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Tag Archive for: Indigenous

Ethnobotany and Grief

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

Nancy Marie Beaulieu: Protector of Treaties

She stated that the executive leaders violated the tribe’s constitution, which holds that leaders will conserve and preserve the tribe’s resources for the well-being of its people.

Turtle Island Stories: The Sustainable Agriculture Movement

By doing this work, Harvest Nation assumes a receiving role within the large movement known as Rematriation, the returning of seeds to their mother land to be reunited with the earth and its people.

The Stone Tomahawk

Excerpted from “The Stone Tomahawk” in Linda LeGarde Grover, "Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong" from the University of Minnesota Press, October 2021.

Gender-based Violence Resources

Resources recommended by our writers for assistance, action, and learning.

Writing for Generations

Chris Stark at the Minnesota State Fair, while workers dismantle…

Legislative Update: MMIR Office Established

As loyal Minnesota Women's Press readers are aware, we have been actively covering the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR). We included our first Transforming Justice alert in June encouraging readers to engage with the issue of legislative budget for an MMIR office to be established.

Circle of Grandmothers

An image is never just an image, it means so many things all at the same time.

Juneteenth Messages

Two compelling Juneteenth messages

The Wisdom of Nature

In her poignant memoir “Watershed”, Ranea Lenor Hanson points out that Minnesota is an apex whose rivers flow north to Hudson Bay, east through the Great Lakes, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. I rather enjoy the concept of our state being central to three directions. For me, it is a reminder that wherever you are in our state, there are three places you can flow.

Storying the Mississippi

Ramona Kitto Stately is one of the women celebrated in the Women…

Revitalization, With Language and Childcare

Lead for Minnesota is a program that recruits, trains, and places recent college graduates around the state into two-year paid fellowships in or near their home community. There are currently 24 fellows in the 2020 class placed around Minnesota. Here are two of them.