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News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Friday March 29th 2024

Remembering Laura Waterman Wittstock:

Sept. 11, 1937 ”“ January 16, 2021

Woman of Wisdom Via Words and Voice: The Cosmos has Grown by One More Star 

By HARVEY WINJE

“The birthright of every Indian born is that her or his ancestors paid a price beyond imagining that their descendants would live as Indians.”Â 
LAURA WATERMAN WITTSTOCK 

 Laura”™s compassionate eyes closed, her judicious intellect chronicled, her indigenous wisdom relayed, her corrections of errant history revealed, her gracious smile remembered, and her dedication to family of five children, four grandchildren, two great grandchildren, one great-great grandchild, and three honorary children fulfilled; Laura Waterman Wittstock”™s indelible impact lives on after passing to the Spirit world January 16th 2021. Laura was an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians, Heron Clan, and was born at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in New York; moved to Honolulu in 1945, to San Francisco in 1954, to Washington, D.C. in 1971, and to the Twin Cities in 1973 where she contined to:

Ӣ Nurture her family,

Ӣ Speak and write truth to power,

Ӣ Build trusting relationships between people, cultures, and organizations,

”¢ Give unpretentious counsel to hundreds of people, organizations personally and on many boards of directors. 

For many of us words don”™t come as easily as they did to Laura when expressing the deepest of thoughts from heart, head, and soul.… Read the rest “Remembering Laura Waterman Wittstock:”

“Laura Waterman Wittstock, Still the Superb Journalist: First Person Radio Signs Off the Air”

Laura Waterman Wittstock

BY ELAINE SALINAS, THE ALLEY, MARCH 2018 

Excerpt from a longer history of First Person Radio and the beginning of Migizi Communications. 

“The final segment of First Person Radio (FPR) aired on KFAI Radio in Minneapolis on February 14th, 2018, forty years after it originated as The Native American Program on KUOM-AM, the University of Minnesota”™s radio station. First Person Radio can best be described as a labor of love coupled with a commitment to produce timely and accurate news and information about the American Indian community to counter the many misrepresentations and inaccuracies perpetuated about Native people in the major media. 

“When First Person Radio was forced to sunset in 1992 due to rising production and distribution costs and declining support for public radio across the country, its legacy continued. Laura Waterman Wittstock, founder of MIGIZI Communications, took advantage of the large reservoir of knowledge and experience gained through First Person Radio to place the tools of communications in the hands of the younger Indian youth. MIGIZI”™s Achievement Through Communications, and Native Academy programs became the first community-based programs in the city to give access to state-of-the-art technology to American Indian youth, thus closing the digital divide for hundreds of youth who lacked access to computers in their homes and other community settings.… Read the rest ““Laura Waterman Wittstock, Still the Superb Journalist: First Person Radio Signs Off the Air””

Path of the Lemming

Raise Your Voice

By PETER MOLENAAR

Gardeners in the Phillips Community are probably familiar with the vole. Like all rodents, voles are highly intelligent within their own realm. However, within the span of a day, one of them might take down every red beet sprout. “Oh”, they smile sheepishly, “I couldn”™t help it”, before scurrying back to the hole. Sadly, compassionate gardeners are compelled to purchase traps. I purchased mine from Welna Hardware. 

Living low in the northern tundra is a species of vole called the lemming. Lemmings are famous for their periodic mass “suicides”. 

Are there bigots in our neighborhood? Actually, I did meet one once. The poor white man was ranting about a display of Native regalia at the American Indian Center, and was disdainfully whining about similar expressions in Africa. Hey, I have a Sudanese immigrant friend who celebrates his traditional regalia in a series of smart phone photos. He is an engineer in the field of medical devices who, once invited to join a Native circle dance here, did so without missing a beat. 

38th and Chicago”¦ 

On a hot day in the early aftermath, Native women danced in full regalia. Fists clenched in the air, they declared: BLACK LIVES MATTER! … Read the rest “Path of the Lemming”

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