This week Nana Boozhoo teaches us Shaynowishkung "The Man Who Rattles" - otherwise known as Chief Bemidji. Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo is a YouTube Ojibwe puppet podcast that you can NOW hear on KAXE/KBXE Monday Mornings at 7:20am.

...we spend a lot of financial capital on our spaces , whether it's a garage or house or a spare room we never use or a beautiful living room set that we bought that's now cluttered with stuff that we don't really need, use or love ... I think we're such a busy society that we need to have space to come back to at the end of a long day or when we need to do some processing or we need to square stuff away that is safe and comfortable and loving for us . .. And if it's cluttered , full of stuff

MinnPost data reporter Greta Kaul talked with Heidi Holtan on All Things Considered about the numbers of refugees coming into the state of Minnesota, where they come from and which counties don't and won't have resettlements of refugees coming in, but may still be voting due to the executive order of President Trump in September. Her latest article is "As Minnesota counties vote on accepting refugees, here are the counties where refugees have actually moved in the last decade".

Pine River is a quaint community with a population of just under 1000 people . It's a rural town with a progressive spirit . Hunt Utilities Group is on a mission to make the world more sustainable in many different ways. Happy Dancing Turtle is a non-profit dedicated to creating learning experiences for all ages that make a lasting impact in the name of sustainability. A CBD oil manufacturer is coming to town and currently renovating the empty Al co building and a business that transforms horse

This week on the Friday Morning Show Marshall reports on the top stories from this this week's Timberjay newspaper including St. Louis County's board meeting where they tabled the vote on refugee resettlement until May, speculation on the abandoned Shopko building in Ely and the latest from the MN Chrismtas bird counts in northern MN.

Last week Beltrami and St. Louis County discussed at their meetings the executive order by President Trump Enhancing State and Local Involvement in Refugee Resettlement. Sec . 2 . Consent of States and Localities to the Placement of Refugees . (a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall develop and implement a process to determine whether the State and locality both consent, in writing, to the resettlement of refugees

Blair Treuer's textile exhibit "Portraits" opens tomorrow night (Friday) at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji. A collection of large-scale images depicting her nine children, her husband and herself, her work uses thousands of small pieces of fabric as her pallete. A kaleidoscope of color illuminating the spirit of each of her subjects, this dreamy, textural, visual experience of an exhibit was born from the unique spiritual journey of Blair and her family.

On the Monday Morning Show we featured MN children's book author Cheryl Minnema. Cheryl is a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe – she is not just an artist of words, but nature photography and beadwork as well.

We talked with award winning Minnesota author Cary J. Griffith earlier this week about his book "Gunflint Burning - Fire in the Boundary Waters". It's the story of the Ham Lake fire of 2007 - one of the largest wildfires in Minnesota history.

Taking time to contemplate what is happening in nature is one of the many aspects of Northern Community Radio that sets us apart from any other radio station. Each day we bring you a phenology note where our resident phenologist John Latimer shares a note from his journals of more than 35 years of climate and nature data collection. Each Tuesday we dig even deeper with the full Phenology Report. This week, John reports on cotton tails, deer belly-deep in snow, the Baudette area Christmas Bird