the alley Delivery Changes Start March
The leadership of Alley Communications has decided to stop door-to-door residential delivery with the March 2024 issue of the alley newspaper. This will allow us to reduce litter and use of plastic bags and will help our small but mighty group of staff and volunteers to focus on using our precious resources to create a newspaper that ALL the many diverse peoples of the Phillips Community want to read because it represents their voices.
That being said, we still want to come to your home if that is the best way to reach you! If Alley Communications can get a minimum of 200 names and addresses of people who want to receive the alley newspaper delivered by mail each month, we will qualify for a USPS nonprofit bulk-mailing permit. Sign up TODAY for your FREE SUBSCRIPTION to the alley each month! It is easy and simple to do. Encourage your neighbors, too!
Go to this link: DELIVERY AND COMMUNICATION to sign up today!
You will still be able to find a copy of the alley at coffee shops,
community centers, stores, and other businesses!
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Native Women Write About Protecting Little Earth : A Chapbook Edited by Marcie Rendon and Diego Vazquez, Jr.
from Something I Said
Reviewed by DWIGHT HOBBES
Native Americans matter. Shouldn’t need to be said. Twin Cities black communities weren’t the only ones devastated by the George Floyd uproar. All that came to many minds was the most visible and vocal, black folk. Unconquered Nations (Wiishkoban) reflects on the thoughts and feelings of women of Little Earth (Minneapolis) who saw their neighborhood put through hell. Brilliantly. The Unconquered Nations Writing and Healing Project gathered seven prose-poets, Little Earth Protectors to convey, along with property damage, the shock, hurt, dismay and personal experiences, a glimpse inside their personal and communal realities.
Author Marcie Rendon and co-editor Diego Vazquez, Jr. shepherded the project. Rendon, who has spent a successful career looking into and looking out for Native women’s concerns, stated in an interview, “During the school year of 22-23 I, with Sigwan Rendon and Serene Eidem, met with the women who are Little Earth Protectors one time a month. During that time I encouraged them to write their story of their actions immediately following the George Floyd uprising and what they did to protect the Little Earth housing and surrounding community. In June 2023, we published a chapbook of their writing.… Read the rest “Native Women Write About Protecting Little Earth : A Chapbook Edited by Marcie Rendon and Diego Vazquez, Jr.”
A Life in Six Paragraphs
from Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery
By SUE HUNTER WEIR
It’s been almost 150 years since Jacob Hodnefjeld died. Cemetery records have little to say about him. His burial permit notes that he was buried on November 14, 1875, but not the day that he died. His birth year was recorded as 1841 but doesn’t give a precise date and doesn’t mention where he was born. No cause of death was given.
He never married or had children but someone in his family knew his story and wrote it down. His photo and a six-paragraph biography are posted on ancestry.com. Those six paragraphs were published on page 273 of a family genealogy. As brief as it is, that biography fills in many of the gaps in Jacob’s story. It captures his hopes, his struggles, his relationship with family and friends, and offers a detailed description of the days leading up to his death.
We now know that Jacob Hodnefield was born in Hodnefield, Norway on October 30, 1841, and emigrated to the United States in 1871. He accompanied his sister Inger and her family. Inger went on to settle in Kandiyohi County but Jacob stopped briefly in St.… Read the rest “A Life in Six Paragraphs”
