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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
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Native Lights | stories of people within Minnesota’s Native communities
Making a career in the arts can be a challenge, but Native Artists are found flourishing in the sector. There are many lessons to learn from them – from combating misconceptions to the necessity of art for community health. Reporter Leah Lemm has the story about this program hosted by The University of Minnesota Twin Cities Department of American Indian Studies.
Reporter Melissa Townsend sits down with Dr. Arne Vainio and Dr. Mary Owen to talk about the rising rates of diabetes in Native communities and other issues in culturally appropriate Native healthcare.
Dr. Vainio is from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. We is a physician at the tribal clinic on the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation.
Dr. Owen is Tlinket from southeast Alaska. She is a family physician at the Leech Lake tribal clinic in Cass Lake. She is also the Director of the Center on American Indian and Minority Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She is based in Duluth, Minnesota.
For decades now there have been active efforts to recruit more American Indians to be medical doctors. Reporter Melissa Townsend has this report about why Native doctors are so important and how well current recruitment efforts are succeeding.
A grassroots effort to help people struggling with opioid addiction is expanding from Minneapolis to Duluth. Since 2016 Natives Against Heroin has lead street outreach efforts, community gatherings and sweat lodges to promote healing.
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about new efforts to care for those struggling with opioid addiction in Minneapolis and Duluth, and a Dakota Community Council partners with the Minnesota Historical Society to envision a new way to honor the history at Fort Snelling in Minneapolis.
