My name is Wakaja haja piiwiga, which means “Beautiful Thunder Woman”. I am from the Ho-Chunk ..
Many years ago, by a lake in Northern Canada, there lived a girl named Marie. She spoke French and she spoke ..
Grandfather has told me that I must have the night eyes of an owl, a nose as keen as a bear’s and ears ..
Shannon watched her grandma turn the jingles. Not many people know how to do this. “Grandma, did you dance ..
She dreamed about the jingle-dress dancers, stepping softly to the ground. She dreamed about the fancy ..
Introduction My name is Olemaun Pokiak–that’s OO-lee-mawn. Such a name probably sounds strange ..
Wild rice, which the Ojibway call mahnomin, has long been an important food for Native Americans in the Upper ..
For most social, political, and ceremonial functions, the Ojibwe had a very strict gendered division ..
Blue is the hijab Mom likes to wear. It’s a scarf she uses to cover her hair. Gold is the dome ..
Johnny was in his snow fort when his tummy began to growl. He peeked at Grandma through the kitchen doorway. ..
“Hurry and finish your hot chocolate, Alex,” my big sister calls. She pulls on her blue parka ..
Everybody in the family is excited and nervous. It is warm enough that Windy and Sharyl decide that the family ..
A powwow is friends and family gathered together to honor the creator, Kinnehasus, Man-Never-Known-on-Earth, ..
To begin with, his tooth hurt. A lot. And then in the middle of class Linden touched his sore cheek, ..
The Ojibwe world is full of symbols and metaphors. The circle is probably the most obvious and permeates ..
My eyes open wide on an early morning It smells like Lunar New Year is almost here! […] Our tray of togetherness, ..
My tsinii always knows when the weather is right for halibut jigging. He watches the ocean, and the sky, ..
The last time I danced with my brother was in Hydaburg, Alaska. We travelled to our father’s birthplace ..
Clocks have no meaning at the river. Instead, we follow the coming and going of the tides. This morning ..
In Grandfather’s workshop the fire was already crackling inside the brick stove. Later, it would ..
This year Archie invites a few friends from school to her family’s big Diwali party. ..
Grandpa watches the waning moon. The festival is coming soon.Our house must look its very best.Diwali’s ..
