I put my money where my mouth is by donating to Miranda Pacheco's campaign.

https://www.mirandaforduluth.com

#Ojibwe #Chippewa #NativeAmerican #Duluth #Minnesota

"A court granted the Beltrami County Historical Society Museum permission to return sacred Indigenous artifacts to Indigenous communities where they originated."

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/minnesota-beltrami-county-historical-society-pushes-return-sacred-indigenous-artifacts/

There is a lot of foot-dragging by museums with regards to repatriating artifacts. I'm glad the Beltrami County HS chose to do so, even going to court to receive permission to bypass a restriction placed on the collection by a will.

#NativeAmerican #Ojibwe #Chippewa #Minnesota #NAGPRA #SahanJournal

L’abito splendente, il suono della pioggia ed il segreto della guarigione Ojibwe

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=38346

#danza #ballo #tradizioni #popoli #società #prime nazioni #dal mondo #nativi americani #nuovo mondo #canada #spettacoli #powwow #tecniche #guarigione #leggende #folklore #donne #tribù #clan #ojibwe

Additional coverage.

https://www.minnpost.com/education/2023/07/university-of-minnesota-grapples-with-reparation-demands-from-tribes-who-say-they-were-victims-of-land-grabs/

#Dakota #Sioux #Ojibwe #Chippewa #NativeAmerican #Minnesota #minnpost #umn

"The agreement recognizes the sovereign bands as original stewards of that land..."

https://www.startribune.com/superior-national-forest-and-northern-minnesota-tribes-make-historic-agreement/600275081/

This is a good first step. We can do more. Such as returning land to the sovereign nations.

#Chippewa #Ojibwe #NativeAmerican #Minnesota #LandBack

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#Ojibwe
#Palestine
#kuffiyeh
#StopLine3
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RT @zhaabowekwe
On Tuesday, Dawn Goodwin & Tania Aubid will be in Aitkin County court in MN, for standing against Line 3 tar sands in Ojibwe treaty lands. On Wednesday, I’m up.

We were all charged by mail, we are all Ojibwe women. Criminalized as the real criminals destroy the earth. #StopLine3
https://twitter.com/zhaabowekwe/status/1642535950533251074

“To this day, we are the closest — and I repeat, the closest — community to a nuclear power plant and spent nuclear waste in the country,” said Prairie Island President Johnny Johnson

https://www.minnpost.com/greater-minnesota/2023/03/xcel-energy-agrees-to-pay-prairie-island-7-5-million-more-a-year-to-store-spent-nuclear-waste/

Prairie Island is only 30 miles from where I live. I am not opposed to nuclear power. However, we could do better at storing waste than on a flood plain next to a marginalized community.

#Ojibwe #Chippewa #NativeAmerican #Minnesota

"The lack of reliable internet has made it difficult for members to apply for jobs, work from home or participate in virtual learning."

https://www.startribune.com/multimillion-broadband-grant-a-boon-to-mille-lacs-band-of-ojibwe-internet-access-melanie-benjamin/600262124/

I take it for granted that I will have internet access every day. I rely on it so I may work from home.

The expansion of broadband for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe will be beneficial.

#Ojibwe #Chippewa #NativeAmerican #Minnesota

People are very tied to their language and don’t like change, especially when it #challenges a #PowerStructure . In #Winnipeg , Bishop Grandin, a symbol of #colonial power, is being #replaced by #languages of the #historically #oppressed : #Cree , #Ojibwe & #Métis . While this is precisely the point behind the change, it may make those uncertain about changing power structures uncomfortable.

https://theconversation.com/amp/winnipeg-proposes-new-indigenous-street-names-but-whats-behind-claims-theyre-too-hard-to-pronounce-201523

#decolonization #renaming #reclaiming #landback #Manitoba #Canada #Indigenous

"Over the last six years, the county has spent more than $8 million in attorney’s fees on the case. With an appeal, those costs will grow."

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/ojibwe-mille-lacs-county-appeal-minnesota/

Stupid waste of money by Mille Lacs county. The State of Minnesota should NOT cover those fees.

#NativeAmerican #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Chippewa #Minnesota #TreatyRights

I am crushed by this observation.The hunter-gatherers of Europe lost every thing to agriculurists. I wonder how much racism or the equivalent occurred for the European hunter-gather tribes.

I believe we could have done much better.

#NativeAmerican #Lakota #Dakota #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Minnesota

"[M]any see toxic pollution in the Great Lakes as a continued encroachment on how Ojibwe communities exercise those rights."

https://www.minnpost.com/other-nonprofit-media/2023/03/great-lakes-pollution-threatens-ojibwe-treaty-rights-to-fish/

I hope Native Americans continue to assert their treaty rights so as to protect the environment against degradation.What does it mean to have the right to fish if there are no fish to fish?

#NativeAmerican #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe #Minnesota #TreatyRights #MinnPost

I need a word that speaks to the preservation, restoration, revitalization, and resurgance of something. I'm my specific case, in regards to Native American tribes in Minnesota teaching and learning their nearly lost languages.

Both the Dakota and Anishinaabe in Minnesota are undertaking efforts to preserve and restore their languages.

#NativeAmerican #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe #Dakota #Minnesota #language

"In the late 1800s, the U.S. government created a policy that banned speaking or teaching in any language other than English in schools. This was standard practice in Native American boarding schools. For generations, Native children were taken from their families, banned from speaking their native language or engaging in traditional religious practices, and often abused if they didn’t comply."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/02/27/few-speak-ojibwe-as-a-first-language-this-nest-is-teaching-kids-to-in-cloquet

#NativeAmerican #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe #Minnesota

"Some non-Indigenous people may recognize snow snake from their days as a Boy Scout."

This was the first I heard of snow snakes. I found the article frustrating because it wasn't until the 7th paragraph where it became apparent to me it is a game and not until the 20th or so paragraph where I learned it involves sliding a wooden snow snake through a hoop.

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/indigenous-elders-teach-snow-snake-indigenous-winter-games-bemidji/

#Anishinaabe #Chippewa #Ojibwe #NativeAmerican #Minnesota #SahanJournal

I'm reading "A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return" by Sandy White Hawk. I'm only part way through. What was done to Native American's was wrong.

#NativeAmerican #Minnesota #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Chippewa

I finished reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.

Another story that left me wounded.

Reliving George Floyd's death was painful. I no longer lived in Minneapolis when it happened but I'm still trying to process it.

#LouiseErdrich #NativeAmerican #Minnesota #Ojibwe #Chippewa

"The court decision 'is a major victory for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of respecting the sovereignty and treaty rights of Indigenous nations,' said Band President Faron Jackson Sr."

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/minnesota-court-of-appeals-backs-leech-lake-objiwe-dispute-over-proposed-mill/

I want the Native American tribes in Minnesota and surrounding states to continue asserting their rights under treaty and as soveriegn nations.

#Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Chippewa #Minnesota #NativeAmerican #SahanJournal

“It’s important to share those stories,” Friedli says. “Especially during storytelling season. It’s winter. The snow is on the ground. This is the traditional season for telling those stories.”

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/team-kwe-all-women-indigenous-minnesota-state-snow-sculpting-competition/

I need to break out of my pandemic hibernation. Why didn't I attend the Minnesota State Snow Sculpting Competition?

#NativeAmerican #Minnesota #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Chippewa #SahanJournal

I finished reading "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich, a fiction novel consisting of intertwined story lines involving the Chippewa inhabitants of Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. One of the story lines is based upon events in the author's grandfather's life.

It was well written and kept my interest. All of the main characters and concerns and thoughts felt real to me.

#Ojibwe #Chippewa #Anishinaabe #NativeAmerican #Minnesota #NorthDakota #bookstodon