Panel Discussion Series –
Ojibwe Knowledge of the Northlands

This panel discussion series features Native perspectives in an effort to gain more traditional knowledge around life in what we know as the Boundary Waters. Hear from elders, traditional ecological knowledge keepers, scientists, and youth on the impacts of climate, as well as historic and contemporary life of the Anishinaabe in an ever-changing world.

In addition to the main topics below, subtopics in each presentation may including the following:

• Traditional Ecological Knowledge
• Climate Change
• Watershed
• Water protectors
• Elder Perspective
• Treaty Law

Panel Recordings

Panel 1 – Sugar Bush (iskigamizigan)
March 8th, 6-8pm Central Time

Indigenous epistemology around harvesting maple sugar within the 1854 ceded treaty territory.

Panel 2 – Storytelling (aadizooke)

Indigenous epistemology is learned through storytelling. Aadizooke informs who we are as people and our relations in the world and how we should live our lives and walk in this world in a good way through moral teachings.

Panel 3 – Wild ricing (maanomin)

Indigenous epistemology around ricing within the 1854 ceded treaty territory.

Panel 4 – Hunting and gathering (giiyose miinawaa asiginan)
April 5, 6-8pm Central Time

Indigenous epistemology around hunting and gathering practices within the 1854 ceded treaty territory.

Panelists

• Keller Waawaakeyaash Paap is Anishinaabe and an enrolled tribal member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. He serves as the Anishinaabe Indigenous Knowledge Development Coordinator for the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute in Lac Courte Oreilles, Wisconsin.
• Roxanne Delille is a mother, grandmother, auntie and active community member. She is also Dean of Indigenous and Academic Affairs at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where she previously taught Communication Studies (Interpersonal/Intercultural Communication) and American Indian Studies for over 20 years. As Dean, she oversee the Anishinaabeg Gikindaasowinan (the peoples way of knowing) programs and works as an independent consultant, specializing in leadership and relationship dynamics.
• Michael Waasegiizik Price is Anishinaabe and an enrolled tribal member at Wikwemikong First Nations. He serves as the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Specialist of the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) in Odanah, Wisconsin.
• Leah Prussia – Zhaawangikwe Leah Prussia izhinikaazo. Maang odoodeman. She considers White Earth as her home–Gaawaabaabiganikaag onjibaa. She is an Associate Professor at the College of St. Scholastica in the Master’s in Social Work Program. Leah also acknowledges herself as mother, relative to all of Earth’s beings and a life-long learner.
• Brooke Dorman-Defoe is 12 years old and is Anishinaabekwe from the Red Cliff community. Brooke has been in Ojibwe language immersion school environments since she was 4 years old.
• Lilly Dorman-Defoe is 12 years old and is Anishinaabekwe from the Red Cliff community. Lilly has been in Ojibwe language immersion school environments since she was 4 years old.

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