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Those of us who love to garden know it can be a meditative space. A new book, “Perennial Ceremony” by Teresa Peterson, finds the Southwestern Minnesota-based author reconciling her spirituality through her relationship with her garden.Peterson is a citizen of the Upper Sioux Community and writes about the intersections of cultural identity, food place and belonging.She spoke with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about the book.

Iñupiaq and Yup'ik writer Laureli Ivanoff illuminating Alaska Native foodways is recognized with a 2024 James Beard Media Award. Dakota gardener Teresa Peterson's new book, Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden, is a tour through the seasons and a story about how gardening, and resulting recipes, affect everyday life, family, healing, and wellness. And a pilot program by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education at a New Mexico high school puts agriculture into the curriculum. That's all on The Menu on Native America Calling, a special feature hosted and produced by Andi Murphy. GUESTS Teresa Peterson (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and citizen of the Upper Sioux Community), author and gardener Laureli Ivanoff (Yup'ik and Iñupiaq, member of the Native Village Uŋalaqłiq), writer and advocate Toni Stanger-McLaughlin (Colville Confederated Tribes), CEO of the Native American Agriculture Fund

Iñupiaq and Yup'ik writer Laureli Ivanoff illuminating Alaska Native foodways is recognized with a 2024 James Beard Media Award. Dakota gardener Teresa Peterson's new book, Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden, is a tour through the seasons and a story about how gardening, and resulting recipes, affect everyday life, family, healing, and wellness. And a pilot program by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education at a New Mexico high school puts agriculture into the curriculum. That's all on The Menu on Native America Calling, a special feature hosted and produced by Andi Murphy. GUESTS Teresa Peterson (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and citizen of the Upper Sioux Community), author and gardener Laureli Ivanoff (Yup'ik and Iñupiaq, member of the Native Village Uŋalaqłiq), writer and advocate Toni Stanger-McLaughlin (Colville Confederated Tribes), CEO of the Native American Agriculture Fund

Today in the ArtZany Radio studio Paula Granquist welcomes author Teresa Peterson to discuss her new book Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden. Teresa Peterson, Utuhu Cistiŋna Wiŋ, is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and citizen of the Upper Sioux Community. She is author, with her uncle Walter LaBatte Jr., of Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers. She also […]

A half dozen Indigenous leaders are getting a boost for incorporating traditional connections with making people and their communities better. The recipients of this year's Bush Foundation Fellowship include the head of a clinic innovating culturally appropriate care, a Native-led birthing initiative, and a system for helping families affected by the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women issue. Each receives a $100,000 grant to develop their work further. We'll hear from the fellows about their passions and their plans for the future. GUESTS Autumn Cavender (Upper Sioux Community), midwife, doula, and birth worker Dr. Antony Stately (Ojibwe and Oneida), executive officer and president of the Native American Community Clinic Arlene Krulish (Spirit Lake Nation), tribal health care planner and future psychiatric nurse practitioner

For the first time, we welcome two guests at the same time on the podcast: Teresa “Terri” Peterson and Walter “Super” LaBatte Jr. This niece and uncle duo from the Upper Sioux Community are both focused on preserving and sharing Dakota culture. They recently wrote a book together – Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers – in which they share and reflect on family stories. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's Understand Native Minnesota initiative has organized a statewide K-12 One-Read program of the book for Native American Heritage Month, donating 20,000 copies to classrooms across the state. In this episode, Rebecca talks with Terri and Super about their book, writing process, family, language revitalization and art. EPISODE RESOURCES Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers: https://shop.mnhs.org/products/voices-from-pejuhutazizi Understand Native Minnesota Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/NativeMNFacts/ Understand Native Minnesota: https://www.understandnativemn.org/ Daḳota Wiċoḣaŋ: https://dakotawicohan.org/ Upper Sioux Community Wacipi: https://www.uppersiouxcommunity-nsn.gov/traditional-wacipi

The Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe just took ownership of almost 900 acres of ancestral land in Virginia, thanks, in part, to $3 million in federal funds. And legislation in Minnesota would transfer a state park to the Upper Sioux Community in a historic act recognizing atrocities committed by state and federal officials against the Dakota people that culminated in the mass execution of 38 Dakota men in 1862. Those are two examples of a trend in governments, organizations, and individuals facilitating the return of important land to tribal control.

The Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe just took ownership of almost 900 acres of ancestral land in Virginia, thanks, in part, to $3 million in federal funds. And legislation in Minnesota would transfer a state park to the Upper Sioux Community in a historic act recognizing atrocities committed by state and federal officials against the Dakota people that culminated in the mass execution of 38 Dakota men in 1862. Those are two examples of a trend in governments, organizations, and individuals facilitating the return of important land to tribal control.

Forty-five years ago, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act to address a crisis. Native American children were being removed from their homes at alarming rates. Studies found that more than a quarter of all American Indian children were taken from their families, placed in foster care or put up for adoption — typically in non-Native households.  ICWA was designed to counteract decades of policies and systems that uprooted Native American children from their families and culture — from boarding schools, to the Indian Adoption Project, to the disproportionate removal of Native American children by child welfare agencies. Minnesota even has its own version of the law, called the Minnesota Indian Family Protection Act, or MIFPA, that lawmakers strengthened this year in case ICWA is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in a case scheduled to be decided later this month. But while experts insist ICWA has helped, Native American children living in Minnesota remain 16 times more likely than white children to be removed from their homes and placed in foster care. ICWA compliance still a problemNearly a half century after the law was passed, systemic bias still plagues the child welfare system, and many social workers are still not complying with it. “I think that comes in because people don't understand why these laws are so important,” said Larissa Littlewolf, a Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe member who co-directs the Tribal Training and Certification Partnership at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.“They're told they have to check off this list, how do you comply with the law? Which is important! But I think that there is a need to know why, right? Like, why do we work with American Indian families differently than non-Indigenous families? Why do Indigenous families get these special protections?”When social workers understand why these rules are in place, Littlewolf said, they are much more likely to act in “the spirit” of ICWA, and work to keep Native children close to home. “They deserve their community. They deserve their identity. That's what's going to help them to be happy and healthy and whole.”In 2021, Littlewolf and others at UMD launched a two-day training on ICWA that's now required for all child welfare professionals across the state. Since it began, about 1,500 county and tribal social workers have gone through the training, which now gets an annual $1 million appropriation from the state. It's the only program like it in the country. ‘Heart work'To help participants understand why ICWA is so important, the training focuses first on what Littlewolf calls “heart work — understanding the historical trauma, the correct history of Indigenous families.”To do that, community trainers walk participants through a history of U.S. government policies that were intended to break Native families apart. That includes nearly 100 years where Native kids were forced to attend boarding schools, where they were forbidden from speaking their language or practicing their culture. Abuse was rampant. “And this wasn't just like hundreds of years ago. This happened to my grandparents,” community trainer Lynn Brave Heart told about a dozen social workers from around the state during an online training held last month. “Many tribes tried to hide their children in the woods to keep the government from coming and taking the kids.”Another trainer, Kat Preuss, from the Upper Sioux Community in southwestern Minnesota, shared a story of her mom driving her grandma to visit the boarding school she attended in South Dakota. “‘There's a swing in the back, can you go to that swing in the back?'” her grandma asked. “So my mom drove around, and sure enough, there was a swing there. ‘Do you want to go sit on it?'” her mom asked. Her grandmother walked over and sat on the swing, and began to cry. “‘All my life I wanted to sit on this swing,'” she said. “‘But we were never allowed to.'”“She finally got her chance when she was 72 years old,” Preuss said. The training connects the dots from boarding schools, to the current overrepresentation of Native youth in the foster care system. It describes how historical trauma becomes contemporary trauma, which Preuss explained is reflected in the stark economic and health disparities that exist today. “So all of that historical trauma has really done a number on our people. So when you're working with our Native American families, keep that in mind. It builds that understanding,” she said.Perpetuating traumaWhile compliance with ICWA has improved recently, last year the Minnesota Department of Human Services found that 21 out of 37 counties it reviewed failed to comply with specific requirements of the law. When counties are out of compliance for two consecutive years, they lose state aid. That money used to get redirected to the general fund. Now it gets funneled to UMD to help pay for its ICWA training program. St. Louis County was one of those counties penalized for failing to comply with the law. It's now under a performance improvement plan with the state. The county now requires everyone working with children and families to take the training, regardless of what unit they work in. “When people have that deeper understanding, we're able then to empathize more, and to show up in a way of compassion, understanding that there's this historical trauma that impacts families today,” said Nishah Dupuis, Indian Child Welfare Supervisor for St. Louis County. Natalie Hanson, who's worked as a social worker in St. Louis County for the past decade, said the training she took last month made her realize for the first time how she could be a part of the continuation of generational trauma. “As a government worker, when I take a Native child and place them in a non-Native home, absent their culture, I'm perpetuating that trauma,” Hanson said. The training helped reinforce for Hanson “why there are Indian Child Welfare placement preferences, and that we have to go through these steps to try to keep children connected to their culture. And when we don't do that, it's similar to the boarding school era."Working to keep more Native kids connected to their families and their communities is more than simply reducing disparities, and complying with federal law, said Larissa Littlewolf. It's about the very future of tribes. “The children in our communities are our future leaders,” Littlewolf said. “They're our future nurses, doctors, culture carriers, language carriers, spiritual advisors.”

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Field Hearing titled “Investing in Native Communities: Transformative Opportunities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” Tuesday, June 28 2022 - 12:00 PM Location: Mystic Lake Center, of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Room Number: Minnetonka Conference Room NOTE: Adam Savariego of the Upper Sioux Community was an additional witness. A dropout in audio occurred toward the end of the hearing, during the question and answer period. WITNESS LIST (As originally scheduled) The Honorable Bryan Newland Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC *Accompanied by Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC Ms. Elizabeth Fowler Acting Director, Indian Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC Mr. Jeremiah Baumann Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Infrastructure U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC The Honorable Cathy Chavers Chairwoman Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Orr, Minnesota The Honorable Melanie Benjamin Chief Executive Officer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Onamia, Minnesota The Honorable Kevin Dupuis, Sr. Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cloquet, Minnesota The Honorable Keith Anderson Chairman Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council Prior Lake, Minnesota The Honorable Robert Larsen President Lower Sioux Indian Community Morton, Minnesota ADDITIONAL WITNESS The Honorable Adam Savariego Tribal Secretary Upper Sioux Community Granite Falls, Minnesota Committee Notice: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/field-hearing-titled-investing-native-communities-transformative-opportunities

A West Central Tribune Minute feature story: Teresa Peterson and Walter "Super" LaBatte of the Upper Sioux Community offer a treasure of Dakota stories passed down from the generations, as well as their own, in their book, "Voices From Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers."

How does storytelling maintain, restore, and empower who we are? We chat about storytelling and how it weaves into our own understanding, wisdom, and belonging.  Teresa (Terri) Peterson is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and a citizen of the Upper Sioux Community. Terri Peterson describes herself as a writer, gardener, and relative. Check out Terri here on her website. New book: Voices From Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers. Episode transcript can be found here on our website. Find Us Online - Website: Wisdom Continuum - Twitter: Wisdom Continuum - IG: Wisdom Continuum Credits - Host: Leah and Daniel Lemm - Contributing Producer: Multitude: multitude.productions - Audio Editing: Manda Lillie About Us A podcast celebrating Native knowledge for a thoughtful, healthier, more just future. Daniel (Lower Sioux Dakota Oyate) and Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) bring you conversations from awesome Native folks to celebrate Native wisdom for a healthier, thoughtful, more just future.  Hyped, Humorous, and Hopeful.

The East Side Freedom Library invites you to a presentation by Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa, The Great Evil: Christianity, The Bible, and the Native American Genocide. In this account of the history between Indigenous Peoples and the United States government, readers learn the role the bible played in the perpetration of genocide, massive land theft, and the religious suppression and criminalization of Native ceremonies and spirituality. Chris Mato Nunpa, a Dakota man, discusses this dishonorable and darker side of American history that is rarely studied, if at all. Out of a number of rationales used to justify the killing of Native Peoples and theft of their lands, the author emphasizes the role of a biblical rationale, including the “chosen people” idea, the “promised land” notion, and the genocidal commands of the Old Testament God. Mato Nunpa's experience with fundamentalist and evangelical missionaries when he was growing up, his studies in Indigenous Nations history at the University of Minnesota, and his affiliation with the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) were three important factors in his motivation for writing this book. Chris Mato Nunpa, Ph.D is a former Associate Professor of Indigenous Nations & Dakota Studies at Southwest Minnesota State University. Professor Mato Nunpa holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, with the Collateral Field for the Ph.D. in American Indian Studies. He also studied theology at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa is a Wahpetunwan (“Dwellers In The Leaves,” or Wahpeton) Dakota from the Pezihuta Zizi Otunwe, “Yellow Medicine Community” (BIA name, Upper Sioux Community), in southwestern Minnesota. View the video here: https://youtu.be/_KV8F5azq64

Nature photographer Nicole Zempel has gone back several times already to the “8 Chapters” exhibition at the Berge Gallery in her hometown of Granite Falls, Minn. The show is a collaborative exhibition between artist-blacksmith Talon Cavender-Wilson of the Upper Sioux Community and Granite Falls City Artist in Residence Dani Prados. Through sculptural pieces forged by Cavender-Wilson and found items like bone and seed from Prados, the two artists explore eight chapters in history, looking at the relationship among humans and between humans and nature in the Minnesota River Valley.  Don't see the video? Click here https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/3046725570/ Photos by Dani Prados A sculpture of a ribcage on display at the "8 Chapters" exhibit. “I like to call this exhibit a beautiful gut punch,” says Zempel. Beautiful, because of the way these pieces work together, but difficult, as they reveal broken relationships with each other and with nature. Zempel calls the exhibition a space to spark good conversation. The show runs through Sept. 18. Zempel's work was featured on Art Hounds here.  Kyle Kimbllin of the Minneapolis band Butter Boys is a big fan of local rock band Jung Yeller, a four-piece rock band in which all members sing. This summer, they released an LP called “Jung Yeller's Bitchin' Rager,” that Kimbllin calls “a party front-to-back.”  “Every song is very energetic ... there's no pause, nothing slows down. You can play it from start to finish, and have a great time.” Kimbllin particularly likes how the band meshes different styles, from doo-wop to R&B, with a dose of heavy metal and emo, so that listeners never know just what they'll hear next.  Photo by Taylor Evan "Untitled," by Taylor Evan. Actor Robb Krueger recommends the vividly colored artwork of fellow Mankato-turned-northeast Minneapolis artist Taylor Evan. Krueger appreciates the bold color palette in Evan's abstract paintings. “His artwork jumps out and grabs your attention when you see it, whether it's abstract or a concrete design,” says Krueger. Evan began working in ceramics before shifting into abstract oil painting, and his most recent work combines oils with screen printing. “I can't wait to see where he goes next,” Krueger said. Find Evan's work on Instagram here.  More from Art Hounds Art Hounds hearken back to the 60s Art Hounds recommend a show on the future without honeybees, touring farms and parks Art Hounds has imagination-stretching ideas for summer viewing and listening

Dr. Teresa Peterson is a citizen of the Upper Sioux Community.  She’s on the Board of Directors and is a co-founder of Dakota Wicohan, which is a nonprofit organization that […]

Dr. Teresa Peterson is a citizen of the Upper Sioux Community.  She’s on the Board of Directors and is a co-founder of Dakota Wicohan, which is a nonprofit organization that […]