150 Years After America’s Largest Mass Execution: Minnesota and its Dakota...
A two-week journey from South Dakota ends in Mankato, Minnesota to mark the 150th anniversary of the largest execution in the United States where 38 Dakota (Sioux) Indian men were hanged for their...
View ArticleDakota Spoken Here: Mni Sota’s Dakota Indian Heritage
Editor’s note: “Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota,” was the winner in the Minnesota category of the 2013 Minnesota Book Awards, which were announced Saturday. Congratulations to authors Gwen...
View ArticleAmerican Indians, Evironmentalists Fight Weakened Wisconsin Mining Regulations
More than 350 people gathered in the cold at the Wisconsin State Capitol this week to protest a proposed change in state mining regulations that environmentalists and Native Americans fear will pollute...
View ArticleHundreds Oppose Bill Weakening Wisconsin Mining Regulations
The fight against a proposed weakening of Wisconsin mining regulations that would facilitate the construction of a giant open-pit mine in Ashland County continued this week with hundreds of Wisconsin...
View ArticleHalf Native, Half Asian: All Service to the People…An UpTake Profile: DANIEL...
Daniel Yang is part of a new cohort of young leaders in the Native American community in South Minneapolis, a half-Native, half-Asian grassroots activist with a passion for public service and a special...
View ArticleNon-Removables: The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Welcomes You to St Paul (Again)
Today, in an ironic reversal of fortune that would have been impossible to foresee just a few years ago, Minnesota's native people again are warmly welcoming people to their homes on the Mississippi...
View ArticleJust Vote No, Pipeline Protesters Tell Sen. Amy Klobuchar
About 80 people gathered in front of Senator Amy Klobuchar's Minnesota office to ask her to vote against the controversial Keystone Pipeline.
View ArticleErnest Wabasha: The Burden of Minnesota’s History
I was 30 years old, a journalist with a passing knowledge of Indian history. Yet it had never occurred to me, until I came across the name of Ernest Wabasha one day, that people still lived among us...
View ArticleWe Are Still Here: American Indian Movement Celebrated in New Book, Exhibit
Journalist and writer Laura Waterman Wittstock and photographer Dick Bancroft show the striking and iconic images they have taken as as the American Indian Movement (AIM) struggled for Native...
View ArticleArmed Mercenaries Returning to Wisconsin Woods — Legally, This Time
Mercenary-style guards carrying assault weapons will return to the north woods of WIsconsin after an Arizona-based security firm received proper permits to operate in Wisconsin. Last month, the...
View ArticleBill McKibben’s “Do the Math” Campaign Takes Aim at Fossil Fuels Industry
Click on Photo to Learn How Bill McKibben is Encouraging College Students to Fight Global Climate Change“I think we should be calling hurricanes after oil companies,” Bill McKibben joked during an...
View Article“We Are Here:” Native American Artists Explore Pain of the Dakota War of 1862
Click on Jim Denomie's Painting to hear more about the exhibitAt first glance, Gordon Coons’ painting 1862-Mankato 38 may look like any other American flag. But it isn’t. Look closer and you’ll see a...
View Article“Mall of America” to Native Americans: Happy New Year; You Are Under Arrest
Idle No More organizers Patricia Shepard and Reyna Crow were arrested on New Year’s Eve after entering the Mall of America following a press conference they held outside of the massive shopping center...
View ArticleVikings “Obligated” To Promote Redskins
Minnesota Vikings Executive Vice President Lester Bagley says the team is in a “difficult position”. There is pressure on the team and other NFL teams to not use the Washington Redskins name when...
View ArticleRedskins No More: Fight Against Racist Sports Names Returns To Minneapolis
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Click on the video to watch Tuesday's symposium at the University of Minnesota featuring AIM leader Clyde Bellecourt, Rep. Betty McCollum and ex-Minnesota Viking Joey Browner speaking...
View ArticleReal Indians Protest Racist Name Used By Fake Ones: Fighting “The R Word”
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Click on image to watch video of Thursday's protestStory for The UpTake by Sheila Regan/Video by Todd Billings&Bill SoremCelebrities, sports stars, politicians and civil rights...
View ArticleColumbus Statue Celebrates Genocide, Should Be Removed From Capitol, Say...
Native American activist groups in Minnesota would like people to learn the real history of Christopher Columbus and quit putting him up on a pedestal at the State Capitol.“We all know in 1492 he...
View ArticleMall Of America Wins Another Trespass Case-”Beware To All Who Speak Out”
The Mall of America has won another trespassing case, asserting again that it is a private entity which can determine who can enter the building and what is and isn’t proper behavior.The latest case...
View ArticleOil Pipeline Regulation Process “Not Working” Say Environmentalists
Sometimes you need to get arrested to be heard.Last month more than 250 people marched to Enbridge’s offices in Duluth to deliver a letter asking the oil company to delay expansion of its pipelines...
View ArticlePipeline Protesters Watching, Waiting
Two activists from Seattle who were arrested last fall for trying to shut off the Enbridge pipeline in Minnesota will be back in court next month, but a judge will allow them to appear via telephone.On...
View ArticleFeds Block Dakota Access Pipeline Route – Victory For Water Protectors
A victory on Sunday for several thousand people camped out in North Dakota to block the Dakota Access oil Pipeline. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it won’t grant an easement for the pipeline in...
View ArticleWolf Supporters Rally For Hunting Ban
Defenders of wolves raised a howl in St. Paul on March 22, as they came to the Capitol for Wolf Day 2017. Dr. Maureen Hackett, founder and president of the Minnesota organization Howling For Wolves,...
View ArticleNative American Leaders: MN Public To Have No Say In Where Pipeline Goes If...
On Thursday, April 6, concerned citizens and indigenous leaders came to the Minnesota State Capitol to oppose the Jobs and Energy Omnibus bill’s weakening of environmental review of pipelines.Rep....
View ArticleFederal Court Orders Greater Oversight of Dakota Access Pipeline
In a significant win for the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes, a federal judge on Monday ordered greater oversight of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Citing the recent spill from the Keystone...
View ArticleThe Minnesota State Capitol Moves on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
By: Rep. Mary Kunesh-Podein (41B) In July of 2005, JoJo Boswell went missing. Her sister, Dolly, immediately reported her missing, but was told to wait another 48 hours. Imagine law enforcement...
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