes is an exhibition of works by eight Two Spirit artists...

Rally Against Pipeline Expansion

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On June 6, more than 5,000 colorful, committed marchers snaked through the streets of downtown St. Paul from the banks of the...

A History of Owamni Yomni: Lock Closures Signal Healing for Mississippi...

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } To the Dakota, the only waterfall on the Mississippi and its surroundings is known as Owamni Yomni (Whirlpool), revered for centuries as...

Mille Lacs diversifies with ties that bind

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } When his peers in the Native American Finance Officers Association honored Joe Nayquonabe, Jr. this spring as their Executive of the Year,...

First Leech Lake Two Spirit Awareness Day held

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } June 17 marked an historic moment in Minnesota Indian Country: the first Two Spirit LGBT Awareness Day on the Leech Lake Reservation...

Powwow for Hope a Success

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Over 3,000 people attended the 4th Annual Powwow for Hope: Dancing for Life, Love & Hope on May 2 in Minneapolis. The Native...