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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
On March 3, 1991, an oil pipeline near Grand Rapids burst, spilling 1.7 million gallons of crude oil into the Prairie River – that's roughly 2.5 Olympic swimming pools worth of oil. It remains the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history. [Read Transcript...]
Askov, Minnesota hosts their annual Rutabaga Festival on the fourth weekend of every August. Music, festivities, and weird foods are tradition in this small town. But why the turnip adjacent root vegetable? Autumn Haeg tells us about this historic and earthy event. [Read Transcript...]
Fall 1974, Eileen Hudon went to Women’s Advocates because she needed to escape an abusive husband. But her encounter with the domestic violence shelter, the first in the nation, also opened the door to her life’s calling as an advocate for survivors, particular Native women, of domestic violence and sexual assault. [Read Transcript...]
Today, we're excited to welcome Dr. Samantha Majhor to Native Lights. Samantha is a direct descendant of Fort Peck. She's Dakota and Assiniboine and is an assistant professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. She focuses on Native American literature, particularly literature by Dakota and Ojibwe writers around the Great Lakes region. [Read Transcript...]
