Minnesota Native News: Winter Traditions
This week on Minnesota Native News: Bois Forte Chairman Kevin Leecey addresses the Band with his annual speech, and Hope Flanagan tells traditional Ojibwe stories in Minneapolis. [Read Transcript...]
Minnesota Native News is a weekly 5-minute radio segment covering ideas and events relevant to Minnesota’s Native American communities since 2014. The team includes a majority of Native reporters/producers all sharing in the editorial and story-telling duties.

This week on Minnesota Native News: Bois Forte Chairman Kevin Leecey addresses the Band with his annual speech, and Hope Flanagan tells traditional Ojibwe stories in Minneapolis. [Read Transcript...]

This week on Minnesota Native News: American Indian advocates attempt to address state legislators about deep racial disparities in Minnesota.

This week on Minnesota Native News: the White Earth Band of Ojibwe regroups after Chairwoman Erma Vizenor’s resigns, 4 protestors with The 1855 Treaty Authority get their first day in court, and tribal leaders meet the new head of the state Department of Human Services. [Read Transcript...]

Intro: On Wednesday, January 20th Erma Vizenor resigned as the Chairwoman of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. The move comes after 3 months of contentious back and forth between Vizenor and three members of the White Earth tribal council that ended in Vizenor being censured by the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. On this special edition … [Read Transcript...]

