Onaabadin-Giizis(Snow-Crusted Moon)March, 2019 (Issue 2) A Bi-Weekly ElectronicPublication

from the Ziibiwing Center

No Performance Circle Class - March 26, 2019

First Day of Spring • Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Spring Break Cultural Day Camp • March 26-28, 2019 • 1-5pm • See flyer on page 2

The last Supermoon of 2019 occurs Wednesday, March 20 at 9:43pm EDT

l-r: Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Chief Ronald Ekdahl, MACPRA Chairman,

William Johnson at Employee Appreciation Banquet, January 25, 2019.

Willie was recognized for 20 years of service to the Tribe.

William Johnson re-elected MACPRA Chairman!

Please join me in congratulating Willie for his outstanding commitment, leadership, and responsibility to our ancestors. In my humble opinion, Willie is being a good ancestor every day.

Me’ewe.Shannon Martin, DirectorZiibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways

Boozhoo,As we begin to feel the warm winds of Ziigwan, I wanted to share some other outstanding news on the wind.

Our very own Willie Johnson was unanimously elected to another 4-year term (his 3rd consecutive term) as the Chairman of the Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation& Repatriation Alliance (MACPRA) during last week’squarterly meeting. MACPRA was formed in 2000 through a signed Consensus Agreement of all 12 Federally-recognized and 2 State-recognized Tribes of Michigan. Since Willie began his Chairmanship in 2011, MACPRA has worked cooperatively with other Tribes nationally that were once aboriginal to Michigan to repatriate 1,424 ancestors and 5,114 funerary objects.

Additionally, within the last few weeks ten (10) Notices of Inventory Completion have posted to the Federal Register. This means ancestors and their associated funerary objects will soon be repatriated under NAGPRA from the Historical Society of Saginaw County, Marshall University, Princeton University, and the University of Michigan.

To Register Contact Glenna at 989.775.4744 or gjenkins@sagchip.org

March 26-28, 2019

1pm-5pm

Open to: • SCIT Community• Ages 7-11• First 24 Registrants Only!• Free Admission • Registration required• Meet at Tribal Gym

SPRING BREAK CULTURAL DAY CAMP

Co-Sponsors:

• TUESDAY, MARCH 26 • THEME: YOUTH LEADERSHIP/CLANS • Mr. Ray - Raymond Cadotte from Ziibiwing will give traditional teachings about Clans. • Play Leadership Games led by SCIT Parks & Recreation Dept. • Painted Turtle Pottery Studio staff will be on hand to help each camper create their own Biindigan! (Welcome!) sign with a clan symbol!• WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 • THEME: SUGAR BUSH • Road trip to Midland’s Chippewa Nature Center to learn about the Sugar Bush with Sugar Bush activities & a Puppet Show!• THURSDAY, MARCH 28 • THEME: LACROSSE • Cultural teachings about the traditional game of Lacrosse • A Visit by CMU’s Native American Women’s Lacrosse Player to learn about the modern version of Lacrosse • Play Lacrosse in the Tribal gym

Bring your sack lunch!

March 27, 2019 • 12pm-2pm

Dylan Miner is an artist, activist, and scholar. He is Director of American Indian and Indigenous

Studies, as well as Associate Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. He holds a PhD from

The University of New Mexico and has published extensively. In 2010, he was awarded an Artist

Leadership Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Born and raised in Michigan, he descends from the Brissette-L’Hirondelle family of the historic

Georgian Bay Métis community in Ontario.

Dylan Miner will teach participants basic screenprinting using his own images dealing with Indigenous and environmental topics.

Participants can screen these political images onto paper and fabric, as well as learn how to organize their own DIY

screenprinting studio. Dylan will bring multiple screens with his artwork, as well as paper onto which participants will print.

Participants are encouraged to bring additional t-shirts, paper, and fabric to print on if they like.

PRINTING for the LANDand theWATERWORKSHOP

with Dylan Miner

Free & Open to the Public

For more information call (989) 775-4750 or visit us at www.sagchip.org/ziibiwing Published by the Ziibiwing Center, The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan • Copyright © 2019 - All rights reserved

Ziibiwing Center • 6650 E. Broadway, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 • Open Mon-Sat • 10am-6pm