There once was an Ojibwe girl who lived a very tragic life. She was one of three surviving members of a family of seven, the others...

Beginning with the Gradual Enfranchisement Act, and replicated in the Indian Act of 1876, Indian women who married non-treaty Indian men,...

A narrative covering the entire cycle of the year was recorded by anthropologist Frances Densmore, in 1929, which provides a unique look...

Sixty-five men accompanied Cuthbert Grant during the Battle at Frog Plain (aka Seven Oaks). Of this number, only one man was killed and...

While relations between European settlers and the Metis were generally amicable -- Metis often serving as employees of fur posts, as...

By almost any account you read regarding the subsistence of the indigenous people of the prairies, it is indisputable that Pemmican was...

How did the Métis become such a large part of the Turtle Mountain Band? The answer is complicated, but it is one that is based on...

In 1856, Colonel C. F. Smith led a military expedition to the Pembina area, to find out where a military post might be erected to serve...

Below are two stories found in an old copy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs news sheet "Indians at Work" - a publication that was printed...

In his book, "Indian Boyhood", Charles Eastman (Sisseton Dakota) described the events of his first New Years celebration at a winter camp...

For the Ojibwe and other northern people, snow shoes (or aagime) were essential to winter travel, survival, and hunting. The wooden frame...

Fishing was an industry which happened throughout entire year. In the late spring, the people would usually move directly from their...

The cycle of life across the course of a year shows an advanced understanding of the natural world. This traditional ecological knowledge...

Joseph McCloud (McLeod) was born on August 26, 1895, on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota, USA, to Red...

​The use of wild rice as a food by the Anishinaabe is well established. However, its use as a medicine was a unique distinction. In some...

Jean Baptiste Bottineau (Boutineau), a French-Chippewa, mixed blood, successful fur-trader, surveyor, real estate broker, lawyer, justice...

During the negotiations of the Old Crossing Treaty of 1863, the U.S. commissioners under Alexander Ramsey continued to press the Red Lake...

It is the custom of the Ojibwe people to light and maintain a fire in the days following the death of a member of the tribe. How did this...