Ojibwe tribal members and descendants with a passion for the Ojibwe language have something to celebrate. The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe has recently partnered with the language development software company Rosetta Stone to begin a language preservation initiative. Rosetta Stone is an award-winning platform that millions use and has...
Every day this month in honor of Native American Heritage Month, we're dedicating time to learn about a Tribal nation. We will also be sharing a few of them here on the powwows website. The Ojibwe The Ojibwe are part of an Indigenous group of people known as Anishinaabeg. There...
Capitol's player Timothy "TJ" Oshie celebrates winning the Stanley cup, a historic win for the Capitols after more than two decades of waiting. “Throughout the whole year, not a lot was expected out of us,” T.J. Oshie told The Washington Post. “Maybe on paper we weren’t as elite as teams...
Last year we shared several posts about a New York-based photographer who was working with the Shinnecock Nation. He was taking beautiful pictures of their community and wanted to visit some others around the nation. Since then Bryan Downey did indeed visit with several Cherokee and Pawnee members in Oklahoma...
At first glance, this just looks like a regular image of a lady in regalia, beaded onto a keychain. But when I read the viral story of how this beadwork came to be, I almost fell over. Turns out the image came from a photo of Briana Kingbird (Ojibwe), the...
Hailing from the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe reservation in Northern Wisconsin, Darren Thompson has been a well-known artist since his debut album in 2009, "The Song of Flower: Native American Songs from Ojibwe Country”, as well as being a sought-after public speaker, educator and facilitator. He started playing the flute...