Danielle Kaeding
Danielle Kaeding is a Wisconsin Public Radio reporter based in Superior.
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August 20, 2024
Learning to fish ‘for tradition and life’ with Lac du Flambeau youth
The name for the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa stems from French traders who observed tribal members harvesting fish from canoes at night by torchlight. More than ...
January 29, 2024
Mandaamin Naboob
Corn has been growing for thousands of years across North America, and tribes have been making corn soup for generations. Each tribe has their own method and strain of corn ...
March 2, 2023
Lifting spirits and honoring ancestors: Snow snake is back on Madeline Island
For only the second time in 150 years, members of tribes from across the region and beyond played snow snake on Madeline Island as part of the Mooningwanakaaning Minis Inter-Tribal ...
January 3, 2023
‘Wouldn’t you help your relatives survive?’: The return of the Ojibwe horses
Emily Loerzel’s horse, Dimii, neighs while other Ojibwe horses munch on hay during one sunny, fall day in October 2022. These rare breed of horses live at a farm where ...
May 24, 2022
Lac du Flambeau tribal youth are taught the time-honored tradition of spearfishing
Spearfishing is a tradition practiced every spring by Ojibwe tribes in northern Wisconsin. It’s a practice that’s been passed on for generations, and it’s part of tribal rights to hunt, ...
January 11, 2022
Dogsledding In Northern Wisconsin
Dogsledding has been a family affair for writer Julie Buckles. She and her husband, Charly Ray, caught the bug when they first moved to northern Wisconsin. She has raced with ...
April 20, 2021
Remembering Rae Elaine Tourtillott And Preventing Future Violence
Menominee tribal member Rae Elaine Tourtillott was 18 when she went missing on the tribe’s reservation during the fall of 1986. Her remains were found the following spring. The case remains ...
October 9, 2019
Wild Rice Harvest Tradition Passed Down To Youth
Wild rice, or manoomin, is a staple food among Ojibwe tribes that lies at the center of their time on the shores of Lake Superior. For generations, tribal members have ...
July 19, 2019
Rainbow Family Brings Annual Gathering, Message Of Peace To Northern Wisconsin
Iron River is a small city of about 1,100 people in northern Wisconsin. But, at least five times that many people recently traveled to the area to make it their ...
November 23, 2018
Woman Prepares Traditional Frybread For A Living
This story is part of Wisconsin Life's Food Traditions series. Katherine Denomie lives on the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin, but she’s originally from the Fond du Lac Band ...
November 22, 2018
Fry Bread
Katherine Denomie lives on the Bad River Reservation in Northern Wisconsin but she’s originally from the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. When she was 19 years old, ...
May 4, 2016
Symphony Celebrates Fifty Years of Music In Ashland
The Chequamegon Symphony Orchestra recently celebrated 50 years of performing in northwestern Wisconsin. Danielle Kaeding reports the orchestra has tied community members and generations together over the years through their ...
November 12, 2015
The Ghosts Of Superior’s Fairlawn Mansion
Fairlawn Mansion is a fixture of Superior’s history, and every year employees hold flashlight tours of the four-story Queen Anne Victorian home on Friday the 13th. Producer Danielle Kaeding caught ...
July 16, 2015
A Wisconsin Astronaut Returns Home
Monday marks the anniversary of the first moon landing. Many of us have since dreamed of boldly going where few men have gone before. Astronaut Jeff Williams is preparing for ...
March 4, 2015
Bar Stools Take to the Slopes in Drummond
For the last 16 winters, people have been making the trek from all corners of Wisconsin to the small town of Drummond in Bayfield County. But, they haven't come to ...
February 4, 2015
The Iceman in Superior
A Minnesota man has been trying to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the tallest ice sculpture at Barker’s Island in Superior. Self-taught electronics engineer Roger Hanson has ...
February 13, 2014
Ice Racing
For some racers, racing cars on pavement is something to do until the lakes freeze over. Ice racing is street racing, iced – complete with the spins, slides, cold, and ...
January 31, 2014
Bones of the Land
Rocks are the backbone of the Penokee Range. Washburn-based photographer Bob Gross is trying to give these not often seen pieces of the land a close up. Gross worked with ...
June 21, 2012
Blessing of the Fleet
We head to Bayfield, where fishing boats, sailboats, tugs and even kayaks assembled in the city harbor recently for the annual Blessing of the Fleet. For more than fifty years, ...
March 26, 2010