Columnists
Follies August
This is the 21st year the Fond du Lac Follies has appeared in print. Once again let us all gather around and sing together....
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Spreading the love of the Creator's Game
You’re here to bring back our game. This is the Creator’s Game. We don’t play it for ourselves – we play for Creator.”With these...
Local Briefs
Mpls. Elders’ Housing To Be Built Will Be Named Bii Di...
The American Indian Community Development Corporation, along with CommonBond Communities, was recently awarded 6.78 million dollars from the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Local Briefs
Leech Lake Tribal College Ranked Among Top Comm. Colleges
In Washington Monthly’s recently released list of college rankings, Leech Lake Tribal College (LLTC) was rated as the seventh-best community college in America, out...
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Red Lake school district fights low ranking with turnaround plan
Minnesota Public Radio NewsLong plagued by poor student performance and still reeling from a 2005 tragedy, the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation School District was...
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Lawyer with Native American roots named to federal court
A Minneapolis lawyer with roots in Northeastern Minnesota and the American Indian community has been appointed the U.S. magistrate judge for the District of...
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HOTE Survival School is torn down as Pourier is sentenced
The Heart of the Earth charter school for Native Americans in Minneapolis was torn down at the end of August, the same time that...
Latest Urban News
Three gubernatorial candidates would consider expanding gambling
Minnesota Public Radio NewsMinnesota’s three gubernatorial candidates would consider expanding gambling to help the state recover from the economic downturn, a prospect that has...
National Briefs
pow wow
Sept.Sept. 4-6 Red Lake Traditional PowWowPonemah, MN. Red Lake Nation Labor Day Traditional Pow-wow Ponemah, MN.Sept. 9-12 41st Annual United Tribes International Powwow Bismarck,...
Columnists
Dakota Activist Goes On Trial
As I wrote last December, Scott DeMuth, a young Dakota activist from Minneapolis, has been charged with conspiracy to commit “animal enterprise terrorism.” I...
Editorials
Protestors Oppose Leech Lake Tribal Council signing power line agreement
Leech Lake Tribal Chairman, Arthur “Archie” LaRose has called forth a meeting sponsored by the Leech Lake Tribal Council on the 230 kV Transmission...
Columnists
Chase Manhattan’s Red Skin In A Black & White World is...
Chase Manhattan’s two recent CD’s qualify as bike riding music, as the material stands on its own in mirror reflection of the city streets...
Columnists
It Aint Easy
“It’s a sign!” Indians will and do joke with each other about the most innocuous and naturally occurring daily happenstances as being a (gasp!)...
Columnists
Follies September
On a weekend in August we celebrated the 32nd Annual Sobriety powwow at Mashkawisen here in Sawyer. We celebrated by putting up our Free...
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NACC's Dr. Krush retires to deal with health problems
Many in the Minneapolis American Indian community are coping with the news that Dr. Carol Krush, a trusted doctor who has practiced in the...
Local Briefs
More Natives Running For Political Offices
Civic participation in Indian county appears to be on the rise. In Bemidji, there are Native American candidates running for the state Senate and...
Newsflash
2010 Annual Fundraiser for The Circle
The Circle Board of Directors: Robert Albee, Dave Bice, Brenda Child, Art Coulson, Jody Gray, Jim Lenfestey, Noah Miwa, JoAnne Stately, and Catherine Whipple (editor).And...
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Healing The Dakota's Painful Wounds Of Genocide
I believe that a peaceful cultural revolution will soon occur and that non-Native Minnesotans will, by showing appropriate respect for Native people, be changed...
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Lakota & Navajo Colloboration to help Native Youth
Porcupine, South Lakota: The Board of Directors for Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Incorporated, a non-profit organization in Porcupine, SD, and located on the Pine Ridge...
National Briefs
Lakota-Navajo Colloboration to help Native Youth
Porcupine, South Lakota: The Board of Directors for Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Incorporated, a non-profit organization in Porcupine, SD, and located on the Pine Ridge...
