Minnesota Native News

This week, we visit the restored secret wetlands and a new gathering place for the Indigenous community in the Twin Cities, and we look back at our conversation with artist Sarah Agaton Howes. 

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Producer: Deanna StandingCloud, Chandra Colvin

Editor: Deanna StandingCloud, Victor Palomino

Anchor: Marie Rock, Britt Aamodt
 Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood

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This week, producer Emma Needham’s extended interview with Shayla Budrow, the Indigenous Education Coordinator at Brainerd Schools, about how Native graduations represent a generational victory.

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Producer: Emma Needham

Editor: Victor Palomino

Anchor: Marie Rock
Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: An Indigenous Graduate from Brainerd High School accepts their diploma. [credit: ISD 181 Indigenous Education Team, Class of 2024]

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This week, a look back at producer Dan Ninham’s conversation with Red Lake Nation artist Tashia Hart about her work in last year’s exhibition Once Upon a Shore, an all-Indigenous exhibit at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, the influence of tradition on her artistic process, and what it means to be an artist.

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Producer: Dan Ninham

Editor: Victor Palomino

Anchor: Marie Rock

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: Tashia Hart [credit: Tashia Hart]

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This week, we look at how a federal decision on copper mining could affect Minnesota tribal treaty territory, and a recap of last week's American Indian Month kick-off celebration in Minneapolis.

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Producers: Chaz Wagner, Deanna StandingCloud

Editor: Chaz Wagner, Deanna StandingCloud

Anchor: Marie Rock
Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood

Editorial support: Victor Palomino, Emily Krumberger

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This week, Red Lake Nation mental health professional Lorissa White talks about brainspotting, an innovative approach to processing trauma and finding community healing. 

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Producers: Deanna StandingCloud

Editor: Victor Palomino 

Anchor: Marie Rock
Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: Lorissa White [credit: Deanna StandingCloud]

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This week, a look at the future of The Circle, one of the longest-running independent Native American newspapers, and how the Duluth Zeitgeist Film Festival is highlighting Indigenous cinema this year.  

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Producers: Travis Zimmerman, Dan Ninham 

Editor: Xan Holston 

Anchor: Marie Rock
Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: Film poster for Why We Dance [credit: poster image by Drew Arrieta]

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This week, a new state bill asks lawmakers to recognize the inherent right of wild rice to exist in Minnesota, and we visit the Red Lake Urban Cultural Wellness Center, a space for health and fitness.

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Producers: CJ Younger, Deanna StandingCloud

Editor: CJ Younger, Deanna StandingCloud

Anchor: Marie Rock

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: Manoomin beds [credit: Leanna Goose]

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This week, producer Emma Needham's conversation with Chéri Smith and Matt Dannenberg about their work with the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy and the Tribal Energy Evolution Summit.

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Producer: Emma Needham

Editors: Victor Palomino

Anchor: Marie Rock
Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image:  Solar panels on the Leech Lake Reservation (2019) [credit: KOJB Radio]

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This week, the Minnesota Indian Education Association's 2026 Conference honored teacher Dr. Jane Harstad with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and a music shop co-owned by a Native woman, the only one of its kind in the country, helps musicians tune their instruments with the changing season.

Producers: Travis Zimmerman, Deana StandingCloud

Editors: Victor Palomino, Deana StandingCloud, & Emily Krumberger

Anchor: Marie Rock

Mixing & mastering: Emily Krumberger

Editorial support: Victor Palomino, Emily Krumberger
Photo: Angela Vig of St. Paul's Vig Guitars [credit: Angela Vig]

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This week on Minnesota Native News: an extended conversation from producer Deanna StandingCloud with tattoo shop owner and father Willard Malebear, Jr.

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Producers: Deana StandingCloud

Editors: Britt Aamodt, Emily Krumberger

Anchor: Marie Rock

Mixing & Mastering: Chris Harwood

Editorial Support: Emily Krumberger

Image: Willard Malebear at his business, Iktomi Tattoo in Minneapolis  [credit: Deanna StandingCloud]

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