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Duluth's AICHO recognized as 'regional cultural treasure' with $500,000 grant AICHO's arts program was one of 10 arts organizations in Minnesota to be designated a Regional Cultural Treasure and receive an unrestricted grant of at least $500,000. 6:59 pm, May 19, 2021 × A mural of a Native American woman on the side of the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center at the American Indian Community Housing Organization dominates the streetscape on West Second Street in Duluth on Friday evening. The mural was created by artists Votan Ik and Derek Brown. (Clint Austin / caustin@du...

Author This is an abridged excerpt of the introduction to . Photo: Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com Colonialism has deprived Indigenous people, and all people who are affected by it, of the means to develop according to our needs, principles and values. It begins with the land. We have been made “Indians” only because we have the most precious commodity to the settler states: land. Vigilante, cop and soldier often stand between us, our connections to the land and justice. “Land back” strikes fear in the heart of the settler. But as we show here, it’s the soundest environmental pol...

Apr 23, 2021 Donald Wellington Wanatee Sr., 88, of Tama, passed away peacefully Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at his home on the Meskwaki Settlement in rural Tama under the care of his family and UnityPoint Hospice-Grinnell. Traditional Graveside Services will be held Friday, April 23, 2021 at 2:00 PM at the McIntosh Cemetery on the Meskwaki Settlement in rural Tama with Larry Lasley Sr. as speaker. Head Pallbearer-Wayne Pushetonequa and Pallbearers-Lucius Bear, Bryant Bear, Richard Wolf, Cordell Bear, Larnell Bear, Jarvis Bear, Trevor Mauskemo and Adonis Lasley. Head Cook- Avis Bear. A Traditio...

"The Earth is getting angry with us," says the Pulitzer winner, part of a special Talking Volumes series on race in America.

PALISADE, Minn. (AP) — The air smelled like sage. Fat snowflakes fell among maple and...