Omakakii LLC

08/05/2026

Grateful to be featured in KSMQ Public Television’s Bison in Southern Minnesota! This story is about people, partnerships, and protecting the landscapes that make MN special 🦬

Watch it here:
https://youtu.be/S_kkLCUos1s?is=K20sNmbNOj64DSm4

07/22/2026

Was on Native America Calling today talking about this wildfire season and why it hits Indigenous communities hardest. Our knowledge and practices are needed 🔥

Honored to speak about this with with Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson, Arnold Lazare, and Tim Sexton

Around 200 wildfires are currently burning across the country and nearly 900 are burning in Canada. Large swaths of the northeastern U.S. are blanketed in heavy, hazardous smoke coming from widespread wildfires burning in northern Minnesota and Ontario. In the neighboring Canadian province, three Fi...

07/03/2026

“Fire is not just an event. Fire is a being.” Honored to have this shared by Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network🔥

Ferin Davis Anderson introduces a new book for youth audiences to learn more about wildfire and Indigenous approaches to fire management.

05/17/2026

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05/16/2026

We got to help burn a spot at Grand Portage that hadn’t seen fire since 1932.

It’s also an area that my friend’s grandma use to take him to gather blueberries.

We used a torch dipped in white pine and white spruce resin, cattails, and bits of paper birch to start part of that burn.

Miinan (blueberries) 🫐 need fire. Old ways and new methods working together, returning a practice that was never meant to be lost.

Chi miigwech to the Grand Portage Band and Erik Carlson for trusting us to be part of this work 🔥

05/04/2026

Yesterday at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, something happened that will stay with me for a long time.

A little native girl named Rylee, whose family is from this area, lit a fire with a torch dipped in white spruce resin and birch bark paper. Probably the first Indigenous person to light a fire on this land in over 100 years.

Hope Flanagan and I had the privilege of leading a session on Indigenous fire stewardship, the role fire plays not just as a land management tool, but as a living relative.

This is what it looks like when a community shows up for the land and for each other.

Miigwech to Cedar Creek, FreshWater, and every person who came out yesterday. See you at the next one 🔥🫐

Photos by Sam Northey

04/22/2026

Loving our new logo at Omakakii LLC 😍😍
Designed by Jessica Zaste!

Omakakii means frog 🐸 in the Anishinaabe language.

I chose that name for the LLC because of my daughter, who was born two years ago on Leap day. She came early but she was ready to be apart of our world✨

04/22/2026

Open to educators and youth workers in Minnesota!
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https://freshwater.org/indigenous_science_education/