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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.
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...]
Minnesota Native News host Kevyn Burger highlights a new grant to help fight diabetes in the American Indian community, building math and science skills on the White Earth Reservation, and an increasing threat to healthy babies. [Read Transcript...]
