This is the opportunity you have been looking for...... Honoring the Ojibwa Heritage through language and art.  Learn about the culture,  Get those dendrites branching extensions while activating your neurotransmitters, endorphins, neurons and glial cells in your brain at the same time having FUN!

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During the workshop we will make tribal art/craft specific to the Ojibwa and learn about their history along with the reasons why they were used.  The Ojibwa language will be taught and spoken throughout the workshop.  Each workshop will also include a specific story shared from the Ojibwa culture.

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Ojibwa, Ojibwe or Ojibway are also called Chippewa and named themselves Anishinaabe, Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe who lived in what are now Ontario and Manitoba, Can., and Minnesota and North Dakota, U.S., from Lake Huron westward onto the Plains.

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They were the most popular tribe in North America and lived in both the United States and Canada  including  their occupying land around the entire Great Lakes, including in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario.

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According the the encyclopedia of United States and Canada;

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The Ojibwa have made a number of significant contributions to American life: they discovered maple sugar and wild rice and invented hammocks, snowshoes, canoeing, and lacrosse. The English language contains a number of Ojibwa words (moccasin, moose) and place-names (Mackinaw, Michigan, Mesabi).