Walking the Path Together

Are you passionate about victim services and eager to enhance your skills, or interested in training to work in the social or human services field?

Our program offers a unique opportunity to dive into Tribally-run victim services through comprehensive training, supervised job shadowing, and a fulfilling service-learning project.

Reach out to [email protected] to learn more regarding our paid summer program!

Applications submitted by April 14th will be prioritized!

Next week, Northern Michigan University will be hosting their annual UNITED conference! The conference begins March, 25th through the 27th, at the Northern Center. Mino-bimose’idiwag partnered up with UNITED, and we are proudly presenting, the one and only, Autumn Asher BlackDeer! Her Presentation, Resilience to Survivance: Reclaiming Indigenous Healing Journeys, will take place March 25th, 2-4 pm! The conference is free to attend, just be sure to register! Join us for this exciting opportunity!

Boozhoo friends! Join us on Friday, February 20th for an amazing workshop opportunity with cultural educator, Marlene Syrette! 🦅❤️‍🔥
This workshop is centered around the 7 Grandfather Virtues and their significance within our lives. The workshop is from 9am-3pm, and food and drink will be provided.
We are excited to announce that spaces to attend are filling up quickly! Register today before it’s too late! Link to register is in our bio.

Baamaapii to our lovely Program Coordinator, Tashina Emery! ❤️‍🔥🦅

Tashina has accepted a new position serving her tribe, KBIC, and while we are saddened to see her go, we are so excited to watch her step into this next chapter as she enters the legal field.

Thank you, Tashina, for two incredible years of dedication and leadership. We are truly grateful for all you have brought to our team and this program.

Wishing you all the best on your new journey. You will be missed!

Today, we join the nation in honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. In observance of the holiday, our campus is closed today, January 19. 🏛️

Boozhoo! Happy Native American Heritage Month! 🦅❤️‍🔥
We will be celebrating all month long by reading and featuring some of our favorite books!
All of these great reads can be found in the Mino-bimose’idiwag Library in the Social Work Department (room 2403) on NMU’s campus! All are welcome to come browse our selection and check out a book!

Our fourth book to be featured is, Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories, edited by Anton Treuer.

A language carries a people’s memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people.

As fluent speakers of Ojibwe grow older, the community questions whether younger speakers know the language well enough to pass it on to the next generation. Young and old alike are making widespread efforts to preserve the Ojibwe language, and, as part of this campaign, Anton Treuer has collected stories from Anishinaabe elders living at Leech Lake, White Earth, Mille Lacs, Red Lake, and St. Croix reservations.

Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders—Archie Mosay, Jim Clark, Melvin Eagle, Joe Auginaush, Collins Oakgrove, Emma Fisher, Scott Headbird, Susan Jackson, Hartley White, and Porky White—this anthology presents the elders’ stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages. These stories contain a wealth of information, including oral histories of the Anishinaabe people and personal reminiscences, educational tales, and humorous anecdotes. Treuer’s translations of these stories preserve the speakers’ personalities, allowing their voices to emerge from the page.

This dual-language text will prove instructive for those interested in Ojibwe language and culture, while the stories themselves offer the gift of a living language and the history of a people.

Native American Heritage Month Recipe Series
Week 3: Truthsgiving & Decolonial Turkey (Plus a Vegan Option!) 🦃🍁
For Week 3 of our Decolonizing Diet Project Cookbook series, we continue honoring Truthsgiving, a time to reflect, remember, and reclaim our food traditions with intention.

This week, we’re spotlighting decolonial turkey dishes and offering one vegan option for inclusivity and accessibility. These recipes use simple, culturally grounded ingredients to help us reconnect with healthier, land-based meals during a time when many are navigating food insecurity.

This week’s featured recipes:
Crockpot Cranberry Turkey
Whole Roasted Turkey
Falafel (Vegan Option!)
Turkey Bites
DDP Spice Blend (Decolonizing Diet Project)
These dishes honor tradition while inviting new ways to enjoy foods that nourish both body and spirit during Truthsgiving.

Recipes from the Decolonizing Diet Project Cookbook
Edited by Martin Reinhardt, Leora Lancaster, April Lindala, and Tina Moses
© 2018, Northern Michigan University – Center for Native American Studies
Explore more: https://nmu.edu/nativeamericanstudies/recipies

Join us TONIGHT, at the Sault Tribe Community Center in Harvey, at 6pm to welcome the author of The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfather Teachings, James Vukelich!

Boozhoo! Happy Native American Heritage Month! 🦅🫶
We will be celebrating all month long by reading and featuring some of our favorite books!
All of these great reads can be found in the Mino-bimose’idiwag Library in the Social Work Department (room 2403) on NMU’s campus!
All are welcome to come browse our selection and check out a book!

Our third book to be featured is, Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing, written by Kenneth Cohen.

For thousands of years, Native medicine was the only medicine on the North American continent. It is America’s original holistic medicine, a powerful means of healing the body, balancing the emotions, and renewing the spirit. Medicine men and women prescribe prayers, dances, songs, herbal mixtures, counseling, and many other remedies that help not only the individual but the family and the community as well. The goal of healing is both wellness and wisdom.

Written by a master of alternative healing practices, Honoring the Medicine gathers together an unparalleled abundance of information about every aspect of Native American medicine and a healing philosophy that connects each of us with the whole web of life—people, plants, animals, the earth.

Complete with true stories of miraculous healing, this unique book will benefit everyone who is committed to improving his or her quality of life. “If you have the courage to look within and without,” Kenneth Cohen tells us, “you may find that you also have an indigenous soul.”

Native American Heritage Month Recipe Series-Week 2: Venison & Treaty Rights 🦌

As we move closer to Truthsgiving and continue celebrating Native American Heritage Month, this week we honor our treaty rights, traditional hunting practices, and food sovereignty.

There’s no better way to decolonize our tables than by returning to the foods and lifeways that have sustained our Nations for generations. Hunting, gathering, and preparing meals rooted in our ancestral knowledge remind us of our deep relationship with the land and our inherent rights to nourish ourselves from it.

The recipes come from the Decolonizing Diet Project Cookbook, featuring Crockpot Venison, Bison Venison Meatloaf, and Venison Jerky-each a reminder of resilience, resourcefulness, and the enduring strength of our treaty rights.

Recipes shared from the Decolonizing Diet Project Cookbook�Edited by Martin Reinhardt, Leora Lancaster, April Lindala, and Tina Moses�© 2018, Northern Michigan University – Center for Native American Studies�Explore more: https://nmu.edu/nativeamericanstudies/recipies

This series highlights accessible, simple, and traditional meals-curated to remind us that even in times of food insecurity, our culture offers abundance and nourishment.

Boozhoo! Happy Native American Heritage Month! 🦅❤️‍🔥
We will be celebrating all month long by reading and featuring some of our favorite books!
All of these great reads can be found in the Mino-bimose’idiwag Library in the Social Work Department (room 2403) on NMU’s campus!
All are welcome to come browse our selection and check out a book!

Our second book to be featured is, We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement, by Dick Bancroft (Photographer) and (Text by) Laura Waterman Wittstock.

The American Indian Movement, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, burst into that turbulent time with passion, anger, and radical acts of resistance. Spurred by the Civil Rights movement, Native people began to protest the decades—centuries—of corruption, racism, and abuse they had endured. They argued for political, social, and cultural change, and they got attention.

The photographs of activist Dick Bancroft, a key documentarian of AIM, provide a stunningly intimate view of this major piece of American history from 1970 to 1981. Veteran journalist Laura Waterman Wittstock, who participated in events in Washington, DC, has interviewed a host of surviving participants to tell the stories behind the images.

The words of Russell Means, Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton Banai, Pat Bellanger, Elaine Salinas, Winona LaDuke, Bill Means, Ken Tilsen, Larry Leventhal, Jose Barreiro, and others tell the stories: the takeovers of federal buildings and the Winter Dam in Wisconsin, the founding of survival schools in the Twin Cities, the Wounded Knee trials, international conferences for indigenous rights, the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan and the Longest Walk for Survival, powwows and camps and United Nations actions. This is the inside record of a movement that began to change a nation.