Who is minnesotas lieutenant governor

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But I also feel like we're in this moment where you can feel things shifting and changing. Like we know that Native women have been leaders since time immemorial. It's just the rest of society that is catching up to us. So I think at this moment, what it means to be Indigenous Minnesotan is complicated, but it's also I think, a really helpful and powerful time.

Oh, so many, but I would say right off the top of my head, my dad. I lost my dad at the end of January. My dad Marvin Manypenny, he was a hell-raiser in the best sense of the word.

We need both. In that, he taught me that everyone has a role, and a responsibility and that you step into that role, you serve your people as best you can. He also was proud of me, and just had a really great love of his people. And I promise that I'm going to do everything I can for our people. So it's been sort of navigating through that grief and all of that at this time. Through what everyone is experiencing collectively because really, I'm very much my father's daughter.

And other folks like Robert Lilligren , who's the head of the Native American Community Development Institute, but who was the first the first Native person elected to city government in the city of Minneapolis. He cleared the way for me when I was running for the school board in and got elected. He was incredible, in sort of helping me navigate through those systems. And then I would say, Louise Matson, who's now the executive director of the Division of Indian work.

She was my first boss, when I had a grown-up job. I worked in the youth leadership development program at DIW and her compassion for the kids and the families that we worked with every day, but also her high expectations for everyone around her to do their best for Indigenous youth, I still carry that with me. And we've just got a whole bunch of powerful urban Native leaders here, who keep me in line, and aunties who tell me what I need to act right.

Part of my vision, I think, is what we are trying to do currently. You know, Minnesota has existed as a state for years. We have been heading in the same direction for the bulk of that time and so changing or sort of turning or steering a ship that's been headed in one direction for years is a challenge.

But I think what my vision is that the state of Minnesota, both in the governor's office, but also the Legislature and in the House and Senate, truly understand tribal governments — what sovereignty is, what it means — and respect and honor treaty rights.

We've created the Office of Tribal State Relations in our office. My hope is that that continues long after we're gone, that you don't need to have Anishinaabekwe as lieutenant governor. It just becomes the work that the state does. I also hope that we have leadership that accurately reflects the communities it seeks to represent. I think that every election cycle we get closer and closer.

Heather Keeler, who is just elected in Moorhead is going to be an incredible addition to the Minnesota House. We have leaders like Jamie Becker-Finn, who is a state representative who's just an incredible leader. Mary Kunesh-Podein, who's now over in the Senate. I'd also say that as we're having these conversations and communities that we talk a lot about — and I think this happens in government and philanthropy and nonprofits a lot — we talk about BIPOC communities.

But I don't always think that people really get the I, the Indigenous part of it. And sometimes it's thrown in, because that's like what you're supposed to say. But I think my vision for that is that we are building relationships across communities and lines of difference and finding those places of strength for all of us, and that Indigenous people are seen and heard and valued across the state and across the country.