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10/09/2025

This week on Minnesota Native News:

the story behind Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe citizen Anita Lovelace’s Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives jingle dress, which took home the 2025 People’s Choice Award at the Minnesota State Fair’s Fine Arts Competition. Plus, how Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College celebrated food sovereignty during the harvest.

Tune in: https://minnesotanativenews.org/dress-offers-healing-to-hurting-community-and-fond-du-lac-indigenous-food-gathering-celebrates-the-harvest/

This week on Minnesota Native News, the story behind Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe citizen Anita Lovelace's MMIR jingle dress, which took home the 2025 People's Choice Award at the State Fair's Fine Arts Competition. Plus, how Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College recently celebrated the harvest and fo...

04/09/2025

This week on :
Leah chats with author, researcher, educator, curator and Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa citizen Heid E. Erdrich.

Heid was the inaugural Minneapolis in 2024.

In our discussion, she examines her fascination with family history and with tracing the ancestral migrations that brought her to where she is now. Heid also shares her “best bad habit” and her take on the greatest gift anyone can give a creative artist.

Tune in: https://minnesotanativenews.org/heid-e-erdrich-finding-connections-in-creativity-and-collaboration/

Today, we’re excited to chat with Heid E. Erdrich. Heid is an author, researcher, educator, curator and member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.

28/08/2025

This week on Minnesota Native News:
A special extended interview from a past segment on Native Governance Center's new Executive Director, Amber Annis!

Tune in:
https://minnesotanativenews.org/mnn-extended-interview-amber-annis-of-native-governance-center/

This week, a special extended interview from a past segment. Travis Zimmerman interviews the Native Governance Center’s new Executive Director, Amber Annis.

15/08/2025

This week on podcast:

Leah speaks with Alexandra Buffalohead. Alex is from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and is the Director of Communications and Partnerships at the Native American Community Development Institute - NACDI. She’s also an , and .

Alex talks about how important it is to have venues that consistently make space for Native artists to share and develop work.

Listen here: https://minnesotanativenews.org/alexandra-buffalohead-making-time-for-work-art-and-blue-dog/

Today, we’re excited to speak with Alexandra Buffalohead. Alex is from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and is the Director of Communications and Partnerships at the Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI). She’s also an artist, curator and musician.

14/08/2025

This week on Minnesota Native News:

results from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe's Water Over Nickel survey. Plus, how Tribal Broadband Bootcamp is supporting Midwest tribal internet access.

tune in: https://minnesotanativenews.org/mille-lacss-water-over-nickel-survey-results-are-in-and-tribal-broadband-bootcamp-grows-internet-access/

This week, results from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe's Water Over Nickel survey. Plus, how Tribal Broadband Bootcamp is supporting Minnesotan tribal internet access.

31/07/2025

*New* this week on ~
Leah speaks with Sharon Day, an enrolled member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa and Executive Director of Indigenous Peoples Task Force.

Sharon is also a grandmother, an artist, a musician and writer, and she leads or .

Tune in: https://minnesotanativenews.org/sharon-day-speaking-for-the-water/

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce — a.k.a. Minnesota — to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.

Today, we are excited to welcome Sharon Day to the Native Lights Podcast. Sharon is enrolled with the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe, and she serves as the executive director of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force. She's also a grandmother, an artist, a musician and writer, and she leads Water Walks, or Ni...

30/07/2025

This week on Minnesota Native News, we talk with Bear Bosto about the he leads at Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. And, a conversation with local musician Annie Humphrey, one of the Minnesota musicians who won at the 2025 Native American Music Awards - NAMA LIVE.

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This week, a summer sports camp brings Lacrosse to life in Fond Du Lac. And Minnesota musicians win at the 2025 Native American Music Awards.

17/07/2025

*New* this week on ~

Leah & Cole talk with Teresa Peterson (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and Upper Sioux Community). Teresa is a gardener, lover of the land and author of several books, most recently the award-winning Perennial Ceremony.

Tune in: https://minnesotanativenews.org/teresa-peterson-loving-the-land-that-cares-for-us-all/

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce — a.k.a. Minnesota — to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.

Today, we're excited to speak with Teresa Peterson. Teresa is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and a member of the Upper Sioux Community. She is a passionate gardener, gatherer, lover of the land and author of several books, most recently the award-winning Perennial Ceremony.

17/07/2025

This week on Minnesota Native News, we re-air an episode on the curriculum (with an update on the Native Studies Summer Workshop for Educators NSSWE 2025 session), and preventing in Tribal Nations.

Tune in: https://share.transistor.fm/s/21d599c3

On this week’s episode of Minnesota Native News, the upcoming Native Studies Summer Workshop for Educators Conference and a recap of the prevention & impacts of invasive species on Tribal Nations.

10/07/2025

This week on ~
We re-air our episode featuring Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe), a spiritual advisor, storyteller, activist, wisdom keeper, and revered elder. Tune in:
https://minnesotanativenews.org/mary-lyons/

Native Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around — a.k.a. Minnesota — to tell their stories about finding their and sharing them with the

On today’s show, we talk with Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) a spiritual advisor, storyteller, activist, wisdom keeper, and revered elder. Mary Lyons is the founder of the Minnesota Coalition on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and serves as a counselor for the women’s sobriety g...

09/07/2025

This week on Minnesota Native News, we re-air an episode (with an update) about federal budget cuts to tribal colleges and universities. Also, a story about the book tour for “How the Birds Got Their Songs,” a collaboration between Minnesota cousins Sam and Travis Zimmerman.

Tune in: https://minnesotanativenews.org/how-the-birds-got-their-songs-book-tour-federal-cuts-to-tribal-colleges-and-universities/

This week, Minnesota Native News covers how cousins Sam and Travis Zimmerman brought a family story to life in "How the Birds Got Their Songs." Plus, how some Minnesota Indigenous leaders and educators are bracing for federal cuts to Tribal Colleges and Universities.

27/06/2025

https://www.startribune.com/federal-funding-cut-could-silence-tribal-rural-radio-stations-many-in-minnesota-consider-vital/601372507

Nearly two dozen stations in Minnesota receive CPB funds, totaling $17.2 million in the last fiscal year.

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