workshop, which the School is offering this academic year for the first time.
The University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people.
Over the past few years, the University has taken steps to recognize this by adopting a land acknowledgement statement, and by hiring Tadd Johnson to serve as the first senior director of American Indian Tribal Nations Relations.
Beginning last fall Johnson, an enrolled member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa and a faculty member at the University of Minnesota Duluth, has taught a workshop through the Humphrey School of Public Affairs that examines the unique relationships between Native nations and the state of Minnesota through a public policy lens.
Ice anglers stranded, rescued near Duluth: Lake Superior is not forgiving Katie Galioto and Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune
DULUTH – The fish were biting, and John and Porter Smith were sheltered from the freezing windchill in their icehouse just off the shore of Lake Superior on Feb. 9. Then they heard a crack.
The cousins were among 26 anglers stranded on an ice floe that broke away from the shoreline near 21st Avenue East in Duluth. The Duluth Fire Department received a call around 11 a.m. from a resident who saw the smattering of ice huts floating away, and crews rescued the anglers a few at a time by boat.
The University of Minnesota s Board of Regents unanimously approved a plan Friday that would provide students who come from families that qualify financially a tuition-free education at all five of their campuses.
According to StarTribune.com, the plan will allow students whose families earn $50,000 per year or less to attend the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Minnesota Morris, University of Minnesota Rochester or University of Minnesota Crookston without paying a dime in tuition.
StarTribune.com notes that while students whose families make $50,000 per year or less already have most of their tuition covered by a mix of need-based scholarships and state and federal grants. The new program, which U leaders hope to have in place by this fall, will cover any leftover tuition costs for those students. It will not pay for additional fees or room and board expenses. It is estimated that this new program could benefit as many a
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Rebecca Webster is an assistant professor in the American Indian Studies Department, University of Minnesota Duluth.
Been thinking about democracy lately? Same. As the received narrative about the United States and the founding fathers is being revised in many quarters these days, it might be informative to understand that white Europeans did not hatch democracy on this continent. Long before, the Three Fires Confederacy of the Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy were participatory democracies. The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Roots of Democracy Series tackles this topic with a lecture from Rebecca Webster, Margaret Ann Noodin and Richard Monette. This online discussion and Q&A, via Zoom, is open to the public with advance registration.
Study: Minnesota, Wisconsin could plant millions of acres of trees to soak up carbon dioxide
A Nature Conservancy report finds pasture land and open urban areas offer huge potential to capture carbon dioxide and slow climate change, and UMD efforts are helping provide more trees to plant. 7:57 am, Feb. 10, 2021 ×
A volunteer plants a tree along Duluth s Park Point. A Nature Conservancy study finds that millions of acres of trees could be planted across the U.S. to soak up millions of tons of the carbon dioxide that causes climate change. (Clint Austin / 2008 file / News Tribune)
An all-out effort to reforest land across the United States could plant trees on another 133 million acres to help soak up carbon dioxide and limit global climate change.