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Native in the Spotlight: Dr. Denise Lajimodiere
Denise Lajimodiere (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) is approaching her fifth decade in education as an elementary school teacher, principal, and college professor. She is among the founders of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Friday, April 21, 2023 –
Ojibwe inventor Danielle Boyer is on a quest to make technology more accessible to interested Native students.
Medical Assistance, MinnesotaCare and Minnesota Family Planning Program Notice
During the COVID-19 emergency, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) put special rules in place to help you keep your health care coverage. Due to a new federal law, we must now resume renewals. As of May 11, 2023, the Covid-19 Pandemic Health Emergency will end.
Tribal cannabis update from New York to Washington State
The Shinnecock Nation is seeing their first cannabis dispensaries opening. They are among a rush of weed businesses among New York tribes as the state starts welcoming recreational use sales.
Erasing tribes in South Dakota schools
It’s coming down to the wire for the South Dakota State Board of Education Standards to decide on the social studies standards submitted by the state Department of Education.
Indigenous resistance to deep-sea mining
Researchers and environmental advocates don’t know much yet about mining minerals off the bottom of the ocean floor, but the race to learn is on because large mining companies will soon start scooping up unrefined cobalt, manganese, copper, and nickel from the sea bed
