Saving the World

Healing after Vietnam War

September 21, 2021 02:10 - 5 minutes - 5.28 MB

Sgt. Pat Herbig (USMC) suffered from PTSD after fighting in Vietnam. He went to treatment after his return to the States but didn't get healthier until he entered the Sweat Lodge.

Ghost Pipe

August 23, 2021 21:55 - 19 minutes - 24.1 MB

Crystal Brown is a wounded healer. When she was a young woman she was shot three times by her brother. She suffered other abuses in her family. A few years ago she left a job as a psychiatric nurse and administrator to follow her heart. Nick Vander Puy with News from the Front walks with her in a bog near the Flambeau River to connect with medicine plants.

Walter Bresette: Like the North Star the People followed him.

August 20, 2021 13:26 - 44 minutes - 20.6 MB

Walter Bresette (July 4, 1947 – February 21, 1999) was a prominent Ojibwe activist, politician, and author most notable for work on environmental issues and Ojibwe treaty rights in Northern Wisconsin and the Lake Superior region. He founded or co-founded several organizations including Witness for Nonviolence, the Midwest Treaty Network, and the Wisconsin Green Party.

The Revolution of Love

August 19, 2021 16:42 - 8 minutes - 9.77 MB

Keith Secola is an Anishinaabeg musician probably best known for his upbeat song "NDN Car" Some critics say he's the native version of Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young. Nick Vander Puy from News from the Front visits with Secola after his performance at the Water is Live event August 19, 2021 in Duluth Minnesota, right near Lake Superior or Gichigami

Visiting with Ojibwe Grandmother about pipeline

August 10, 2021 15:41 - 3 minutes - 4.81 MB

Nick Vander Puy travels to Cass Lake, Minnesota to visit with Grandmother Anne Dunn about Enbridge building a giant pipeline to carry filthy, tar sands oil across the Minnesota ceded territory wild rice gathering district.

Wild Rice Threatened by Enbridge Draw Down

August 02, 2021 22:26 - 3 minutes - 5.31 MB

In early July, 2021 Nick Vander Puy visited the Shell River Enbridge pipeline Resistance Camp southwest of Walker, Minnesota. He talked with a White Earth Anishinaabeg about Enbridge drawing down the water and impacting the wild rice.

The Father of Earth Day

July 30, 2021 00:33 - 5 minutes - 5.35 MB

When Gaylord Nelson ran for and became Governor of Wisconsin in 1958 a reporter asked him, "What about jobs, what about the environment? Can we have both?" Nelson replied, "You want jobs and a tax base and more growth? Then go back to Gary, Indiana." Nelson's benefactor Martin Hanson from Mellen heard this and never forgot the exchange. Back in the day Sandy Lyon and I were fighting the Arrowhead/Weston electric line slicing across northwestern Wisconsin, we invited Gaylord Nelson and the M...

Salvo Fired in Lake Superior Water War

July 29, 2021 22:09 - 6 minutes - 11.8 MB

Earlier this year the Town of Clover, Bayfield County, was presented with an application from Kristle KLR to withdraw, bottle, and sell artesian water from a private spring. The Town of Clover and Bayfield County Planning and Zoning Department denied the permit. The applicant appealed the decision to the Bayfield County Board of Adjustment, which heard the appeal yesterday at the Bayfield County courthouse. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network visits with local nurse midwife D...

Old Men and Women Love Wooden Boats

July 29, 2021 00:58 - 13 minutes - 24.1 MB

Nick Vander Puy meets up with outdoor writer Pat Durkin at the Bob Ellis Wood Boat Classic near Winchester, Wisconsin. They reflect on the joy and happiness making, rowing and fishing from wooden boats. Photo credit: Pat Durkin

Competitive Coyote Killing

July 26, 2021 20:10 - 9 minutes - 17.7 MB

In late February, a few years ago, at Sparky's Bar south of Washburn, Wisconsin hosted the Fourth Annual Fur Bang which is a competitive coyote killing event. 16 teams competed for prizes. Nick Vander Puy visited afterwards with animal rights activist Rod Coronado.

Braiding Sweetgrass with Robin Wall Kimmerer

July 26, 2021 03:50 - 41 minutes - 76.1 MB

Braiding Sweetgrass is a metaphor for Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer's weaving together her Potowatomie teachings with western scientific training and her own being as a human. Braiding is better done in concert with others. Dr. Kimmerer tells us, "For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it. To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language ... " Nic...

John Trudell on Liberation: Black Hills Survival Gathering 1980

July 25, 2021 03:29 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

News from the Front: This was the first John Trudell (Santee Dakota) speech we ever heard. It was recorded in 1980 at the Black Hills Survival Gathering in South Dakota. Listening to it doesn't take a leap of the imagination to understand why the FBI gathered more than 17000 pages on this Native American patriot and described him as "eloquent and therefore very dangerous." John Trudell walked on Tuesday, December 8, 2015.

Water Protectors fighting Enbridge Pipeline

July 16, 2021 10:51 - 39 minutes - 46.9 MB

When Nitgizhigookwe, Ginoonde and I arrived at the Mississippi River in Minnesota we met a slobbering and grinding bull dozer. The D9 caterpillar was helping replace a 1097 mile pipeline running between Alberta and Minnesota, the largest project Enbridge has undertaken which carries 800 thousand gallons of filthy, corrosive tar sands oil everyday. Nick Vander Puy visits by the fire at the Water Protectors Center camp with Jim Northrup 111. Northrup has been travelling and serving the movemen...

Hunting the Bear

July 04, 2021 23:11 - 6 minutes - 5.85 MB

On July 1 bear hunters in Wisconsin, after dumping millions of gallons of confectionary bait, started running hounds on bears in the woods. This is not a kill season, although some bears undoubtedly die after being run in the hot, humid woods or fought before clawing their way up a tree. This so called practice season which leads to conflicts with many citizens, property owners as well as wolves who kill canids entering their rendezvous territory. Come September a three to four week kill se...

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