Author discusses role of women in Ojibwe society Author and historian Brenda Child discusses the role of women in Ojibwe life, the subject of her book "Holding our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community."March 6, 2012
Fer cute! Madison prof updates regional dialect dictionary Known as DARE, the dictionary gives readers a broad history of how the English language is spoken. It traces popular, and not-so-popular, words and phrases to their origins. Then it breaks down how they've been used, with maps showing their geographic range.March 6, 2012
House committee would recognize Cambodian vets A Minnesota House committee has passed a resolution that would have Congress and the president recognize Cambodian veterans who fought alongside U.S. troops in Vietnam.March 5, 2012
Dachau survivor, liberator meet 6 decades later The way Ernie Gross and Don Greenbaum laugh and tell jokes with the ease of old friends, it's easy to assume the dapper octogenarians have known each other forever. But their easy familiarity comes from a far darker place: Both men spent a single day at the Dachau concentration camp on the day its 30,000 prisoners were liberated by American GIs in 1945.March 5, 2012
Annual spending on pets reaches all-time high Americans spent $50.96 billion on their pets in 2011. That's an all-time high and the first time in history more than $50 billion has gone to the dogs, cats, canaries, guppies and the like, the American Pet Products Association said in a report issued this week.March 3, 2012
New Minnesota campsite reservation system crashes The system couldn't handle an unanticipated flood of traffic when it went live, having expected to take 4,500 reservations in a day, but seeing more than 4,500 visits in its first hour.March 2, 2012
MPR News photos of the week This week, we visited a dinner for military troops, Duluth in a blizzard and Mitt Romney's stop in Fargo.March 2, 2012
'Tiger Mother' Amy Chua speaks in Minneapolis Amy Chua, best-selling author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," spoke Feb. 10 at the University of Minnesota China Center. She discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese and American parenting styles and says there are lots of false choices between happiness and success and between hard work and creativity.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, March 2, 2012
Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Olga Zoltai, hero to refugees For her work resettling Hmong refugees, Olga Zoltai will be one of the recipients of this year's Immigrant of Distinction Award, named by the Minnesota/Dakotas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.March 1, 2012
UND denied meet invite over Fighting Sioux name The University of Iowa has decided not to invite the University of North Dakota to an April track meet because of the school's Fighting Sioux nickname.February 27, 2012