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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 we’ll hear about a new initiative to improve policing in American Indian and communities of color and an interview with Danielle Grant, the former head of Indian Education at Minneapolis Public Schools. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a call for truth and reconciliation over former American Indian boarding school policies, an American Indian coalition partners with Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in South Minneapolis and the growing season begins with a traditional blessing of the Mashkiikii Gitigan [mush-KEE-kee GIT-ih-gone], Medicine Garden. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about some Ojibwe tribes’ next steps regarding the Sandpiper oil pipeline and a Native led group in Minneapolis declares a war on drugs. [Read Transcript...]
May 2, 2015, the American Indian Cancer Foundation put on the Powwow for Hope in the Twin Cities. KBFT was there to cover the fourth annual event to raise funds for cancer research and education, and to speak with Bois Forte members about their stories of cancer, healing and hope. [Read Transcript...]
