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U.S. attempt to ‘kill the Indian, save the man’
Government and Church run boarding schools horrific history Less than 100 years ago in...
Learning from living abroad: Mexico
From sunshine and mountains to ice and snow, M.A. family combines cultures Once you enter...
Learning from living abroad: Romania
Revisiting Romanian roots Many people have explored different cities, traveled to different...
SCIENCE & HEALTH
Music n Mood
Do music lyrics impact your mood, thoughts? Most teenagers think it doesn’t affect them at all,...
Screen time: educational vs. recreational
How much is too much? Does it even matter? Tick tock, the clock strikes one through twelve, but on...
Celebrities impact on teens lives
Matthew Perry's death raises substance abuse awareness Everyone knows it can be hard to voice to...
SPORTS
State of hockey welcomes women’s team
Professional Women's Hockey League debuts, drawing former & current players, inspiring girls...
A new era for girls basketball
New coach brings different philosophy A warm salty drop of sweat falls from your drenched forehead...
Money and sports: Sports gambling increases
More underage gamblers take advantage of online portals “It came down to the very last play of the...
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PWHL Minnesota season in review
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Leadership in Sports: Addi Mack
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Leadership in Clubs: Inaaya Hinton
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Leadership in Education: Dr. Mike DinNardo
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Leadership in Education: Johanna Beck
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Timberwolves end dramatic season
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Nicholas Freeman as Buddy Holly
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Spelling Bee: an MA Players Production
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Spelling Bee: The rehearsal
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Churches Pushing Assimilation
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Short Takes: Trump Mar-a-Lago Investigation
FBI begins investigation of Trump's Florida estate Earlier this fall, the FBI began an extensive...
Staff Editorial: Phone and Schedule Changes
Is a seven-period, no-phone Minnehaha working? Things have looked different this school year. No...
Justice KBJ added to Supreme Court
What Ketanji Brown Jacksons's Supreme Court seat means in history One hundred and fifteen justices...
ARTS & FOOD
Ap Studio Art Pushes Boundaries
Defining the Undefinable AP studio art is a class designed to make students thrive in art and...
Young viewers slow to discover artistry, uniqueness of independent movies
The art of filmmaking has significantly evolved over the years. While movies once had no sound or...
Review: Hamlet, pointless retread or necessary revival?
Balance between tradition and innovation make this production effective (This review won first...
BRIEFS
New at North: Blake Mayes
New upper school counselor Blake Mayes is focused on helping students and assisting people with...
Ma graduates teach the new generation at MA
From MA graduates to MA teachers: alums return From helping students along their faith journey to...
New at North: Ann Weiss
Ann Weiss Joins Minnehaha as the new Learning Lab Teacher Ann Weiss, a Mother of three and...
AWARD WINNERS
Sharks in Space
The 2014-15 International Space Station experiment will explore the effects of artificial shark skin on bacteria growth in microgravity, hoping to improve astronauts' health conditions. The frigid and dry weather during the winter months takes a toll on the immune...
Can Redhawks grow beards?
Watch the results of No-Shave November! A film by Angela Scharf and Kate Brown made for Redhawksonline: No Shave November (Novembeard) from Redhawksonline on Vimeo. A group of Minnehaha students, faculty and staff put their razors down for a month to raise money to...
Screens vs. sleep: a bedtime battle
Are electronics the new monster under the bed? Why do they keep you from falling asleep? Brush teeth, climb into bed, turn off the lights...turn on the phone. Sound familiar? How about feeling tired in the morning? For many people, using their electronic devices is a...
Looking back on Title IX
Coach, health teacher looks back on forty years of female athletics beginning with Title IX In 1975, only a few years after girls' basketball became an official sport at Minnehaha Academy, the girls won the school's first Tri-metro Championship. But even in this...
Minnehaha Academy 40th Annual Arena Sale
Video shot and edited by Angela Scharf and Kate Brown. MA 40th Annual Arena Sale from Redhawksonline on Vimeo. Treasure seekers arrive at Minnehaha Academy's annual fundraiser on September 12, 2014.
Publications bring secrets to light
When whistle blowers and media unite to expose corruption, American opinion is split "A grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison." That's how Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker described Edward Snowden in 2013, shortly after the former contractor to the...
Finding Joy
Watch "Finding Joy," made for Minnehaha Films by senior Katie Pope in Nicholas Freeman's Advanced Film Class. Finding Joy from Minnehaha Films on Vimeo.
AP Free Response Lifesaver
AP Free Response Lifesaver You peel back the plastic wrap and gasp. The worst has happened: the free response question on this A.P. exam might as well have been written in ancient Greek and you have just twenty minutes left. The letters seem to dance on the page with...
Healing the past by creating anew
From pain to healing, local founder of a youth art organization shows the power of creativity "I heard a really loud clank and it was an immediate free fall," said Lindsay Walz, a survivor of the 2007 35W Bridge collapse. "My car basically took a nosedive into the...
Minnehaha Day by Day: Fall 2013
Relive the year so far... Junior journalist Maddie Binning has been posting one photo per school day on Redhawksonline since the beginning of the 2012-2013 academic year. Here is a compilation of her daily photos from the fall semester of 2013. Photos and video by...
Minnehaha wealth gap
Minnehaha students must learn to navigate the muddy waters of socioeconomic differences "From the first moment you drive into the parking lot, you can see it from the type of cars people are driving," said sophomore Kitra Katz. "And the first moment you come inside on...
MA alumni serve tours of duty in Iraq
Note: This story was named a National Winner in the Features category of the 2009 American Society of Newspaper Editors, Quill and Scroll International Writing & Photo Contest. Published December 12, 2008 by Brigid Kelly Lt. Col. Andrew Dietz wasn't sure what was...