Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities

This week on Minnesota Native News, Native vets in Bemidji get a little help landing a job, law enforcement reaches out to Hennepin County Native communities and White Earth breaks ground near Bagley.

This Week on Minnesota Native News – The Minneapolis Park Board recently recognized the original Dakota name for Lake Calhoun. Signs around the lake in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis officially now read Bde Maka Ska [buh-DAY muh-KAH skuh] and Lake Calhoun. The process to reclaim the original name has been rocky at times. But a new effort has begun to move past the debate and divisions over the name.

Communities around Minnesota celebrated Indigenous People’s Day on Monday, October 12th. Reporter Melissa Townsend looks at the reasons some Minnesota communities have made the change, and one place where the dialogue continues.

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about efforts to further develop the tribal economy in Northern Minnesota, an upcoming gathering to increase attention on Native health and a young Ojibwe artist from Bois Forte wins an international competition.

This week on Minnesota Native News, the latest on Native-led opposition to proposed pipelines in northern Minnesota.