A Bi-Weekly ElectronicPublication from the Ziibiwing Center Memorial Day • Monday, May 27, 2019 ZIIBIWING CLOSED Congratulations to Jonathan Ayling - Ziibiwing’s May 2019 Employee of the Month! Zaagibagaa-Giizis (Moon When Buds Come Out) May, 2019 (Issue 2) • Kelly Elk Woman Jackson, Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, is a singer, songwriter, philanthropist, and tribal advocate. Her debut album, Spirit of a Woman, won the Native American Music Association Award (NAMA) for the 2018 Best Americana Album of the Year. It honors women who find the hard balance between career, community and family. Jackson co-founded Spirit of a Woman, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit organization that provides personal and professional development for women and girls. Formerly, a tribal historic preservation director and a 15-year environmental protection officer, Jackson uses her form of music as a way of storytelling. The song “Gaawiin Niiwi Izhaasiin (I Don’t Want to Go)” is a song about a young boy’s journey through boarding school and his family’s fight for him. HONORING, HEALING & REMEMBERING June 6, 2019 • 7am-4pm • Sarah Jones, M.A., Ishkodekwe/Fire Woman, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, is a Jingle Dress Dancer of 10 years, who also serves her community as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO/NAGPRA Designee) and Interim Chairwoman of the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School Committee. Sarah earned her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Central Michigan University (CMU) in 2013 and also received from CMU her Master’s degree in History in 2016. While passionate about the preservation of all culturally and historically significant properties, Sarah holds the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School historic site close to her heart due to the fact that her grandmother, Mabel Pelcher, was a student there. Keynote Speakers: • Christine Diindiisi McCleave, M.A., Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Nation, is Executive Officer for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. McCleave is a generational boarding school survivor. Her grandfather attended Marty Catholic Indian Boarding School and Haskell Indian Boarding School. Her great grandfather attended Carlisle Industrial Indian School. Boarding school’s inter-generational impacts on her personal life and children’s lives led McCleave to complete her Master of Arts in Leadership research on the spectrum of spiritual practices between traditional Native American spirituality and Christianity and the legacy of the boarding schools on spiritual activities today. McCleave also has a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies from Northwestern College. Welcoming all Pipe Carriers, Tribal Flag Bearers & Jingle Dress Dancers Silent Auction donations welcomed! Contact Amanda Lewis at [email protected] or 989.775.4734
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A Bi-Weekly ElectronicPublication from the Ziibiwing Center
Memorial Day • Monday, May 27, 2019 ZIIBIWING CLOSED
Congratulations to Jonathan Ayling -Ziibiwing’s May 2019 Employee of the Month!
Zaagibagaa-Giizis (Moon When Buds Come Out)
May, 2019 (Issue 2)
• Kelly Elk Woman Jackson, Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, is a singer, songwriter, philanthropist, and tribal advocate. Her debut album, Spirit of a Woman, won the Native American Music Association Award (NAMA) for the 2018 Best Americana Album of the Year. It honors women who find the hard balance between career, community and family. Jackson co-founded Spirit of a Woman, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit organization that provides personal and professionaldevelopment for women and girls. Formerly, a tribal historic preservation director and a 15-year environmental protection officer, Jackson uses her form of music as a way of storytelling. The song “Gaawiin Niiwi Izhaasiin (I Don’t Want to Go)”is a song about a young boy’s journey through boarding school and his family’s fight for him.
• Sarah Jones, M.A., Ishkodekwe/Fire Woman, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, is a Jingle Dress Dancer of 10 years, who also serves her community as the Tribal Historic PreservationOfficer (THPO/NAGPRA Designee) and Interim Chairwoman of the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School Committee. Sarah earned her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Central Michigan University (CMU) in 2013 and also received from CMU her Master’s degree in History in 2016. While passionate about the preservation of all culturally and historically significant properties, Sarah holds the Mount Pleasant IndianIndustrial Boarding School historic site close to her heart due to the fact that her grandmother, Mabel Pelcher, was a student there.
Keynote Speakers:• Christine Diindiisi McCleave, M.A.,Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Nation, is Executive Officer for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. McCleave is agenerational boarding schoolsurvivor. Her grandfather attended Marty Catholic Indian Boarding School and Haskell Indian Boarding School. Hergreat grandfather attended Carlisle Industrial Indian School. Boarding school’s inter-generational impacts on her personal life and children’s lives led McCleaveto complete her Master of Arts in Leadership research on the spectrum of spiritual practices between traditional Native American spirituality and Christianity and the legacy of the boarding schools on spiritual activities today. McCleave also has a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies from Northwestern College.
Welcoming all Pipe Carriers, Tribal Flag Bearers & Jingle Dress Dancers
Silent Auction donations welcomed!Contact Amanda Lewis at [email protected] or 989.775.4734
The Midwest’s Premier American Indian Museum 6650 East Broadway, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858 989.775.4750 www.sagchip.org/zi ibiwing
Active duty military, plus five family members with valid identificationVisit www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums for more info
FREE ADMISSION
to permanent and changing exhibits
(Note: The Ziibiwing Center will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2019 & Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 2019)
HONORING
ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY
& THEIR FAMILIES
May 18, 2019 (Armed Forces Day)
to September 2, 2019
(Labor Day) *
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Co-Sponsors:
The community is invited to help construct a grandmother black ash strawberry basket with mini-strawberry baskets attached to the grandmother basket with vines.
Each participant will have the opportunity to make a mini-strawberry basket which will be attached to the grandmother basket when finished and/or assist with the construction of the grandmother basket. The mini-basket could represent loved ones, families, and/or anything the participant chooses. The grandmother strawberry basket will beapproximately 2.5 feet tall and 22 inches across. The grandmother basket will serveas a “time capsule” for participants & visitors to place their hopes & dreams for Mother Earth.
In addition to providing instruction and assistance in constructing themini-strawberry baskets, Josh and Sarah will share cultural teachings, including the meaning and significance of a strawberry basket (ode miin-heart berry).
Learn the history of black ash baskets, as taught from our elders through storytelling,as well as how Josh and Sarah learned the art. They will also provide logs to share interactive teachings on harvesting andpreparing the supplies for basket-making.
* On June 6, Josh & Sarah will join us at the
Mt. Pleasant IndianIndustrial Boarding
School sitefor make & take
black ash art work
June 3-8, 2019 *and
June 10-14, 2019 10am to 6pm
CommunityBlack Ash Strawberry BasketBuilding WorkshopwithJosh Hommingaand Sarah BedellTraditional basket-makers from the Bay Mills Indian Community
This event is in conjunction with WIIDANOKIINDIWAG
exhibition on display at Ziibiwing thru October 5, 2019
Free & opento the public
Supplies provided
989.775.4750
Silent Auction donations welcomed!Contact Amanda Lewis
Join us on the 85th anniversary of the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School closing. We recognize the suffering, strength, and resilience of the children through a day of memoriam and fellowship.
7:00am • Sunrise Ceremony MISSION CREEK CEMETERY
1475 S. Bamber Rd Mt. Pleasant, MI
Welcoming all Pipe Carriers, Tribal Flag Bearers & Jingle Dress Dancers
PARKING: • Corner lot at Pickard/Harris - Shuttle Service • Handicap parking at site - as available• No parking on Crawford Rd.
For your comfort:• bring lawn chair, blanket,
umbrella, water bottle
HONORING, HEALING & REMEMBERING
BOARDING SCHOOL SITE:1400 W. Pickard Mt. Pleasant, MI (Near corner of
Pickard & Crawford)
• Breakfast & lunch provided• Pipe Ceremony• Grand Entry & Flag Song• Student Roll Call “Remembering the Deceased” • Prayer & Guest Speakers• Silent Auction • Jingle Dress Healing Dance • Celebratory Round Dance • Giveaway & Traveling Song
