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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
Every week in the summer groups of people gather at the Native American Medicine Garden the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. They come to talk about indigenous knowledge of plants and the ecosystem here. Reporter Melissa Townsend recently got her own lesson from the garden’s caretaker, Francis Bettelyoun. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News, we hear about new efforts to revive a culturally specific treatment program for Natives struggling with addiction, movies at the Walker focus on Native film makers and a new murder mystery from Minneapolis based Anishinaabe writer Marcie Rendon. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about what’s happening at a co-managed lake in Wisconsin with a dwindling walleye population and the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council looks for a new Director. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News an Ojibwe elder could impact the election outcome in the 8th Congressional District, a coalition is working to increase the number of American Indians who can vote and a diverse group prepares to protest at the Minnesota – Washington NFL game. [Read Transcript...]
