Minnesota Native News: Comings and Goings
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...]
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The Native American Veteran
Native Americans enlisted in large numbers during World War 2. Axel James Holmes, Sr., a member of an Ojibwe band now living on the Bois Forte reservation, joined when he was 20 years old. He reflects on his World War 2 service, first in New Guinea and then in the Philipines. [Read Transcript...]
Minnesota Native News: The Bemijigamaad Pow Wow
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...]
Minnesota Native News: Maybe Next Time
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...]