News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Friday December 26th 2025
BYI Circle of Healing Practitioners Highlight: Beyond Historical Trauma
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by Nancy Bordeaux and Phoebe Iron Necklace
Six years ago, Nancy Bordeaux and I crossed paths at a Native American naming ceremony for my Grandson. Our conversation subsequently revolved around the powerful responsibilities we “Oceti Sakowin win” were entrusted to uphold within our respective families and communities. Fast forwarding the significance of this story, the seed of our initial conversation softened and sprouted roots. We found ourselves conducting outreach and networking with women of the Seven Council Fires whose people speak the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota dialects and language. The Oceti Sakowin is the formal name of our indigenous nation. Therefore, it was under our nation”'s protocols that we converged and stood as a group to sing prayer, healing, and women”'s songs. In the process, we committed ourselves to reinvigorate our personal lives with health and healing in this sacred and collective manner. Our newfound capacity enabled us to encircle and confidently guide our young girls, the next generation, toward their entrance into womanhood and a courageous journey.… Read the rest “BYI Circle of Healing Practitioners Highlight: Beyond Historical Trauma”
100th Anniversary Open House at Franklin Library
Albert Einstein tells us that “the only thing that you absolutely need to know, is the location of the library.” That”'s easy; our Library is at 1314 East Franklin Avenue since 1914. Twenty-four years previous it was within the A.J.Bernier Building-17th and East Franklin Avenue.
Saturday, Oct. 11, 1”“5 p.m.
Celebrate Franklin Library”'s
100 years of community service including historic
exhibits, slide show,
open mike & photo booth fun
for all ages.
Includes all 13 volumes of The Alley Newspaper!
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Keep citizen journalism alive!
Kudos to City Pages for recruitment article
Frank Reflections
By Frank Erickson
The October 8th City Pages had a front page article titled “HOMEGROWN-Minnesota Somalis battle terror recruiters for the souls of youth.”
Yes, wonderful story; very important to bring attention to this, it is appalling to see Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine recruiters now going after the souls of local Somali youth.
Good job, City Pages, your approach was right on target. For instance, if you would have focused only on the al-Shabab terror recruiters, your story would have been nothing more than sensationalism, a baseless and empty story, that viewed our Somali community as a hotbed of potential terrorists based only on skin color. An empty story based on the fact that just last month the New York Times reported that the Justice Department “prosecuted only five people from 2011 to 2013 for the crime of attempting to travel abroad to aid terrorists.” This “only five” is a national number, not a Minnesota number.
Very good City Pages, to show that all communities in Minnesota are preyed upon by terror recruiters, not just the Somali community. Your weekly paper did not take the typical scapegoat approach that the Star Tribune does, connecting “terror” to the Somali community to sell newspapers, since there is no evidence of any Minnesotan from our Somali community hurting or killing anyone abroad.… Read the rest “Kudos to City Pages for recruitment article”