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April 4, 1991 - MPR’s Carol Shotzko reports on a storytelling festival being held in Austin, Minnesota. The event was begun by Michael Carter, a local farmer who founded the Austin Storytelling Festival during a bleak period in the town's history…the Hormel meat Packer strike of 1985-86.
April 5, 1991 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles The Ojibwe News, an independent newspaper serving Bemidji area. The paper focuses on tribal and reservation news, with some controversial stances. While read by many, the paper’s independence from Red Lake Reservation tribal government does not keep some from questioning paper’s objectivity as a Native press.
April 6, 1991 - MPR’s Maja Beckstrom profiles Next Step classes, where Hmong women learn basic living skills for living in the United States. Reading a map or a clock are new experiences, skills not needed in their pre-literate farming communities in Laos.