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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
This week, we hear about the homeless initiative recently announced by Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan aimed at getting people shelter over the winter. And, our movie reviewer Gerry Zink weighs in on the new Star Wars film.
This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Melissa Townsend talks with Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin about her visit with President Trump and her reactions to a new Executive Order on Missing and Murdered Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe held it’s 2nd annual tribal Opioid Response Summit on December 12-14, Northern Lights Casino.
The three-day summit attended by nearly 200 Band members is the collaborative effort of 14 Leech Lake programs.
Reporter Kayla Duoos has the story.
This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Melissa Townsend tells us about the 35th Annual Native American Journalists Association Conference hosted at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community the week of September 15th
Musical groups from around North America gathered in early November at the Seneca Niagara Events Center at Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino in Niagara Falls, NY for the 19th Annual Native American Music Awards ceremony.
Among artists nominated for an award… a relatively new musical group from Northern MN.
This week on Minnesota Native News, we hear from the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, which just received a $500,000 grant from the Bush Foundation. We also check out the Minnesota Indian Education Association Conference in Hinckley.
