Ampers

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Ampers is an association of 18 independent community radio stations in Minnesota.  Each station is locally managed and programmed by and for the local communities they serve.  Ampers is the largest network of community radio stations in the state of Minnesota and one of the largest of its kind in the United States. From Grand Marais, and Thief River Falls, to Mankato and Winona, and just about everywhere in between, we’ve got Minnesota covered. Our combined audience is about 250,000 devoted listeners.  Ampers has no affiliation with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and receives no financial support from MPR. 

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36 Pieces

In an effort to contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, the United States recruited, trained and financed the Hmong and Loas to serve as surrogate soldiers in the American armed forces. Today, there are over 350,000 Hmong living in the United States, with over 81,000 individuals in Minnesota, the largest urbanized Hmong population in the US. Veterans Voices': The Secret War is a program featuring the stories of some of these veterans. To learn more, visit MinnesotaVets.org

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: May 02, 2023
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30 Pieces

Memories and stories from Minnesota Veterans

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: May 12, 2023
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22 Pieces

Native American veterans explain why protecting our land and resources is an important part of Native culture and traditions.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Dec 29, 2016
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8 Pieces

Extended podcast versions of Kevyn Burger's interviews with some of the Minnesota Vietnam Veterans featured in the Ampers radio series

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Aug 24, 2017
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3 Pieces

Memories and stories from Minnesota's WWII Veterans

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Oct 21, 2019
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34 Pieces

Family conversations exploring the question “what matters most?” to those involved in providing or receiving care in the last stages of life. Allina Health helped fund this project.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Dec 29, 2016

Pieces

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Hosts Leah Lemm and Cole Premo check-in with Tall Paul (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) an Anishinaabe and Oneida Hip-Hop artist. Tall Paul calls in to ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 11:40
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This week on Minnesota Native News, we get an update on how tribes across the state are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We also hear about a n...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, KMSU, KKWE Niijii Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 9
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We talk with Brenda Child (Red Lake Nation) about the origin story of the Jingle Dress and how it relates to the 1918 Flu epidemic, and what the pa...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 14:50
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Biidaapi: s/he comes laughing. (Ojibwemowin)Greetings from Native Lights! Sometimes we just want to talk to a parent or elder during uncertain time...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 16:01
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Biidaapi: s/he comes laughing. (Ojibwemowin) Greetings from Native Lights! Thanks for listening. During this COVID-19 pandemic, when we’re encoura...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Lives are changing drastically due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people are out of work, more and more people are holding work meetings virtually,...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WDSE, KSRQ, KMSU, KVSC and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 9
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In 2010, Grant Moos finally decided to go through the boxes left behind by his dead father, Malcolm Moos, President Eisenhower’s chief speechwriter...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 15
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Carrie H. Lippincott was merely looking for a way to support her mother, sister and brother-in-law. But out of necessity grew a flourishing seed bu...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, KSRQ, WDSE, KRPR and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
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Frederick McKinley Jones was an inveterate tinkerer. So it wasn’t surprising that after a sweltering summer drive in Minnesota, he hit upon an idea...

Bought by WDSE, WGZS, KSRQ, WDSE, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
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To prepare lectures for his course on Death and Dying at Hamline University in St. Paul, Mark Berkson visited religious centers around the Twin Cit...

Bought by KSRQ, WTIP, KVSC, KSRQ, WDSE and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13