Linda LeGarde Grover will share some of her family’s boarding school stories and how they are interwoven with generations past and generations to come as we walk our lifelong paths to knowledge, wisdom and healing, Mino-Bimaadiziwin. A community feast will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.

"The Anishinaabe tradition of teaching and learning through stories is a thread that in spite of the intentions of the boarding school era never broke," LeGarde Grover said. "The stories of our ancestors, the boarding school children, are a part of that thread: They have meaning and purpose, even those that might seem small and inconsequential, like an old uncle’s recounting to a young relative how he learned to sew at boarding school, and why. And in passing that story on he shared a lesson in how to live a good life, in that indirect way of the old Anishinaageg. Our learning, as those beloved and honored Elders would say, is meant to be."

"Uncle Biik Learns to Sew" is a cultural teaching funded by Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division.

About Linda LeGarde Grover
LeGarde Grover is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe and a professor emeritus of American Indian Studies Department at University of Minnesota-Duluth. She is an award-winning writer who has authored fiction, poetry, research articles, newspaper columns and essays. LeGarde Grover’s most recent novel, A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids, is the fourth book in her series about the fictional Mozhay Point Band of Ojibwe reservation and people in northeastern Minnesota.