LAC DU FLAMBEAU, Wis. (WJFW)- A group of Lac Du Flambeau canoe builders returned from Purdue University on Wednesday after being in residency for eleven days to show off their
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.
While athletes around the world were striving for gold in the Beijing Olympics, students in Lac du Flambeau were competing in their own winter games. The Ojibwe Winter Games give elementary schoolers the chance to play games that were once common in Wisconsin’s tribal communities.
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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.