Water Protectors Are Everywhere
By Winona LaDuke Water Protectors “They came from the four directions. They came from the stars. They came from the mountain, they stood and protected. They came from the depths of the beautiful ocean. They came from the corn pollen and sage they had gathered in their hands. They came wounded from generations of pain. […]
PASSING ON – March 2017
Lydia Vanessa GreyEagle May 25, 1988 – February 18, 2017 Lydia Vanessa GreyEagle, “Ho Waste Win” (Strong Voice Woman), age 28 of the Lower Sioux Community, entered the Spirit World on February 18 at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Lydia was born May 25, 1988 in Redwood Falls, Minnesota to Dan GreyEagle and […]
Nickizms: Spring, Renewal, and Food
By Nick Metcalf Spring, Renewal, and Food – Healthy Living… It’s Spring time. Yay! We’ve made it through another Minnesota winter. I’m hopeful that you got a chance to hear stories and reconnect with family. This month I want to talk about food. I realized recently that there are quite a few people disconnected from […]
“LaRose” is spiritually uplifting
By Michael Tidemann In this spiritually uplifting novel, Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) shows how one family’s sacrifice heals the sorrow of another. When Landreaux Iron accidentally kills his neighbor Peter Ravich’s son Dusty while hunting deer, a great loss falls upon both the Iron and Ravich families. After cleansing himself spiritually in a sweat lodge, […]
NATIONAL NEWS BRIEFS March 2017
DR. RUIZ CONVENES ACA REPEAL ROUNDTABLE WITH NATIVE AMERICAN LEADERS WASHINGTON, DC – In February, Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) hosted a roundtable with Rep. Frank Pallone, Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and more than 30 tribal leaders to discuss the impacts of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the Native […]
Mille Lacs Band will run Native-focused addiction treatment center (March 2017)
By Anthonly Steiner/MinnPost For years, the State of Minnesota has run Four Winds, an addiction treatment center with a focus on traditional Native American healing and recovery. The Brainerd-based program is the only one of its kind in the state, and one of only a handful in the nation. In March, the Mille Lacs Band of […]
Shame on you, Senator Klobuchar!
The U.S. Forest Service just signed off on transferring 6,650 acres of public lands in the Superior National Forest to PolyMet. That’s where the ore body is located that the company wants to mine – on public land, YOUR land. Senator Amy Klobuchar has some explaining to do. She sits on a committee that directly […]
Open Letter to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on ACA
Letters to the Editor Dear Mr. Speaker, If successful, the Republican campaign to abolish the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would repeal authorization for the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act (IHCIA), which was included in the ACA, and repeal other provisions that increased access to care for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Destroying the ACA will make […]
Nickizms Feb 2017
By Nick Metcalf What Families Teach Us About Love February has become my favorite month. Why? Because LOVE is everywhere. The commercial symbols of love are plenty. Red hearts. Valentine’s. Flowers. Everything that symbolizes love is everywhere. The art of love is difficult and confusing. This is what I’ve learned, learning to love yourself is […]
Friends, clients mourn Native-rights lawyer Larry Leventhal
Minneapolis, MN – Longtime Twin Cities civil rights attorney Larry Leventhal on Jan. 17th of pancreatic cancer. Leventhal, 75, was one of the nation’s most prominent experts on American Indian treaty rights and a committed advocate for American Indian civil rights. American Indian Movement co-founder Clyde Bellecourt remembered meeting Leventhal early on in the movement. Leventhal […]
LOCAL BRIEFS (Jan 2017)
NOT JUST STANDING ROCK: WATER SOURCES ALONG PIPELINE AT RISK DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A Native American tribe’s fight over its water source has grown into an international cause, with all attention focused on the Dakota Access pipeline’s route in southern North Dakota. But contractors on the project, which passes through three other states, […]
NICK-IZMS: Rez Born, Urban Raised (Jan 2017)
By Nick Metcalf It’s that time of year that resolutions are made and resolutions are broken. Our resolutions include losing weight, exercising more, saving money, finding another job, pay off bills, spending more time with our kids, finding love, dressing better, and on and on and on…We want change. We crave it in our life. […]