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Native Lights | stories of people within Minnesota’s Native communities
Every week in the summer groups of people gather at the Native American Medicine Garden the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. They come to talk about indigenous knowledge of plants and the ecosystem here. Reporter Melissa Townsend recently got her own lesson from the garden’s caretaker, Francis Bettelyoun.
This week on Minnesota Native News, we hear about the official renaming of a popular Minneapolis lake and listen in on a Twin Cities musician who just completed an impressive kickstarter push for her new E.P. Here’s Cole Premo.
Theater company, Turtle Theater Collective, produces a rendition of ‘Our Town,’ an American Classic. And the Duluth Art Institute hosts the work of three widely known artists in its current exhibit.