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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: Pro-American Indian and Pro-Development

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis recently held a roundtable conversation about helping American Indians and Alaska Natives build their own homes on trust land. Home ownership has the potential to stabilize communities, build regional economies and create generational wealth for Native families. Reporter Melissa Townsend speaks with one woman helping break down the barriers to home ownership for American Indians.


Minnesota Native News: Fond du Lac Water Gathering

The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Natural Resources Division recently co-hosted a community event celebrating water and discussing the impact of climate change on the region.


Minnesota Native News: Those who Intervene

This week on Minnesota Native News, the permitting process for the line 3 oil pipeline replacement project is moving forward, a small group of Red Lakers work to reclaim its namesake lake and reaction to Trump’s announcement about reconsidering national monuments.


Minnesota Native News: Celebrations & Honorings

This week on Minnesota Native News: will Natives be counted in the 2020 census, water protectors tell their story in the Minneapolis May Day Parade and the 6th Annual Pow Wow for Hope honors Natives whose lives have been touched by cancer.

Minnesota Native News: Rethinking History

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a new agreement between Native and city leaders in Minneapolis and an exhibition of Native female artists coming to UMD.

Minnesota Native News: Cultural Ties

This week on Minnesota Native News, Red Lake Chairman calls out Trump’s Budget, St Cloud State hosts their popular annual pow wow, Mille Lacs tests Ojibwe knowledge and Inuit games come to Minnesota.


Minnesota Native News: Lessons from the Past

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear lingering concerns over Minnesota’s involvement in police actions around the DAPL protests last year, classes held on the unique nature of indigenous pottery in our state, and an ancient site may get a new name.


Minnesota Native News: Four Winds

This week on Minnesota Native News, we hear about new efforts to revive a culturally specific treatment program for Natives struggling with addiction, movies at the Walker focus on Native film makers and a new murder mystery from Minneapolis based Anishinaabe writer Marcie Rendon.


Minnesota Native News: Gatherings

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about next steps in the proposed Line 3 oil pipeline project, developing resources for Native elders with dementia and a Minnesota screening of Red Power Energy, a film about energy initiatives in Indian country.


Minnesota Native News: Native Nations Rise

By bus, car and plane, thousands of Natives and allies gathered in Washington D.C. last week for the Native Nations Rise March. The event was organized by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the Native Organizers Alliance and the Indigenous Environmental Network based in Bemidji, Minnesota. Reporter Melissa Townsend tells us more about some of the Minnesotans who made the trek for the March 10th event.


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