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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
This Cloquet native was on tour in Europe with his band The Social Animals when the pandemic shut everything down. Now based in Nashville, Clark has had the opportunity to work on new material with the band in the past year, and is preparing for a solo tour that kicks off in Minneapolis on June 4; he’ll perform in Duluth on Saturday, June 5 (listen to find out where!).
Liz Granholm heard many stories about Rabbit and Otter’s ricing trip when she was growing up.
She took different lessons from each telling: the need to acknowledge the Great Spirit when taking something from the earth, put down tobacco as an offering to that spirit, and don’t take more than you need.
Journalists can get in a lot of trouble following their curiosity down the rabbit hole.
And they can also have a lot of fun.
Just ask Todd Melby, whose new book, A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere: The Untold Story of the Making of Fargo, has just been released by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.
On our first in-person show in over a year, the crew traveled to the Mille Lacs Band of Obijwe Reservation. The guests on this deep and emotional show share their first hand experiences around missing and murdered Indigenous women. Follow Missy Whiteman on Instagram for more of her work: @missy_whiteman
Diane Wilson’s newest book The Seed Keeper weaves the stories of four native women living between 1862 and 2002. It’s a story of awakening, re-connection to the land and and a sort of re-birth in terms of both personal identities and cultural histories. Wilson joined the morning show to discuss the book, its inspiration and how she hopes the novel influences readers.
In addition to being an award winning author, Diane Wilson is the Executive Director for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a national coalition of tribes and organizations working to create sovereign food systems for Native people.
KUMD’s Chris Harwood speaks with Eric Dregni, author of “For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness,” published in 2021 by University of Minnesota Press.
Eric and his wife lived in Norway for a year, and during that time his son was born. Eric and his son return fifteen years later to find answers to why Norway and other Scandinavian countries are considered among the happiest places to live.
