Netāēnawemākanak translates to “all my relations” in Menominee. College of Menominee Nation’s new president, Christopher Caldwell, also sees it as the school’s obligation. Caldwell, an enrolled Menominee tribal member, told me, “I understand the term goes beyond my family relations to community relations, and non-human relations.

Dr. Lauren “Candy” Waukau-Villagomez is a “change agent” for Native American education. In the administrative world, that moniker refers to someone who is hired from outside an organization to be a catalyst for reinvention. For the College of Menominee Nation professor known endearingly as “Dr.

The Menominee name for the month of May is Pāhkwan-kēsoq — The Budding Moon.

Editor’s note: Our columnist and CMN faculty member celebrates the life and work of a Menominee activist who confronted problematic indigenous emblems. While COVID-19 limits this year’s Thanksgiving celebrations, homes throughout America will still be decorated with inaccurate Native American imagery.

This Dec. 22, we each should take time to commemorate Menominee perseverance. On that day in 1973, thanks to the efforts of Menominee leaders Ada Deer, Sylvia Wilber, and countless others, U.S.

“Sta kaakway misnimow,” means, “I’ve got nothing” in Mahican, an ancestral Mohican language. My students at College of Menominee Nation (CMN) garner the English iteration of this complimentary phrase whenever they’ve made a definitive point that needs no further context from yours truly. Larry P. Madden knows this because he’s a CMN graduate.