Columnists
It ain’t easy being indian
At long last spring is showing up around here. Us Nort’ Landers just experienced one of the longest, most miserable, record-shattering winter snowfalls ever....
Calendar
Community Calendar May 2013
May 1
Indian Month Kick Off
Come celebrate community and the start of MN American Indian Month at the 2013 MN American Indian Month Kickoff...
Passing On
Ernest Wabasha -September 2, 1929 – March 28, 2013
Ernest “Ernie” Wabasha (age 83) of the Lower Sioux Community, journeyed to the Spirit World surrounded by family and loved ones on Thursday, March...
Cover Story
Cancer Survivor Sues HealthPartners for Discrimination
Roger Jeffers (Sisseton Sioux), a 50-year-old bladder cancer survivor, says that he was the victim of racial discrimination while seeking treatment for post-chemotherapy-related health...
Cover Story
Bluedog makes it to final rounds of the Battle of the...
This month, Bluedog will be one of four bands competing in the final round of Battle of the Blues Bands on April 7th (4:30-7:30...
Community News
WHATS NEW IN THE COMMUNITY:
Maria Bird collaborates with AICF to raise funds for Cancer
American Indian Cancer Foundation (aicaf.org) is partnering with artist Maria Bird (Navajo/Hopi/Santa Clara Pueblo),...
Latest Urban News
Expanded Violence Against Women Act to cover some Indian women
Advocates for Indian women in Minnesota are hailing a decision by Congress to reauthorize and expand the Violence Against Women Act.
For years, the law...
Latest Reservation News
Wounded Knee Fortieth Anniversary Honored
People came from the Four Directions to gather at the historic village of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, on...
Latest Urban News
River Water Walkers draw attention to pollution in Mississippi River
A group of walkers led by Native women are carrying a copper pail of water from the headwaters of the Mississippi in Minnesota to...
Columnists
Political Matters: Native Issues in the Halls of Government
Meeting the activists
In late March I motored over to the Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC), from the far east of the Powderhorn neighborhood, for...
Columnists
It ain’t easy being indian
Quite by accident I was awake very early this past Palm Sunday. I flipped through my few TV channels and ended up watching a...
Columnists
Fond du Lac Follies
Fond du Lac Follies jetted to Phoenix, Arizona for an event at the Heard Museum. My wife Patricia accompanied me. We didn’t make our...
events
POWWOW CALENDAR APRIL 2013
April 6
29th Annual Circle of
Nations Powwow
Traditional powwow. Morris, MN. University of Minnesota, Morris. MC: Jerry Dearly. AD: Tracy Peterson. Host Drum:...
Calendar
Community Calendar April 2013
April thru June
SMSC Mobile Unit
Spring Schedule
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) helps local organizations and Minnesota tribal communities through its mobile medical clinic, the...
Latest
Reaffirming our relationship with Ma'iigan
As Minnesota DNR rushed a hunting season shortly after Ma'iigan was taken off the Endangered Species List. Supporters of Ma'iigan take to the state...
Education
Reaffirming our relationship to Ma'iigan
I was appalled after seeing ¼ of the wolf population taken
out in one hunting season. I have three primary concerns in regards to the...
Cover Story
EWCS Honors Pat Bellanger With Song
The Elders' Wisdom Children's Song (EWCS) program honored Anishinabe Ojibwe elder Pat Bellanger on February 12th at a celebration at Sanford Middle School in...
Cover Story
Acclaimed author Louise Erdrich among Earth Train passengers to D.C.
Acclaimed Anishinabe author Louise Erdrich was one of about 70 Minnesotans who boarded the Earth Train bound for the Forward on Climate Rally in...
Latest Reservation News
Land grab cheats North Dakota tribes out of $1 billion, suits...
Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for...
Community News
WHATS NEW IN THE COMMUNITY:
Native Woman Finds Her Birth Mother, Who Turned Out To Be Native Super-Model
Susan Fedorko found her birth mother when she was 40 years old....
