The event is at noon May 6 and will be hosted virtually.
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Mitchell Berg
Mahnomen City Administrator Mitchell Berg will speed about his experience as an adoptee from Korea during Central Lakes College’s next virtual Cultural Thursday event at noon May 6.
Berg will also share his experience serving as city administrator of Mahnomen on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota, with personal vignettes on what it has been like to have been born in Korea, adopted into a family in Minnesota and experience all that cross-cultural experience entails. He will also speak on his work in helping bridge understanding between cultures.
The human body is an amazing thing, to the point where it almost seems like the last true frontier of science. For as much as we know, there are plenty of things that leave us baffled, spanning many cases of what have come to be seen as medical miracles. These are the cases in which people have pulled off amazing feats of survival or have defied every fact we think we know, and have challenged our perceived knowledge of our very bodies. Among such amazing stories are those people who have been frozen solid, declared dead, yet have managed to bounce back to return to the world of the living as if nothing has happened.
Set mostly in a hyper-desolate Native American reservation
town in Minnesota, Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s “The Seventh Fire” centers on two
sometimes reprehensible but extraordinarily vivid men. Rob Brown, whose tribal
name is Two Thunderbirds, has spent many of his 37 years incarcerated and will
soon head back to prison, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend. Kevin Fineday
Jr., approaching his 18
th birthday, looks up to Rob and almost seems
like his younger self: by all indications, he’s headed for a life of crime,
prison and gang activity. He too has a pregnant girlfriend.
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Winona LaDuke explains her fellow water protectors continuing opposition to the oil pipeline replacement project, despite final permit approvals allowing construction to move forward. 3:00 pm, Dec. 19, 2020 ×
Winona La Duke, second from left, and a group of Indigenous and allies protest the construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline Tuesday, Dec. 15 at the Enbridge office in Park Rapids. (Robin Fish/Enterprise)
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