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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
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.
On this week’s Minnesota Native News, a special report from WTIP Radio in Grand Marais about sex-trafficking of Native American women on the ships in Duluth, an inter-tribal agriculture conference that promotes growing indigenous foods and MNSure tries to clear up confusion about health insurance options for Native Americans. [Read Transcript...]
The Minnesota History Center takes a unique approach to teaching Dakota and Ojibwe history learn about efforts to improve healthcare problems plaguing Native communities and Minneapolis Public Schools aim to close the achievement gap for Native American students. [Read Transcript...]
The White Earth Nation votes on a new constitution, The University of Minnesota and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe discuss the future of wild rice and the Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake hosts a conference dedicated to revitalizing the Dakota and Ojibwe languages [Read Transcript...]
The Minnesota History Center opens a new exhibit on the US-Dakota War that includes input and reflections from the Dakota.
A St Paul American Indian Center wins a national award to build a teaching kitchen to improve health and fight diabetes.
And a high profile national Senate campaign again raises the question of native heritage and ancestry--who claims it and how can they prove it.
Plus, revitalizing the Dakota and Ojibway languages to boost achievement for American Indian children [Read Transcript...]
