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Jan 24, 2025 | 
mprnews.org | Allison Herrera |Melissa Olson
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Kathy Peltier was barely two years old when her father Leonard Peltier was sentenced for the murders of FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler in Fargo, N.D., in 1977. She’s only ever known him as a prisoner. “Once I see his face out in the real world, it’ll really be like, wow, it is true. But right now, I’m still in shock,” Kathy told MPR News.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
southernminn.com | Allison Herrera |Melissa Olson
In one of his last official acts before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison. The action is an extraordinary move that ends a decades-long push by Indigenous activists, international religious leaders, human rights organizations and Hollywood insiders who argued that the 80-year-old Native American activist was wrongly convicted. kAm%96 4@>>FE2E:@?
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
mprnews.org | Allison Herrera |Melissa Olson
In one of his last official acts before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison. The action is an extraordinary move that ends a decades-long push by Indigenous activists, international religious leaders, human rights organizations and Hollywood insiders who argued that the 80-year-old Native American activist was wrongly convicted.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thecirclenews.org | Allison Herrera
By Allison Herrera/MPR News“Niimiwin” is the latest exhibit at All My Relations Arts in south Minneapolis. The title “Niimiwin” means “everyone dance,” a nod to the theme of the exhibit — the tradition of dance and powwow. Josie Hoffman is a direct descendant of the Grand Portage Anishinaabe and is the Emerging Curators Institute fellow at All My Relations Arts. Hoffman wanted to create a show that explores not just dancing but the community that comes together because of the powwow.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Allison Herrera
Jim Hallum grew up on the Santee Sioux Reservation in Nebraska not knowing anything about the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Now, 162 years later, he and 30 others are on a nearly 300-mile ride from the reservation to southern Minnesota to mark one of the most tragic periods in Minnesota history — the hangings in Mankato of 38 Dakota warriors and two other men at the war’s end, the largest mass execution in American history.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Allison Herrera
“Niimiwin” is the latest exhibit at All My Relations Arts in south Minneapolis. The title “Niimiwin” means “everyone dance,” a nod to the theme of the exhibit — the tradition of dance and powwow. Josie Hoffman is a direct descendant of the Grand Portage Anishinaabe and is the Emerging Curators Institute fellow at All My Relations Arts. Hoffman wanted to create a show that explores not just dancing but the community that comes together because of the powwow.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Allison Herrera
The book “They Would Not Be Moved: The Enduring Struggle of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to Keep their Reservation” by historian and anthropologist Bruce White was published in October by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. The book traces the history of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and their fight to maintain their treaty rights. The 1855 treaty granted the tribal nation 61,000 acres along Mille Lacs Lake, rich in resources like wild rice and pine forests.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Allison Herrera
Several Indigenous community members shared their moccasin photos in honor of “Rock Your Mocs” week, including Fond du Lac Band tribal citizen and artist Wendy Savage. Savage has been making moccasins since the 1980s. When she first started out, the internet didn’t exist, so she had to hit the road. “I would go from museum to museum, looking at patterns, and then also talking to a lot of elders,” Savage said.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Allison Herrera
Jessica “Jaylyn” Atsye (Laguna Pueblo) started the worldwide event called Rock Your Mocs by accident. After her traditional ceremonies ended, she found herself wishing she could have an occasion to wear her moccasins everyday. So, she created one. In 2011, she and a group of friends started an event on Facebook inviting people to wear their moccasins for the day. She was overwhelmed by people’s responses.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Allison Herrera
The impact of Native voting was particularly noticeable in 2020 when Indigenous voters helped sway the presidential election in Arizona. And in Minnesota during the 2022 midterm elections, voter turnout increased 45 percent in precincts around the Red Lake Reservation. Jolene Jones, a citizen of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, is the coordinator for Make Voting a Tradition. “I feel like I have seen a huge increase in Native voter turnout,” Jones said.
