Minnesota Native News

Series produced by Ampers

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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, a new report identifies systemic issues in investigating Minnesota’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous people’s cases, an Ojibwe Language ...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week, Emma Needham shares about upcoming events and an annual survey for native people across the US.

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Migizi Communication's New Building
An important community-builder celebrates its new home.

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


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 3
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This week, we get COVID-19 updates with a clip from the latest Community Health Conversation with Leah Lemm and Dr. Antony Stately, which also feat...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: Author Byron Graves from the Red Lake Nation, Credit: Photographer: Mike Finney
This week, a new novel called Rez Ball uses basketball to tell the story of an Ojibwe teen on the Red Lake Reservation. Reporter Emma Needham inter...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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This week on Minnesota Native News, we revisit a trip Native Lights hosts and MN Native News reporters Cole Premo and Leah Lemm took to the Four Si...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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This week, Dakota people in Minnesota celebrate a Land Back victory, the Lake Superior Nibi Walk wraps up, the school nurse for the Red Lake Nation...

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


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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This week, new legislative changes require Minnesota teachers to learn about American Indian Culture, The Mille Lacs Indian Museum hosts a special ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and WDSE


  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week unhoused relatives have returned to the “Wall of Forgotten Natives” in Minneapolis, wildfire smoke continues to suffocate Northern Minnes...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 05:01
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The Native American Community Clinic - or NACC - has announced plans for a new clinic and housing along the Native American cultural corridor in So...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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This week MN Native News reporter Emma Needham brings us some of the latest from Minnesota's native communities including a new novel from the auth...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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Caption: Chefs Sean Sherman and Vern Defoe
By now you've probably heard of Chef Sean Sherman. Maybe you've eaten at his award winning restaurant Owamni, overlooking the river in downtown Min...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Emma Needham provides an update about ongoing work by Native organizations and activists to protect wa...

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


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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This week Lieutenant Commander John Naegeli, a Pharmacist at the Cass Lake Indian Health Services discusses the Walking Shield program. The program...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Minnesota Native News, we preview a new Ampers documentary. Decoded is about Native veterans from Minnesota who used tribal languages ...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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American Indian Month in Minnesota continues this May. And, this weekend’s a busy one.

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  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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Tribes and Native American organizations around Minnesota, including in the cities, are hosting open houses, pow wows, and other events throughout ...

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  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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The TRUTH Report details findings from the university’s own records. And, that as a land-grant institution, the U of M has systematically profited ...

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


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
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The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is taking a stand as water protectors in northeast Minnesota. The Band’s Department of Natural Resources launched its...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
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Drost grew up in Grand Portage and is an enrolled member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Her interest in tribal politics trace...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 6