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 on Minnesota Native News we get an update on work at the Legislature that may affect Native American families in the state.

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: Susan Allen, Credit: MN House Website
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear from State Representative Susan Allen. Allen was a tribal attorney living in the Powderhorn neighborh...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: George Strong is General Manager of KBFT.
This is a special 29 minute edition of Minnesota Native News from the Nett Lake Village on the Bois Forte Reservation. Melissa Townsend and Geor...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Recent comments from Governor Dayton suggest is siding with mining industry and raising limits on sulfate emissions in Minnesota water ways. Sci...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 08:46
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Caption: Daanis Chosa holds a pink shawl in honor of women with breast cancer., Credit: Melissa Townsend
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about reconstruction of a Dakota burial ground in Hennepin county, pink shawls in honor of women with ex...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 04:59
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This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a Senate bill that would establish a statewide American Indian and Indigenous People’s Day, a big ...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: Dancers on the big screen at Bemidji's Sanford Center., Credit: Melissa Townsend
This week on Minnesota Native News we're at the historic Bemijigamaag pow wow in Bemidji. The first pow wow at the city's Sanford Center Arena offe...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: Red Lake Nation Chairman Darrell Seki recently gave his first State of the Nation address., Credit: Melissa Townsend
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about the State of the Red Lake Nation, an effort to grow tribal food sovereignty, Native poets gather i...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:01
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This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about the state’s first Dakota Language Bowl. Organizers and participants say it’s a fun way to harness...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 05:01
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This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a new event to change the name of the Cleveland baseball team, and groups organizing to remove Chr...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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In this special edition of Minnesota Native News, we hear respected Oglala Lakota elder and education authority Dr. Sandra Fox talk about what scho...

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  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 42:59
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This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a new development with the proposed Sandpiper Pipeline, Leech Lake declares a health emergency, Th...

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  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: Sunset on Lake Vermillion, MN, Credit: melgupta, flickr.com/commons
This week on Minnesota Native News — relationship building between law enforcement and Native American residents in Hennepin county, advocates have...

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  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 04:58
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Caption: Marty Case from The Indian Treaty Signers Project, Credit: Melissa Townsend
In this special edition of Minnesota Native News, we hear Marty Case, Director of the Indian Treaty Signers Project. In this lecture "Treaty Signe...

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  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 46:56
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Caption: Blood quantum is talked about in fractions, Credit: Jimmie, flickr.com/commons
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a vote to change enrollment rules for Minnesota Chippewa Tribes and the 17th annual Ojibwe Quiz Bo...

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  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about the Fond du Lac Band’s work to protect moose in the ceded territories, an urban initiative to boos...

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  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: Bemidji welcomes a new statue of its Native American namesake, Chief Bemidji or Shaynowishkung., Credit: Shaynowiskung Statue Project/Facebook
On June 6th in Bemidji Minnesota a new statue of Chief Bemidji is being dedicated. He is the Native American namesake of the town. He will stand o...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 08:54
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Caption: The Bdote Learning Center in Minneapolis is finishing its first year., Credit: Melissa Townsend
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a new report on policing and Native Americans in Minneapolis, a new exhibit of contemporary Nativ...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission recently released a report officially recording the inhumane practices of the Canadian Indian Boar...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 43:59
  • Purchases: 7