Reclaiming the Original Dress of Our Ancestral Grandmothers
2025-05-09 17:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | American Indian Magnet School (AIMS), 1075 Third Street East, Saint Paul, MN, 55106, United States

AIFC: Annual Open House
2025-05-09 12:00 - 14:00 | American Indian Family Center (AIFC), 579 Wells St, Saint Paul, MN, 55130, United States

Indian Health Board - Indian Month Celebration
2023-05-19 12:00 - 15:00 | Indian Health Board (IHB), 1314 East 24th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States

Phillips Spring Welcoming & Food Sovereignty Celebration
2023-05-13 11:00 - 15:00 | 2800 Block of 18th Avenue and Four Sisters Farm, Minneapolis, MN, United States

American Indian OIC - Founders' Day Career Fair
2023-05-08 10:00 - 13:00 | American Indian OIC (AIOIC), 1845 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States

National MMIWR Day Event
2023-05-05 12:00 - 15:00 | Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Saint Paul, MN, 55155, United States

MUID - American Indian Month Kick-Off Parade
2023-05-01 09:30 | Cedar Avenue Field Park, 2500 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States

AIFC - Grand Reopening!
2022-05-31 11:00 - 14:00 | American Indian Family Center (AIFC), 579 Wells St, Saint Paul, MN, 55130, United States
We are so excited to announce our grand reopening!
We look forward to reopening the building to the community and seeing all of you in person!
It’s been too long!
Please join us in an afternoon of festivities to celebrate, including face painting, complimentary lunch from Trickster Tacos, door prizes, and much more!

FREE FOOD
AWESOME FACE PAINTING
CONNECT WITH YOUR COMMUNITY
ENTER TO WIN DOOR PRIZES
LEARN WHAT AIFC HAS TO OFFER

Please share this event to spread the word, and we’ll see you there!

Prairie Island Indian Community - Memorial Day Wacipi
2022-05-28 13:00 | 5636 Sturgeon Lake Road, 5636 Sturgeon Lake Road, Welch, MN, 55089, United States
Sometimes called Wacipi (pronounced Wa chee pee), the powwow is a traditional Native American cultural celebration where the generations gather to socialize, dance, sing, visit, renew old friendships and make new ones.
In Dakota language, the word “Wacipi” literally means “they dance.”
This is a time to renew thoughts of old ways, educate our youth about Dakota culture, and preserve our rich heritage.
Wacipi Traditions
Often held over a weekend, a Powwow is filled with songs and dances, singers with drums, and dancers in their regalia. Regalia (pronounced Re gail ya) is the proper term used to describe the highly decorated clothing worn by the powwow dancers.
A Wacipi or Powwow is the celebration of life… of family…and the offering of honor and respect for dignitaries, royalty, our culture, and of native people.
The Wacipi usually begins with a blessing of the arena, which is considered sacred ground.
The Indian Way is about respect…
Respect for culture, family, others, veterans,
children, elders, life, the Creator,
and respect for self.

Indian Health Board (IHB) - 50th Anniversary & American Indian Month Celebration
2022-05-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Indian Health Board (IHB), 1314 East 24th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States
Get ready for the IHB event of the year:

Celebrating American Indian Month and IHB’s 50 years of service to our community and patients!

Come drive through their COVID-safe American Indian Month event on Friday, May 27 from 1:00-3:00 PM.
It will be chocked full of all the things you know you love:

– Raffles for bikes and specially-designed gift baskets from each department in IHB
– Vendor tables information and giveaways as you drive through
– Music (their own Dr. Micah Prairie Chicken will dee-jay!)
– Live paintings raffled away online
– Special 50th-anniversary t-shirts and gift bags
– And, Aldi gift cards

Best of all, they’ll be live streaming the activities and event, so you can feel like being a part of it even if you can’t make it in person (car)!

For reminders and notifications, click here: https://fb.me/e/6opQG5SsK

*Please note, you must be present in a car or as a walk-up for giveaway items (t-shirts and gift cards), and we’ll give them away while supplies last or until 3:00 PM.

Minneapolis Public School (MPS) - Mde Maka Ska Canoe of Nations
2022-05-27 09:00 - 14:00 | Bde Maka Ska, 3000 Bde Maka Ska Parkway, Minneapolis, 55408, United States
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) middle school students will be invited to learn about the importance and significance of water. The community is welcome to come to join us for a day with your youth of learning to chaperone and help with the transition of stations.

Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) - Native Community Tour
2022-05-26 18:00 | Minneapolis Institue of Art (Mia), 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States
In-person tour on Thursday, May 26 at 6 PM.
Join Juan Lucero (Isleta Pueblo), Mia’s Mdewakanton Native Art Fellow, for a tour of Parska/Shada, Virgil Ortiz: Convergence, and the newly installed Americas galleries. Meet by the white desk in the Agra Café on the first floor.

Bdote Learning Center Powwow
2022-05-26 17:00 | Bdote Learning Center, 3216 East 29th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55406, United States

Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center (MIWRC) - Job Fair & Open House
2022-05-26 16:00 - 19:00 | Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC), 2300 15th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, United States

White Earth Nation Urban Office - Culture Event
2022-05-25 12:00 - 18:00 | White Earth Nation Urban Office, 1730 Clifton Place, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
12:00 PM: Welcoming
12:30-5 PM: Singing and Dancing
5:00 PM: Closing Feast
12-6 PM: Craft Vendor Fair

AICDC, NACDI, & Pow Wow Grounds - Open House
2022-05-24 11:30 - 14:30 | Pow Wow Grounds, 1414 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States

[Virtual Event] Native Women & Friends Book Club (NWBC) - My Grandmother's Hands
2022-05-22 11:00 | MN
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“My Grandmother’s Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice.”— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility
In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.
My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.

Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system.
Offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary.

Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, has appeared on both The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. He has served as director of counseling services for the Tubman Family Alliance; as behavioral health director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis; as a domestic violence counselor for Wilder Foundation; as a certified Military and Family Life Consultant for the U.S. Armed Forces; as a trauma consultant for the Minneapolis Public Schools; and as a Cultural Somatics consultant for the Minneapolis Police Department. As a Community Care Counselor, he managed the wellness and counseling services for civilians on fifty-three US military bases in Afghanistan. Resmaa studied and trained at Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, as well as with Dr. David Schnarch (author of the bestselling Passionate Marriage) and Bessel van der Kolk, MD (author of the bestselling The Body Keeps the Score). He currently teaches workshops on Cultural Somatics for audiences of African Americans, European Americans, and police officers. He is also a therapist in private practice.
Sensitive and probing, this book from therapist Menakem delves into the complex effects of racism and white privilege. Departing from standard academic approaches, he speaks from the wisdom of his grandmother and his own expertise in somatic therapy, a field that emphasizes the mind-body connection—Publisher’s Weekly
An exceptionally thought-provoking and important account that looks at race in a radical new way. For all readers—Library Journal (starred review)
An extremely interesting approach and a much-needed paradigm shift in the treatment of racialized trauma.—NY Journal of Books
Though the highly-charged subject-matter might ordinarily be controversial in nature, this text is written in a non-confrontational style apt to disarm, engage and enlighten readers, regardless of color or political persuasion. Kudos to Resmaa Menakem for such a sorely-needed seminal work which couldn’t be more practical or more timely, given this bitterly-divided country’s current state of race relations.—The Harlem Dispatch
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Indian Education at District One91 - 5th Annual South of the River Powwow
2022-05-21 13:00 | Burnsville High School, 606 State Hwy 13, Burnsville, MN, 55337, United States

Traditional Cedar Healing Ceremony
2022-05-20 16:00 - 20:00 | East Side Neighborhood Services, 1700 NE 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55413, United States
You are invited to a Traditional Cedar Healing Ceremony held in person on Friday, May 20, 2022.
Location & Time: East Side Neighborhood Services 1700 NE 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55413 from 4 PM to 8 PM.
Spiritual Leaders: Dr. Dennis Jones/Pebaamibines (originally from Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation). Pebaamibines is also the author of Daga Anishinaabemodaa which presents basic lessons for learning Anishinaabemowin, the language of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people. Jason Hart from the Red Lake Nation. Joining them are AIFC’s Sharyl Whitehawk & Rich Antell.
This Ceremony is intended to help those who have experienced trauma, stress, grief and loss, PTSD, and work fatigue.
This Cedar Healing Ceremony is open to the community, and families are welcome to attend in person.
Please bring a dish to share, if you can. It’s recommended that ladies wear skirts, and there will be skirts available if needed.
Link to Previous Ghost Feasting Talk & Cedar Healing Ceremony https://youtu.be/bauKAJzZjTM
More info about Cedar:
For thousands of years, the cedar tree has been revered for its spiritual significance. Its wood was used for the doors of sacred temples and burned in cleansing ceremonies for purification. In addition, cedar has a long history of use in indigenous sweat lodge ceremonies, and the tree was thought to house important Gods and be an entrance to higher spiritual realms.
Cedar is first and foremost a medicine of protection. When first moving in, it is often used to cleanse a home, inviting unwanted spirits to leave and protecting a person, place, or object from unwanted influences. In addition, cedar is often used in the sweat lodge ceremony. A few pinches are thrown on the red-hot rocks, immediately sparking into a yellow glow and releasing their aroma. The smoke of burning cedar attracts good spirits and eliminates negative energies.
Cedar is also one of the four sacred plants of the indigenous American Indian Medicine Wheel and represents the Southern direction. The other plants contained in the Medicine Wheel are white sage representing the West, sweetgrass representing the North, and tobacco representing the East.

Native American Community Clinic (NACC) - Annual Open House
2022-05-20 11:00 - 14:00 | Native Amercian Community Clinic (NACC), 1213 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States

Wanaisguni Hikurus Hajawi 5K Run/Walk
2022-05-19 17:00 - 20:00 | Phalen Park Picnic Pavilion, 1600 Phalen Drive, Saint Paul, MN, 55106, United States
Join the Ho-Chunk Nation at beautiful Lake Phalen in Saint Paul, MN for a FREE family fun 5K Run/Walk Event!

As American Indians, we will gather for this 11th annual 5K Run/Walk, to create healing, inspire healthy lifestyles, and take an active stance against Type II diabetes and childhood obesity. Health and wellness is an American Indian tradition and the participants of this 5K will be walking/running with their individual intentions. All levels are encouraged and welcomed to attend. Due to the pandemic, this will be their first in-person event, in two years!!! We hope that you can make it again – or for your first time! This event has been made possible by our incredibly generous and supportive sponsors, the Ho-Chunk Nation and Ho-Chunk Nation Youth Services, the Notah Begay III Foundation, and our local heroes, Native Roots Radio, American Indian Community Development Corporation, and the Native American Community Clinic. Pinigigi!!

To register for this event, click HERE.

American Indian OIC (AIOIC) - Founders' Day Open House & Career Fair
2022-05-19 11:00 - 14:00 | American Indian OIC (AIOIC), 1845 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States

Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) - Honoring Our Youth Community Celebration
2022-05-18 17:30 - 19:30 | South High School, 3131 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
All are welcome. Please RSVP by clicking here.

[Virtual Event] Native American Community Clinic (NACC) - Midwest Tribal ECHO: Stigma 101 with James Schmidt and Tina Monje
2022-05-18 12:00 - 13:00
Summary: James Schmidt and Tina Monje from NACC will provide a basic overview of what constitutes as stigma against people who use drugs and people experiencing homelessness. They will provide practical and proven methods to shift language and mindsets so that we can better understand and care for the people we serve.
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Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC) - Open House
2022-05-18 11:00 - 14:00 | Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC), 1530 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States

Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center - Blossoming in Abundance Anniversary 2022
2022-05-14 11:30 - 23:30 | Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center, 788 East 7th Street, Saint Paul, MN, 55106, United States
Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center is excited to celebrate the fifth year since opening its doors in 2017!!
These past five years have been filled with an abundance of wisdom, love, and support as well as challenges and growth as they continue to elevate their work in building, supporting, and cultivating opportunities for Native, Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples through cultural arts and activism.

Celebrate with IRoots on Saturday, May 14th from 11:00 AM – 11:00 PM with live music, cultural presentations, food, vendors, local craft makers, and visual artists showcased throughout the day.

At 3:00 pm, Transforming Generations in partnership with IRoots is launching its summer children’s storytime event, Drag Tale Times! In partnership with IRoots, this series is a way to create a space that engages families with local Asian drag performers through children’s literature; while imparting sincere lessons on the inclusion and appreciation for varying self-expressions amongst LGBTQ+ people within our communities.

Opening of Roots Café – Indigenous Youth-Led Coffee Shop on the East Side
Indigenous Roots in partnership with the International Indigenous Youth Council – Twin Cities is excited to launch a youth creative economy opportunity through the opening of Roots Café located inside the gallery space of Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center. Enjoy free drinks including various coffee blends from Spirit Mountain Roasting Co. (Yuma Reservation) and Comunidad Tochan (Nahua Community in Los Puentes, Huautla, Mexico). We look forward to nurturing this new seed project and enjoying its blossoming.

Brooklyn Park - Native American Heritage Event
2022-05-14 10:00 - 14:00 | Brookdale Park, 7650 June Ave N, Brooklyn Park, MN, 55443, United States

Mni Sota Fund - Post Purchase/Maintenance Class for Homeowners
2022-05-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Mni Sota Fund, 1330 Lagoon Avenue – 4th Floor, Minneapolis, MN, 55408, United States
Ready to learn how to tackle some of those DIY tasks?
Mni Sota Fund’s NEW post purchase class facilitated by Garry Geving, from Prairie Home Inspections, will be hosted quarterly. These classes will address different DIY tasks such as plumbing, seasonal checklists, patching holes in your walls, changing your locks, etc. Each class throughout the year will discuss different topics. Upon completion of each of these classes, you will receive a $50.00 e-gift card, savings from learning how to do the work yourself, a great lunch of course, and a wealth of knowledge!

Hennepin County Library (HCLIB) - Coffee & Conversations at Franklin Library
2022-05-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Franklin Library, 1314 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States
Hennepin County Library Presents Coffee & Conversations at Franklin Library from 10 AM-12 PM on Friday, May 13, 2022.
Coffee and doughnuts will be served, and Clyde Bellecourt’s book The Thunder Before the Storm will be given out, while supplies last.

[Virtual Event] Hennepin County Library (HCLIB) - Mary Ann Key Book Club: A Community Discussion of "An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People"
2022-05-12 19:00 - 20:30 | MN
The Mary Ann Key Book Club uses reading as a catalyst for conversation as we attempt to better understand past and current injustices – including systemic racism, other forms of discrimination, and bias that affects marginalized communities.
Join columnist Myron Medcalf and moderator Ramona Kitto Stately in an online conversation with Native American community leaders Sharon Day, Marlena Myles, Dr. Katie Phillips and Pearl Walker-Swaney. Panelists will discuss An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People. Collaborator: Star Tribune. Sponsor: Friends of the Hennepin County Library.
Note: Although we invite you to read An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People before this event, it is not required. Please note that panelists will be discussing all aspects of the book.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED. This program hosted on Zoom. Register here: https://bit.ly/may12mak
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