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Nibi Chronicles: Violence in Ma’iingan Country
There has been an uptick in human-wolf conflict in northern Minnesota.
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Nibi Chronicles: How to craft a memorandum of understanding with trout
In Ojibwe country, change is understood to be a constant condition or state of being. Sometimes change is difficult, and sometimes change is good. A very good effort to change happened on May 2, 2023.
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The Four Sisters: Bangs, Lugalette, Bannock and Frybread
“I think next time I decide to make a batch, I’ll add a bit of manoomin — wild rice — flour along with a touch of maple sugar, to see how that fries up in a little bit of grease, and give thanks for all that we have.”
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Nibi Chronicles: Grand Portage Water Warriors
The Grand Portage Band was the first Tribal Nation in the country to have a beach program and has been monitoring water quality at tribally-held beaches since 2007.
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Nibi Chronicles: The art of Ojibwe linoleum
Preserving the remarkable legacy of Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater’s cedar bark mats.
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Nibi Chronicles: A beaver named Annabelle, her kin, and us
Raised on Saganagons Lake in the border country between the U.S. and Canada, Milt Powell was a great friend of the Drouillard family. He and my dad had many adventures as kids and young men, learning the way of the woods in far northeastern Minnesota.
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Nibi Chronicles: A portal to the Burt Lake Band’s violent expulsion
On Oct. 15, 1900, the adults, children and elders of the Cheboiganing Band of Ottawa and Chippewa were forced out of their beds and made to watch as their houses were doused with kerosene and burned to the ground.
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Nibi Chronicles: We are still here, and so is great grandma’s lilac
It was early November 2019 and downtown Grand Marais was preparing for a two-year highway project. Trees—big and small, were being marked for disposal and cut down all along the Highway 61 corridor.
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Nibi Chronicles: Restoring what was lost in translation, one place name at a time
There are a few early maps that tell us what these places were called prior to colonization, but many of the oldest names once known by Indigenous people have been lost or buried.
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Nibi Chronicles: Greeting Old Man Maple during the Sap Boiling Moon
A modest sugar bush on Lake Superior’s North Shore offers more than a sweet treat.
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