Turtle Island

“Water and women are one and the same. They deserve our love and protection.”

“This is the way we create now — we come together and use art as ceremony.”

I am a national award–winning snow sculptor and the captain of Team Kwe, an all-Indigenous competitive snow sculpting team. I

It is the first opera to include lyrics in the Dakota language.

Supporters of women of color and LGBTQ+ legislative candidates came out to celebrate the intersectional movement

“There is no accounting for the dead beaver, the dead muskrat, the poison in the water.”

Drug overdose deaths are rising more rapidly among Black and Indigenous Americans than they are among white people — and Minnesota’s disparities are the worst in the nation.

Talking about the impact of learning Ojibwemowin, the importance of language revitalization and the role of language in grieving, and hopes for an expansive Ojibwemowin curriculum in Minnesota schools.

If I can be honest in who I am, and the opportunity that I have in this seat, hopefully there is a little girl out there who can hear or see a message and realize that it is a possibility for them — that they are not too broken to do this work. We all deserve to be in this space and make these changes together.

LGBTQ+ rights, conversion therapy ban, MMIR director, documentary about women entrepreneurs

Instead of relying on governments, Indigenous scientists and allies gather water quality data themselves.

Rising temperatures, melting ice caps, and invasive species are not interested in bargaining for our survival.