Calendar
Week of April 6 2014 Calendar
April 9
deadline
Construction
Trade Training
Summit
Academy OIC is accepting applications for construction jobs for the
new football stadium and for free construction trade training.
Training for pipefitters, plumbers, ironworkers...
Cover Story
Playwright Explores Identity Through Family
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“In a
World Created by a Drunken God” made its United States premiere at
Mixed Blood Theater's “Seconds: A Festival of Readings” on...
Cover Story
Indigenous Peoples Day Set for Minneapolis Vote
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Columbus Day in Minneapolis may soon be
celebrated as Indigenous Peoples Day if a coalition of advocates,
city leaders and organizations can...
Latest Urban News
PHOTO ESSAY: Ain Dah Yung's Cherish the Children Pow Wow
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SAINT PAUL, Minn. – The Ain Dah Yung
Center's 16th Annual Cherish the Children Traditional Pow
Wow was held March 15-16 at...
Local Briefs
Regional and Local Briefs
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RED LAKE NATION CANDIDATES FILE FOR
ELECTION
RED LAKE, Minn. – More than 30 Red
Lake candidates filed for seven seats on the...
National Briefs
National Briefs: April 2014
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SCHIMMELS PROFILED IN HBO SPECIAL
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – HBO’s “Real
Sports With Bryant Gumbel” profiled the much-vaunted Native
American women's college basketball sisters...
Community News
What's New In The Community: April 2014
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Saint Mary's Student Jennifer Waltman Earns Bush Fellowship Award
Jennifer Waltman, a Saint Mary’s
University of Minnesota student in the Doctor of...
Latest Urban News
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: All My Relations presents provocative images in Maggie...
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When you think of your cultural and
ethnic identity, is there a piece of cloth – a sown or painted
tapestry, a beaded...
Columnists
Fond du Lac Follies
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }I really like winter. The cold and the
snow stay outside my little HUD house. I especially like the tree
shadows on...
Columnists
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
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Yet more wintry weather is on the way
and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. I mean,...
Columnists
Political Matters: Next steps for PolyMet
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the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency weighed in on the
Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the PolyMet
sulfide mine, near Babbit,...
Calendar
April 2014 Calendar
Ongoing
NACC MNsure
Navigators are still able to assist those who have no income or who
are low-income in applying for Medicaid and MinnesotaCare. If you
attempted...
Community News
What's New In The Community: March 2014
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Rachel
Limon wins 2013 Minnesota Consular Corps Award
Rachel
Limon, International Trade Representative of the...
Cover Story
Facing Pipelines and Mines
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Tribal
Governments Push Ahead
In Anishinaabe Akiing some new mining
proposals, and pipelines threaten the water and land of this region.
This past...
Latest Reservation News
Tribes Begin Defense Against Keystone XL
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Spiritual Encampments Planned Along
Proposed Route
With the release
of a U.S. State Department environmental impact study of the
controversial Keystone XL pipeline that...
Editorials
From the Editor's Desk: Thinking Beyond Our Own Salvation
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Whether by flood, fire or rapture,
almost every culture has its own form of eschatology. There seems to
be no end in...
Latest Urban News
Lacrosse Clinics Teach Culture and Engage Community
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Indigenous Lax kicked off its first
lacrosse clinic on Feb. 15 with special guest speaker and Edmonton
Rush...
Columnists
Political Matters: Mining in the Penokee Hills
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Mining in the Penokee Hills
I’ve devoted several recent
“Political Matters” columns to the environmental threat posed by
sulfide mining in northeastern Minnesota,...
Columnists
Fond du Lac Follies
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C'mere I want to tell you a story. Once
upon a time, no wait, that is the wrong story. How about...
Columnists
It Ain't Easy Being Indian
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Just now as of this writing I confirmed
plans to attend the Stop the Wolf Hunt rally in St. Paul, Minn....
