Ryan Winn

CMN launches online courses with purpose

Published by admin on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 4:01pm

College of Menominee Nation President Christopher Caldwell said: “The charter for the college states that we are to serve Menominee people. It doesn’t just say to just educate those Menominee who live on the reservation.”

This fall, CMN furthers this mission by offering online courses to anyone who wishes to learn.

Climate action not optional in the world

Published by admin on Fri, 07/05/2024 - 6:44pm

Reporting on an event is a weighty responsibility. As a monthly columnist, I’m thrilled to highlight some of the important stories that people from throughout Northeast Wisconsin may have missed. As an academic trained to scour media archives, I know all too well the truism that newspapers are the first draft of history. I appreciate what a single story can offer a community, recognizing that I best get it right.

IPSI takes look at land-centered learning

Published by admin on Fri, 06/07/2024 - 11:48am

According to Jennifer Gauthier, it’s all about the “ahkēw, the land.” The director of College of Menominee Nation’s Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) said: “That’s why we’re all here.”

The specific “here” claimed was the Indigenous Planning Summer Institute (IPSI), which was held on the CMN campus the first week of June.

Shingler retires from education — again

Published by admin on Mon, 05/20/2024 - 10:36am

Kenneth Shingler has made a lot of life-changing decisions.

For 58 years, he has steered area high school and college students along their educational journeys. The time has come for Shingler to officially call it a career.

Pageants an old tradition made new again

Published by admin on Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:43am

The Menominee word mamātāweqtan covers a range of performance arts. It can be translated as an “exhibition, circus, (or) theatrical performance.” The word begins to capture some of the storied history of Menominee tourism to the famed Woodland Bowl.

CMN students do well at Minnesota conference

Published by admin on Fri, 04/05/2024 - 12:49pm

The word kenāēheqtam can be stated of any of the nine College of Menominee Nation students who competed at the tribal college conference last month. In English, the compliment translates as, “You did good” or “You are skilled.”

Menominee Clans website returning to CMN

Published by admin on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 3:33pm

The Menominee Clans website is coming home. Since the early 2000s, the original iteration of the site has resided on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s servers. On March 22, the public is invited to College of Menominee Nation to witness the relaunching celebration of the updated site under the care of CMN.

Indigenous voices hold key to rediscovering culture

Published by admin on Fri, 02/02/2024 - 4:53pm

According to Dr. Carol Cornelius, the Oneida word Ongwehoweh translates to “The Real People — Most Indigenous nations have a word that describes them as the original, the Indigenous people of the land.”

It’s those original people who inspired Cornelius to write her latest book, “A History of Wisconsin Indigenous Voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal Era.” She will discuss the text and the 1800s treaty era it covers during her Feb. 20 book event at the College of Menominee Nation’s Green Bay/Oneida campus.

Holistic ways of knowing can lead to satisfying environment

Published by admin on Fri, 01/05/2024 - 5:29pm

According to Dr. Anne Jones, the Menominee word anāmaehkatih translates to “Happy New Year.”

She shared: “I just learned that phrase from Monica Macaulay who is a linguistics professor at UW-Madison. It was provided by an elder in the 1980s. It quite likely comes from the verb anāmaehkatowak, ‘They greet each other, say goodbye to each other, shake hands,’ because one of the words for January is anāmaehkatwan-kēsoq— shaking hands moon.”

History of Restoration coming alive in show

Published by admin on Fri, 12/01/2023 - 2:03pm

What is sometimes lost in the story of Menominee Restoration is that many people acted because it was asked of them. Ada Deer, Sylvia Wilber, Shirley Daly, and countless others became involved with the movement to restore their tribe’s federal trust status because their parents and community asked them to do so. The leaders of DRUMS, which stands for Determination of Rights and Unity for Menominee Stockholders, put their Creator-given talents to work.