Living Language shares Ron Corn Jr.’s attempt to teach his daughter, Mimikwaeh, to be a first language speaker of the Menominee language. This story explores the relationship between culture and [more]

In Prayers in a Song, Tall Paul explores the connections between language, identity, and landscape. He raps about how language shapes identity, and about his own sense of disconnection from [more]

Arlene Blackdeer, a language apprentice for the Hoocak Waaziija Haci Language Division of the Ho-Chunk Nation, shares her experience in her community’s effort to bring back the Ho-Chunk language. The [more]

Brief History The Oneida Nation is a sovereign government and a federally recognized American Indian nation of the United States. The Oneidas, along with the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Onondaga [more]

Brief History The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is located on the Bad River Indian Reservation in northwestern Wisconsin. The reservation was established by the 1854 Treaty of [more]

Brief History The Ho-Chunk are one of two of the First Nations of Wisconsin with an oral history that places their origin in Wisconsin at Móogašuc, or the Red Banks.  [more]