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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’re at the historic Bemijigamaag pow wow in Bemidji. The first pow wow at the city’s Sanford Center Arena offered non-Natives lessons in Anishinabe pow wow traditions. It was held Saturday, April 4th. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a Senate bill that would establish a statewide American Indian and Indigenous People’s Day, a big weekend for college pow wows, the state Pollution Control Board changes course on wild rice protection plan and more. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about reconstruction of a Dakota burial ground in Hennepin county, pink shawls in honor of women with experiences with breast cancer and how the new Twin Cities Native Lacrosse team is engaging whole families. [Read Transcript...]
Recent comments from Governor Dayton suggest is siding with mining industry and raising limits on sulfate emissions in Minnesota water ways. Scientific research has shown high levels of sulfate in surface water kills wild rice – a food that is at the heart of Ojibwe or Anishinabe tradition. The Bois Forte Band of Lake Superior … [Read Transcript...]
