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  • Abby O'Callaghan takes notes during a discussion Tuesday, Jan 17, 2023, at Madison West High School in Madison, Wis. (Angela Major/WPR)
    ‘Representation matters’: Educators collaborate to teach histories, cultures, sovereignty of First Nations in Wisconsin
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    ‘Representation matters’: Educators collaborate to teach histories, cultures, sovereignty of First Nations in Wisconsin

‘Representation matters’: Educators collaborate to teach histories, cultures, sovereignty of First Nations in Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of 12 states that requires Native American content to be taught in schools. That prompted listener Maria ...

  • Someone marks the distance traveled by a snow snake with a flag at the Mooningwanakaaning Minis Inter-Tribal Snow Snake Festival on Feb. 11, 2023. (Danielle Kaeding/WPR)
    Lifting spirits and honoring ancestors: Snow snake is back on Madeline Island
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    Lifting spirits and honoring ancestors: Snow snake is back on Madeline Island

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 ...

  • Ganebik Johnson, 11, harvests walleye with an aluminum spear on May 7, 2022, at Little Trout Lake in northern Wisconsin. (Danielle Kaeding/WPR)
    Lac du Flambeau tribal youth are taught the time-honored tradition of spearfishing
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    Lac du Flambeau tribal youth are taught the time-honored tradition of spearfishing

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 ...

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