Topic

Language revitalization

Ojibwemowin, Hoocąk, Menominee, Oneida, and other Indigenous language programs and immersion schools.

Coverage in The Weekly Brief

Issue 001 · May 10, 2026

Kimberly Blaeser, Former Wisconsin Poet Laureate and Ojibwe Writer, Wins National Book Foundation Prize for 'Ancient Light'

WPR reports that Kimberly Blaeser, a White Earth Ojibwe poet and former Wisconsin Poet Laureate, has received a National Book Foundation prize for her collection 'Ancient Light.' Blaeser's work has long woven Anishinaabemowin, landscape, and memory into forms that resist easy categorization, and this recognition from a major national literary institution is a genuine milestone. Patty, you know her work well, and this is the kind of story that belongs in your files for the next edition of Indian Nations of Wisconsin.

Issue 001 · May 10, 2026

Ojibwe Jingle Dress Dancer Carries Family Legacy of Activism into Digital Spaces

WPR profiles an Ojibwe jingle dress dancer who is using digital platforms to extend a family tradition of activism, connecting the physical practice of dance to contemporary forms of Indigenous visibility and resistance. The story is exactly the kind of 'Native People Up Close' framing Patty's textbook calls for: a specific person, a specific practice, a specific lineage, no vanishing-race framing in sight. The jingle dress itself carries a healing origin story from the flu pandemic era, which gives the digital extension of that tradition an additional layer of resonance.