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.

College of Menominee Nation’s “Let’s All Speak the Language” video series entered its second phase this month. Through partnerships with MenominiYou and Speak Mahican, the first iteration of the multi-year project shared some classroom conversational words in both the Menominee and Mahican languages.