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MN Native News: Cultural Lessons for Kids at Home

 Lives are changing drastically due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people are out of work, more and more people are holding work meetings virtually, and everyone is making major adjustments. Students are also home from school. Which means families are trying to find ways to keep the learning going. And for Native students, there are online resources that provide culturally focused learning through language and art.

Minnesota Native News: Women Speak for the Water

This Week on Minnesota Native News we’re at the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council meeting where a group of women from around the state speak up for the water.


Minnesota Native News: Native Voices

This week on Minnesota Native News – protests over the Sandpiper oil pipeline at the Governor’s Water Summit and Big changes are in the works for Fort Snelling historical site.

Minnesota Native News: Schools Try New Ways to Engage Native Parents

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear how the head of American Indian Education at Minneapolis Public Schools is developing a new, “more indigenous” approach to engage American Indian parents in their children’s education.


Meet the host of National Native News: Antonia Gonzales

This profile of National Native News Host Antonia Gonzales is provided by WTIP Community Radio in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

Women’s History Month 2016 – 23 piece series

March is Women’s History Month and we’re celebrating the women of Minnesota making history today. This series includes a 60-second piece for each weekday in March – profiling MN women who lead, create and Inspire. This year the honorees include many women from the Northland as well as some nationally recognized women both past and present. Stations may air any or all of the 23 msegments here.


Minnesota Native News: Out with the Old, In with the New

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about the upcoming Minnesota Chippewa Tribe elections, preliminary decisions to move some offensive art in the state capitol building, and 4 people arrested for protesting the proposed Sandpiper Pipeline get their day in court.

Minnesota Native News: Winter Traditions

This week on Minnesota Native News: Bois Forte Chairman Kevin Leecey addresses the Band with his annual speech, and Hope Flanagan tells traditional Ojibwe stories in Minneapolis.


Minnesota Native News: Don’t Forget about Us

This week on Minnesota Native News: American Indian advocates attempt to address state legislators about deep racial disparities in Minnesota.


Minnesota Native News: Taking the Next Steps

This week on Minnesota Native News: the White Earth Band of Ojibwe regroups after Chairwoman Erma Vizenor’s resigns, 4 protestors with The 1855 Treaty Authority get their first day in court, and tribal leaders meet the new head of the state Department of Human Services.


Minnesota Native News: Interview with Former White Earth Chair Erma Vizenor

Intro: On Wednesday, January 20th Erma Vizenor resigned as the Chairwoman of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. The move comes after 3 months of contentious back and forth between Vizenor and three members of the White Earth tribal council that ended in Vizenor being censured by the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. On this special edition of Minnesota Native News, reporter Melissa Townsend talks with Erma Vizenor just hours after she submitted her letter of resignation.

Outro: That was Minnesota Native News reporter Melissa Townsend speaking with – now former – White Earth Chairwoman Erma Vizenor from her home on the White Earth Reservation.


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