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Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine

Minnesota Native News

In Native Lights, people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce - a.k.a. Minnesota - tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community. These are stories of joy, strength, history, and change from Native people who are shaping the future and honoring those who came before them. Native Lights is also a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native

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Filmmaker Khayman Goodsky’s Gift for Visual...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/04/22

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Filmmaker Khayman Goodsky’s Gift for Visual Storytelling and CollaborationToday, a lively

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Fun and Culturally Based Video Games Boost Math...

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2021/04/16

On today’s show, Leah meets two dynamic education innovators who are helping bolster math skills for students, by drawing on Indigenous language and history, and creating fun and engaging digital games.Leah talks with CEO Maria Burns Ortiz and Juliana Taken Alive (Hunkpapa/Mnicoujou Lakota and Standing Rock Nation) who is Director of Regional Partnerships for 7 Generation Games. Maria Burns Ortiz co-founded the company back in 2013. Since then, 7 Generation Games has been braiding math,

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Making Choices to Protect One Another During the...

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2021/04/09

Host Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) is back exploring how Indian Country in MN is responding and adapting to the current pandemic health crisis.On today’s show, Leah reflects on the many choices people are making to help keep each other safe. Leah enjoys a lively and fun conversation with college student Skylar Kuczaboski (Leech Lake) who is a senior at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, although she is completing her spring semester virtually from Minnesota. Skylar reflects on her

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Daniel Jourdain’s Gift for Supporting Diverse...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/04/08

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Daniel Jourdain’s Gift for Supporting Diverse Community through Politics and Policy

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Cultural Medicines and Viewing the Pandemic through a...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/04/02

Host Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) is back exploring how Indian Country in MN is responding and adapting to the current pandemic health crisis.On today’s show, Leah reflects on conversations about cultural medicines and viewing the pandemic and vaccinations through a lens of history and experience.We hear from Megan Schnitker (Lakota) who works with plant medicines. Megan learned about plant medicines from her grandmother. She shares perspectives about the year-long harvest cycle,

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Jessica Engelking’s Gift for Creativity and...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/04/01

Today on the show we meet Jessica Engelking, a descendent of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, who is a researcher with the Great Plains Action Society, and the author of a new book geared toward younger readers, called "Peggy Flanagan: Ogimaa Kwe, Lieutenant Governor." The book is part of the Minnesota Native American Lives series, a partnership between the Minnesota Humanities Center and the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council. Jessica Engleking has both a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in

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Rhiana Yazzie and Marisa Cummings Envision...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/03/26

Host Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) is back exploring how Indian Country in MN is responding and adapting to the current pandemic health crisis. On today’s show, we hear how two visionaries are looking forward to life after the pandemic, in their respective fields. Rhiana Yazzie (Navajo) is a theatre artist, filmmaker, playwright, and she founded New Native Theatre twelve years ago. Marisa Cummings (Omaha) is the President and CEO of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center

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Jonathan Thunder’s Gift for Honest Expression Through...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/03/25

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Jonathan Thunder’s Gift for Honest Expression Through Art and AnimationToday we have the

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Kade Ferris’ Gift for Inspiring through Children’s...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/03/18

Today we talk with Kade Ferris (Metis Nation citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation) who is an author, Indigenous historian, and researcher. Kade is from the Turtle Mountain community in North Dakota, and he currently lives and works for the Red Lake Nation as an archeologist. Kade Ferris is the author of six books on the history and culture of the Ojibwe, Cree, and Metis people and has reached the Amazon top-100 list several times. Additionally, Kade has worked for decades in Indigenous

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29:02

Language Education Thrives During the Pandemic and...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/03/17

Host Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) is back exploring how Indian Country in MN is responding and adapting to the current pandemic health crisis. On today’s show, we hear how language education is thriving through the pandemic, as students, teachers, and schools all rise to meet many challenges over the past year. We talk with Barry Hand (Lakota) a Dakotiyapi Culture and History teacher at the Bdote Learning Center. Bdote is a dual-language immersion school (Ojibwemowin and

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How Indian Education Rises and Serves Minnesota...

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2021/03/12

On today’s show, we hear from two Indian Education staff who are passionate about serving students in the ISD318 school district located in Itasca County, in the heart of Ojibwe country. Host Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) is exploring how Indian Country in MN is responding and adapting to the current pandemic health crisis.We hear from Jessica Bobrowski (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) is the program coordinator for ISD 318 Indian Education and Ella Cummings is a Student

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Diane Wilson’s Gift for Storytelling and Food...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/03/11

Today, a nourishing discussion with Diane Wilson (Dakota), the award-winning writer who is also a speaker, editor, and is the executive director for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. We’re excited to speak with Diane Wilson about her new novel called The Seed Keeper, which is published by Milkweed Editions and came out in early March of 2021.Diane tells us how she uses her personal experience to illustrate broader social and historical context. She shares how her life revolves

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Fawn Sampson’s Gift for Connection Through Creativity

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/03/04

Today we’re talking with Fawn Sampson (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) who is a mom and partner, and an artist. Fawn shares her love of art: everything from charcoal drawings, beading, singing, and dancing, to screen printing, painting, stop animation, and theatre!Fawn shares a sweet story of how she met her husband Samsoche Sampson (well-known Hoop Dancer and featured guest on another episode of Native Lights) one night at a karaoke bar, and the two have been creating art together ever since

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Successful Vaccine Rollouts for Tribes and Community...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/03/03

Host Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) is back exploring how Indian Country in MN is responding and adapting to the current pandemic health crisis.On today’s show, we celebrate successful vaccine rollouts in Indian Country! And we hear from two dedicated health care professionals about their experiences providing good medicine to community members throughout the pandemic. Dr. Angela Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe) is a Pediatrician and Laz Carreon, RN, heads the COVID team at

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Samsoche Sampson’s Gift for Hoop Dancing and Cultural...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/02/25

Today we’re talking with Samsoche Sampson (Mvskoke Creek/Seneca) who is an interdisciplinary artist, powwow and hoop dancer, performer, musician, as well as a father and partner. Samsoche and his brother, Luhme, make up the world-renowned hoop dancing team known as the Sampson Brothers, who over twenty-five years have performed throughout the world: on stage in big cities and at powwows in remote Indigenous communities. Samsoche tells the story of how he first started hoop dancing and the

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Tribal Communities Share Knowledge About Keeping...

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2021/02/24

Host Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) is back exploring how Indian Country in MN is responding and adapting to the current pandemic health crisis.Today we talk with Melissa Walls, Ph.D. (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe) a social scientist and the Director of the Great Lakes Hub for the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.Melissa Walls discusses how tribal communities provide much knowledge and perspectives, aimed

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A Gift for Storytelling with Hope Flanagan (Extended...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/02/18

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community. Native Lights – A Gift for Storytelling with Hope Flanagan Today we speak with Hope Flanagan (Seneca) a

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A Gift for Storytelling with Hope Flanagan

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/02/17

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community. Native Lights – A Gift for Storytelling with Hope Flanagan Today we speak with Hope Flanagan (Seneca) a

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Finding Your Inner Warrior’s Voice with Jessica Smith

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/02/10

February 14th marks a day of honoring relatives lost in the ongoing epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR). A recent report from the Minnesota Task Force on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women reveals a heartbreaking statistic: while Indigenous people make up just 1% of the state’s population, a stunning 9% of all murdered girls and women in Minnesota over the last ten years were American Indian.Today we talk with Jessica Gidagaakoons Smith (Bois Forte

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Special Edition: Visiting Vaccines with Daniel Frye,...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine ·

2021/02/03

This week, we continue our focus on how Indian Country in Minnesota is responding to the pandemic, now that COVID-19 vaccines are rolling out, with another Special Edition of Native Lights: Visiting Vaccines. In this show we check in with the Indian Health Service, we learn more about COVID resources, and we hear a firsthand account of going through the whole vaccination process from a Minneapolis firefighter. Daniel Frye (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) is the Director of

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