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December 8, 2024

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MIWRC staff with shovels at groundbreaking celebration outside of the MIWRC on Thursday. (Photo by Chandra Colvin, MPR News)

Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center starts construction on affordable housing in Minneapolis

Dec 3, 2024

Manoomin or wild rice is more than food for Ojibwe; it conveys culture and tradition. 2020. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember/ICT)

'Finding Manoomin': Connecting with Ojibwe heritage by learning to harvest wild rice

Nov 30, 2024

Rock Your Mocs 2020 (Photo by Tomás Karmelo Amaya)

Show us how you Rock Your Mocs!

Nov 13, 2024

Pictured: The National Native American Veterans Memorial, November 2020 on the grounds of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Designed by Harvey Pratt, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribe.

Native American veterans reflect on military service and family ties

Nov 13, 2024

Owamniyomni audio tour: One of the new self-guided audio tour sign signs around Owamniyomni also known as St Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis. The QR codes on the signs allow visitors access to information about the area from a Dakota perspective. The area has long been considered sacred to the Dakota people. (Courtesy of Owámniyomni Okhódayapi)

New interactive tour aims to raise Dakota visibility in Minneapolis

Oct 29, 2024

Josh Cleveland, an admissions officer representing Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, at the Native American College Fair on Monday. (Chanda Colvin/MPR News)

Over 40 colleges attend fair to recruit Native students

Oct 27, 2024

Chef Gustavo explains that he regularly shops at La Única Supermarket to get produce for his restaurant, Oro by Nixta on Thursday in Minneapolis. (Sophia Marschall, MPR News)

Steeped in Indigenous foodways, community and corn are key ingredients

Oct 18, 2024

Manoomin, good seed or wild rice is a staple for Ojibwe. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)

‘A resilient plant’

Oct 17, 2024

This file photo shows Jo-Anne Stately of the White Earth Nation, center, listening to speakers at the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center before walking in the Indigenous Women's March in Minneapolis in 2019. (Photo by Christine T. Nguyen/MPR News)

Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center celebrates 40 years

Oct 13, 2024

Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell Seki Sr., (right) cuts the ribbon during a Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, ceremony in Red Lake to unveil the school district’s two new electric school buses. (Mathew Holding Eagle III | MPR News)

Leading the charge

Oct 6, 2024

Market attendees Rosa Abbett (right) and Haley Cherry sample Pickle-Off entries at the Four Sisters Farmers Market in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Ben Hovland | MPR News)

Urban Indigenous community gathers to crown pickling champs

Oct 5, 2024

The White Earth Nation welcomed two boys who died in a boarding school at St. Johns in Collegeville more than a century ago. The boys were buried at a repatriation cemetery near Naytahwaush on the White Earth Indian Reservation. (Dan Gunderson, MPR News)

Children who died at a boarding school return to White Earth Nation

Sep 30, 2024

At the Turf Club in St. Paul, Geezis Humphrey walks in an upcycled design by her mother Annie Humphrey, one of the founders of the Fire in the Village collective on Sept. 12. (Liam James Doyle for MPR News)

Little fires everywhere

Sep 29, 2024

In 2005, 10 people were killed during a mass shooting in Red Lake. (Monika Lawrence for MPR News | 2022)

Community healing: Groundbreaking honors ‘all lives lost and forever changed’ by 2005 Red Lake shootings

Sep 25, 2024

8th Fire Solar was formed in 2018 to produce and install solar thermal technologies. Unlike photovoltaic systems which convert sunlight into electricity, solar thermal only produces heat. (Mathew Holding Eagle III, MPR News)

The heat is on – nonprofit offers solar thermal

Sep 18, 2024

Children's books translated into Ojibwe in collaboration of Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network and Lerner Publishing Group published August 2024. (Chandra Colvin, MPR News)

Ojibwe language books headed to classrooms

Sep 17, 2024

Kevin Dupuis from Fond du Lac walks out to look at the hemp in Joey Goodthunder’s field in Morton, Minn. on Thursday. (Jackson Forderer for MPR News)

Tribe opens new plant to construct homes with 'hempcrete'

Sep 10, 2024

Cannabis flowers reach upward toward an array of grow lights at the Waabigwan Mashkiki manufacturing facility in Mahnomen, Minn. (Ann Arbor Miller for MPR News)

Tribal nations are expanding their footprint in the cannabis industry

Sep 9, 2024

"This Land" by Ashley Fairbanks came out on Aug. 27, 2024. (Courtesy photo)

Anishinaabe author invites children to honor ancestral Native land in new book

Sep 8, 2024

Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan join an Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Ceremony at Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis. (Kerem Yücel | MPR News 2023)

Leaders weigh in on Tim Walz’s work with tribal-state relations

Aug 26, 2024

Signs for Indigenous Food Lab are visible at Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis. (Kerem Yücel | MPR News)

Indigenous Food Lab to debut new menu items at state fair

Aug 23, 2024

Within the next few weeks Arnold Dahl-Wooley’s Two-Spirit Advocacy meetings hosted by the Anishinaabe-led community health nonprofit, Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming (Beginning Life Beautifully), will get an expansion to accommodate the growing needs of the Two-Spirit LGBTQ+ community. (Mathew Holding Eagle III | MPR News)

Ojibwe activist educates about the Two-Spirit community

Aug 22, 2024

Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe District 1 Representative Virgil Wind, Deanna Wilson Fredrickson and Commissioner of Natural Resources Kelly Applegate look out over Mille Lacs Lake from Band elder Dixie Kamimura’s home in Onamia, Minnesota on June 24. (Liam James Doyle for MPR News)

Restored tribal land ends uncertainty for a family

Aug 12, 2024

White Earth Tribal Chair Michael Fairbanks was sworn in in Mahnomen for his second full term, Aug. 6, 2024. (Photo by Mathew Holding Eagle III, MPR News)

White Earth Nation inauguration looks to the future

Aug 9, 2024

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan poses for a selfie with St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter at a rally, Aug. 6, 2024. (Ben Hovland, MPR News)

Peggy Flanagan says Tim Walz knows how to partner with women of color

Aug 8, 2024

Native Care, Minnesota's first recreational marijuana dispensary opened in August 2023 on the Red Lake Nation. (Dalton Walker, ICT)

Minnesota's 1st legal cannabis dispensary celebrates anniversary

Aug 6, 2024

University of Minnesota architecture professor Jessica Garcia Fritz teaches campers cardboard scoring techniques on day one of camp at Dunwoody. (Alex V. Cipolle | MPR News)

This Indigenous design camp for teens is the first of its kind

Aug 3, 2024

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe employees hold a map while being asked to stand for recognition during a commemorative ceremony marking the restoration of around 11,700 acres of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe's ancestral lands at Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School on Leech Lake reservation on July 17. (Erica Dischino for MPR News)

Ojibwe band celebrates land transfer that represent what was illegally taken

Jul 22, 2024

MiigWitches Brew, a new Native-owned drive-thru coffee kiosk, opened in June and is located along Big Lake Road on the Fond du Lac reservation. (Erica Dischino for MPR News)

Quality coffee, Ojibwe language and a little magic are brewing

Jul 19, 2024

While on the cultural exchange to Brazil, the Red Lake Nation College students spent time with the Indigenous tribe called the Tupinikim. While there they tried customary foods, including sea urchin, which Michelle Anderson (left) and Nicole Good (right) are seen holding. (Courtesy photo)

Tribal college mounts cultural exchange with Indigenous Brazilians

Jul 18, 2024

Island Peži dispensary employee Rachel Boyd, right, talks with a customer on June 26 in Welch, Minn. Island Peži has a goal of providing economic stability and Blake Johnson, president of Prairie Island CBH Inc., projects it will provide jobs for up to 35 employees. (Tom Baker for MPR News)

Budding intertribal trade takes root with legalization of cannabis

Jul 17, 2024

Jules Edwards poses for a portrait at Minnehaha Regional Park on June 25. (Nicole Neri for MPR News)

Jules Edwards advocated for her autistic kids — then learned she’s autistic, too

Jul 14, 2024

Jake Barton trains a horse in the Canterbury Park practice track during the first day that horses were allowed on Canterbury track due to caronavirus, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 in Shakopee, Minn. (Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune via AP)

Minnesota horse racing regulatory board adds Native leaders

Jun 26, 2024

The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe urban office, shown here on April 2, 2024, is on East Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Melissa Olson/MPR News)

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe voters elect new leaders

Jun 24, 2024

Natives in VetMed member Tanisha McChesney, right, and Colorado State University pre-vet student Lecia Mata examine a puppy at a pet wellness clinic in late June at Ponemah Elementary School in Minnesota. The three-day clinic was part of an effort by Student Initiative for Reservation Veterinary Services, Natives in VetMed and other organizations to bring low- or no-cost veterinary services to tribal communities. (Photo courtesy of Tanisha McChesney)

Animal health and wellbeing through an Indigenous lens

Jun 22, 2024

Newell Carson (center) along with his cousin Dr. Carson Gardner (right) present Beltrami County Historical Society Executive Director Emily Thabes (left) with a musket given to the family over a century ago by Shaynowishkung (He Who Rattles), also known as Chief Bemidji. (Mathew Holding Eagle ,MPR News )

A family heirloom links back to Bemidji’s founding and Indigenous history

May 24, 2024

High school graduating senior Kaiya Wilson addresses the Hinckley-Finlayson school board on Monday asking the board to allow a Native drum group to perform at the school's graduation ceremony in Minnesota. (Courtesy of Kaiya Wilson)

Schools face blowback for banning drum group at graduation

May 16, 2024

Artist Carl Gawboy works on a watercolor painting Monday, at his home studio in Two Harbors. (Derek Montgomery for MPR News)

Art and history come together in ‘Fur Trade Nation'

May 12, 2024

Hundreds of people listen to executive director Mary LaGarde welcome guests to the grand re-opening of the Minneapolis American Indian Center on Wednesday. (Ben Hovland, MPR News)

Renovated Minneapolis American Indian Center reflects urban Indigenous identity

May 8, 2024

Barn Bluff (He Min Can), a sacred bluff and burial grounds for the local Dakota people, overlooks members of the Prairie Island Indian Community (Tinta Wita) and Red Wing residents as they gather for a mural unveiling ceremony on Indigenous People’s Day in Red Wing on Oct. 9, 2023. (Tim Evans for MPR News)

Prairie Island trying to reclaim item used in mass execution of Dakota

May 3, 2024

Models show pieces by designer Rebecca Mousseau on the runway during Native Nations Fashion Night at Quincy Hall in northeast Minneapolis on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Nicole Neri for MPR News)

Indigenous creativity takes stage at Native Nations Fashion Night

Apr 29, 2024

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