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12/28 Caring & Sharing: All Nations Indigenous Center thinking outside the (500 sq. ft) box

Anthony Hernandez. Used with permission.

It's a tiny little building on East Second Street; 14 by 36 feet. 

But the All Nations Indigenous Center is thinking outside their 500 square foot box.  From their tiny headquarters, they're busily:

  • planning how to get computers for their afterschool program
  • outlining offerings for the Buffalo Heart summer camp (focusing on traditional teachings in drum, flute, dance and language)
  • reaching out to youth caught between cultures and giving them the information they need to make choices about all aspects of their heritage
  • planning community events with a strong focus on sobriety
  • addressing the  crises of HIV, heroin, drugs and alcohol
  • educating social workers about the Indian Child Welfare Act  and advocating for families
  • offering parenting classes,
  • providing a place for elders to spend beading,  sewing, quilting on Sundays and developing other classes

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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