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Odawa artist extends deceased animals’ purpose “in a good way”

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On a wall in Hank Bailey’s bedroom is a can’t-miss photographic print on a large canvas. Bailey, an Odawa (Ottawa) elder of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, is the unmistakable subject. He’s in his powwow dancing regalia in a “bending of the knees” pose, as the Anishinaabe word for powwow—Jingtamok—translates. Bailey wrote in the Sun in 2017, “I can say without being ashamed that I have been brought to tears during dances. I have felt so good while dancing it seemed like my feet were not even touching the ground.”

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Marking Anishinaabe trails

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The Leelanau County and Grand Traverse communities, led by members of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, gathered on May 15 at Clinch Park in Traverse City to celebrate the Anishinaabe Cultural Marker Project. Seven markers celebrating spots along “Old Indian Trails” have already been installed in Suttons Bay near the library, in Leland near the museum, at Northport’s Peterson Park, at Omena beach park, at Hannah Park and Clinch Park in Traverse City, and at the Brown Bridge canoe launch in Grand Traverse County. Two more, in Northport’s marina park and West End Beach in Traverse City, will soon receive their installations, bringing the total to nine.

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Suttons Bay High School hosts Anishinaabe History Project

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Join the Leelanau Historical Society and the Omena Historical Society on Wednesday, Nov. 29, at the Suttons Bay High School Auditorium for “A Kchi Wiikwedong Anishinaabe History Project Summary: talking about the past for the present (and the future).” This free event is open to the public. The Kchi Wiikwedong Anishinaabe History Project was started in 2021 by Emily Modrall in an effort to bring greater visibility and awareness to the very long history of this region as an Anishinaabe homeland. Her presentation this evening summarizes this project and its outcomes as the project enters its final months.

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Ojibwe author Lois Beardslee’s “Words Like Thunder”

From staff reports Award-winning Ojibwe author and Maple City resident Lois Beardslee has published a new book this month with Wayne State University Press. The collection of poetry is titled Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers. Much of the book centers around Native people of the Great Lakes but has a universal relevance […]

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Why we honor the living legacy of “Leelanau” Native Americans

This year in the Glen Arbor Sun we’re publishing a series on the living legacy of the Native Americans. A desire to push back against the rise of xenophobia in contemporary America is not the only reason we chose to examine the living legacy of the local Odawa and Ojibwe among us. Across civil society in Northern Michigan, and throughout the nation, it seems that more and more people are interested in learning the Native perspective on this land and the human history it has witnessed.

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Sharing Anishinaabe History and Culture

The League of Women Voters Leelanau County hosts a discussion on sharing Anishinaabe history and culture and putting indigenous values into practice on Wednesday, June 7, at noon at the Eyaawing Museum and Cultural Center (304 N. West Bay Shore Drive, M-22) north of Suttons Bay.

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