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White Earth Tribal and Community College signs articulation agreement with BSU
“[The] agreement with Bemidji State University…will allow students the opportunity to be dually admitted in both schools.”
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Indigenous organizations collaborate to feed their most vulnerable
“‘When we are fueling our bodies with Indigenous foods, our bodies remember those tastes. They remember that they make us feel good. It’s a part of us.’”
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Prairie Island Indian Community buffalo project
“The Buffalo Project supports the Native Mdewakanton Sioux culture, spirituality, and provides community families with highly nutritional meat. The goal of the Buffalo Project is to grow the herd and provide bison meat for community members and their families and for educational purposes.”
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Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community launches ‘Understand Native Minnesota’ [video]
“It’s a campaign to provide greater understanding of Native American history, culture, and modern tribal governments into Minnesota’s education system, Rebecca Crooks-Stratton explains.”
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A closer look at Indigenous Minnesotans making history [interview audio file]
“Angela Davis speaks with Vanessa GoodThunder, who is working to revitalize the Dakota language, and David Glass, who is challenging the appropriation of Native imagery and culture in sports.”
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Voyageurs National Park gains dark sky certification
“Along with the ecological and aesthetic benefits of darkness, …it preserves a culture resource relied on and cherished by longtime Indigenous residents of the region.”
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University relations with the tribal nations of Minnesota
President Shelley Buck: “We are done being forgotten…Everything’s education. And my tribe learned years ago that the only way we were going to succeed as a tribe was to educate our people in the dominant society’s way.”
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Mankato rich in Dakota culture
“Mankato is rich in history, but especially Dakota history. History you can see in places like Reconciliation Park, the Winter Warrior, Land of Memories Park and Heritage Hall. Along with the statues, buildings and parks, there are also the local colleges that are helping to keep the Dakota language alive.”
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Where to learn about and support Indigenous art and culture on Native American Heritage Month
“The Minneapolis Institute of Art…has launched the Virtual Care Package initiative, in which Indigenous artists, educators and healers share stories about resilience in times of crisis. The ongoing programme includes artists like Joe Bendickson Šišóka Dúta (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) and Katie Bendickson Wóokiyewiŋ (Upper Sioux) speaking about Dakota and Lakota works in the museum.”
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11 county and tribal governments partner to deliver message on slowing spread of COVID-19
11 county and tribal governments partner to deliver message on slowing spread of COVID-19