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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.
In this special edition of Minnesota Native News, we hear respected Oglala Lakota elder and education authority Dr. Sandra Fox talk about what schools must do to better engage Native students. This is the opening keynote speech from The National Forum on Dropout Prevention for Native and Tribal Communities – a conference at Mystic Lake … [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a new event to change the name of the Cleveland baseball team, and groups organizing to remove Christopher Columbus from the state capitol. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about the state’s first Dakota Language Bowl. Organizers and participants say it’s a fun way to harness people’s competitive spirit and motivate them to learn Dakota — a language many are trying to revive. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about the State of the Red Lake Nation, an effort to grow tribal food sovereignty, Native poets gather in Minneapolis and Grandma AIM walks on. [Read Transcript...]
