RAPID CITY, S.D. — Monique "Muffie" Mousseau and Felipa De Leon are going tribe to tribe in South Dakota to advocate for protections and marriage equality for those who are “two spirit” — the modern umbrella term often used in Indigenous communities to define those who identify as LGBTQ.
FOUR BEARS VILLAGE, N.D. — The Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in western North Dakota is creating a search-and-rescue dive team to help in boating accidents, or even cases of missing and murdered indigenous women.
CROOKSTON, Minn. — Just 85 miles north of Fargo, 68-year-old Beverly Johnson has been making wood and lace for Ojibway snowshoes for three decades in a small workshop.
RED LAKE, Minn. — The Red Lake Band of Chippewa in Minnesota is aiming to increase its enrollment, even as some members want to stick to the status quo.
The people who live on the Lake Traverse Reservation are bands of the Sioux tribe, the Sisseton and the Wahpeton, who form "Oyate," which means "nation."