Indigenous Peoples

Work is underway to create more resilient food production systems in the face of climate change. That includes within the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin.

The Ojibwe and other tribes made their home on Madeline Island for years before European contact. “Passages” shares the story of the Ojibwe’s journey to this prophesied island as told through their ancestors' eyes.

Wisconsin Native Vote sponsored a Brewers tailgate Thursday, saying it wanted to do something fun to promote its ongoing effort to encourage Native Americans in Wisconsin to vote.

Carol & Diane Amour of the Tribute Documentary Group join Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to share more about future plans for the large rotating powwow exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum — "A Tribute to Survival."

The back rooms of the Milwaukee Public Museum are stashed with millions of items from its collection. In the anthropology department, a rare painting called “Menominee Women” serves as an uncommon record of how Native American women used European goods.

Wisconsin's presidential primary and numerous local elections around the state will be the first major test of some get out the vote campaigns this year. That includes one attempting to get more Native Americans to the ballot box.

Enrolled tribal members in Wisconsin can receive free UW-Madison tuition, housing, meals, books and other educational needs.

As the first Native-owned distillery in the United States, the Copper Crow Distillery specializes in brewing from whey.

Check out WUWM's top stories from 2023 — a mix of the most read and/or listened to reports and staff favorites.

For over a decade, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension has been nurturing citizen science through its Master Naturalist program.