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Welcome to the Living GodCast series, “From the Archives”, a special series from Church of the Living God, featuring some of Apostle Hall's most impactful sermons. His powerful messages continue to inspire and strengthen faith, offering timeless wisdom from God's Word. Whether you're revisiting these sermons or hearing them for the first time, we pray they encourage and challenge you.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and be blessed by these anointed messages!
John 6:60-71,When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? 62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 65 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” 70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” 71 He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him. “Here you go, take a look at this.”That's really all I said, but I'll tell you the whole story …Years ago I worked for a Christian resource ministry called Desiring God (it's a ministry we're still connected to and love) — well, back in those days our office was on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis, and for a short season I worked in the customer service department. My desk was closest to the door right next to the sidewalk, and from time to time if we had a visitor drop in, it was part of my job to greet them.So one day a gentleman came inside and he said that he'd like to discuss how we could all work together to blend several different religions to become one. He said it didn't make any sense for religions to be divided because they all basically ‘believed the same things.' This guy was a seeker, and I wasn't trying to discourage him from that, but I told him that all religions did not believe the same things, and that the Christian gospel is unlike anything else, and as a example, I said “Here you go, take a look at this” … I handed him a book then titled, What Jesus Demands of the World by John Piper — it's a book 50-chapters long, and each chapter focuses on a different command Jesus gives, and I figured that if the guy read some of the things that Jesus actually said, he'd change his mind. Well the guy came back the next week and he was mad. He gave me back the book and said, “I'd like to teach a thing or two to the author of this book!”He had read what Jesus says and he was offended … and I still think about this from time to time, and I wonder: Why exactly was he offended? What part in particular did he not like? And then the bigger, existential question: Why was he offended by what Jesus says and I'm not (or at least not ultimately)?This is the question: Why do some people love Jesus and others don't?You ever thought about that before? Our passage today is all about this. At the end of Chapter 6, the longest chapter in the Gospel of John, we're going to see the human response to what Jesus has said and there are two main lessons we find here — and the relevance of these lessons will become obvious. I think we're gonna be able to see ourselves in this passage, but before we look at the first lesson, let's pray again and ask for God's help.Father, you know better than any of us all the different places we're coming from this morning, and you know what you want to say to us through your word. Would you, in these moments, open our hearts to hear from you? Give us humble hearts to receive the words of your Son, in faith. We ask in Jesus's name, amen.The first thing we learn in this passage …1. Those offended by Jesus are expected.Here at the end of Chapter 6, John narrows the focus from the “crowd” (which he's mentioned four times in this chapter) to now he says “disciples.” But when he uses the word “disciples” here, he's not thinking about the twelve disciples, but he's talking about followers of Jesus more generally. So imagine three categories of people: There's the “crowd,” the broadest number of people who had the miracle lunch (10,000 or more when you count men, women, and children).Then there's “the Twelve” mentioned in verse 67 and 70 (these are the twelve disciples whose names we know; they were closest to Jesus).But then, in the middle, there's who John calls “disciples” — which is less than the crowd but more than the Twelve. Somewhere in-between (these are folks who followed Jesus after the miracle lunch and they've heard all of his teaching in Chapter 6).And according to verse 60, of this middle group, these more generic disciples, “many” of them did not like what Jesus was saying. The collective voice of these disciples is at the end of verse 60. They said:“This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”They're talking about all that Jesus has been teaching, but especially the part about his flesh and blood, and we know from verse 61 that this was a grumbly statement. Jesus knew they were grumbling. Verse 60 was not a humble, teachable response — they weren't saying, “Jesus, we don't get it, would you help us get it?” — nah, they were frustrated with him — which means they were angry.You Ain't Seen Nothing YetAt the beginning of this chapter these people were well-fed, now they're fed-up, and look what Jesus says to them at the end of verse 61. He says, “Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? …”What Jesus does here is really important. There's a tone I don't want us to miss. So just to make sure, everybody find Jesus's question there at the end of verse 61. I'm gonna read it again. I want you to get it. Find verse 61. That question at the end, Jesus says:“Do you take offense at this?”He's saying: Do you take offense at this, my teaching? Oh you ain't seen nothing yet!Jesus is saying: You think my teaching is difficult. You don't like what I'm saying. Just wait until you see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before!That's verse 62 — now what is Jesus talking about?Well, at one level, Jesus is talking about the final manifestation of his true identity. We know from the start of this Gospel that Jesus is the Word who was in the beginning. Jesus was with God, Jesus is God! — Jesus is God the Son, the one through whom all things were made, and he has all authority over all things, and in his ascension he is going to resume his seat on his throne in glory. That's in view here.But also, on another level in the Gospel of John, the event of Jesus's exaltation — his resurrection and ascension — is combined with the path he takes to get there, which is the path of his cross. So in this Gospel, Jesus being “lifted up,” before it means lifted in glory, it means lifted in shame. Before the ascension of Jesus took him up above the heavens, he was nailed up on a cross. And John, the writer, intends that double meaning of ascension in this Gospel.Tripping Over the TreeSo Jesus, in verse 62, is talking about his cross, and he's arguing here from the lesser to the greater. The cross of Christ is the ultimate scandal. It's the most offensive fact of Jesus — that the Messiah would be crucified! That's outrageous! It's insane! So Jesus is saying: If you can't handle my teaching (lesser), there's no way you're gonna be able to handle my crucifixion (greater). The teaching of Jesus is small beans compared to how he's going to be killed. See, Jesus is explaining in verse 62 — If you're bothered by my sayings, just wait until my sacrifice. If the difficulty of my doctrine undoes you, what about the degradation of my dying? If you're troubled by the truth you'll certainly trip over the tree.And this kind of tripping, this stumbling over the cross, is to be expected. The apostle Paul tells us this, 1 Corinthians 1:21, “It pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles…”The cross of Christ has been the problem for people going on now for two thousand years, and it's still the problem today. In fact, today, there's a lot of people who would at least ‘say' that they like the teachings of Jesus. Now they have his own version of his teaching — they're probably not thinking about the over 20 times he talks about hell — but overall, most people are okay with Jesus as a moral teacher.It is his cross that is offensive. Why? It's because the cross makes a very negative assessment of humanity. Because the first thing the cross says is that we are all sinners who need to be saved. Bad News FirstA few years ago I met a neighbor at a coffee shop and I invited them to our church, and they asked me right away, “Oh, is your church affirming?” Now, they were talking about gender and sexuality issues, but I just told them that our church doesn't affirm anybody — “All are welcome, none are affirmed!” — now I didn't make that up, but that's what I said — none of us are affirmed and that's why Jesus had to die!Jesus didn't come into a world full of people who were doing okay without him. He came into a world of sinners destined for God's wrath and at the cross he says to every single one of us: You are separated from God! You deserve judgment! You are wrong!People don't like to hear that. That's a “hard saying.” And it's so hard to hear that some people can't get past that bad news part to the good news part. But listen to the good news!At the cross, Jesus is not only saying “you're wrong,” he's also saying “You're loved!” You're wrong and you're loved!It's not just that you're so sinful and screwed up that I had to die for you, it's that you're so loved that I willingly died for you.I came to die for you. I pursued the cross for you.Nobody takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord, and I laid it down for you!Look, get this: if we don't know we're sinners, that love means nothing to us. But if you can handle the bad news first — if you can not be offended by the first part — then the second part is the greatest wonder in all the history of the whole world. Jesus Christ really loves you.But many people never get there. It's a fact. We learn here it's expected. We know from Jesus, from Paul, from history — those offended by Jesus are expected.Now, here's the second thing we learn in this passage.2. Those called to Jesus will come and stay.We start to see this in verse 63, and speaking of unpopular teachings of Jesus, this one could be top of the list. Not only are we all sinners, but Jesus says in verse 63:“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all.”In other words, Jesus is saying, You can't save yourself! … You need to be saved but you don't have the power to do anything about it. But Jesus says he does — “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” John is reminding us in verse 64 that Jesus is fully aware of how everything will play out, but this is a hard saying:You all need to be saved, you can't save yourself, only I can save you, and some of you won't be.Then verse 65 is most clarifying. Jesus explains, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”Does everybody see that in verse 65? Do you hear what Jesus says? Nobody can come to Jesus unless the Father grants them to come. That's what he says! And oh, we humans don't like that! You mean to tell me that the most ultimate decisive factor in the universe is not my own will but it's God?!Yeah, exactly. That word “granted” in verse 65 means simply to give; and “coming to Jesus” is another way to talk about faith — therefore, Jesus is saying that our faith in him is a gift from God. If any of us has faith in Jesus it's because God gave it to us. And Jesus is just repeating here what he's already said twice in Chapter 6.Verse 37:“All that the Father gives me will come to me…” Verse 44:“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.”Effectual CallingThis is the biblical doctrine that historically has been called “effectual calling.” You hear that? Effectual calling.The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith has an entire chapter titled “Effectual Calling.” (The same teaching is found in our Leader Affirmation of Faith, see 8.3.) But in the 1689 Confession, Chapter 10, paragraph 1 reads like this: Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, He is pleased in His appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ …Paragraph 4,… [others] not being effectually drawn by the Father, they neither will nor can truly come to Christ, and therefore cannot be saved …And the footnote attached to this sentence says “John 6:65” — that's our verse. Believer in Jesus, this is your story. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings here, but look, the reason you believe in Jesus is not because you're smarter than people who don't believe. It's not because you're better. It's not because you're lucky.It's because the Father granted you to come. Why are we here this morning? Why am I here? God is why! It's because of God. It's because he chose me before the foundations of the world and in his timing he effectually called me! Paul tells us the same thing again in 1 Corinthians 1. Go back to 1 Corinthians 1:23, … but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.If Jesus Christ is wonderful to you, that is God's doing. He called you. And this is really good news.Look at this — verse 66…You Leaving, Too?After Jesus said verse 65, this middle group of ‘disciples' had enough. Verse 66:“Many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.”They basically proved his point. And then in verse 67 Jesus looked at “the Twelve” — so this is not the middle group anymore, these are his closest disciples, his chosen Twelve — Jesus looked at them and said,“Do you want to go away as well?”And man, what a question! Do you hear that question? Jesus is gentle and lowly, and he's direct and to-the-point. And as this middle group is thinning out, he says to his Twelve, Y'all leaving too?Christian, Jesus asks that same question to you. I've heard him ask me that. I'm almost 40 years old, which is not old, but I'm old enough to know of too many people who have “turned back and no longer walk with him” … and every time I find out about somebody else, I hear him ask me: You leaving too?You've thought about it. At some point, if it hasn't yet, it's going to cross your mind. Would I — could I — ever want to do life without him? …The answer is No.We answer again and again the way Peter answers here in verse 68. This is Peter's highest moment, in my opinion. It's very similar to his confession of Jesus in Matthew 16. Peter says the right thing here.Called and KeptJesus says,“Do you want to go away as well?”Verse 68,And Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”Jesus, we're not going anywhere. We know who you are. You're the Messiah! You're the Holy One of God. You're the only one who can give us life.And in Matthew 16, after Peter confesses Jesus as the Messiah, Jesus repeats the same theology there that we see here. He says in Matthew 16, “For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven” (see Matthew 16:17). Jesus says here in verse 70:“Did I not choose you, the Twelve?”So just in case we were to think too highly of Peter (some do) — in case we were to give Peter the credit for his right answer — Jesus reminds us one last time that he's the one at work. He's the chooser. He's the revealer. He's the Savior. And if you're called, you're kept.This is why the call of the Father is such good news. Look: if our faith was something that we could accomplish, it'd also be something we could lose. If we came to Jesus on our own, then we could leave him the same way.God the Father is the reason we come to Jesus, and that is the reason we stay.For Our SecurityJohn mentions Judas again in verse 71 as a reminder that Jesus is sovereign over it all. Jesus is not surprised by anyone who leaves him. He knows those who are truly his — and he's gonna tell us more about this in Chapter 10, but the goal here, like it is there, is not our unsettledness, but our security. Jesus is not teaching us this so that we say, “Oh no, what if I'm not called?” He's teaching us this to assure us that our faith is grounded in a reality much stronger than ourselves. He's giving us a behind-the-scenes look here. It's like he's saying: this is what is going on at headquarters, but your concern is the field-assignment, and that is to believe. Our concern is to come to Jesus and to keep coming to Jesus — that's what we do — and we do it in the confidence that God is working. Those offended by Jesus are expected; those called to Jesus will come and stay — and if you're here this morning there's good reason to believe that you've been called (because you believe in Jesus!) — or you're being called today …The Gospel of John compels me to go here, and to invite you, everybody in the sound of my voice who has not come to Jesus yet, you can come to Jesus today. You can take that step. Verse 37, Jesus says,“All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.”The Father is working. Take the step. Come to Christ! Trust in him! Say to him, from the heart:Jesus, I can't save myself and I'm done trying!You came to save me by dying on the cross and being raised from death!I put my faith in you!That is a prayer of faith, and that's what brings us to the Table. The TableAnd for those of us who have come to Jesus, who trust in Jesus Christ, this morning we can rest in the fact that he's our Savior, not ourselves. He called us, he keeps us, thanks be to God!We receive this bread and cup in that miracle. That's why this Table is for Christians. If you believe in Jesus this morning, we invite you to come to him yet again, and give him thanks!
Welcome to the Living GodCast series, “From the Archives”, a special series from Church of the Living God, featuring some of Apostle Hall's most impactful sermons. His powerful messages continue to inspire and strengthen faith, offering timeless wisdom from God's Word. Whether you're revisiting these sermons or hearing them for the first time, we pray they encourage and challenge you.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and be blessed by these anointed messages!
Welcome to the Living GodCast series, “From the Archives”, a special series from Church of the Living God, featuring some of Apostle Hall's most impactful sermons. His powerful messages continue to inspire and strengthen faith, offering timeless wisdom from God's Word. Whether you're revisiting these sermons or hearing them for the first time, we pray they encourage and challenge you.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and be blessed by these anointed messages!
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical messages to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
Welcome to Living GodCast — the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!This episode features a special Leadership Evening with Bishop Russell Hylton, delivering a powerful message on "Thriving In Your Lane." Whether you're a church leader, team member, or someone seeking to grow in your calling, this word will challenge and equip you to lead with clarity and confidence.
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical messages to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
Welcome to Living GodCast — the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!In this special one service revival, we're honored to welcome Bishop Russell Hylton as he brings a timely and anointed word for the body of Christ. This powerful message is filled with encouragement, insight, and a fresh call to pursue God's purpose with boldness.
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical messages to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical messages to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical messages to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical messages to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical messages to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
Welcome to the Living GodCast series, “From the Archives”, a special series from Church of the Living God, featuring some of Apostle Hall's most impactful sermons. His powerful messages continue to inspire and strengthen faith, offering timeless wisdom from God's Word. Whether you're revisiting these sermons or hearing them for the first time, we pray they encourage and challenge you.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and be blessed by these anointed messages!
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical messages to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
Welcome to the Living GodCast series, “From the Archives”, a special series from Church of the Living God, featuring some of Apostle Hall's most impactful sermons. His powerful messages continue to inspire and strengthen faith, offering timeless wisdom from God's Word. Whether you're revisiting these sermons or hearing them for the first time, we pray they encourage and challenge you.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and be blessed by these anointed messages!
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical messages to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
Welcome to the Living GodCast series, “From the Archives”, a special series from Church of the Living God, featuring some of Apostle Hall's most impactful sermons. His powerful messages continue to inspire and strengthen faith, offering timeless wisdom from God's Word. Whether you're revisiting these sermons or hearing them for the first time, we pray they encourage and challenge you.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and be blessed by these anointed messages!
Welcome to Living GodCast, the sermon podcast from Church of the Living God in Winchester, KY!Each week, we bring you powerful biblical teaching to encourage and strengthen your faith. Whether you're part of our local church family or tuning in from afar, we pray these messages inspire you in your walk with Christ.Join us in person at 114 Franklin Avenue, Winchester, KY, or explore more about us online at www.wincitycolg.com. For additional resources and ways to connect, visit our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/wincitycolg. Subscribe and grow with us in God's Word!
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‘Could you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan?' -Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 One was the New York name on literary lips. The other, a Los Angeleno fireball with a ferocious wit and writerly ambitions. But what started off a relationship of nurture and collaboration quickly became one of the sourest relationships in literature. This is the golden age of Hollywood, where artists and movie stars mix with writers and rock-n-rollers in drug-fuelled parties on Franklin Avenue. Drawing on never-before-seen correspondence between Joan and Eve – letters so intimate you don't read them so much as breathe them – Vanity Fair's Lili Anolik reveals to Daisy Buchanan the untold true story of these two truly iconic writers. This is a tale of Los Angeles vs New York, hedonism vs constraint, and a rivalry that burned blisteringly hot in pursuit of success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A group of teens cuts cardboard with X-ACTO Knives. They will soon shape this cardboard into architectural models of their bedrooms. Behind them in a classroom at the Dunwoody College of Technology, large windows frame the Minneapolis cityscape — a sampling of building types through the ages, from the early 20th-century Basilica of St. Mary to the IDS skyscraper built in 1973.“It's my first time doing something in architectural-related study,” says Dominic Stewart of Burnsville.“I'm excited to get that hands-on experience,” says Carsyn Johnson of Elk River.They are here for the weeklong Indigenous Design Camp, the first camp of its kind in the U.S. The goal is to teach Indigenous teens about career options in architecture and design, a field where Native Americans are underrepresented.Indigenous architects Two of the founders of the new camp — architects and friends Mike Laverdure and Sam Olbekson — estimate that there are only about 30 Indigenous architects total in the U.S.Laverdure is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and a partner at DSGW Architects as well as the president of First American Design Studio. Olbekson is a citizen of the White Earth Nation and founded the firm Full Circle Indigenous Planning and Design. They are the only two practicing Native architects in Minnesota. Renovated Minneapolis American Indian Center reflects urban Indigenous identity“The need for creating a space for kids to become designers, Indigenous designers, is great,” says Laverdure, who has wanted to start this camp for years. “Representation matters for these kids to see us as architects and designers. A lot of us who grew up in reservations or urban Indigenous communities only see a few career types.”“This is the first time anyone has ever done this in the U.S.,” Olbekson adds. “It's the right time for Indigenous communities, tribal communities, nonprofits, to really take a self-initiated approach to design, to hire architects to understand the value and the importance of designing and operating a project from an Indigenous lens.”The campersThe campers are Indigenous teens ages 14-18 from the metro area. They will be constructing architectural models all week. Campers will also tour the University of Minnesota School of Architecture and local architecture firms.They will also visit the American Indian Cultural Corridor on Franklin Avenue, where both Laverdure and Olbekson have designed buildings, as well as another Olbekson project, the recently completed expansion of the Red Lake Nation College downtown.Olbekson says, “to actually go and see [the buildings] and see the impact that they're having on the community, not only as individual buildings, but how they're forming an identity for the American Indian Cultural Corridor and how these projects are supporting education, economic development, community building, cultural development, and youth and elder spaces, I think is going to be a great way for them to understand the impact of what design, urban design, interiors, landscape, can have on creating a healthy, Indigenous urban community.”The camp began Monday morning with a welcome from Laverdure, Olbekson and University of Minnesota assistant architecture professor Jessica Garcia Fritz, a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Fritz also helped start the camp.“If you think about your home reservations, or your urban communities, you think about all the buildings that are there,” Laverdure told the class, “Ninety-nine percent of all the buildings built that Indigenous people sit in are not designed by indigenous designers. They're designed by other people who don't have a stake in the game, who don't really have a connection to that community.”Laverdure continued, “When you have Indigenous designers be a part of that process, what happens is that those buildings have a special kind of connection to the communities and that makes those buildings extra special.”Indigenous architecture, past and presentNext came a presentation on Indigenous architecture, past and present, by Tammy Eagle Bull, who did a video call from her home in Arizona. Eagle Bull is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. In 1994, she became the first Native woman in the U.S. to become a licensed architect. Camper Carsyn Johnson says this fact caught her by surprise.“I was surprised about it, though, a little disappointed, because I feel like as a society, we should move further ahead a little bit,” Johnson says.For the remainder of the first day of camp, Jessica Garcia Fritz guided campers in a design exercise to create their sleep space or bedroom. First, they taped 10 by 10-foot squares on the classroom floor to help them visualize the scale. Then they sketched blueprints of their bedrooms. Finally, they cut and scored cardboard to build shoebox-size models. As the week progresses, the campers will join their models to create collective spaces as well as design larger communal spaces as a group.“One of the things Tammy Eagle Bull had said this morning was, ‘I wish that a camp like this had existed when I was young.' I think that's the sentiment among many of us,” Garcia Fritz says.”Part of the motivation behind this is to be able to show Indigenous high school students what those pathways are, to bring them into the environments so that we can have more representation. I think that many of us can maybe speak to the fact that we may have been the only Indigenous people in our classes at the time. Our instructors probably didn't know how to work within what we may have wanted to do. I think that's changing.”Garcia Fritz, Laverdure and Olbekson hope this camp is the first of many. One of the goals is to expand the camp to greater Minnesota.“Right now, it's in the Twin Cities, but there are so many Indigenous communities regionally, up north and even in other states that could really benefit from this,” Olbekson says. “Long term, we want to create a space where five to 10 years from now, we've got 10, 15, 20, Native designers that are out there and being a force for change,” Laverdure says.The camp ends Friday when campers present their final architectural models.
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The Minneapolis American Indian Center's two-year renovation is now complete. The redesign reflects both a sense of belonging and history and showcases ways the Minneapolis Indigenous community embraces its future. The happy chatter of excited visitors filled a large rotunda inside the center as executive director Mary LaGarde walked through the crowd to greet guests at a soft opening held last Thursday. “It's just really exciting for all of us — for community and just for everyone who has been involved in the project all along,” said LaGarde. The center's renovation cost $32.5 million and is the result of a decade-long process to bring people back into the center. Located on East Franklin Avenue in south Minneapolis, the center provides social services to the urban Native community and has served as a central gathering place — a place for boxing matches, basketball tournaments, powwows, conferences and more. Over the years, the building showed signs of aging. Water dripping through the roof had become a steady stream inside the center the year before renovation. Through a series of community listening sessions, LaGarde and her staff acknowledged the center was underutilized and needed repairs, so they began planning the organization's future.At the soft opening, elected leaders, civic leaders and community supporters applauded Mary LaGarde for her work in securing the necessary funding for the renovation. The center's board of directors and staff honored LaGarde with a star quilt for her dedication and leadership. Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan was among the elected leaders who honored LaGarde's work. “This long-awaited grand opening sets the bar where it should rightfully and always be, because we are worthy and deserving of capital investments,” said Flanagan. The expansion added 20,000 square feet to the building, for a total of over 66,000 square feet. The organization also expects the building to support 10,000 visitors a year, according to a fact sheet released by a spokesperson for the center.The heart of the community Architect Sam Olbekson said he was a 4-year-old kid living in the neighborhood when he attended the center's first grand opening in 1975. Today, Olbekson serves as chair of the organization's board of directors. As an architect working in collaboration with several partners, he helped to redesign the building to reflect the community's cultural identity. Just before the community gathered in a conference room for the afternoon's program, Olbekson stood inside the center's large, drum-shaped rotunda. He spoke to MPR News about how the rotunda's design speaks to the community's cultural identity. “It's intended purpose is to be the heart of the facility where people gather. It's off the new main entry. Every public space from the building opens up from the space.” He said all the center's public spaces, including the new café, the gymnasium and fitness center, the art gallery and meeting spaces and conference rooms are all visible from the rotunda. The center welcomes visitors through a main entrance through glass doors and a large bank of windows. The rotunda, along with other features, opens up to the street and, according to Olbekson, is intended to assert an urban Native American presence on Franklin Avenue. “We put this as a prominent form on the outside of the building too. This curved space has its expression on the outside,” said Olbekson. “So, people know the space is here, and it's for them, and they're welcome.” There is also an emphasis on activities for youth and elders. The gym, along with a new teen tech center, will be used by youth for recreation and learning. Overlooking the gym is a new dining area for elders who eat lunch together daily at the center. The refurbished gym is dedicated to the memory of the late Frances “Frannie” Fairbanks, the center's former director. A plaque dedicated to Fairbanks is mounted on the wall. ‘A real modern feel to it' Charlie Stately is the owner of Woodland's Crafts and has operated his arts business for more than four decades. He began working for the original owner of the shop at age 21. Stately has now moved into his new location in the renovated center, in a space double the size of his original shop. “I am thinking about if we got more space, more things we can offer, more artists we can include. The gallery is right there. We have a door to the gallery,” said Stately. “People will be saying, ‘I am looking forward for this or that.' That's how we operate, we listen to our customers.” Bruce Savage, one of Stately's long-time vendors, dropped in as Stately's new shop was reopening. Savage said the newly renovated building speaks to the importance of the center to the future of the community — both local and national. “For some reason, we fixate on old architectural structures within Indian Country, but this building has a real modern feel to it,” said Savage. The Minneapolis American Indian Center opens Wednesday to the entire community during the kickoff to Minnesota's American Indian Month.
George Hill Hodel was a brilliant physician who rubbed elbows with the cream of Los Angeles society, but after the mutilated body of a 22-year-old woman named Elizabeth Short is found in the weeds of South Norton Avenue, suspicion falls on him. After planting a listening device in his neo-Mayan mansion at 5121 Franklin Avenue, investigators begin to learn sickening secrets about his life, but always seem to be one step behind the possible murderer of the Black Dahlia."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Estelle Timar-Wilcox: Native and non-Native audiences have been raving about “For the People.” Colin Cash is a big theater fan and a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. When he saw it, he forgot he was even watching a play. He even offered to pay for people's tickets so they could go, too. Colin Cash: In my eyes, for me, it wasn't just a play, it was an experience, and a look into the urban natives trying to find acceptance, community. There's so many nuances, the writing is just brilliant and there's layers to it. I've been recommending it to a lot of different people, because representation does matter. ETW: “For the People” premiered at the Guthrie in October and ran through November 12th. The show follows April Dakota, a young Native woman with big dreams of opening a wellness center on Franklin Avenue. April means well, but she's a little misguided. Her plans for vegan regalia and new-age Indigenous yoga get some eye-rolls from her elders. She lands in a tangle of neighborhood politics and a partnership with a rich developer that goes very wrong. The Guthrie commissioned this show from playwrights Ty Defoe and Larissa FastHorse. FastHorse is a member of the Sicangu Lakota nation; her mom is from Minnesota, and she grew up in South Dakota. Defoe has Ojibwe and Oneida heritage, and grew up on Anishinaabe territory. But they weren't the only voices behind it. FastHorse said they developed the play using story circles – meetings with local Native people to see what they wanted to watch a play about. Larissa FastHorse: It's really about making sure that we aren't writing what we want to write, we're writing what the community wants us to write, and we're asking the community again and again, ‘hey, whoever wants to tell us what you want a play to be about — come on, let us know.' ETW: The show mentions a lot of local landmarks and history — from the start of the American Indian Movement to Owamni. And the biggest note they got: it has to be funny. The result is a hilarious 90 minutes. The final battle features a yoga competition and a paintball bow-and-arrow. The comedy weaves through some really touching moments, too. Co-writer Ty Defoe was responsible for writing a lot of the jokes. Ty Defoe: That kind of comedy allows a type of a healing. When people either see themselves portrayed on stages or are a part of that process, I think there's something that allows the collective soul of Native people to come together in an urban environment that settler colonialism has so affected so that we can have a joy and a type of perseverance working together. ETW: Lindy Sowmick is Saginaw Ojibwe. She grew up in Michigan and moved to Minnesota for college. She called “For the People” the greatest play she's ever seen. Lindy Sowmick: There's that feeling, deep in your heart, or in your stomach, when you're like, this is healing for my community. That's what art is meant to do, art's meant to tell a story. And you know, Indigenous folks have been storytellers for our entire generations. I think that this is just such a beautiful result of generations of us being storytellers. ETW: The Guthrie advertised the show as the first Native-written play on its main stages. FastHorse said she's glad it reached a wide audience. LF: That's the beauty of theater. It's a live experience where you go with people that are having completely different experiences, and then you get to talk about it. It makes you have to interrogate things in a different way, which we really love. We're very aware that we're writing for a predominantly white institution, with a dominantly white subscriber base, but there was so much work being put into making sure we had a broader audience coming to this. And we made sure that this play was for the people, right? There were a lot of things that didn't read to the white people, and we were like, that's okay. That part's not for you, and that's fine. (Laughter). TD: For! The! People!
Conservators and artists have worked this past year to restore a work of art created by artist George Morrison half a century ago. Morrison's vision is felt by the people who helped to restore his work, and by those redesigning the building where the mural lives.The late artist George Morrison was from a small town near the Grand Portage reservation in northern Minnesota. He attended art school in Minneapolis and New York City and was part of a leading generation of American artists working as abstract expressionists. Known for his intricate wood sculpture and collage, George Morrison was commissioned to create the mural for the Minneapolis American Indian Center in 1974.Morrison once told a biographer the design was inspired by feathers. Its chevron V-shapes work in unison to create an optical illusion. Although never formally named, Morrison suggested the work might be called — “Turning the Feather Around: A Mural for the Indian.” Sam Olbekson is an architect and the chair of the Minneapolis American Indian Center's board of directors. He is a part of a team working on the center's renovation.“That pattern and the way it's constructed allowed us to take it apart piece by piece, and one of the main goals of this entire project is to preserve this piece art,” says Olbekson.In 2022, the Midwest Arts Conservation Center, or MACC, answered the center's call to restore the mural.Chief conservator Megan Emery served as the manager of the project. MACC called on another team of conservators from Montana with expertise in rigging and reinstalling complicated works of art.“We decided we were going to have to start the project by doing full documentation with photographs of the mural to basically map out exactly out how it looked and how everything was laid out,” says Emery.“When it was time to start to start the project, we physically removed every single board, and that's when we need a team of people.” Josie Hoffman is an Anishinaabe multi-media artist whose family is from the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Hoffman was tasked by MACC to work on the restoration.“There wasn't a ton of problems. And actually, when we were taking it down it came down really easily. It was also the documentation of [the mural],” says Hoffman. “It's about over 700 cedar boards, so it's about documenting and making sure we have all these pieces in the right place.”Once the pieces were carefully removed, they were packed into crates and shipped to specialists at the firm Wolf Magritte in Missoula, Mont. The firm cleaned the mural again and worked to design a series of interlocking panels on which to mount jigsaw-like pieces for reinstallation.When the full sun hits the mural at its new home on the east side of the building, the contrast of the light and dark surfaces of the cedar planks is striking — adding a sense of movement. George Morrison mural in Minneapolis preserved for future generations by Olbekson says the restoration of the mural is a part of the long-term vision for community development along Franklin Avenue. “Where it was on the building ... [George Morrison] was so intent on it being open to the public. So that art was accessible to the community. He wanted it to be large scale, in your face, out, and unapologetically Indigenous on Franklin Avenue,” says Olbekson. Olbekson points out the mural's new location on the east side of the center will mean that it has a different experience with environmental elements and weather. “We tried to preserve the aging, the integrity of it,” says Olbekson. “It was about making sure the original artist's intention was conveyed in the new building, to do it in a way that will make it last there in another fifty years.”The restoration of the mural is part of the Minneapolis American Indian Center's first major renovation since opening in 1975.
As part of its 61st season, The Guthrie Theater has premiered a play spotlighting the Twin Cities Native American community. For members of the community, it's an exciting moment. “I'm still processing it, quite frankly,” said comedian and nonprofit organizer Trish Cook about “For the People,” now playing. “Folks are really buzzing about it.” Cook, who is Anishinaabe and lives in St. Paul, has seen the show multiple times. “I think it kind of gives non-Natives maybe just a little peek into our communities,” Cook said, praising the show for showcasing the diversity of Minnesota's Indigenous community. “For the People” was written by Larissa FastHorse and Ty Defoe. The show first began as an idea in 2019, when the Guthrie approached FastHorse and Defoe to create a show. “We ended up centering on Franklin Avenue, which is a very well-known, well-beloved avenue,” FastHorse said. Franklin Avenue was the birthplace of the American Indian Movement and remains a hub of Native American arts, culture and activism. FastHorse, who hails from the Sicangu Lakota Nation, and Defoe, with both Oneida and Ojibwe heritage, decided to crowdsource the story directly from the community they intended to portray in their show. Defoe recalls hosting events during the harsh Minnesota winter of 2019 to gather stories and feedback for the writing. “We talked to so many different people, just asking questions in a gathering-like phase,” Defoe recalled. They visited people up and down Franklin Avenue. “We even went to powwows that were a little bit off of Franklin Avenue.” By 2021, the show started to take form. “For the People” follows April Dakota, a Native woman who returns to Minneapolis after time spent away seeing the world, intending to open a Wellness Center.April quickly becomes entangled in the avenue's politics, navigating challenges like grant funding, gentrification and questions about her “Native” authenticity. Although FastHorse and Defoe had different upbringings, they both relate to April's journey to understand her Native identity. “[I'm from] the Sicangu Lakota Nation in South Dakota and I grew up being adopted out very young, to a white family,” FastHorse said. “I had to go through a kind of a reclaiming of culture. As I was growing up in my late teens ... now, I call myself a bridge.” Defoe grew up with lots of connections to his Anishinaabe heritage and grew up speaking Anishinaabe. “There was a journey about how to figure out how to belong and what belonging meant as like a modern-day Indigenous person,” Defoe said. Local connections Aside from nationally known actors, like Wes Studi of “Dances with Wolves” and “The Last of the Mohicans,” “For the People” includes notable local actors, including Ernest Briggs, artistic director of the Minnesota-based Turtle Theater Collective, which focuses on Native storytelling. Another local actor, Adrienne Zimiga-January, plays a commissioner. “She's kind of like the boss lady. She reminds me of a lot of strong female women in my head that I've had in my life, most particularly my aunt,” Zimiga-January said. She points to other Native stories being told to a wider audience, like “Reservation Dogs” and “Rutherford Falls,” as part of a large, empowering Native storytelling renaissance. As a Lakota woman, “For the People” has a special place for her. “To have a story like this, especially when you're right here on Native land. It is a huge thing for Native people here in the Twin Cities. For the Dakhóta Oyáte, it's huge here.” The future of Native stories According to the Guthrie, “For the People” is its first mainstage production written “by Native playwrights, featuring Native voices.” The theater's commitment to Native stories found its recent momentum in the 2016-2017 season, when Defoe and FastHorse's consulting company Indigenous Direction, was brought on to create a show in the Guthrie's Dowling studio. Later, the theater created a Native Advisory Council to consult on decisions being made about the shows they would program for future seasons. “I know there have been efforts in the past to make this connection between the local Native community,” said Roya Taylor, a former member of the Guthrie's Native Advisory Council and a local theater and voice-over artist. “But for some reason, you know, it just didn't seem like the timing was there or something was not right about the Guthrie's mindset.” Though Taylor has yet to see the final product of “For the People,” she was previously involved with workshops for the show, long before it even had a title. Taylor, an enrolled Pawnee and Choctaw, applauds the Guthrie's move toward Native storytelling as part of its future. “What I would like to see is more Native young people, if we can figure out a way for them to take advantage of many of the educational offerings that the Guthrie utilizes,” said Taylor. “We've had many years of creative, talented people that haven't gotten to share their voice, but they are now,” Cook shared, noting the bittersweet feeling. “It's also exciting to hear from people — young folks and others who now want to share their stories or share their talents … I'm excited to see how it grows.” “For the People” runs until Nov. 12.
With a better understanding of the victim, Elizabeth Short, Hadley and Alyssa set their sights on the Black Dahlia's suspected killer: prominent California doctor George Hodel. Dr. Hodel lived in the John Sowden House—Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.'s surrealist magnum opus in Los Feliz—from 1945 to 1950, until he abandoned his family and fled the country after the home was bugged by the district attorney's office. Following the trail of a popular theory, the hosts explore the history of Sowden House, from its magnificent Mayan Revival architecture and many former owners to the events and evidence that have led many to believe it was the site of Elizabeth Short's murder. CREDITS Alyssa Fiorentino - Co-host & Producer Hadley Mendelsohn - Co-host & Producer Jessy Caron - Producer Jacob Stone - Sound Editor & Mixer To advertise on the show: https://www.advertisecast.com/DarkHouse or email us at sales@advertisecast.com. RELATED LINKS Sowden House, 5121 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles (PHOTOS): https://bit.ly/3PBihm5 ‘Black Dahlia Avenger' by Steve Hodel: https://amzn.to/468kDj4 Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia (PODCAST): https://bit.ly/45iciIU Historic American Buildings Survey, Sowden House (PDF): https://bit.ly/3ZwglA1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette Digital News Desk, and I'm here with your update for Thursday, July 20.We'll enjoy another sunny day Thursday. According to the National Weather Service the high will be nearly 85 degrees in the Cedar Rapids area. It will be a little bit breezy, with gusts reaching as high as 25 mph. On Thursday evening the wind will calm, with a low around 59 degrees.More than 10,000 Iowans will have their remaining federal student loan debt wiped out under fixes to the U.S. Department of Education's income-driven repayment plans.According to data released this week by the department, 10,730 borrowers in Iowa are eligible to have their loans automatically discharged in the weeks ahead, totaling $465 million statewide. This forgiveness requires no action by borrowers, who will be notified when their debt has been discharged.These discharges apply to those who have accumulated either 20 or 25 years worth of qualifying months, depending on the type of income-driven repayment plan. The Department of Education will notify borrowers who reach forgiveness thresholds every two months until 2024, when borrowers still ineligible for forgiveness will receive updated payment counts.The department announced in 2022 it would address failures in its student loan programs after details emerged about mishandling of income-driven repayment plans by the department and just how few people's debts were canceled after 20 or 25 years, as they were supposed to have been under these plans.Iowa politicians are pushing for a variety of bills related to improving both childcare and healthcare for children.Families of children with complex medical conditions needing to travel out of state to receive specialized care would have fewer hoops to jump through under legislation sponsored by members of Iowa's congressional delegation.Iowa Republicans U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley and U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks reintroduced legislation Wednesday that would improve health care access for children with complex medical conditions by simplifying out-of-state Medicaid enrollment processes for pediatric care providers. The bill is backed by more than 200 children's hospitals, patients and research organizations nationwide, including in Iowa.A bill sponsored by Iowa Republican U.S. Sen Ernst would allow nonprofit child care centers, including religious nonprofits, to participate in a Small Business Administration loan program to open more child care slots.Currently, only for-profit child care centers qualify for federal programs that help small businesses access capital. To qualify, child care centers would have to comply with usual credit requirements and licensing requirements.Both of these bills also have Democratic cosponsors.A man walking along U.S. Highway 30 in Cedar County was struck and killed Tuesday night as he crossed the roadway, according to an Iowa State Patrol report.About 11:30 p.m., a Ford Expedition was traveling west on Highway 30, west of Mechanicsville, when a man who was walking on the south shoulder crossed the highway near Franklin Avenue "for an unknown reason" and was struck by the sport utility vehicle, the report stated.Authorities have not yet released the name of the pedestrian or driver.
American Indian Month in Minnesota continues this May. And, this weekend's a busy one.The Minneapolis American Indian Center is hosting their free Open House and Family Fun Night - May 19th.A carnival with free entry, free food, and free prizes found among their games and attractions. The MAIC Facebook page shows while its Franklin Avenue building renovation continues on, the Minneapolis event's at Cedar Field Park - the evening of Friday the 19th.And there are other open houses throughout the weekend. The Native American Community Clinic is opening its doors for lung cancer screenings and a community lunch Friday, in celebration of serving the community for the last 20 years.About 4 blocks away, the Indian Health Board is also serving lunch at their open house.It's also Art-A-Whirl weekend in Nordeast Minneapolis. The Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance and Mnisota Native Artists Alliance are hosting a Native arts market, showcasing several artists' work from around the region. With a hoop dancing performance Saturday the 20th. That's on the third floor of the Northrup King Building.In upcoming events, you can find traditional and contemporary pow wows, workshops and the 2023 Tribal Energy Equity Summit. Native American tribal leaders and federal officials from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will be meeting in Saint Paul. May 22nd through the 24th. The summit is not open to the public, but you can find registration information at the Minnesota Native News dot Org website.White Earth Mental Health is also observing May - Mental Health Month, hosting the 2023 American Indian Mental Health Conference. This year's theme is BIZINDAADIWAG - Post-COVID-19: Rebuilding Connections and Holistically Addressing Mental Health. That will be at Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen May 24th and 25th.If you want more details on any of these or other events, you can find info at the Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors, or MUID, website or the May issue of The Circle. We'll have a link to both of their calendars at Minnesota Native News dot Org [MinnesotaNativeNews.Org]
Original Air Date, April 15th: Earth Day Pedestrian Dignity Walk, is a one-of-a-kind movement experience along Franklin Avenue through Minneapolis and into St. Paul on April 22 – Earth Day! Pedestrian Dignity Walks are centered around the lived experience of all who move as pedestrians (on foot or wheelchair) in a time of increasing speed,…
John's conversation with Jonathon Stalls, author of "Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour." It's a book about the power of walking: for physical, mental, and community health; to forge human connection; as a force for creativity; as a way to stay connected to nature; and as a human right that needs to be defended politically. Join Jonathon for a book talk and/or a walk at Magers & Quinn on Friday, April 21. There's also a walk on Franklin Avenue on Saturday morning, April 22. Details here: https://www.intrinsicpaths.com/walkbook Buy the book: https://www.moonpalacebooks.com/item/Dh7d12j5Brl-Q8SGlfd9SA Watch: https://youtube.com/wedgelive Join the conversation: https://twitter.com/wedgelive Support the show: https://patreon.com/wedgelive Wedge LIVE theme song by Anthony Kasper x LaFontsee
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Today Leah and Cole chat with Jewell Arcoren (Sisseton Wahpeton Nation). Jewell is a community activist and the Executive Director for Wicoie Nandagikendan, an Ojibwe and Dakota language immersion preschool in Minneapolis. There, she pursues her commitments to early childhood education, language revitalization and addressing intergenerational historical trauma. Jewell talks about how cultural integration is a key to healing and moving forward, including language revitalization and traditional foods. She shares about her journey with Wicoie Nandagikendan, the school's hope to expand and how culture can put people onto a path of healing. Wicoie Nandagikendan is language immersion pre-school that teaches through Ojibwe and Dakota languages. They are located along Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis within the American Indian corridor. Since 2006, they've been a national leader in language immersion. https://www.facebook.com/WicoieNandagikendan/ Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine 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.
Before television and computers monopolized our free time, chasing police calls was a popular hobby. People needed only a radio, the knowhow to tinker with it, and a car. Charles Armstrong, a lifelong radio enthusiast and Waco resident, explains how he and wife Ruth had access to police dispatches through the 1940s, 50s, and 60s: "They was on AM, but they were up high on the band. On your car radio or house radio, you could turn it far as you go plumb up to the end of the band. You could take you a screwdriver and go in the back, and you could change the frequency. You could raise it up a little bit by using what's called an antenna tuner, and you could reach the police department. You could hear them on there dispatching. So we could listen to them, and if it was anywhere close, we'd get in the car and go. "And then it didn't last very long. I guess people got to bothering the police department and maybe too many people following them, so they went to FM, frequency modulation. I run up on a ad in one of the surplus books. We bought a tank receiver. It was for army tanks, twelve-volt operated. And so we'd chase them on FM." Fires, car crashes, homicides—the Armstrongs went to it all. And their adventures influenced a young man named John Sherrell: Charles Armstrong: "We'd chased so many times, so long that we knew every policeman on the force. In fact, the boy that used to ride with us to chase the calls, he said, ‘Boy,' said, ‘I'd like to be a policeman.' I said, ‘Well, they've got a school open down there.' And John went down and took a test and got in the police department, and he stayed on there for forty-something—forty years." Ruth Armstrong: "And he's been on there for—he was on there for years." Charles Armstrong: "And he ended up being a detective, and he got a taste of it from us." When something interesting came over the police band, the Armstrongs often picked up nearby friends Harry and Lois Raines. Mr. Raines describes one disturbance that took place near the former post office at Franklin Avenue and Eighth Street: two soldiers were harassing a female and called in friends as backup when police arrived. Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Raines decided to help out: "There were about two trucks sitting over by the post office there, and they whistled for them, and they all jumped out. So we was all out there fighting. And they'd tore up this policeman's uniform. And I was out there fighting; I was stomping his hat up. (laughs) And he had his gun out. He was hitting them up the side of the head with it. We loaded them in our car, took them to police headquarters, (interviewer laughs) the soldiers dressed in civilian clothes. This police had hit them up the side of the head, you know, and it didn't bring them down or nothing. Shoved them in a car, hit their head up against the side of the car, it didn't bother them. So they must have been hocked up on something, you know. "And so they took them down there and drove in there. They'd reported we'd kidnapped those soldiers. These other guys in the truck, they went in the post office, called, said we'd kidnapped them. (laughs) And so we drove in down there, some policemen's standing out there, and they said, Is this the car kidnapped them soldiers? We said, No, we didn't kidnap them. We're bringing them in jail." The first commercial police scanners hit the market in the 1970s, and today all kinds of scanning equipment exists, with many feeds streamed over the Internet. Several regulations of the practice have been put in place since the days when the Armstrongs and Raineses were listening in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Robert Pilot (Ho-Chunk Nation) hosts Native Roots Radio today with Robert Lilligren (White Earth Nation), CEO of the Native American Community Development Institute with updates from Franklin Avenue – The Native Corridor of Minneapolis, MN.
The 2nd annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is right around the corner, so Janine and Lauren join us to discuss how you can take part in Fort McMurray. Anyone wanting to take part that day, the gathering will begin outside Jubilee Plaza on Franklin Avenue at 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 30.
After getting laid-off from her job as a college professor during the great recession a decade ago, a Minneapolis woman with a fear of bikes and strangers, takes a 420-day bike trip around the perimeter of the country with her spouse, accepting invitations to stay in the homes of strangers along the way. I met Anne Winkler-Morey at Open Streets on Franklin Avenue several weeks ago and was taken by her story. Who doesn't fantasize about leaving it all behind, escaping the political despair, facing your fears, and having an adventure? Anne is the author of Allegiance to Winds and Waters: Bridging the Political Divides of the United States. We talk about the shallow culture war politics that divide our country, the hundreds of people she met, and the conversations that convinced her our divisions are manufactured. I ask if there's anything to be learned for Minneapolis in this moment. Anne describes how common it was to be invited into strangers' homes. She talks about the physical toll, the heat stroke, biking through rain, the importance of shelter. And what we owe to each other as it relates to the commons, public spaces, and food deserts. For answers to questions like "how did her spouse's bike end up dragged under a car?" and "why did Anne toss her bike in the woods?" you'll have to read the book. From Anne's website: "Allegiance to Winds and Waters mixes the angst and hilarious misadventures of an unlikely bicyclist, poignant stories of the strangers she meets, and acute observations of a historian and social activist." -https://annwinklermorey.com Anne is also the founder of the Minneapolis Interview Project: https://turtleroad.org/ Watch: https://youtube.com/wedgelive Join the conversation: https://twitter.com/wedgelive Support the show: https://patreon.com/wedgelive Wedge LIVE theme song by Anthony Kasper x LaFontsee
John McDonald co-hosted our trip to the offices of Dr. Charles Mullaly MS, LAC to learn about the art of Acupuncture. Dr. Mullaly explains his "Body and Mind" approach for each of his patients on an individual basis.Dr. Mullaly recently moved his practice from New York City to his new location at 3272 Franklin Avenue in Millbrook, NY. To learn more about Dr. Mullaly and book a session, please visit https://gyrotonicmillbrook.com/acupuncture or call (347)820-3563
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Robert & Wendy Pilot welcome back Robert Lilligren (White Earth Nation), President/CEO of Native American Community Development Institute for Updates from the Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis & Commentary on Current Events. PLUS Allicia Waukau-Butler joins to discuss a special partnership to help Native teachers get their certifications
Minneapolis police say officers fatally shot a man Thursday morning following a lengthy standoff. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the shooting that happened at about 4:30 a.m. near 21st Avenue South and Franklin Avenue. This is a morning update from MPR News, hosted by Cathy Wurzer. Music by Gary Meister.
During the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd, members of the Little Earth Protectors, a Minneapolis neighborhood patrol, were caught between protestors and law enforcement. Two years later, residents of Little Earth are trying to improve the safety of the area, but they say trust in law enforcement is a work in progress. A recent report leaves unanswered who fired so-called less lethal munitions at people permitted to patrol their neighborhood. “Nobody's apologized. So it makes us feel like they don't really care,” said Jolene Jones, who was a lead organizer of the Little Earth Protectors. Little Earth of United Tribes is an urban housing development for people from as many as 32 distinct tribal nations. Photo gallery Kerem Yücel for MPR News Little Earth on Sunday, April 10, 2022 in Minneapolis. Kerem Yücel for MPR News Little Earth on Sunday, April 10. Kerem Yücel for MPR News Little Earth of United Tribes is an urban housing development. Kerem Yücel for MPR News George Neadeau, AIM patrol member opens his arms during an interview at Little Earth of United Tribes on April 15. Kerem Yücel for MPR News An AIM patrol member stands guard at Little Earth of United Tribes. Kerem Yücel for MPR News AIM patrol members gather at Little Earth of United Tribes on April 15. In the days following the murder of Floyd by police, community members in Minneapolis called on relatives from a northern Ojibwe community who work as EMTs. Leech Lake EMT Jeff Harper remembers seeing Little Earth Protectors meet protestors attempting to march through Little Earth. “There's probably about 50 community members…mostly women and younger people. And they just…locked arms and said go back to back to where you're coming from. And they didn't realize it but National Guard and law enforcement were coming up on each side of them,” Harper said. Mayor Jacob Frey's office had granted the protectors and other community patrols an exemption from curfew, but officers fired hard foam rounds and chemical munitions. Little Earth protectors say at least two people were injured. An outside review of state enforcement action during the unrest does not specifically indicate who did the firing. Officials with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety declined an interview request. ‘We were just witnesses' Kerem Yücel for MPR News Jolene Jones looks on outside the Little Earth on April 10. Jolene Jones said Little Earth Protectors choose to engage the community in ways that police haven't. In one instance, working to earn the trust of youth at Little Earth who like to hang out on the footbridge that crosses over Cedar Avenue. At first, youth were distrustful of adults carrying walkie talkies, who could be talking with police. Jones said patrols would turn up the volume so the younger people could hear the civilians talking with each other. Kerem Yücel for MPR News AIM patrol member No Face burns wood and smudge before starting patrolling at Pow Wow Grounds parking lot on, April 15. “We kept telling them…we were just witnesses. We're here to keep the community safe,” said patrol member Jackie Neadeau, president of the Little Earth Resident Association. Neadeau also works with the American Indian Movement Patrol. Kerem Yücel for MPR News Jackie Neadeau looks on outside Little Earth on Sunday, April 10 in Minneapolis. American Indian Movement chairman Frank Paro has patrolled the Phillips neighborhood. Paro would like Minneapolis police to commit more resources within the police department's 3rd Precinct. “I'd like to see more … beat cops,” Paro said. “More police athletic leagues, where they're interacting with the youth in the community.” Mike Goze, CEO of American Indian Community Development Corporation, said the city let them know where community patrols would be most needed during the unrest, along parts of Franklin Avenue. Now he worries about the shortage of officers. “I think the key for any community is, is presence, you know, you gotta be there,” Goze said. Five minutes of basketball Sandra Corona, a Little Earth Patrol member, says she would like to see Minneapolis Police return to Little Earth to do more outreach with youth. “They used to play basketball here,” Corona said, “Just that little five or ten minutes makes their day.” Corona said. Inspector Jose Gomez heads the 3rd Precinct where Little Earth is located. Gomez said he's working to re-create partnerships at Little Earth. He said officers used to socialize and learn more about Native American culture. “We used to do one barbecue a year at Cedar fields, they would have a homework club where the officers would help [kids] with homework,” Gomez said. “I want to get back to that. I mean, when is that going to happen? I don't know. But it's a goal of mine to get back where we were.” Jones, the Little Earth protector, said during the unrest a lack of communication on the city's part may have compromised the trust people had in law enforcement. Despite that, she hopes Little Earth residents and Minneapolis Police can begin rebuilding their relationship. “It's going to be…one step at a time and meeting needs and seeing if getting back to us feeling like they care about us, care about our community, care about our future,” Jones said. “It's easy to break that bond and trust. It's hard to build it.” Survey In 2020 Little Earth patrols might be a preview of a new style of policing State review Faults law enforcement response to unrest after Floyd killing March report: Mpls. police, fire failed to follow emergency plans during 2020 unrest Series North Star Journey
Between now and December 10, Northwestel will be collecting toys at their retail location on Franklin Avenue in downtown Yellowknife for hundreds of local families this season. Also on the show, Yellowknife's Santa Claus parade will return to the city's downtown on Saturday, November 20. McKenna Hadley-Burke hosts.
Native 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 – Robert Rice's Gift for Gathering Community around Coffee, Frybread, and Wild Ricing On today's show, we talk with Robert Rice (White Earth Nation) the owner and operator of the Pow Wow Grounds coffee shop on Franklin Avenue in South Minneapolis, a hub for gathering for conversation and art, over coffee, frybread, and tacos. Robert also has decades of experience harvesting wild rice and a passion for sharing the tradition with others. Robert shares how Pow Wow Ground's parking lot became the staging area for AIM patrols during the uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd, protecting businesses along Franklin Ave, with more than 300 people showing up to help. As food donations poured in, the space transitioned and became a food shelf, serving the needs of residents, as nearby grocery stores shut down amid the chaos and destruction. We appreciate Robert's good work creating a thriving business, centered on the values of collaboration and kindness, and for all the good coffee and delicious frybread! Chi Miigwech!Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/
YouTube? What even is YouTube? I mean they got it all there, Music, Technology, Gaming, you name it they got it. On that note, if you like any of those categories, chances are you've been on the channel of our good friend Tony Ramirez. Tony is a local creator who has been on YouTube for a while now and let me tell you, dude is talented. He sits down with us today to discuss is channel and all of his other projects and passions, you definitely want to hear this one, its a good one. Thank You To All Our Sponsors! Old Sheepdog Brewery: 3900 Rosa Ave, El Paso, Texas, 79905 Vitola's Cigars & Whiskey: 216 W. Franklin Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79901 White Knife Dining: El Paso, Texas
In this episode, The Yale Brothers chat about the older ladies - actresses, vaudevillians and singers - that they knew back in the day. They address the inexorable march of time, their current reads and past camping trips. Chris is amazed at Roger's ignorance about a certain music producer. Also included as usual: Another original song from the vault. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 - "Charade" by Chris Yale 4:11 - Greetings 4:40 - Roger's ignorance on display 5:00 - Daniel Lanois / The Joshua Tree / Marc Maron Interview / Peter Gabriel's "So" / Brian Eno 6:51 - We punish ourselves. 7:11 - 2000 was 21 years ago. 8:00 - Big Band Era to 1970s was a shorter span than 1970s to present. 10:03 - The older ladies we knew: Fifi D'Orsay / Variety Arts Theatre 12:22 - The Incomparable Hildegarde / Pantages Theatre 14:26 - Loretta Tupper / Fruit of the Loom Commercial 15:28 - Kim Stanley / "The Right Stuff" / Noel Coward's "Red Peppers" / "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship" / The Actor's Studio / Lee Strasberg 19:39 - Current reads: Alicia Keys' "More Myself" / Little Free Library / The Robert Lowell Notebook / Ted Morgan: "Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs" / Charles Bukowski's "The Screw-Game" 25:43 - California Camping Trips: Sequoia National Park / Big Sur / Soquel / Eureka / Santa Rosa / Hearst Castle San Simeon 26:40 - Barbara Owen & Reginald Owen 28:15 - "Mank" 29:23 - Frank Zappa didn't want to be bothered at El Coyote 30:30 - About "Charade" - this episode's featured song. 31:58 - Walking down Franklin Avenue in Hollywood / The Montecito / Hughes Market / House of Pies / La Poubelle
Marie: This week on Minnesota Native News, we check in with two promising developments.I'm Marie RockFirst, there's a new urban farm with a focus on indigenous food and medicine. And second, and update on housing in the American Indian Cultural Corridor. Laurie Stern has both stories.Sound of blessingWhen we think of Mother Earth we think of the forces that created her and all the creative forces inside of her That's Hope Flanagan blessing a strip of land that will soon become a place of nourishment and healing. Hi, my name is Elizabeth Day. I'm from the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. And I worked at Native American Community Development Institute, NACDI. And one of the programs that we run is the Four Sisters Farmers Market and the Four Sisters Urban Farm.Today is indigenous peoples day. And today, we are out here celebrating the community and the launch of the Four Sisters urban farm. The farm will run along the Midtown Greenway, a block north of Lake Street, between Bloomington and 18th Avenues. It's not much to look at now, but there are vision boards posted and visitors from the neighborhood are asked what they'd like to see. Among the choices: a rain garden, perennial grasses, medicinal herbs, walking paths, raised beds, produce to harvest, and gathering spaces of various shapes and sizes. This is Four Sister's Farm Manager Mel Anderson:Why here? Wonderful question. Um, historically, this has been a site that has seen a lot of crime and unfortunately, some trafficking in the past. And so we were actually approached by the Hennepin County railroad authority about utilizing this space and trying to do something positive with it. And so we wanted to have a farm site with the four sisters farmers market, and this seemed like the perfect location.Hennepin County, in partnership with Midtown Community Works in partnership with knack D came together with community and this this land, the sacred land to say what is it that we want to see here? How can we give back? What about food access? How can we make this a space for community to come together and heal.That's Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley, who grew up in this neighborhood. As you heard, the project is a partnership between the county and the Native American Community Development Institute. The partners are eager to hear from neighbors this fall and winter, so they can plant the first seeds and build what needs building next spring.(singing and applause)A mile north of the farm site, on the corner of Franklin and Cedar, hundreds of people lived in tents in what was called the Wall of Forgotten Natives. That was two years ago. Last year, Red Lake Nation broke ground on a new housing development there. Groundbreaking soundsThe 110-unit complex is called mnobimadizin or good life.. Applications are now being accepted, with the first residents expected to move in at the end of this year. This is Red Lake Secretary Sam Strong.we're gonna not only serve their housing needs, but we're also going to serve their health care needs and may be mental health or physical health. Those services will be provided on the ground floor, we'll have a wellness center, that will be providing all of those necessary services for not only the people that live in the building for the entire community, as well.we've worked with hundreds of people since the wall, and hundreds of them are currently housed in long term housing, because we work with these individuals, and found out what was going on in their lives. And not just getting them into an apartment, but thinking about their mental health issues, their chemical dependency issues, whatever it is, that prevented them from being sustainably housed, we've learned how to deal with it, we've gotten many people off the streets. And our housing development is just a piece of that whole puzzle.Staff at the Red Lake Embassy on Franklin Avenue are helping process applications and addressing other needs that applicants may have. As that day-to-day-work continues, Sam and other tribal leaders are trying to change the policy that has left so many community members with unmet needs. tell me how it's fair, that native people are the most disadvantaged, when it comes to housing, tell me it's fair, that our relatives have to be on the streets. It's not. And so we need to take a good serious look at how we form good housing policy that serves the most disadvantaged, and if it's not doing that, then we should revisit it.Mnobinidizin is on schedule to be finished by the end of this year and will welcome new residents early in 2021. For MNN I'm LS.
HOST INTRO: Conversations about changing policing and public safety continue around the state. Today reporter Melissa Townsend talks with one of the people who took public safety into their own hands during the protests and violence in Minneapolis after George Floyd was killed by police there. Mike Gozee's office is on Franklin Avenue in South Minneapolis about 10 blocks from where dozens of buildings on Lake Street went up in flames. He is Ho Chunk, and Executive Director of the American Indian Community Development Corporation. His organization owns a number of other properties on and around Franklin Avenue. He says that's part of why he stood his ground; he knew police attention would be on Lake Street. GOZE: I knew the focus would be there. There would be nobody who would spend much time - they hardly spend much time here regularly - and then in the case of the unrest 10 blocks south, we'd really be in a world of hurt. and and and…I went to Maria's Cafe and I saw Maria and she's been there at Ancient Trader's Market which is one of the buildings we own - since it opened. And I talked with her and she said, Mike, I want to show you I redid my whole restaurant: new carpeting, new ceilings, new countertops, redid the bathrooms and she said I spent all my money and I can't lose this. That's when I really decided we really didn't have anybody that would BE looking at our holdings better than we can. So on May 28th, he put a call out on Facebook saying “protect Franklin Avenue” and he 50-60 people from around the region show up at the parking lot at pow wow grounds…GOZE: And so we always had a number of people there so we could be deployed to wherever people needed us. (:06)He says for 9 days they were all running on Adrenalyn. Exhausted, but alert they patrolled 14 properties they wanted to protect.REPORTER: I don't know how you feel about talking about fear but is there any point you were afraid? GOZE: Oh, we were at DIW… D-I-W is the non-profit division of indian work in south Minneapolis. GOZE: We had about 6 people there and they called and said hey, we are outnumbered here, we need people and so we deployed about 40 people there. and so all of a sudden there were 40 of us in the parking lot and that's when they started US Bank building on fire. And then the smoke got so thick that I was handing out masks - everybody had 2 masks on to help us from the smoke and - then there was gun fire. It was literally from a war zone and cars driving up and down the street at high rates of speed. But we stayed there until it became unsafe. Some people stayed there longer because then the movement went down the street and … the danger dissipated a little bit. REPORTER: So 40 people show up at the parking lot and what do you do - stand there? Does that somehow have an impact?GOZE: We are present, several of us were armed - you know. And you know there was a little bit of a respect from even the looters about Indian land and the fact that we were there. Several people said - hey, you're protecting your land, good for you. So that was - I think - that being present helped. no doubt about it. Goze says he saw evidence of organized white supremacist groups and also opportunists of all backgrounds taking advantage of the chaos. GOZE: Some people were there just to party. There were girls dancing. They broke into the liquor store, everybody had their beer and they were dancing in the street. Whenever there is an opportunity and people are opportunists, they will take it. Mike Goze was working in association with AIM which of course started in the 1960's as an act of resistance over police brutality of Native people. He says policing still needs to change. GOZE: I believe in the community input into the police, I believe that's important. I also believe the ills of the people in the street are varied and not everybody is a criminal. And if you look at mental health and … trauma related issues. And if the only way you're looking at people is through a criminal lens, it doesn't serve the needs fo the people you may come into contact with. Goze says, this is a matter of redistributing resources.GOZE: You have to understand the lack in investment over a decade plus, so we have to look at how resources have to be better aligned to address those critical needs. ...So there is greater investment in the housing and services people need to be healthy and out of harm's way. That's harm from the police or anyone else.For Minnesota Native News, I'm Melissa Townsend.
This week on the Minnesota Native News Health Report, artists take a stand against Covid and more of your questions answered. Laurie Stern reports.#1 Duluth Meeree Villiard is an artist who grew up on Fond du Lac and works with the American Indian Community Housing Organization in Duluth. She's built a website featuring downloadable posters, mask designs, and videos all made by and for indigenous people. One of the videos features a song composed and performed by the Jaakola family. It's called Couch PotatoSong chorusOne of the posters is a collaboration between Meeree Villiard, a painter named Leah Yellowbird, and photographer Ivy Vainio:the poster is a, um, if you just two photos of youth connected to AICHO's housing programming, they're wearing face masks that features sort of a sort of a roaring bear mouth. So it makes it look like the kids are, you know, pretending to be bears. And the mask itself was designed by another artist via Yellow Bird. And then in the center, there's a quote by one of the youth that describes how you know wearing a mask is a way to honor and respect your elders and and protect them from COVID-19.Meeree Villiard says the process is many-layerd, but the products are simple and powerful messages that both protect and empower indigenous people. most, most world languages that you know, most non European languages don't have a word for art. And like when I realized that it was just kind of like, you know, I don't think a lot of the indigenous languages I don't think ojibwe there's a word for art because most cultures don't take art out of lifestyle, like English does.If you'd like to see or download the coloring books, posters and mask designs, go to AICHO.org and click on artist responses to the pandemic.#2 Franklin Ave: My name is Missy Whiteman, I belong to the Northern Arapaho and Kickapoo nations. And I am here on Franklin Avenue at the library. And we're working on a thank you mural for AIM and for the native community for protecting the avenue.Missy Whiteman is an award-winning filmmaker and mentor. She is not surprised at the explosion of public art.Like we we feel like there's more freedom to connect with one another because we've been quarantined. And because of all of the rights like we need human interaction to heal. Like we need it.the quarantine time was our time together or medicine and it was our time to prepare and to learn to do things differently to reconnect with our families and our children. Learn, like to cook, to cook for our families and to become healthier, you know, physically, mentally, spiritually, and make a stronghold of your family or your loved ones or whoever is around you. And then now is the time where, you know, people are elite are coming out and they're still, you know, becoming a part of a community and creating a larger strongholds.She too says art is just what the community does:#3 Q&AWe called on Dr. Nick Lennertz from the Minnesota Department of Health to answer another of your questions about Covid- 19 – this one about the incubation period. [cut this down} Yeah, yeah. So incubation period is the time of from exposure to the virus to the time when you become symptomatic, okay. So if you get exposed to a little virus, that virus will have Could be inside of you and replicate or basically make more virus. And it takes time to do that. Right. And so, um, so you may be exposed, let's say at a gathering or a party, or from a family member, and when you're exposed, you don't instantaneously become ill, it takes a little while for that virus to build up to the point where you build up an immune response, which is then put into making symptomatic, that's where you get the fever, and you get that coughing get like maybe, you know, like a little bit of fatigue or or muscle aches. And so um, so the incubation period is that time from the exposure to the virus until the time you become symptomatic. Now Currently, the average incubation period that we're seeing with COVID-19 is right around five to seven days. However, the range of incubation periods that we have seen has been anywhere from two to 12 days. And so erring on the side of caution after an exposure to a known COVID positive case. Okay, so let's say you're at a party and there's an individual there and he's got COVID-19 and you've been exposed to him. That's why the recommendations are to quarantine yourself or stay away from everybody else for 14 days.Marie tag: Please let us know your questions about COVID-19. Just leave a message on our Facebook page or call 612 430 9368. Stay well my friends.
MNN June 10MARIE: Headlines. This week on Minnesota Native News, primary results are in for members of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe - and expressions of hope after a week of protests. Producer Laurie Stern has those stories.#1 Four of the six bands in the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe had contested primaries for chair. At Grand Portage, Bobby Deschampe will be the new chair after winning a majority of votes over incumbent Beth Drost. Incumbent Faron Jackson will be the chair at Leech Lake, and Incumbent Mike Fairbanks won a majority at White Earth. The Mille Lacs Band will have a runoff between incumbent Melanie Benjamin and Carolyn Beaulieu. The general election is set for August 18, when committee member races will also be decided.#2 thank you aim[ambi painting] That's the sound of young people creating something new. In this case it's a mural on the front of Franklin Library down the street from the American Indian Center in Minneapolis. My name is Missy Whiteman, I belong to the Northern Arapaho and Kickapoo nations. And I am here on Franklin Avenue at the library. And we're working on a thank you mural for AIM and for the native community for protecting the avenue.Missy Whiteman is an artist and filmmaker and the recipient of many awards including the 2020 McKnight Media Artist Fellowship. it's really important to have indigenous voices right now, especially when we're talking about rebuilding, and we're talking about, you know, coming into the new world, because we've been a part of, you know, seeing system seeing, you know, society seeing structures that aren't sustainable crumble. And, you know, the best metaphor that I've heard and seen in this movement is the Phoenix. And so we see like murals all around, the Twin Cities, we see that metaphor, because it's like, well, things are crumbling, they're, they're, you know, projects like this, just small, you know , one day projects that are give me think thanks to community, people are coming together and, you know, are helping.#3 Migizi [migizi ambi]A phoenix rising from the ashes suits what's happening down on Lake Street at Migizi. Migizi supports Native youth as they claim their heritage and find their creativity. The building burned during the protests, but donors and volunteer are stepping up – and recently there was a unity celebration…[more ambi]. That's where I met Angelica Deloria, and asked her to file this report:[Angelica's story 1:04] Hello, my name is Angelica Deloria. Migizi has kind of been a second home for me just because my brother worked there when he was in high school. And I've known the people for a long time. I really think that the current events that have happened with George Floyd are going to highly impact us here at Migizi. Not only do we have to rebuild our current site, which was burned down, but we also have to help our brothers and sisters within the native community who have been impacted some way either be physically or emotionally during this time. I personally have been reaching out to both my family members and friends who currently are still living on the south side of Minneapolis, making sure that they're okay and staying safe. I grew up in that same neighborhood. So I'm doing everything in my power to help both Migizi and my neighborhood rebuild and thrive during this time of much needed change. : buzu Jennifer indigent casca kabhi con and Dune Jabba Hello everyone, my name is Jennifer. I'm 16 and I'm from the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. I am also a use a part of the Ikidowin acting ensemble. We do theater activities and plays around our communities. On Monday they decided to draw a mural and George Floyd's name on their building. I got to be a part of this really cool opportunity. And it was super fun to experience. We got there at four in the afternoon and got back at six or seven. And we're going back on Thursday to finish the job. We painted this mural to show that we support the Black Lives Matter movement, and that we stand with you and we support you. My piece was black lives matter. I made it in different and bold colors to catch people's eyes. I wrote matter in red handprints. I felt that that was pretty powerful to write it like that. It shows that how the police department have blood on their hands. And we aren't getting the justice. It was a good atmosphere to be around. And that's what I was up to this week.Marie tag: Minnesota Native News is eager to hear from more youth. If you have a story to share, leave us a message on our Facebook Page or at 612 430 9368.
Marie: This is Minnesota Native News, I'm Marie Rock.Today we look at Native stories, art, and healing ceremony in honor of George Floyd.Here's reporter Leah Lemm.STORY #1: ON GEORGE FLOYDSounds from ceremony.Reporter: Native community members in Minneapolis offer healing after the death of George Floyd.A letter was released by the Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors Group. The collective of about thirty Twin Cities American Indian organizations responded to the tragic death of George Floyd and QUOTE “Condemns the murder of one of our fellow citizens."And George Floyd's murder has sparked mourning, peaceful protests, and opportunist agitators. Buildings burned, including MIGIZI, an organization in South Minneapolis that is dedicated to empowering Native youth.But so many helped take care of people during this time of heartbreak. Donations to organizations like MIGIZI have been substantial. Community members have been helping to protect organizations from violence. A week after George Floyd's death on 38th and Chicago, jingle dress dancers came and danced at the same intersection. The jingle dress has been shared to provide medicine and healing.Miiskogihmiiwan Poupart-Chapman told her story of witness and healing at the ceremony, and shared these words with MN Native News team member Justus Sanchez:Miiskogihmiiwan Poupart-Chapman: My name is Miiskogihmiiwan Poupart-Chapman. I'm 19 years old. I attend Augsburg university. I live in this area. I have family members just around the corner. Um, I represent the Minnesota Indian education association and I'm a woman's powwow dancer.Justus Sanchez: Fantastic. Who are you dancing for today?Speaker 1: I'm dancing for the people. I'm dancing for healing. I came here with compassion in my heart with empathy. I know how these families are feeling because it happens to ours and it happens to all these families daily. You see it in the news all the time and it's not every day that we get to record what's happening and you know, a movement like this, we're all hurting and I'm here dancing for the people. That's why all these dancers are here. The jingle just came in the 1920s when the pandemic was happening back then too. And it's not a surprise that it's showing back up in these times. We need healing and that's what these dances are for.SOUNDSSTORY #2: DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK HOLDS ART CONTEST FOR AMERICAN INDIAN MONTHMay was American Indian Month in Minnesota, and had a very different look to it this year through the pandemic and distress in Minneapolis. No celebration, no powwows, no smell of Indian Tacos down Franklin Avenue. but it was still celebrated.One such event came from The Division of Indian Work. They announced the winners of their Video/Art Contest. Attendees joined over video conference to appreciate the art of the community and to choose their favorites. Hosting the event was Ashley Zukowski from DIW.Ashley Zukowski: "All of the artwork here was submitted by a large variety of people, mostly in the Twin Cities, but even from Wisconsin. A lot of younger kids, lot of varying age ranges. Uh, we really appreciate everyone that submitted things. I think this is just something fun to be able to look at and experience today. You know, this month has been difficult for a lot of people, especially this week, and it's nice to be able to have something to enjoy and come to."There were art pieces painted by youth, traditional dancers, and even some lively chalk art all celebrating this years theme of We Are Still Here.Though there were over a dozen entries, only three could win. Co-host of the event, Afton Delgado, introduced the first place winner Adam Nelson's piece.Afton Delgado: "And this is Adam Nelson. So this is a great piece. It really shows the importance of how the Plains and how everyone feels about Bdote, which is the center of a lot of our communities."Reporter:… with hashtag We Are Still Here displayed in the center.STORY #3: TASHIA HART RELEASES GIDJIE AND THE WOLVESIn other news, Tashia Hart from Red Lake Nation has a new young adult novel that recently made its debut. Gidjie and the Wolves is the first in a series of books called the Intermediaries. Gidjie, a young Anishinaabe girl has friends and loved ones who are intermediaries, beings who walk as both animal and humans.Tashia Hart: This series, like this first book gets you in the wolves. It's sort of like the intro into this world.Reporter: Tashia describes the novel as embracing both the real and the fantastical, all the while embracing Anishinaabe culture and the landscape of Minnesota. Find out more at Tashia hart DOT com. T-A-S-H-I-A H-A-R-T DOT COMFor Minnesota Native News, I'm Leah Lemm.
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Rev. Brad Yops from Franklin Avenue Mission in Flint describes the struggles of the ministry and shares a message about compassion at the Urban Ministry Conference. Back to Episodes
Treaty Rights, Climate Justice, and Decolonization were discussed in packed house in Duluth… and Franklin Avenue bustled with energy for Open Streets Minneapolis.
Organizations along the American Indian Cultural Corridor have collaborated with NorthernLights.MN to bring the late night arts festival… Northern Spark… to Franklin Avenue.
In the 1840’s, the Stenger family came to Naperville from Germany and began a brewery. Located at Franklin Avenue between Webster and Main, the Stenger Brewery was known to produce up to 17,000 barrels of beer a year. Brothers, John and Nick Stenger, founded the brewery and this documentary takes a look at the role beer played in society; and how the brewery contributed to the development of Naperville.
In the July, 1916, edition of **[The Electrical Workers](http://www.ibew.org/Journals/scans/The%20Journal%20of%20Electrical%20Workers%20and%20Operators/1916-11%20November%20Electrical%20Worker.pdf)**' journal, our first Grand Secretary-Treasurer, J.T. Kelly, then Press Secretary for IBEW Local 1, gives us a glimpse into our founding convention with his Local Lines entry (page 245), "The meetings were held in a room on Franklin Avenue near Leffenwell. The sessions were long from 9 am to 11 pm, with two short intermissions for lunch." On November 21, 2018, we returned to that sanctuary with Historian and author [NiNi Harris](http://www.niniharris.com/index.html) to learn more about our [Museum](http://nbew-ibewmuseum.org) and gain a glimpse into that historic event! Chapter Markers: 00:01:46 - NiNi Harris [Bio](http://www.niniharris.com) 00:03:33 - NiNi joins the effort 00:04:05 - Architectural Elements 00:06:55 - How Old? 00:08:17 - Blueprints and Construction 00:11:39 - Henry's Neighborhood 00:14:43 - November 21, 1891 00:17:38 - Convention Setting 00:19:15 - Boarding House Life 00:24:27 - A Donated Chamberpot! 00:25:07 - Museum Tours 00:26:45 - Henry's Income 00:27:59 - Laundress 00:29:43 - John Greb's Wife? 00:30:14 - Historic Dirt 00:31:00 - Our Iconic Photo 00:36:01 - Changing The World 00:37:49 - That Elusive Image 00:38:12 - Gallery Style Porch 00:40:08 - Uhrig's Cave 00:43:25 - Saloon Time 00:46:21 - [This Used To Be St. Louis](http://www.niniharris.com/This_Used_To_Be_StLouis.html) 00:48:05 - [Compton & Dry](https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01001392/) 00:49:23 - Union Influence 00:50:26 - [Thanks NiNi!](http://www.niniharris.com/Books_by_NiNi_Harris.html)
Rhea talks Franklin Avenue, love and the Twin Cities. Sets from Erin Lennox, Karl Hess, Melanie Maras, Josh Sharp and Chris Thayer.
Here's your Daily Detroit podcast for September 4, 2018. - On our show last week before the Labor Day weekend we told you about a lockout dispute affecting members of a labor union that represents road and bridge construction workers. Now, that lockout has put a freeze on dozens of road construction projects across Michigan. - Students started the first day of classes today in the Detroit Public Schools Community District with water coolers and bottled water in lieu of drinking fountains. - One of the city’s “must see” pieces of street art has come down, along with the abandoned and badly blighted building it was on. “The African Amalgamation of Ubiquity” was painted in 1985 by Curtis Lewis on an old bank building at 9980 Gratiot, just west of the Better Made Potato Chip Plant. It was the former home of the neighborhood nonprofit “Operation Get Down,” which moved across the street to a new location some time ago. - Anti-semitic flyers were found taped to a church door on Sunday morning. - Campbell Soup plans to sell off Ferndale-based Garden Fresh Gourmet as part of a broader turnaround plan that sees it getting rid of fresh foods. - Detroit is losing one of its most beloved bike shops. Motorless City Bicycle Company says it plans to permanently close its doors at the end of September after four seasons in business in Eastern Market. The store was closely involved with Slow Roll and announced the news on Facebook, saying the team had decided it was time to move on to new endeavors. - A bike sharing and a ride sharing service have teamed up in Detroit for a six-month pilot program to help connect users of the two. The program means discounts for MoGo bike sharing users when picked up or dropped off at bike-share stations by ridesharing company Lyft. - New York City’s transit authority has relabeled two subway stations in honor of the Queen of Soul. Both the Franklin Street and Franklin Avenue stations have signage in the classic subway Helvetica font saying “Respect” along with the station name. - If you’ve driven through that crazy three-way intersection of Trumbull, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Grand River, you can’t miss the giant mural of a giraffe that welcomes people to the Woodbridge neighborhood. It needs some help, and here's how you can pitch in (and get some beer).
Host Aaron Gernes interviews Dr. Ed Epperly, nationally recognized expert historian of the Villisca Ax Murders. The brutal slaying of eight people that occurred on June 10, 1912 shocked the town of Villisca, IA and launched a years long investigation. To this day, the case remains unsolved. Dr. Epperly has been investigating the history of these events since 1955, when he was a UNI student doing a report on Iowa history. Dr. Epperly will be at the Franklin Avenue library on Tuesday, October 25 at 6:30 PM to share his research and answer questions. As part of the event there will be a screening of the short documentary Axman about Epperly and his obsession with this case. Music credits: "Young, Tough and Terrible" by The Losers / CC BY-NC
TOPIC Moving Equity from a Buzzword to a Metric IN THIS EPISODE[3:32] Topic for this episode is introduced. [3:56] Introduction of Joan Valhalla. [4:13] Introduction of Shauen Pearce. [5:04] Shauen and Joan explain why a scorecard tool that ensures benefits to everyone is necessary. [6:44] What are the five categories that are incorporated into the tool? [7:48] Are there a set of underlying principles or values that drive the whole scorecard? [10:33] How is this tool used? [15:04] To what degree was the development community involved in the creation of this tool, and how have they embraced it? [18:13] How can people learn more about the equitable development principles and scorecard tool? [18:55] Why is this work important, and what is the motivation to do this work? [24:52] Shauen and Joan share one change that would lead to smarter, more sustainable, and more equitable communities. [25:50] Shauen and Joan explain the action that listeners can take to help build a more equitable and sustainable future. [26:26] Shauen and Joan share what the world looks like 30 years from now. GUESTS Shauen Pearce is the Executive Director of the Harrison Neighborhood Association. She is an educator, organizer, and strategist with training in critical analysis, program development, campaign organizing, and capacity development. Shauen has over 15 years of success in policy and administrative leadership in the public and private sectors. Growing up in a society marked by corruption, violence, and displacement, Shauen is inspired by the struggles and successes of wise elders and visionary leaders. She enjoys the intersections of life, encouraging everyone to think critically and selflessly about embracing justice and harmony through fearless community building. Joan Vanhala is a Coalition Organizer at the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability. Joan joined the Alliance in February 2008. Joan has an accomplished career that includes: expertise in community organizing to achieve lasting results through effective partnerships; leadership development to sustain organizing efforts for long-term community strength; and the inclusion of racial equity as a necessary component of grassroots community development. Her work in leadership development includes creating curriculum and leading classes in organizing, conducting community best practices workshops and providing one-on-one technical support to community leaders. Before joining the Alliance, Joan worked for the Seward and Longfellow neighborhoods to develop and implement restorative justice programs for juveniles. She previously worked as the Native American Educational Services college campus director and a program manager for the Community Leadership Development Program at Family & Children’s Service. As a community organizer for the Phillips neighborhood, Joan led several successful campaigns that resulted in Green Institute/ReUse Center, Midtown Greenway Coalition, Franklin Avenue revitalization, public art projects created by neighborhood youth, and an energized citizen participation process in neighborhood planning and development. Joan has a degree in Community Organizing, Leadership Development: Methods and Practices from Metropolitan State University. ORGANIZATIONSThe Harrison Neighborhood Association is working to create a prosperous and peaceful community that equitably benefits all of Harrison Neighborhood’s diverse racial, cultural and economic groups. We work to foster community awareness to improve the quality of life within our community, to provide a forum for information and communication within our community, to educate residents in the use of effective procedures for resolving problems or initiating improvements and to unite all efforts within the community in raising and acting on issues of common concern, directed toward improving the quality of life. The Alliance for Metropolitan Stability is a coalition of advocacy and community organizing...
The venerable Villa Carlotta — home to show business A-listers in the Golden Age, and later to a generation of young actors, writers and musicians — sits, a hollowed-out shell, on Hollywood’s Franklin Avenue. It may or may not be about to undergo a transformation into an upscale hotel. What happens to a community when it’s […]
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