ChangeMakers: LeAnn Littlewolf, economic development rooted in culture

LeAnn Littlewolf at the Paul Wellstone Memorial Site in Eveleth, Minn. 
Jaida Grey Eagle for MPR News

Throughout November, MPR News is featuring Indigenous Minnesotans making history to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.

LeAnn Littlewolf, 47, is the economic development director at the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) in Duluth, Minn. She is from the Anishinaabe Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag Band of Ojibwe. 
Littlewolf sees her work at AICHO as her cultural values in action. 
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“All of the answers are in our culture, the path forward is in our origin story. We do economic development but we do it in an Indigenous way,” she said.  

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