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Temperatures will remain cooler than normal Monday but with plenty of sun. Highs will range from the 40s northeast to mid 50s southwest. Frost will be possible for many areas Monday night. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

🎧 Coming up on Morning Edition: Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Leah Lemm, a citizen of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and the Senior Editor for the new Native News Initiative at MPR News, joins host Cathy Wurzer to talk about the holiday.

🎧 Coming up at 9 a.m.: Restaurant owners Yia Vang of  Union Hmong Kitchen and Abdirahman Kahin of Afro Deli join MPR News host Angela Davis to talk about what it takes to own and operate a restaurant. They’ll share stories of their success and setbacks and describe lessons they’ve learned along the way.

 
A new camp makes the outdoors accessible for deaf, deafblind, hard-of-hearing kids

Five out of every 1,000 Minnesota children ages 3-17 are deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Having access to a language is life-changing for them. Health experts report children with hearing loss fall behind their hearing peers in communication, cognition, reading, and social-emotional development without opportunities to learn language. Yet, they don’t always get it.

Wilderness Inquiry, a nonprofit that helps marginalized communities enjoy Minnesota's great outdoors, is now hosting programs and camps for people who are deaf, deafblind or hard of hearing.

 
What else we're watching:
Minnesota officials closely watch events in Israel. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said her office is helping dozens of her constituents that are in Israel get back to the United States.

Stillwater state prison to open tattoo parlor, technician training program. The program is part of an effort to cut down on the spread of diseases associated with underground tattooing among incarcerated people.

Twins beat Astros 6-2 in Game 2 to tie ALDS. Game 3 of the best-of-five series is at Minnesota on Tuesday.

What is Indigenous Peoples Day? From Alcatraz Island to a park in New York City, Native American people will celebrate their centuries-long history of resilience with ceremonies, dances and speeches.

Fans arrived for Chiefs and Vikings game, but no Swift appearance. The Grammy-winning performer  had been to two consecutive Chiefs games in the past two weeks.

— Anna Haecherl, MPR News


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