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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Special Editions | documentaries and special reports
Native Lights | stories of people within Minnesota’s Native communities
This week on Minnesota Native News: Poet and writer Jim Northrup talks about his new book, Prairie Island Indian Community’s concerns over nuclear waste and how Little Earth of United Tribes is helping victims of domestic violence.
Coming up on Minnesota Native News, author and activist Christine Stark takes a deeper look into the lives of young Native women lured to prostitution, , a new charter school focusses on culturally based learning for Native students, and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety teams up with Ampers to try and keep kids safe.
On this week’s Minnesota Native News, a special report from WTIP Radio in Grand Marais about sex-trafficking of Native American women on the ships in Duluth, an inter-tribal agriculture conference that promotes growing indigenous foods and MNSure tries to clear up confusion about health insurance options for Native Americans.
The White Earth Nation votes on a new constitution, The University of Minnesota and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe discuss the future of wild rice and the Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake hosts a conference dedicated to revitalizing the Dakota and Ojibwe languages
The Minnesota History Center opens a new exhibit on the US-Dakota War that includes input and reflections from the Dakota.
A St Paul American Indian Center wins a national award to build a teaching kitchen to improve health and fight diabetes.
And a high profile national Senate campaign again raises the question of native heritage and ancestry–who claims it and how can they prove it.
Plus, revitalizing the Dakota and Ojibway languages to boost achievement for American Indian children
Producer Kevyn Burger highiglights the Sioux Community and Canterbury Park agreement, a grant that builds momentum along the American Indian Corridor along Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis and an event that promotes connections for the Minnesota Amercian Indian Chamber of Commerce.
Minnesota Native News host Kevyn Burger highlights a new grant to help fight diabetes in the American Indian community, building math and science skills on the White Earth Reservation, and an increasing threat to healthy babies.
