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New book on #NoDAPL and Standing Rock: Capturing a moment in the long resistance

By Konnie LeMay
The seven indigenous students who have died in Thunder Bay since 2000 are, from top left, Jethro Anderson, 15, Curran Strang, 18, Paul Panacheese, 17, Robyn Harper, 18, Reggie Bushie, 15, Kyle Morriseau, 17, and Jordan Wabasse, 15.
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Student Deaths: Thunder Bay Gets Barely Passing Grade

By Konnie LeMay
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Fond du Lac Bridges the Digital Divide

By Konnie LeMay
Stephanie Seymour, now on the Lakehead University faculty of Natural Resources Management, is also a CLAN ambassador and mentor.
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Yes, We CLAN: A Better Approach to Education, Employment and Beyond

By Konnie LeMay
Ojiwbwe Doctor, Mad Scientist, Arne Vainio, Physician of the Year, Association of American Indian Physicians, American Indian Physicians, Unsung Hero, Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Suicide, Addiction, Higher Education, Native American Education, American Indian Education, University of Minnesota Duluth, American Indian Students, Native American Students, University of Wisconsin Superior, Indian Health, Native American Health and Wellness, Seattle Indian Health Board, Puget Sound, Seattle, Walking Into the Unknown, We Are Healers, Breast Cancer, Ojibwe language immersion, Language Immersion, Real Men Wear Pink, American Indian Cancer Foundation, Jim Northrup
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Mad Scientist: Ojibwe Doctor Named Physician of the Year

By Konnie LeMay
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From Sucker Moon to Sore Eyes Moon: Native American Moon Names

By Konnie LeMay
This image shows the Southern Plains Indian delegation in the White House Conservatory on March 27, 1863 during the Civil War. The interpreter William Simpson Smith and the agent Samuel G. Colley are standing at the left of the group; the white woman standing at the far right is often identified as Mary Todd Lincoln. The Indians in the front row are, from left: War Bonnet, Standing in the Water, and Lean Bear of the Cheyennes, and Yellow Wolf of the Kiowas. Yellow Wolf is wearing the Thomas Jefferson peace medal that aroused such interest. The identities of the Indians of the second row are unknown. Within 18 months from the date of this sitting, all four men in the front row were dead. Yellow Wolf died of pneumonia a few days after the picture was taken; War Bonnet and Standing in the Water died in the Sand Creek Massacre; and Lean Bear was killed by troops from Colorado Territory who mistook him for a hostile.
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Native History: Proclamation Sets Course Toward Sand Creek Massacre

By Konnie LeMay
A summer solstice ceremony was held on the shore of the Ottawa River in Gatineau, behind the Canadian Museum of History, on June 21, 2017 to celebrate National Aboriginal Day. Starting in 2018 it will be known as National Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Celebrating Centuries of Indigenous Country

By Konnie LeMay
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Turtle’s Heart Still Beats: The Delaware People, A Story of Survival

By Konnie LeMay
Dakota 38, Dakota 38 + 2, Scaffold, Walker Art Center, Native American History, U.S. Dakota War, Minneapolis, Historical Trauma, Elders, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Dakota Elders
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Dakota Elders Will Oversee Dismantling, Burning of ‘Scaffold’

By Konnie LeMay
Dakota 38, Dakota 38 + 2, Scaffold, Walker Art Center, Native American History, U.S. Dakota War, Minneapolis, Historical Trauma, Elders, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Dakota Elders
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‘Scaffold’ Sculpture Taints Memory of Dakota 38, Prompts Protests

By Konnie LeMay
Reconciliation, U.S-Dakota War, Dakota 38, Dakota 38 Plus 2 Memorial Ride, Broken Walls, Dakota, Dakota Honoring, Mass Hanging
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Four Days Toward Reconciling Dakota War Tension in Mankato

By Konnie LeMay
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Census Bureau Launches My Tribal Area for Indian Country

By Konnie LeMay
Karen Diver, right, accepts an award from Susan Ault, co-chair of the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial organization.
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Racial Equity and Tribal Sovereignty Champion Karen Diver Honored

By Konnie LeMay
World Water Day
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World Water Day: 12 Native Words for Water

By Konnie LeMay
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World Water Day: Ojibwe Grandmothers Prepare for New Water Walks

By Konnie LeMay
Super Bowl Host Committee - The Viking mascot of the Minnesota Viking’s NFL football team joined in delivery of a $99,323 grant for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe for Mino-Miijim program. Courtesy Steffenhagen Photography -
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Super Bowl Host Committee grants $99,352 for MIlle Lacs Ojibwe Community Gardens

By Konnie LeMay
These lanyards headed for Super Bowl LII are the work of Jessica Klos, one of the artists participating in the Warm Welcome Lanyard Project started by Collin Price. Photo courtesy Jessica Klos
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Calling All Beaders: 15,000 Native Beaded Super Bowl Lanyards Needed for 2018

By Konnie LeMay
This silver amulet was presumably taken off the body of a fallen Native American warrior during the Sand Creek Massacre by William M. Allen.
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Sand Creek Massacre Amulet Lost, Reward Offered

By Konnie LeMay
Dakota 38 Ride is a path to reconciliation
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Riding to Reconciliation

By Konnie LeMay
This miniature shows part of the design by Harvey Pratt for the proposed Sand Creek Massacre memorial.
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Remembering Sand Creek: Proposed Memorial Would Bring History to Colorado’s Capitol Grounds

By Konnie LeMay
The DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., will be rocking in support of the Standing Rock Lakota Sioux people on Sunday, Nov. 27, when alternative rock icon Dave Matthews joins guitarist Tim Reynolds for a special “Stand with Standing Rock” concert.
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Dave Matthews Standing Rock Concert Sells Out in One Day – LiveStream this Sunday

By Konnie LeMay
A North Dakota State University supporter was spotted at a football game Nov. 5 with an obscene T-shirt, modified with the University of North Dakota’s new Fighting Hawks logo altered with a single-feathered Native figure on its knees before a phallus extending from the Bison logo.
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Offensive T-Shirt Shows NDSU Fans Can’t Let Go: ‘Sioux Suck’ Chant Lives On

By Konnie LeMay
Neil Young performs during the 30th Anniversary Bridge School Benefit Concert at Shoreline Amphitheater on October 23, 2016 in Mountain View, California.
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Neil Young Rocks Standing Rock on 71st Birthday

By Konnie LeMay
The first sign is dedicated to Henry Kekahuna, the Hawaiian surveyor who mapped the Kaneiolouma complex in 1959.
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Uncovering 'Wahi Pana' or a Storied Place in Hawaii

By Konnie LeMay
Dr. David Pilgrim is the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum on the Ferris State University campus in Big Rapids, Michigan. Pilgrim, who has collected racially-charged items most of his adult life.
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Racist Memorabilia Teaches Awareness at Jim Crow Museum

By Konnie LeMay
This year’s wild rice on lower Dean Lake in Crow Wing County, Minnesota is dotted with browns, signifying a poor harvest partly due to disease. Wild rice yields fluctuate annually, but this year's is especially sparse after bad weather.
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Bad Weather Cuts 2016 Manoomin Harvest in Half

By Konnie LeMay
Dignitaries dig in at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new $11.9 million Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig high school that took nearly two decades to fund. The school is set to open on the Bug School campus near Bena, Minnesota, on the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation.
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New Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School Finally Being Built

By Konnie LeMay
Artists Leanna Marshall, left, and Celeste Pedri-Spade pose amid the Thunder Bay Art Gallery exhibit that represents two years of work bringing family and community histories into their art. The exhibit continues into September.
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Healing Through Art: Regalia Confronts Boarding School Fallout in Thunder Bay Exhibit

By Konnie LeMay
A small 1901 “Duluth” guide, definitely a product of its time, told tourists how to find “Indians”—mainly by heading far out of the city that was the original site of thriving Ojibwe commerce and community.
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We’re Still Here: Reconnecting and Renewing Native Heritage in Duluth

By Konnie LeMay
: Judge Anne McKeig stands with Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton during the announcement June 28 that she will be the newest, and first Native, Minnesota Supreme Court justice.
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Bad Science Made Her Do It; That Is Become a Supreme Court Justice

By Konnie LeMay
Rob Brown (White Earth Ojibwe) in a scene from “The Seventh Fire”, executive produced by Terrence Malick and directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono.
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‘The Seventh Fire’ Shows Gripping Reality of Native American Gang Life

By Konnie LeMay
Big Susie island, now finally back under ownership of the Grand Portage Ojibwe, completes the 13-isle archipelago.
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Lucky 13: The Susie Islands Return in Full to the Grand Portage People

By Konnie LeMay
Deceptively simple, these stones help to form a kite-shaped ancient petroform that marked the summer and winter solstices on the Minnesota prairie. These are part of a recreation, made just last week at the Jeffers Petroglyphs. The actual observatory form is on a private site, too delicate and easily disrupted to be viewed by the general public.
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Ancient Observatory Brings Old Knowledge to New Viewers

By Konnie LeMay
The cover of acclaimed Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich's latest work, the novel LaRose, which was released on May 10, 2016.
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Louise Erdrich’s ‘LaRose’: Two Families Bound by Death, Love and Healing

By Konnie LeMay
Cree Elder Frances Wesley has a dream: She hopes to gather 500 drummers together in Thunder Bay for Mother's Day.
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Mother's Day Healing: Cree Elder Hopes for 500 Drummers in Thunder Bay

By Konnie LeMay
A fund-raiser on Sunday May 1 to help keep the periodic Water Walks for Mother Earth going.
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Songs for Water: Raising Money for Water Walks With a Concert in Minnesota

By Konnie LeMay
In his painting “River of Souls,” artist Carl Gawboy depicts the Milky Way, called Jiibay Ziibi, or River of Souls, by the Ojibwe people. Souls, it was said, would find a waiting canoe to paddle to the great beyond along the shining flow of the Milky Way.
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Ojibwe Cosmos: Mercury in Retrograde, Earthly Stardust and Intricate Stellar Maps

By Konnie LeMay
Jim Rock, Sisseton Dakota and program director for the Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium at the University of Minnesota Duluth, schools young students in Lakota astronomy. The entrance to the Charles L. Matsch GeoDome, an inflatable, portable, planetarium, is behind him. He recently received a $5,000 grant from the Northland Foundation to bring astronomy to students in remote Native communities.
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Field Trip to a Sacred Realm: Astronomy Program Takes Native Kids on a Cosmic Ride

By Konnie LeMay
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Searching for the Murdered and Missing

By Konnie LeMay
An artist's rendering of the execution of 38 Dakota men on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota.
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Sham Trials: The Traumatic Truth of What Happened to the Dakota 38

By Konnie LeMay
Radioactive nuclear waste is proposed for burial near Lake Huron; Saugeen First Nation could be the final word on whether it happens.
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Saugeen Nation May Be Final Word in Nuclear Waste Storage Next to Lake Huron

By Konnie LeMay
Kaden Walksnice carries the Eagle Staff during the 15th Annual Sand Creek Massacre Healing Run/Walk.
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Sand Creek Massacre, 151 Years Later: Hearing, Healing the Echoes of the Past

By Konnie LeMay
Ojibwe and other tribes want the gray wolf kept on the Endangered Species List; two dozen scientists have called for its removal.
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Ojibwe Oppose Non-Tribal Researchers’ Call for Delisting Gray Wolves

By Konnie LeMay
Bilingual signage was dedicated on Madeline Island last summer, in a ceremony by Lake Superior. The Ojibwa want the island added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Ojibwe Want Madeline Island on National Register of Historic Places

By Konnie LeMay
Anton Treuer's latest work chronicles the history of the Red Lake Ojibwa through profiles of several leaders. In so doing, he tells the story of Indian country as well.
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Warrior Nation: Anton Treuer Leaves Nothing Out in This Red Lake Ojibwe History

By Konnie LeMay
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Video: 6 Native Voices Speaking Out for Mother Earth

By Konnie LeMay
Protesters stand guard over the proposed Site C dam portion of the Peace River in British Columbia. Eagles' nests and 12,000 years of history are at stake.
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First Nations Fight to Preserve Eagles' Nests Slated for B.C. Dam Destruction

By Konnie LeMay
An informational plaque at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site tells the story of the massacre.
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How Best to Use the Sand Creek Massacre Site?

By Konnie LeMay
This Starr carbine issued to Jordan J. Brown likely was used at the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864.
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Sand Creek Was a Crime, and This Is the ‘Smoking Gun’

By Konnie LeMay