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Minnesota Native News: Farms, Sacred Sites and Police Navigators

This week on Minnesota Native News we check in on a Native coalition’s work on the federal farm bill, more fallout from the Minnesota legislative session and Minneapolis police reach out to that city’s urban Native communities.


Minnesota Native News: Poet Joan Naviyuk Kane Joins North Woods Writing Conference, & Treasure Island Resort & Casino Presents Native American Heritage Night.

Poet and current Guggenheim Fellow, Joan Naviyuk Kane, teaches at the Minnesota North Woods Writing Conference in Bemidji…
And Treasure Island Resort & Casino Hosts Native American Heritage Night with the Saint Paul Saints at CHS Field in Saint Paul.


MN Native News: New Urban Program Launched To Address Suicide In Native Community

This week on Minnesota Native News, we explore the state of suicide in the native community and get a look at a new urban program launched to address the issue, called Keep the Fire Alive. Here’s Cole Premo with that story.


Minnesota Native News: Legislative Update

This week on Minnesota Native News we look back at the legislative session and two proposals that will impact tribes and Native people in the state.


Minnesota Native News: New Language School Opens, Theater Festival Announced, and Youth Visit Rome

A new early headstart and preschool focusing on Dakota language is opening in the Lower Sioux community…
A playwright and actor talks about an upcoming theater festival…
And a group visits the Vatican to request the revocation of the Doctrine of Discovery.


Minnesota Native News: Moving Forward in a Good Way

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear the latest on the line 3 oil pipeline permitting process and visit a celebration for new Native physicians.


MN Native News: “Bowwow Powwow” Released

A new children’s book written by Brenda J Child, illustrated by Jonathan Thunder, and translated into Ojibwe by Gordon Jourdain, has hit the shelves.


MN Native News: 6 Hurt In Little Earth Shootings & Line 3 Protest Event

This week on Minnesota Native News, we hear the latest after a shooting injured 6 in Minneapolis’ Little Earth community. We also hear about an event that brings the fight to block the Line 3 oil pipeline right to the front steps of the Public Utilities Commission. Here’s reporter Cole Premo with both of those stories.


MN Native News: A Year of Firsts

This week on Minnesota Native News; Prairie Island Indian Community vies for 40-million dollars for renewable energy projects, tribes come together to support Native health and Hopkins School District American Indian Education has a year of firsts.


Minnesota Native News: A Year of Firsts

This week on Minnesota Native News; Prairie Island Indian Community vies for 40-million dollars for renewable energy projects, tribes come together to support Native health and Hopkins School District American Indian Education has a year of firsts.


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