Despite the chill still in the air—and the snows occasionally falling—spring will soon be calling. So get ready to head into the forests and plains to harvest. You can find the fixings for a simple green salad – wild lettuce, sow thistle and dandelions—or else search out nettles and wild game. Whatever your preference, there are (more)

At the end of June, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FLTCC, Cloquet, MN) helped sponsor the Nagaajiwanaang (Fond du Lac) Ojibwe Language Immersion Camp. More than 300 people attended the four-day gathering, which was held at a Kiwenz Campground on Minnesota’s Big Lake. This was the camp’s second year. Families gathered from all (more)

In November 2009, Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA, Santa Fe, NM) creative writing faculty member Evelina Zuni Lucero (Isleta/Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) participated in a three-week lecture tour of Turkey. She traveled with three other professors: Dr. Willard Gilbert (Hopi) from Northern Arizona University, Valerian Three Irons (Three Affiliated Tribes) from South Dakota State University, (more)

TANNING HIDES. The Sitting Bull College Extension Education program provides two workshops each year on bison hide tanning. Pictured are Amaryllis (daughter) and mother Floris Eagle fleshing a bison hide, while daughter Kalace tightens the hide on the frame. Photo by Rick DeLoughery

Haskell Indian National University instructor shares her students’ reactions to her grandmother’s “First Fire Story.”

U.S. Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka recalls his time as an educator prior to serving in the U.S. Senate.

These Native authors write to set the record straight, to change the images that have stereotyped Indians for centuries.