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This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Melissa Townsend tells us about the 35th Annual Native American Journalists Association Conference hosted at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community the week of September 15th. [Read Transcript...]
Almost a year ago, the Minnesota Native News team asked the community what it wanted to hear more about. Our sense of humor, you said. Our resilience. Our elders’ stories. The result is Native Lights. [Read Transcript...]
Reporter Melissa Townsend sits down with Dr. Arne Vainio and Dr. Mary Owen to talk about the rising rates of diabetes in Native communities and other issues in culturally appropriate Native healthcare. Dr. Vainio is from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. We is a physician at the tribal clinic on the Fond du Lac … [Read Transcript...]
The well- respected published author Jim Northrup died on August first from complications of cancer. He was 73 years old. Born in Fond Du Lac, Jim spent much of his boyhood in Indian boarding schools and then served in Viet Nam as a Marine. As an adult he found joy in his family and his … [Read Transcript...]
