Duluth's Sam Zimmerman has a new mural at Voyageurs National Park and a new book of his Ojibwe images. Ojibwe artist Sam Zimmerman adds purple to the deep-blue paint already on his canvas as he mixes ...
They are images that span years of photographic history, from daguerreotypes produced on metal plates to family snapshots created from plastic negatives. Babies swaddled and laced on cradleboards, ...
Mattie Harper DeCarlo was in the middle of a meeting at the Minnesota Historical Society when she turned around and realized her great-great-grandfather was staring over her shoulder. Charles Wright, ...
Have you been wanting to pick up a new hobby or learn more about Ojibwe culture? Stone carving plays a unique role in the indigenous communities here in the Northland. For the next several days the ...
GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. — The two-dozen schoolchildren sat in a circle for about an hour, enthralled, as Gordon Jourdain regaled them with tales of the Creator and the origins of their Ojibwe people. As ...
Johnson has revived traditional practices of the Ojibwe, like parching rice, and teaches them to future generations so that the culture is not lost. (photo by Denise Kang) Home is out there in the ...
James Clark grew up in Blaine but spent summers, weekends and holidays on the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation, where his great-grandparents lived. He attended powwows, birthdays and funerals, trying to ...
There are several Ojibwe traditions I was taught concerning funerals and death. For instance, when I was growing up and somebody died, my mother would crinkle up a little strip of birch bark like an ...
Lerner Publishing Group and the Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network—a nonprofit organization headquartered in central Minnesota dedicated to preserving and promoting Ojibwe and other Indigenous ...