 Date: February 5, 2025
Time: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Location: AICHO’s Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center Address: 212 W. 2nd Street, Duluth, MN Registration link: https://forms.gle/BnSXBYW81AedatYi7 Using traditional tobacco and being mindful of its use are steps on the path to wellness. Arne Vainio, MD, a Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe tribal member and family practice physician, will provide a cultural teaching on making apaakozigan, traditional tobacco made from the inner bark of red willow. He will walk through how to harvest and process apaakozigan and share cultural and spiritual teachings. This event is free and open to the community. A meal will be shared at 5:30 PM. The prresentation and demonstration will begin at 6 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Register is required. Register by January 31, 2025. Event funded by AICHO’s Waaseyaa Traditional Healing Grant via the Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division. Contact Ivy Vainio, Traditional Healing Program Coordinator, at [email protected] with questions.  Date: February 2, 2025
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Location: Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center Address: 212 W 2nd St, Duluth, MN Learn self-care tools and practices using Mind and Body Awareness with an Indigenous lens. This learning session will be facilitated by Donna LaChapelle, Linda Eagle Speaker, and Julie Kilpatrick from The Center for Mind-Body Medicine. A meal will be shared at 11:30 a.m. before the start of the event. This event is free and open to public. Contact: Jordon Johnson, AICHO's Health Equity Director | [email protected] | (218) 722-7225  AICHO will host its annual Zaagi’idiwin Tour, on January 25, 2025 ahead of Valentine's Day. This free event takes place at 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center.
This pop-up market event is intended to make Valentine's Day gift shopping less stressful and more meaningful. Community members can connect with and support 20 Indigenous and BIPOC entrepreneurs and purchase creative and original love themed gifts. In addition to early Valentine’s Day shopping, community members can enjoy other activities such as live music by two Indigenous musicians; Laura Hugo and James Harvin, a free photo booth, and round dance songs sung by Brian Stillday Jr. and sons. Community members can also participate in the Potato Round Dance Competition where first and second place winners will take home prizes.  The documentary “Duluth for Mandela: A Northland Celebration” produced and directed by Gerri Williams will be shown at AICHO’s Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center for free on February 8, 2025, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Following the film screening, Williams and Fond du Lac elder Ricky DeFoe will be facilitating conversations on Indigenous resistance around the world and Mandela’s legacy through an Indigenous lens. Nelson Mandela was a member of the Tembu tribal group of South Africa. He was imprisoned for 27 years for his resistance against the country’s government-sanctioned system of racial segregation. After his release, he became the first president of the new multiracial democracy of South Africa and its first Black head of state in 1994. A Nobel Peace Prize laureate, he is revered as an Indigenous freedom fighter and statesman. In 2018, Williams and the Nelson Mandela Centenary Committee organized a series of community events in Duluth to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela. “Duluth for Mandela” highlights the Duluth community celebrating Mandela’s life through art, music, dance, and educational programs.  Jeremy Wilson is coming to AICHO to share cultural teachings about the drum, exploring its cultural significance, role in community unity, and spiritual teachings. This teaching will take place on Wednesday, January 15, 22, and 29 of next year. Each teaching will take place at AICHO’s Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center, 212 W 2nd St. Duluth, MN between 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
January 15, 2025: Introduction, Pipe Ceremony, Brief History January 22, 2025: History, Modern and Contemporary Styles January 29, 2025: Feasting Drums, Offering and honoring For 36 years, Wilson has been a lead singer for the Lake Vermilion Singers, as well as a member of the Big Red Singers and Memengwesii Family Traditional Drum. His extensive experience has helped build strong relationships with local communities, including the Mille Lacs, Bois Forte, and Fond du Lac Bands, as well as Duluth-area schools and universities such as UMD, FDLTCC, and the College of Saint Scholastica. This cultural teaching is funded by AICHO’s Waaseyaa Traditional Healing Grant via Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division.  AICHO will host its annual Aadizookeng Winter Storytelling event with traditional Ojibwe creation stories told by Niigaanibinesiikwe Hannah Orie on January 24, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. at the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center, 212 W 2nd St, Duluth, MN. Stories will be told in Ojibwe and translated into English.
Niigaanibinesiikwe is a young second language learner of Ojibwemowin and a Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe tribal member. She currently serves as a faculty assistant for the Native American Studies/Ojibwemowin program at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University and is a former elementary teacher at Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute. "Aadizookeng/Winter Storytelling is an important season for Anishinaabe people when aadizookaanag are told,” Niigaanibinesiikwe said. “Aadizookaanag are legends that are told in the wintertime and are traditionally told in the language. They provide many teachings and understandings of the world around us." The event is free and open to the public. While this is a public event, AICHO and the storytellers have requested attendees to refrain from recording the event due to the spirituality of the gathering. The event is sponsored by AICHO's Waaseyaa Traditional Healing Grant through the Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division.  Event details:
Date: January 10, 2024 Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. CST Zoom presentation Register by Monday, January 8 before 5:00 p.m. About the event: Sharon Day is a Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe tribal member and has been leading water walks for years. She will discuss the 2023 Lake Superior Water Walk and talk about the healing of the water and ourselves. Nibi Walks are a spiritual practice in which Sharon and others carry water along a river or lake to speak to the nibi water spirits and pray for the health and future of the waterways. The word nibi means water in Ojibwe. Nibi Walks involve carrying water along the river and serve as an extended prayer.Lake Superior Water Walk commemorated Josephine-ba Mandamin's walk around the lake in 2013 which began the contemporary water walks. Josephine-ba said, "The water has to move to be healthy." This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division via our Waaseyaa Traditional Healing Grant.  Join AICHO and our community partners Mashkawisen and St. Louis County, Minnesota Public Health for a session with Sharyl Whitehawk recovery programs with culturally based teachings, ceremonies, and curriculum help Native American struggling with addiction.
Date: October 5, 2022 Time: 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. CT Virtually on Zoom Register by Friday, September 30, 2022 at 5pm. Registrants will receive the Zoom link on Oct. 3 Whitehawk is a Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe tribal member and is a Level III Addictions Counselor & LADC at the Khunsi Onikan Native Women’s Treatment Program at the American Indian Family Center in St. Paul, MN. This webinar/zoom is part 1 of a 3 part Indigenous Health Series that AICHO is putting together in partnership with St. Louis County Public Health. Free and open to the public, but know that this will center on the American Indian/First Nations experience. Sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division via our Waaseyaa Healing Grant and St. Louis County Public Health. Flyer: Moira Villiard  AICHO's Indigenous First is once again partnering with Native Wise to bring farm fresh organic CSA produce boxes to Duluth and Superior.
The boxes will be featuring mixed greens, radish, kale, zucchini, cucumber, squash, bell pepper, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, onion, string beans, broccoli, carrots, herbs, melons, CBD teas, maple syrup, eggs, hand-harvested and parched wild rice, honey, smoked fish. Produce may change due to weather and season. Substitutions may be made. CSA food box subscriptions can be ordered at Indigenous First's website for $325. CSA food boxes will be distributed weekly starting July 14 through September 1. at the Niiwin Market at 102 E 4th St on Thursdays between 3 p.m. t0 5:30 p.m. Customers will receive one CSA box with fall produce on October 6. For SNAP Benefit reservations, please email [email protected] For questions on the CSA boxes, please contact [email protected].  Hosted by Michael Migizi Sullivan & Preston Manidood Sullivan
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Time: 6:30 p.m. CST Free virtual event via Zoom. Registration is required. Register by Friday, February 4 Registrants will receive the Zoom Link on Tuesday, February 8 - a day BEFORE the session. Make sure you in put your correct email and know that sometimes the zoom link info email will go to your junk or spam email folder. Michael Sullivan Sr. and his 14-year-old son Preston will share traditional stories about Wenabozho, a historical and spiritual icon of the Ojibwe-Anishinaabeg. Both will share a story and each story will be translated into English. The Sullivans come from the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation in Northern Wisconsin. No recording will be allowed. Sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division via our Waaseyaa Healing Grant and the McKnight Foundation. |
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