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Minnesota Native News: Indigenous Owned, Makwa Coffee Opens in Twin Cities

 State Representative and Leech Lake Band’s Jamie Becker Finn is expanding her community building focus as a coffee shop owner and entrepreneur. She speaks with Reporter Leah Lemm

Minnesota Native News: Weighing In

This week on Minnesota Native News — Native Americans have mixed reaction to proposed changes to the state child protection system and a lawsuit is pending over an Enbridge oil pipeline on the US- Canadian border.

Minnesota Native News: Revisiting the Past

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a Minneapolis-based chef growing the indigenous food movement and a new book about the evolution of work in Ojibwe communities around the Great Lakes.


Minnesota Native News: Improving Care

This week on Minnesota Native News: the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis is expanding its services, one urban American Indian community is unifying to tackle heroine abuse and Honor the Earth brings attention to indigenous arts.

Minnesota Native News: Speak Up

This week on Minnesota Native News: Minnesota DNR wants input from Leech Lake Band Members, Sandpiper pipeline public hearings are just around the corner, Native teens explore identity through photography and more.

Minnesota Native News: Charting New Ground

This week on Minnesota Native News, a group of tribal members are selected as Native Nation Rebuilders and the Twin Cities LaCrosse Organization recruits young people for the Creator’s Game.

Minnesota Native News: Tribal Connections

This week on Minnesota Native News – tribal leaders convene in Washington DC and hear about new federal support for American Indian children and “The Jingle Dress” draws a crowd in South Minneapolis.

Minnesota Native News: Getting into Position

This week on Minnesota Native News, we hear about new initiatives to get more American Indians into the workforce, a new degree program in Duluth for people who want to be tribal administrators and a national report that includes strategies to curb violence in the lives of young people.


Minnesota Native News: Shining a Light

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about tribal leaders calling for more drug addiction treatment for inmates, one tribe’s efforts to buy back land and some Christians look at the church’s history from a different perspective.


Minnesota Native News: Walking as Ceremony

This week on Minnesota Native News Senator Al Franken plans to keep his spot on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Dakota Women hold a 4-day ceremony across southern Minnesota and more.

Minnesota Native News: Lessons Learned

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about the impact of some new voting procedures, how MNSURE can impact tribal health costs and Sandpiper pipeline news.

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