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Instructors Mary Moose (center) Fort Albany First Nation, joins with Nate Johnson (top right in plaid) and Zac Earley (in green on right) in leading a rabbit-skinning activity at the Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference in March 2022 in Minnesota. Earley, White Earth Ojibwe, is co-director, with his fiance Kaitlyn Grenier, of the nonprofit Manidoo Ogitigaan organization, which provides classes in language and traditional knowledge.  (Photo courtesy of Kaitlyn Grenier)
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How to skin a rabbit and other traditional knowledge

By Dan NinhamJun 20, 2022
Renee Van Nett head shot from her Minnesota state senate campaign Facebook page.
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Trailblazing Ojibwe city council member dies

By Carina DominguezJun 10, 2022
The late Ojibwe artist George Morrison is featured on a U.S. Postal Service stamp issued April 22, 2022. Morrison's works featured vibrant landscapes and drew from Cubism, Surrealism and abstract expressionism. He died in 2000. (Photo by Dalton Walker/Indian Country Today)
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Late Ojibwe artist gets stamp of approval

By Sandra Hale SchulmanMay 15, 2022
The 1997 Red Lake (Minnesota) Warriors. (Photo courtesy of Minnesota State High School League tournament program)
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Howah: Basketball madness at its best

By Dalton WalkerMar 18, 2022
Lac La Croix First Nation speaker Gordon Jourdain, whose Ojibwe name is Maajiigwaneyaash, engages in an annual traditional Ojibwe storytelling gathering at the Log Community Building, Thursday Feb. 24, 2022, in Grand Portage, Minn. Oral storytelling plays a crucial role in Ojibwe spiritual tradition, as is the case with other Native American peoples. Believed to be in itself a gift from the Creator, the recounting of tribal lore helps keep cultural worldviews, ethical teachings and religious experiences alive across generations. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)
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Only-in-winter stories pass on teachings

By The Associated PressMar 5, 2022
Volunteers prepare the track the night before the Inter-Tribal Snow Snake Festival, held Feb. 5, 2022 on Madeline Island. The traditional game of snow snake - a popular winter event among the Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk, Oneida and other northern tribal nations, is facing renewed interest. (Photo by Dan Ninham for Indian Country Today)
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‘They played snow snake at Madeline Island’

By Dan NinhamFeb 21, 2022
Thomas Miller's 1987 "Winter Warrior" sculpture outside the Blue Earth County Library in Mankato, Minnesota. It, and the county's Reconciliation Memorial across the street, keep before the public the story of the largest mass execution in U.S. history when 38 Dakota Indians were hanged here by the government during the U.S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862. Digital ID: (original digital file) highsm 59742 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.59742 (Photo courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
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Dakota, Ojibwe memorial ride draws large crowd

By Associated PressJan 6, 2022
Rachel Taylor clutches a buckskin satchel filled with the ashes of her son, Kyle "Little Crow" Domrese, pictured at right, who died of an overdose, as she sits in the home they shared in Bemidji, Minn., Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Just weeks remained until the anniversary of the day she opened his bedroom door and found her son face-down on his bed, one of more than 100,000 Americans lost in a year to overdoses as the COVID-19 pandemic aggravated America's addiction disaster. The death rate from drug overdoses for Native Americans has surpassed white people and is now the highest in the nation. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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As COVID fueled the drug crisis, Native people hit worst

By The Associated PressDec 27, 2021
FILE - In this Friday, May 16, 2008, file photo, author Louise Erdrich reflects on growing up in North Dakota and her new book "The Plague of Doves" at her store BirchBark Books in Minneapolis. Excerpts from new books by Erdrich and Amy Tan can be read for free in a pair of new digital compilations. The industry newsletter Publishers Lunch announced Tuesday, May 16, 2017, that 53 works coming out this fall and winter will be highlighted in “Buzz Books 2017: Fall/Winter” and “Buzz Books 2017: Young Adult Fall/Winter.” (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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A ghost haunts Native bookstore in Louise Erdrich’s latest

By The Associated PressNov 11, 2021
FILE - In this Friday, May 16, 2008, file photo, author Louise Erdrich reflects on growing up in North Dakota and her new book "The Plague of Doves" at her store BirchBark Books in Minneapolis. Excerpts from new books by Erdrich and Amy Tan can be read for free in a pair of new digital compilations. The industry newsletter Publishers Lunch announced Tuesday, May 16, 2017, that 53 works coming out this fall and winter will be highlighted in “Buzz Books 2017: Fall/Winter” and “Buzz Books 2017: Young Adult Fall/Winter.” (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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Louise Erdrich's gift of storytelling

By Kolby KickingWomanOct 30, 2021
Basket weaver April Stone, a citizen of the Bad River Band of Ojibwe, looks out from a stand of black ash trees on the Bad River Reservation in Wisconsin in March 2021. The trees are now threatened by climate change and invasive beetles. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember/Indian Country Today)
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Ojibwe basket weaver works to save tradition

By Mary Annette PemberJul 21, 2021