Indigenous

LEAP is the Minneapolis Division of Indian Work’s annual fundraiser and this year, we’re celebrating our 70th anniversary! The event

This ongoing series of conversations with Minnesota women about their engagement in politics was created as a collaboration between Amra

“There is no accounting for the dead beaver, the dead muskrat, the poison in the water.”

Talking about the impact of learning Ojibwemowin, the importance of language revitalization and the role of language in grieving, and hopes for an expansive Ojibwemowin curriculum in Minnesota schools.

If I can be honest in who I am, and the opportunity that I have in this seat, hopefully there is a little girl out there who can hear or see a message and realize that it is a possibility for them — that they are not too broken to do this work. We all deserve to be in this space and make these changes together.

Treat each other with true kindness and humility and gentleness and love, because that is our way forward. That is how we are going to find ways to heal the harm that has been inflicted on so many of us, and the land, and the water.

Support is everything.

Instead of relying on governments, Indigenous scientists and allies gather water quality data themselves.

Rising temperatures, melting ice caps, and invasive species are not interested in bargaining for our survival.

She stated that the executive leaders violated the tribe’s constitution, which holds that leaders will conserve and preserve the tribe’s resources for the well-being of its people.

By doing this work, Harvest Nation assumes a receiving role within the large movement known as Rematriation, the returning of seeds to their mother land to be reunited with the earth and its people.

Excerpted from “The Stone Tomahawk” in Linda LeGarde Grover, “Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong” from the University of Minnesota Press, October 2021.