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September 22, 2021
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MN Native News: Food For Thought- Bringing Back Indigenous Foods

The movement to rebuild Indigenous Food Sovereignty is getting help from many sources. This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Emma Needham shares a story on writers and community partnerships working to bring back Native food practices in Minnesota. [Read Transcript...]

April 3, 2019
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MN Native News: Celebrating The Sioux Chef

On May 5 The James Beard Foundation will present one of only five 2019 leadership awards to Minneapolis-based chef Sean Sherman. In making the award, the James Beard Foundation honored Sean Sherman’s work to revitalize indigenous foods. Part of that effort is the new non-profit, NATIFS. Laurie Stern reports. [Read Transcript...]

February 6, 2019
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MNN: Why Stories Work

Jill Fish is one of the only Native doctoral students in the psychology department at the University of Minnesota. But she doesn’t feel alone, because her work connects her to the Native community. Laurie Stern has more. [Read Transcript...]

May 25, 2015
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Special Edition of Minnesota Native News: Bemidji, Rocking the Boat Part 2

This is the second in a two part series about the small city of Bemidji and the work people there are doing to show that Native Lives Matter. Bemidji is a city of about 15-thousand in Minnesota’s north woods. Native Americans – mostly Ojibwe or Anishinabe – make up about 50 percent of the population … [Read Transcript...]

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