By now we should all know that Lex Porter of the Fond du Lac Reservation should be recognized as one of the Code Talkers who helped the United States in their efforts during World War Two. The family of Lex Porter was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of his efforts. Chair Karen Diver […]
...My son Jim’s job as a Cultural Specialist was eliminated by the Reservation Business Committee. The letter stating this said: "Recently a decision was made to eliminate the Cultural Specialist position." It further states: "As you are aware, we have had a difficult time defining your scope of work in the context of our current […]
What a move the voters from White Earth made. I think the future of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe which is a Federal Corporation, is in Jeopardy. The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe does not have treaty rights. To think the Bands can make up their own Constitutions without Tribe approval is quite the big leap for democracy […]
Fond du Lac Follies motored to Chicago, the Windy City. We were traveling to attend the Heartland Book Festival. It was a long boring ride on excellent highways. Patricia and I laughed together and listened to music as we cut through the middle of Wisconsin. The trouble began when we got close to O’Hare International […]
Fond du Lac Follies motored to Perch Lake to harvest manoomin. My wife Patricia and I were going to manoominike together as we had been doing for the last several decades. What a grand sight greeted us. Perch Lake was full of manoomin. I did not see any open water anywhere, the green was everywhere. […]
The Sobriety Powwow was held in Sawyer at Mashkawisen. It was the 30th something annual event. Once again we set up our Free Coffee For Veterans hooch. We gave coffee to veterans and to those who were delivering coffee to veterans. One local guy complained that the coffee was too sweet. In checking we determined […]
Fond du Lac Follies attended the 20th annual Veterans Powwow held in Sawyer, Minnesota. Once again it was an easy decision where to go for the weekend since this powwow is just down the tar road a half mile away. Chuck Smith, the Veterans Service Officer for the Rez, organized this year’s event. Chuck’s son […]
The Sawyer Summer language camp was just good. Can you believe that we had 1254 people? Last year 765 registered. This sets a new all time record of people attending the Reservation’s language camp. In the mornings we concentrated on language instruction from our fluent speakers. We had fluent speakers visiting who helped teach. But […]
My wife Patricia found a bar for a birthday party for me, my 70th birthday. I think about 60 people showed up to eat and drink. I used my K-Bar to cut the cake. As I thought about things I decided to go back decades in my long life.
It started with a little breeze, then grew into a bigger wind. At first, the snowflakes were small. They just kept coming until we had a genuine blizzard in April. My little village of Sawyer was mentioned on the National Weather Channel because of our snowfall amount. I have long suspected that Sawyer sits on […]
Fond du Lac Follies jetted to Phoenix, Arizona for an event at the Heard Museum. My wife Patricia accompanied me. We didn’t make our reservations at the same time so we were not able to sit together on the three hour flight. It was no big thing because we knew rows 22A and 14F get […]
