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Canoe Clues

Canoe Clues is an engaging interactive lesson that puts students in the role of historians researching historic dugout canoes. Using clips from The Look Back, this interactive lesson introduces students [more]

May 6, 2026

Wisconsin Biographies, Electa Quinney: Mohican Teacher and Mentor

Electa Quinney was a Mohican educator and mentor who is known to many as Wisconsin’s first public school teacher. She taught both Native and non-Native students together, and led her [more]

November 7, 2023

Wade Fernandez

Wade Fernandez lives on the Menominee Reservation in Northeastern Wisconsin and tours internationally performing his music. He finds inspiration for his compositions in nature and draws from musical genres from [more]

September 8, 2021

Water Panthers, Bears, and Thunderbird: Exploring Wisconsin’s Effigy Mounds

This standards-based resource introduces learners to effigy mound sites in five southern Wisconsin counties. Activities encourage students to graph, compare, contrast, and analyze the ways these mound groups vary from [more]

March 3, 2020

Ogichidaa Storytellers

Ogichidaa (“warrior”) Storytellers, supported by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), shares the struggle of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe or Chippewa) to retain treaty reserved [more]

February 6, 2020

Traditional Foods in Wisconsin

This resources provides a toolkit and videos that teach about and aim to increase the utilization of traditional Wisconsin American Indian foods in school meals programs. The toolkit was developed [more]

September 5, 2019

Every Step: A Healing Circle

This video from the Ogichidaa Storytellers series centers on the Healing Circle Run. In 1989, the Anishinaabe Solidarity Relay began as a response to the resounding racism and hatred directed [more]

June 5, 2019

Place of the Pike: Ginoozhekaaning

This story, from the Ogichidaa Storytellers series, features the Bay Mills Ojibwe community located in present day northern Michigan. In 1971, A.B. LeBlanc set a gill net in Pendills Bay [more]

April 29, 2019

(Mikwendaagoziwag) They are Remembered: Sandy Lake

In this video from the series Ogichidaa Storytellers, learn about the 1850 Sandy Lake Tragedy and the struggle for Anishinaabe to survive amidst forced assimilation and tragedy. In the winter [more]

December 3, 2018

Current Tribal Lands Map and Native Nations Facts

Guide your students in learning who their Native neighbors are by exploring this map of the current tribal lands and nations in Wisconsin. Facts about each of the Native nations [more]

November 15, 2018