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LAC DU FLAMBEAU - It s teacher appreciation week, and some Northwoods schools are thanking some of the hardest working folks in the area, including the Lac du Flambeau Public school.
For Lac du Flambeau, Healing Is Remembering Their Boarding School Experience. The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, or Ojibwe, as they call themselves, has been reckoning with its government boarding school for decades. The school was one of many strewn.
Wayne Valliere, a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe in northern Wisconsin, said he’s one of only six birchbark canoe builders among the Anishinaabe, an Indigenous collective in the Great Lakes region which includes the Ojibwe.
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The Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology is very proud to congratulate Dr. Tim Frandy, assistant professor of folk studies, for his selection as the recipient of the 2021 Potter College Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity! A committee of his peers in the college selected Dr. Frandy for this honor in recognition of his exceptional research accomplishments, scholarly output, intellectual breadth, and the broader significance of his work and methods.
Since coming to WKU in 2017, Dr. Frandy has maintained an active research agenda in his wide-ranging areas of expertise within folklore and Scandinavian studies, including environmental and medical humanities, museum studies, worldview and knowledge traditions, cultural sustainability and revitalization, and resistance and decolonization movements. Dr. Frandy engages with diverse peoples in the Western Great Lakes region and the Nordic countries, collaborating with reindeer herde