Duluth renames city park in Ojibwe language
By Dan Kraker/MPR News It’s official. After unanimous approval from the Duluth City Council last December, a downtown park has now been renamed in the Ojibwe language. What was previously Lake Place Park is now Gichi-Ode’ Akiing, which means “a grand heart place.” The park sits atop a tunnel that carries Interstate 35 on the […]
At Native food tasting, indigenous community reclaim who they are
By Jiwon Choi/MPR Mysti Babineau, a Red Lake Ojibwe tribal member, along with her two young children and 12-year-old niece, waited in line for an hour on October 8th for the opportunity to get back to their roots. They were among the hundreds of people, mostly Native American, who came to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day […]