Rogier Gregoire speaks during a 2016 town hall meeting in Duluth. Gregoire will lead a virtual discussion Tuesday, Feb. 23, on the the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial. (Steve Kuchera / File / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
“He reminds us of the history and how it has shaped local society, which can also contribute to the future we make,” she said.
An FDLTCC student ambassador suggested Johnson reach out to Duluth company DanSan Creatives, where Simmons works, and ask them to collaborate on an event.
DanSan works to empower youth and community members through diverse narratives and art forms, according to its website.
Simmons works as an artist and collaborator with the company, specializing in public speaking and poetry. He also works as an assistant professor of biomedicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Duluth.
During his visit to the Indian Health Service clinic in the village of White Earth Tuesday, Rear Adm. Michael Weahkee talked about the challenges of distributing the coronavirus vaccine to hundreds of tribal nations across the country. We re in some of the most rural and remote locations in our country,” the IHS director said, “but we have worked for months to ensure this distribution is seamless.
As the coronavirus vaccine makes its way to states and tribal nations across the country, health care workers on reservations in Minnesota are among the first to be vaccinated. The Indian Health Service office in Bemidji, which serves tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, was the first IHS office in the nation to receive the vaccine.