Editor's note: Every winter, the Star Tribune commissions an original piece of writing from a notable local author. This year's essay is by Brenda J. Child, Northrop professor of American Studies and ...
CLOQUET, Minn. — Persia Erdrich’s son had just turned 2 years old when he spoke his first sentence in Ojibwe. The pair were visiting the Minnesota Zoo as part of a group of babies, toddlers, parents ...
Dan Jones remembers from his childhood a cold washcloth being rubbed across his face before sunrise. It was wiping charcoal off his forehead, placed there before bedtime to protect him against the ...
Aug. 9—BEMIDJI — Despite sporadic rotations of overcast skies with rain and sunny skies with a breeze, dancers kept their ears to the drum at the 19th Annual Niimi'idiwin, or "dance" in Ojibwe. Taking ...
MINOT, N.D. (AP) - Alex DeCoteau, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is teaching a class in the Ojibwe language online this semester at Minot State. University DeCoteau ...
DULUTH - Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe member William Gidagigwaneb Premo was in line at the grocery store recently behind a group of young Native American girls. One of them dropped a dollar, he said, so ...
At Lowell Elementary School, students are able to opt-in to learning Ojibwe through the school’s Misaabekong Ojibwe Immersion Program. “We’ve had this Ojibwe immersion program for eight years, so ...
Joe Graveen, a member of the Ojibwe tribe and a wild rice technician on the Lac du Flambeau reservation in Wisconsin, stands with wild rice researcher Crystal Ng on Northerly Island in December 2022. ...