This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about the state’s first Dakota Language Bowl. Organizers and participants say it’s a fun way to harness people’s competitive spirit and motivate them to learn Dakota — a language many are trying to revive.
Pat, who is going on 107 years old, says she was surprised that her difficulty breathing was caused by a heart problem, not her lungs.
In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, the “untold story” is one that, in our recent economic environment, lingers dangerously at the edge of everyone’s life, and this would be homelessness. For the next half hour or so, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down with representatives from the United Way of Central Minnesota and Catholic Charities of St. Cloud to discuss a special photography exhibit hosted at the Paramount Theater’s St. Germain Gallery. It’s called “Homeless is my Address . . . Not My Name” and it sheds a new light on what is homelessness in our community and what we can do about it.
