Broadcasting in our monthly PBS television program, The Catch is a Great Lakes Now series that brings you more news about the lakes you love. Go beyond the headlines with reporters from around the region who cover the lakes and drinking water issues. Find all the work HERE.
This month, The Catch features a conversation with Staci Lola Drouillard, a new Great Lakes Now contributor.
Drouillard is the writer behind a new column, “Nibi Chronicles.” Nibi is the Ojibwe word for water. A direct descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe, she lives and works in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior.
Drouillard said she hopes to infuse her monthly feature with ideas rooted in the interconnections that are a crucial part of how she views the natural world.
“The Ojibwe way, the Anishinaabe way is a very holistic way of looking at the world,” she said. “Everything is connected, and that includes other cultures, other people and certainly other bodies of water. And there’s a lot to be learned, I think, from Ojibwe history and culture.”
Catch more news at Great Lakes Now:
Nibi Chronicles: The “Water is Life” festival goes beyond the music
The Catch: Secrets of Lake Mendota
Featured image: Staci Lola Drouillard is the writer behind a new monthly column, “Nibi Chronicles.”
