Banaise-Kwe Henry is battling homesickness so she can return to the southern shores of Lake Huron to help raise her nephew ...

Vermont houses dozens of book clubs, predominantly female, that gather monthly to discuss a wide range of literature, from ...

Lots of people say they want to learn a language, but the task itself can be daunting if you don’t know where to start. I remember approaching college eager to learn Italian. Fortunately, Stanford ...

Around August of each year, when temperatures swell in the Great Lakes region, wild rice — or manoomin in the Ojibwe language — begins to flower. Rice stalks can grow as high as 10 feet in the shallow ...

Minnesota state officials have announced plans to conduct further analysis of the impacts of sulfate pollution on wild rice in Minnesota lakes and rivers. The announcement comes amid concerns that ...

I met a man in the sauna at the downtown Duluth YMCA whose daughter is enrolled in the Misaabekong Ojibwe immersion program at Lowell Elementary School. She wants to connect more deeply with her ...

Every day, students shuffle into a dining hall to speak French or Chinese or Taiwanese or Khmer or Latin, or another of the 26 languages that are spoken at weekly language tables on campus. And every ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. In the wake of DJ Mary Lucia’s (formerly of Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current) ...

When the Wild’s home in St. Paul officially went from Xcel Energy Center to Grand Casino Arena back in September, owner Craig Leipold spoke about how excited he was for this new partnership. Melissa ...

The Minnesota Wild celebrated Native American Heritage Day in a unique and historic way -- the team's game against the Colorado Avalanche Friday was broadcast entirely in Ojibwe, the first telecast of ...

On Friday, Nov. 28, the Minnesota Wild hosted the Colorado Avalanche at 2:30 p.m. CST for a landmark occasion: the first National Hockey League game ever broadcast entirely in the Ojibwe language. The ...