Indigenous Peoples

Mark Freeland comes to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from South Dakota State University. He is coming on board just as the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education receives a major $3 million gift from Bader Philanthropies.

An unusual flotilla set out last week starting in Madison and ending 40 nautical miles downstream in the Rock River in Beloit. It featured a hand-hewn dugout canoe, fashioned after those used by long-ago ancestors of the Ho-Chunk Nation.

Sean Sherman has cooked in kitchens across the United States and Mexico for over three decades. He now focuses his work on the revitalization of Indigenous food systems.

Wisconsin tribal members and officials gathered at the state Capitol Thursday to mark National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

The Democratic incumbent Governor uses an executive order to bypass GOP opposition.

Gaming plays a major role in how Wisconsin tribes figure out their annual budgets and when COVID-19 forced casinos to close their doors, it pushed Wisconsin’s eleven federally recognized tribes to face a long awaited challenge: how to diversify their economies away from gaming.

An exhibition at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee aims to call attention to the problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

For this week’s Bubbler Talk, question asker Dan Currier of Whitewater wants to know about a past iconic figure of Milwaukee: Where did the totem pole that stood in front the old and the new Milwaukee Public Museum come from?

Wisconsin state archeologist James Skibo and Wisconsin Historical Society maritime archeologist Tamara Thomsen share how they found and extracted the state’s oldest dugout canoe from the bottom of Lake Mendota in Madison, Wis.

Margaret Noodin, associate dean for humanities at UW-Milwaukee explains why remembering and reclaiming Indigenous names for places can be a way to heal — something that is especially important in Wisconsin where the relationship to Indigenous history can often seem hollow or tenuous.