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The Intertribal Lake Winnebago Wild Rice Revitalization Project seeks to merge mainstream and Indigenous methods to preserve wild rice. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
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A recent collaborative study conducted by nine Indigenous entities and academic researchers was conducted to understand how climate change threatens the lake sturgeon and to develop adaptation strategies rooted in […]
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In February 1877 a group of Huron College alumni gathered with the goal of turning their college into a university.
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After the U.S. Coast Guard closed its Grand Marais, Minnesota, station in 2022, the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa launched what’s believed to be the first Indigenous-led coast […]
Moira A. McDonald, Ann-Kathrin McLean Global attitudes towards the United States as a tourism destination are plunging. Travel pressures, exchange rate shifts and increasing economic uncertainty have all damaged the reputation of the American travel sector. Canadian travellers are increasingly turning to domestic destinations instead of heading south. In July
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The inaugural Anishinaabe Canoe Migration set out over the weekend as 19 paddlers travelled down the St. Louis River. The project hopes to launch an even larger canoe migration intended […]
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Researchers used tree ring data and Indigenous oral histories to reconstruct the fire history of the Great Lakes region. Reintroducing controlled burns, often following Indigenous practices, is suggested as a […]
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Garden River First Nation member and Trent University student Jessica Pauze is looking to improve Ontario’s fish consumption guidelines within her community through her Master’s thesis in environmental and life … Continued
This weekend Anishinaabe historian Eric Hemenway will share more Indigenous history of the daily lives of the tribes who made the Great Lakes their homeland. Hemenway’s free classes will focus […]
People "released to the sidewalk" are sometimes faced with starting over without identification, transportation, money, immediate medical needs or shelter, a new report says
As a result of warming waters, increasingly variable seasonal changes and lakeshore development, walleye numbers in some lakes are dwindling. Losing the species would mean losing a food source for […]