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Opinion. Editor's Note: This commentary was originally published by Native News Online in December 2013. It has been updated to reflect 132 years that have passed since the tragic day. One hundred and thirty-two winters ago, on December 29, 1890, some 150 Lakota men, women and children were massacred by the US 7th Cavalry Regiment near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Some estimate the actual number closer to 300. Snowfall was heavy that December week. The Lakota...
The Jan. 6 House committee has concluded its 18-month investigation, appropriately, by unanimously recommending that the Justice Department charge former President Donald Trump for inciting insurrection; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government; obstructing an official act of Congress, and conspiracy to make a false statement. The move is without precedent in U.S. history. But it was made necessary by a president who, from the moment he was elected, was convinced that the law and rules did not...
Former President Donald Trump's bids for attention are becoming increasingly outrageous, desperate and even dangerous. His latest ploy is the most alarming yet: an explicit call for "termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution," as part of his ceaseless attempt to invalidate the results of the 2020 election. He did not, as some news outlets reported, call for a suspension of the Constitution. It's just a word, but words matter, and the intent carried...
When I started working on a bill in 2019 to legalize cannabis for adult use, Minnesota was not ready for that idea to become law. Proposals were confused and contradictory. Neither the House nor the Senate DFL had the votes necessary to pass it, and Republicans in the Senate were actively blocking cannabis legalization for their political benefit. Most important, Minnesotans had not been heard on what goals lawmakers should pursue in creating a new cannabis marketplace. So much has changed in...
Many tribes including Red Lake Nation are experiencing population declines and an overall aging of their populations. We all have relatives who cannot get enrolled because their blood quantum isn’t high enough. Tribal members and leaders may worry about what this means about the future of the tribe. A recent population projection study conducted by Wilder Research on behalf of Red Lake Nation confirms that we have reason to pay attention to this issue of tribal enrollment. And we, as a tribe, must act soon! If Red Lake keeps our current e...
Former President Donald Trump's "BIG" announcement coincides with the increasing likelihood that he will be charged, perhaps convicted, and possibly even incarcerated for one or more federal or state offenses. This leads one to wondering whether he could still run for president again under any of those conditions. The answer is decidedly "yes." The most significant risk he faces in the many venues in which he is undergoing scrutiny may be for potential federal charges arising out of his...
It's tempting to jump on sweeping narratives that explain election results. That's convenient but can lead to disastrous results similar to the widespread "red wave" predictions that took on the aura of conventional wisdom just before voters flipped the script. That said, and without overinterpreting the results, there are a few broad trend lines we can take from this election. One is that ex-President Donald Trump may not be a spent force just yet, but there are growing signs that he at long...
"Why schools fail: a view from a college professor" (Opinion Exchange, Oct. 23) was an enlightening piece. I'd like to pass on my experience with the narrower topic of mathematics in the public schools. I am an engineer and have used math as a tool for decades. Algebra, geometry and trigonometry (A/G/T) were my mainstays. Though my involvement may be a bit dated, I saw the signs of coming troubles in math education some 30 years ago, when I had the opportunity to help a student from my church with some basic algebra. Word got around and demand...
Yesterday the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that distressed borrowers with qualifying USDA farm loans recently received nearly $800 million in assistance. This funding was mainly derived from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), with some additional resources coming from the COVID-19 Pandemic Relief. Through the IRA, USDA was directed to expedite services to distressed borrowers with either direct or guaranteed loans. Without this assistance, many borrowers could have faced accelerated loans resulting in foreclosure. For other...
Once again, it's election season across the country. The general election will be held on November 8, 2022. Here in northwest Minnesota, we have a lot to consider before we go vote. You have questions like: How do I register to vote? When do I vote? and What am I going to see on the ballot? Wherever you are in the state of Minnesota, the go-to place for the most accurate information is (ahem) not Facebook or TikTok. It is the Minnesota Secretary of State's website (www.sos.st...
MINNEAPOLIS — MCCL Executive Director Scott Fischbach issued the following statement in response to Attorney General Ellison's decision today to issue a "consumer alert" warning about pregnancy care centers in Minnesota: "Keith Ellison is acting like an advocate for the abortion industry, not for Minnesota women. Pregnancy care centers provide practical help and alternatives to abortion so that women don't feel like abortion is the only option. Relying on a 'report' produced by abortion advocacy groups, the attorney general is targeting t...
The end of this month marks International Overdose Awareness Day. Each year on August 31, the day is recognized globally to bring focus to prescription opioid overdose risk and preventing drug-related harm. Unfortunately, we don't have to leave Indian Country to see the severe damage drugs are wreaking on our tribal communities. Even with unprecedented opportunities available to Indian Country - a resurgence of our Indigenous culture, historic levels of federal funding and several universities...
In the 1990s, the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City had an exhibition called All Roads Are Good that included more than 100 pairs of moccasins placed in a circle with the drum in the center. Instead of simply placing the moccasins on the floor, they were strategically arranged with the heels elevated and the toes on the floor to allow the imagination to think of dancing. Some of the moccasins were beautifully beaded with images that tied them to their unique region or...
About thirty years ago, I made a deal with myself to read at least one book a year written by a conservative right-winger so that I could try to understand the rationale behind their positions on race relations and governmental policy. As the years flew by and the United States became extremely polarized, I stopped reading conservative writings because I found many of their arguments lacked merit and were, quite often, mean-spirited and laced with paternalistic attitudes towards people of...
Jim Thorpe, a citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, is an iconic hero among Native Americans. He was a dominant college athlete, a medal-winning Olympian and a Hall-of-Fame professional football player. He also played professional baseball and basketball, for good measure. His reputation was perhaps cemented when King Gustav of Sweden called him the "greatest athlete in the world" upon presenting Thorpe with two Olympic gold medals at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. Thorpe had earned the...
The start of July typically marks the peak of mosquito season in Minnesota. You know what to do. Stock up on citronella candles, wear garlic around your neck, scare them with direct sunlight, stake 'em in the heart, and whatever you do, never invite a mosquito into your home. Where was I? Oh, yes, distilling fact from fiction about how to ward off our favorite seasonal nuisance. Mosquitoes weren't even on my mind this year until Memorial Day weekend, and a trip Up North to a friend's cabin. I...
Editor's Note: This commentary was published in observance of the Fourth of July holiday in 2015. Native News Online is republishing it again this year. The other day I was eating dinner with my wife in a restaurant located in Gallup, New Mexico, a border town to the Navajo reservation. Gallup was recently named "Most Patriotic Small Town" in a nationwide contest. Soon after sitting down I noticed that we were seated at a table directly facing a framed poster of the Declaration of Independence....
Teague Rutherford (Aaniih and Nakoda) will begin his third year of dental school this fall at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health. He remembers clearly the moment he decided to become a dentist. He was nine years old and was receiving treatment from an off-reservation dentist. He loved how the dentist treated him with compassion. It was a sharp contrast to the traumatic experiences at an Indian Health Service (IHS) clinic on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana where he...
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota's oldest and largest pro-life organization, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL), will respond to the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson ruling when it is handed down within the coming days. MCCL will issue a press release immediately following the ruling. MCCL Executive Director Scott Fischbach and other MCCL spokespersons will be available for interviews throughout the day. The Dobbs case involves a Mississippi law that protects unborn children after 15 weeks. The Court could use the case to overturn Roe v...
The GPS directed us down a residential street in western Nebraska to the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School Museum. To my surprise, what remains of the 640-acre site that was once the fourth largest non-reservation Indian boarding school are just two buildings. They're in close proximity to each other, including a museum that originally served as the boys' dormitory. A block away, a sign reads: "U.S. Indian School." It is near train tracks where Native American children from more than 40...
This Memorial Day weekend, so many will use the day for cookouts and to kick off summer. But Memorial Day actually exists for more solemn reasons: to remember the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we can all live freely. Their sacrifice deserves our respect and honor. These men and women gave all and without their sacrifice, we would not enjoy the freedoms and liberties we do as Americans. My family has served in the armed forces since WWI. As a veteran myself, I hold this day close to my heart to honor and remember all...
Opinion. The 106-page Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report released on May 11 provides a glimpse into the deliberate intention of the federal government to disrupt the Native American family structure through assimilation. The report says the government's plan involved the permanent breaking of family ties. A section of the report, Section 7: Federal Indian Boarding School System Framework, reads: "The Department has stated it was 'indispensably necessary that [the...
Opinion. The long-awaited Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report was released by the U.S. Department of the Interior at noon on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. A short while later, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) arrived in the Interior's board room for a press conference on the report. Haaland wore traditional attire for this solemn event, as did Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community), who wore a green ribbon shirt....
Over Mother's Day weekend, First Lady Jill Biden visited Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine and met with Ukrainian mothers and children who have been forced to flee their home country because of Putin’s war. CNN (Opinion): Jill Biden: What Ukrainian mothers taught me about this war [Jill Biden, 05/11/22] You cannot go into a war zone and not come away unchanged. You don't have to see the sorrow with your eyes because you can feel it with your heart. The thing about grief is that it veils one's face. It's like a haze has descended. The tears of t...
The Seneca Nation has been engaged in a five-year long gaming dispute with New York state that got real ugly the last weekend of March. On an especially cold and wintry late March Saturday, when a good number of Senecas were happily headed to KeyBank Center to celebrate Native American Heritage Day at a Buffalo Bandits lacrosse game, the Seneca Nation’s financial world came to an abrupt, head-spinning, heart-seizing, screeching halt. New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul, a native Western New Yorker, put the screws to the Senecas by ordering the n...
