The message of the 2025 tribal college gathering resonated far beyond America’s northern Great Plains. Last month, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium’s Student Conference was held in Rapid City, South Dakota.

The story ran just inches below the Shawano Evening Leader masthead. On Jan.

Jeremiah Moses Jr. offers Shawano Community High School students the opportunity he wished he’d been given. The first-generation descendant of the Menominee Nation graduated from SCHS in 2020 without having the chance to study his people’s language. This academic year, he is ensuring current high schools will be able to do so. “I attended K-12 in the Shawano School District,” Moses shared.

Long before Wisconsin was America’s Dairyland, it was home to dense, diverse forests. Some of the earliest and most sacred stories told within the Badger State are about how Native people thrived within the woods.

The Green Bay Packers Foundation chair’s message to grant recipients was succinct. On Nov. 21, Wilson Jones told the 398 grantees gathered in the Lambeau Field Atrium that “the Green Bay Packers appreciate what you do.” Wilson conveyed that the foundation was created in 1986 by Judge Robert J.

Poetry personifies the power of the spoken word. It weaves ideas into cathartic messages that spill out from the page, connecting people to one another across time and space. As Dr.