Ojibwe

DULUTH (AP) -- The Fond du Lac Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa has purchased a sacred Ojibwe island on the St. Louis River. The band bought the nearly 6-acre Spirit Island from a Duluth resident for $150,000. Band chairwoman Karen Diver says the acquisition is a "significant...

Noted Ojibwe scholar Anton Treuer welcomed his Park Rapids Area Library audience in a "foreign" language Monday morning. But before the clock struck noon, the rapt spectators would be reminded the native people were on this continent 12,000 years ago. "They are not the immigrants;...

CLOQUET, Minn. -- Instead of standing before a panel of administrators, troublemakers and truants at the Fond du Lac Ojibwe School join a traditional circle of elders, where voices are heard and lessons are stressed. The elder circle at the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa...