Melissa Townsend

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  • Username: MelissaT
  • Independent Producer
  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

Recent Pieces from Melissa Townsend

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Minnesota Native News: Covid news from the IHS and honors for a past mentor (05:00)
From: Ampers

This week on Minnesota Native News, we hear how the vaccine roll out is going at regional Indian Health Services clinics and we honor the life of Laura Waterman Wittstock.
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Looking to Silver Linings During Times of Struggle (28:30)
From: Ampers

Minnesota Native News launched several programs in response to the pandemic in addition to this one, including Native Lights: Biidaapi, a podcast hosted by Leah Lemm and her ...
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Bringing the Medicine of Music During the Pandemic with Annie Humphrey & Hip-Hop Artist Tufawon (28:30)
From: Ampers

Host Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) explores how Indian Country in MN is responding and adapting to the current pandemic health crisis. On today’s show, how two ...
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Minnesota Native News: The MN MMIW Task Force is Listening (01:46)
From: Ampers

The state’s new Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force is moving forward. The task force had planned a set of state-wide listening sessions where people could come ...
Caption: Rob Fairbanks and Jon Roberts are Anishinaabe comedians.

Minnesota Native News: NDN Comedy Night at MOA - Coming Soon? (01:11)
From: Ampers

On April first the House of Comedy comedy club at the Mall of America was supposed to feature its first all Indigenous line-up of comedians. Red Lake comic Jon Roberts had ...
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Minnesota Native News: Tribal Responses to the Covid-19 Outbreak (05:00)
From: Ampers

This week on Minnesota Native News: tribes make individual decisions about how to handle the Covid-19 outbreak, online input takes the place of in-person meetings with MMIW ...
Caption: Sqeevercoon2 is the robot built by students at the Circle of Life Academy on the White Earth reservation., Credit: Melissa Townsend

Minnesota Native News: Ogichidaa Robotics Competes (05:00)
From: Ampers

This week on Minnesota Native News, the robotics team from White Earth’s Circle of Life Academy takes their robot to compete in the regional tournament in Minneapolis. ...
Caption: Danielle Grant congratulates a student at the Native families gathering in Minneapolis

Minneapolis Public Schools Reach for American Indian Parents (04:57)
From: Melissa Townsend

Education professionals say engaging student’s families helps increase student attendance and improve achievement but many of Minnesota’s school districts with the most ...
Caption: Danielle Grant congratulates a student at the Native families gathering in Minneapolis, Credit: Melissa Townsend

Minneapolis Public Schools Reach for American Indian Parents (04:57)
From: Melissa Townsend

Education professionals say engaging student’s families helps increase student attendance and improve achievement but many of Minnesota's school districts with the most ...
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Minnesota Native News: January 31, 2018 Newscast (05:00)
From: Ampers

This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about how American Indian tribes may soon have a greater say in what happens at University of Minnesota campuses across the state. ...