Minnesota Native News

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Each week Minnesota Native News looks at social, economic, cultural, health issues and more facing Minnesota’s Native American communities. By informing and educating all Minnesotans about events, activities, and issues in Minnesota’s Native American communities this program interweaves the Native American culture into the rest of the communities of the state.

By looking at what is happening today in Native American communities as well as looking back in time, Minnesota Native News will help to educate all Minnesotans about the culture that helped to shape our state, how the current issues are impacting the state today, and will help everyone to make informed decisions about the future.


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This week, an up and coming company builds its innovative business for the benefit of their community’s health and beyond.

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week, we hear about the homeless initiative recently announced by Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan aimed at getting pe...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
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Mainstream institutions have struggled to accurately and ethically tell the story of what happened to the Dakota People in 1862. As Laurie Stern re...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:59
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Caption: Melanie Benjamin is Chief Executive of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe., Credit: millelacsband.com
This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Melissa Townsend talks with Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin about her visit...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:59
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The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe held it’s 2nd annual tribal Opioid Response Summit on December 12-14, Northern Lights Casino. The three-day summit...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: MMIW Billboards draw attention to the need for change.
This week on Minnesota Native News, reactions to a new White House Executive Order on Missing and Murdered Indigeneous Women.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:59
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This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Melissa Townsend tells us about the 35th Annual Native American Journalists Association Conference hos...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
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Musical groups from around North America gathered in early November at the Seneca Niagara Events Center at Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino in Niag...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
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This week on Minnesota Native News, we hear from the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, which just received a $500,000 grant from the Bush F...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
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This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a big boost to a handful of organizations working with Native communities. We also hear about a ne...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
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This week on Minnesota Native News, we look forward to two very different grand openings. One is a permanent exhibit at the Minnesota History Cente...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
Red Lake Nation recently changed who can be a citizen. It used to require one-quarter Red Lake blood quantum. As Laurie Stern reports, the Minnesot...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 10
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This week… Women’s Handrumming groups gathered at the Cloquet Foresty Center to share songs and knowledge… to make drums, and celebrate community.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about what urban Native leaders in South Minneapolis are doing about public health problems connected to...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
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This week on Minnesota Native News, we talk with a native artist who has been selected for a new commission at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, an...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
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This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Melissa Townsend tells us about the 35th Annual Native American Journalists Association Conference hos...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, KQAL, KMSU, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 8
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This week on Minnesota Native News, a groundbreaking, a grand opening and an update on wild rice. Red Lake Nation's new housing project is underway...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: Larissa Fasthorse
Mainstream institutions have struggled to accurately and ethically tell the story of what happened to the Dakota People in 1862. As Laurie Stern re...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week… the McKnight Foundation’s 2019 Distinguished Artist Award goes to a Native artist for the first time. And… September is Suicide Preven...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on Minnesota Native News we hear how the White Earth and Leech Lake Bands of Ojibwe continue their efforts to straighten out a costly mis...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 8