Tag: indigenous history
Indigenous languages exhibit on display at Kincardine’s Welcome Centre
In honour of June as National Indigenous History Month, the Municipality of Kincardine is showcasing a special exhibit from the Canadian Language Museum. The Beyond Words: Dictionaries and Indigenous Languages Exhibit “highlights the complex relationship between Indigenous languages and dictionaries over several centuries, from word lists and dictionaries developed for exploration, colonization, conversion, and assimilation […]
The Legacy of Chief Blackstone: Ojibwe resistance in Great Lakes history
“Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A Grand Portage Ojibwe direct descendant, she lives in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her nonfiction books “Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe” and “Seven Aunts” were published 2019 and 2022, and the children’s story “A Family Tree” in 2024.