It’s been more than twenty years since I lived in South Minneapolis, in the heart of the American Indian community. I worked there as editor of The Circle, a monthly newspaper devoted to covering urban and regional Indian news.
The differences between then and now are striking.
Back then, you could walk down Franklin Avenue and pass by a number of Indian nonprofit organizations, whose missions were to help urban Indians get home loans, job training, and medical services. These nonprofits met a h