Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. (AP) — The two-dozen schoolchildren sat in a circle for about an hour, enthralled, as Gordon Jourdain regaled ...

Friday night's Minnesota Wild game against the Colorado Avalanche sounded different from the opening face off, with the entire broadcast called in Ojibwe as part of Native American Heritage Day. In ...

DASSEL — Each and every one of us is connected to our family past and future through an unbroken chain, and our actions have consequences that reverberate up and down that chain for generations to ...

At summertime social powwows and spiritual ceremonies throughout the Upper Midwest, Native Americans are gathering around singers seated at big, resonant drums to dance, celebrate and connect with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Niigaanii-Animikii Kalvin Hartwig, who works as a language-culture coordinator for the Red Cliff Ojibwe Nation in northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

PONEMAH, Minn.-In the last hours of her life, Anna Gibbs was still teaching. "She was still giving directions," said her son, Leslie Gibbs. "Giving people instruction on what it is they need to do to ...

The Ojibwe, or Anishinaabe, people have faced enemies familiar to Indigenous people worldwide: Colonialism and imperialism. In North America, these forces arrived in the form of westward European ...

David Treuer's latest novel Prudence follows a young man who returns home to visit his family on an Ojibwe reservation before he joins the war as a bombardier. It's the 1940s and a prison camp for ...

There is a grassroots movement in the US of indigenous communities taking back their power and authority as sovereign nations. This surge in independence is driven partly by language warriors who are ...

Sam Zimmerman's paintings draw on his Ojibwe heritage to tell stories rich with imagery of the North Shore. His work will be on display at Tettegouche State Park. When it comes to staying informed in ...