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Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe annual event highlights priorities, progress and cannabis plans

Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe annual event highlights priorities, progress and cannabis plans

Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin said 2023 was a year of progress for the central Minnesota-based tribe. Benjamin outlined band priorities for the coming year, including plans to open a cannabis growing facility.
by Melissa Olson and Kirsti Marohn

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Small land transfer may be a big deal in tribal lands debate

Small land transfer may be a big deal in tribal lands debate

In what could become a blueprint for similar Minnesota communities, Lake City, southeast of the Twin Cities, has returned ownership of Dakota burial mounds back to their modern-day relatives at Prairie Island Indian Community. Two communities historically at odds now may be ushering in a period of understanding.
by Mathew Holding Eagle III

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Lily Gladstone is the Golden Globes' first Indigenous best actress winner

Lily Gladstone is the Golden Globes' first Indigenous best actress winner

Lily Gladstone has made Golden Globes history. She became the first Indigenous person to win an award for best actress in a drama on Sunday night. Gladstone won for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
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Minneapolis clears Camp Nenookaasi, an encampment of unhoused, mostly Native people

Minneapolis clears Camp Nenookaasi, an encampment of unhoused, mostly Native people

The city of Minneapolis began clearing Camp Nenookaasi, a large encampment of unsheltered people, just before noon Thursday. People living at the encampment in south Minneapolis are removing their belongings from the area. More than 100 people have been living in tents and other temporary structures at Camp Nenookaasi for months.
by Melissa Olson

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Native American translations are being added to more U.S. road signs to promote language and awareness

Native American translations are being added to more U.S. road signs to promote language and awareness

Authorities from Minnesota to Maine are adding Native American language translations to road signs and building facades. The push is part of an effort in some places to revitalize Native languages and draw attention to the fact that Native communities live in these places or have lived there for centuries.
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Duluth Indigenous-led nonprofit prepares to open expanded shelter

Duluth Indigenous-led nonprofit prepares to open expanded shelter

The American Indian Community Housing Organization, or AICHO, has nearly finished a more than $2 million project in Duluth to expand the region’s only culturally specific domestic violence emergency shelter.
by Dan Kraker

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Court ruling backs tribes’ effort to force lawmakers to redraw North Dakota legislative boundaries

Court ruling backs tribes’ effort to force lawmakers to redraw North Dakota legislative boundaries

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request from North Dakota's secretary of state to delay a federal judge's ruling that found the state's 2021 redistricting map violated the Voting Rights Act in diluting the voting strength of two Native American tribes.
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March through Minneapolis protests Camp Nenookaasi eviction

March through Minneapolis protests Camp Nenookaasi eviction

Political organizers and supporters of Minneapolis’s unsheltered population marched Tuesday evening from the site of the Wall of Forgotten Natives — a now-closed encampment — to Camp Nenookaasi, an existing camp the city plans to tear down.
by Melissa Olson

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