Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities

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.

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.

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.

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about efforts to reduce incarceration among Natives, groups preparing for a DC march, Natives speaking up in state government and a history of treaties on display in the state capitol.

This week on Minnesota Native News, one of the new Native state legislators tells her story, a new generation thinks about art at the capitol and the Sioux Chef is making big plans.