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This week on Minnesota Native News, the robotics team from White Earth’s Circle of Life Academy takes their robot to compete in the regional tournament in Minneapolis. Reporter Melissa Townsend brings us the story. [Read Transcript...]
Before Pixar was one of the top animation firms in the world, it was a subsidiary of George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Ltd. Britt Aamodt tells us how, in 1984, the fledgling company made their animation short debut in Minneapolis. [Read Transcript...]
Irish immigrants in Minnesota accounted for a significant portion of the work force employed by the booming logging industry of the late 19th century. Producer Daniel Zamzow explains how we came to have audio recordings of these workers singing their folk tunes. [Read Transcript...]
America in the 1950s was preparing for the Soviets to drop the bomb any minutes. But less than two decades later, says Britt Aamodt, Minnesota was building the first rural nuclear plant in America. [Read Transcript...]
