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 ...

Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a “foreign” language. That’s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in Minnesota may be the only town off a ...

The Ojibwe (Chippewa) have a rich, living culture that includes thousands of legends, stories and songs that range from sacred and ceremonial to pure entertainment. Jonathan Thunder, who is Red Lake ...

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 ...

Duluth's Sam Zimmerman has a new mural at Voyageurs National Park and a new book of his Ojibwe images. Ojibwe artist Sam Zimmerman adds purple to the deep-blue paint already on his canvas as he mixes ...

Maybe I do this because the Ojibwe worldview could not conceive of influencing the land, or aki (earth), so any notion of who influences what must be turned upside down and inside out by asking: “In ...

While Ojibwe is spoken across southern Canada and the Upper Midwest, the language is considered severely endangered. Since Minnesota is home to the greatest concentration of fluent Ojibwe speakers, ...