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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
“This week on Minnesota Native News, we visit the Mni Ki Wakan: World Indigenous Peoples’ Decade of Water Summit, held in St. Paul, and hear how it brings indigenous peoples from across the globe together to talk about the importance of water, and collectively think of its future. Here’s reporter Cole Premo.” [Read Transcript...]
Every week in the summer groups of people gather at the Native American Medicine Garden the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. They come to talk about indigenous knowledge of plants and the ecosystem here. Reporter Melissa Townsend recently got her own lesson from the garden’s caretaker, Francis Bettelyoun. [Read Transcript...]
Solar energy professional Robert Blake discusses solar power opportunities, social justice, and his entrepreneurial and life goals of making solar power available to all. [Read Transcript...]
Mary Gibbs was the only female park superintendent in the nation when took over the position at Itasca State Park. She was also only 24 when she stood up to one of the most powerful industries in Minnesota, Britt Aamodt tells us. [Read Transcript...]
