The lives of three remarkable American Indians
Review by Deborah Locke Three biographies for children in grades three to five highlight the lives of important American Indian from the Upper Midwest: Charles Albert Bender, the first Minnesotan inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame; Ella Cara Deloria, Dakota language preservationist and nationally known anthropologist; and Peggy Flanagan, current Minnesota Lieutenant Governor. […]
Statues to brutal colonizers are falling everywhere
By Winona LaDuke “Historian Here: Tearing down a statue is not erasing history. Putting up a statue on land whose original caretakers you can’t name is.” – Nick Estes, Lakota Historian. Across the country statues of empire are tumbling. The idols are indeed falling, the American idols that is. This is not just about statutes. […]
MN Elects First Native Lt. Governor
By Camille Erickson On Nov. 6, 2018, Minnesotans elected Peggy Flanagan to be the state’s first American Indian lieutenant governor, and the first American Indian ever elected to statewide executive office in U.S. history. How she got there: On an overcast Saturday in October 2017, then-gubernatorial candidate Tim Walz (DFL-Mankato) and his running mate Peggy […]
Peggy Flanagan could become the highest ranking Native woman to hold public office
BY CAMILLE ERICKSON “It matters that people see themselves reflected in the leaders that represent them, “said state Rep. Peggy Flanagan (DFL-St. Louis Park). Joining U.S. Rep. Tim Walz’s (DFL-Mankato) bid for governor of Minnesota, Flanagan, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe, will run for lieutenant governor in next year’s gubernatorial election. […]
NEWS: Nov 2017
WALZ PICKS FLANAGAN TO RUN IN MN GOVERNOR’S RACE ST. PAUL, MN – Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Walz has chosen state Rep. Peggy Flanagan as his running mate for Governor. Walz has represented southern Minnesota in Congress for more than a decade. “Peggy’s vast knowledge and expertise will be some-thing I rely on daily,” Walz […]
Line 3 proposal shows willful ignorance of Ojibwe history and rights
By The Native American Caucus and the Minnesota House of Representatives In all the coverage of Enbridge Energy’s proposed Line 3 pipeline project, and in the recent and predictable pro-pipeline commentary by an Enbridge vice president, John Swanson, (Star Tribune: “Line 3 replacement is the safest option for northern Minnesota, July 2017”) we have heard […]