Amid strife, Little Earth residents work for reform, harmony

Dozens of adults and children circle around a buffalo hide in a south Minneapolis gym, waiting for a tobacco ceremony to fill the space with sacred sage smoke and Ojibwe song.

But first, a public service announcement about how to use Narcan — a drug that counteracts heroin overdoses. “Let me know if you’re interested in that training,” Jolene Jones tells the room at Little Earth of United Tribes.

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