Last Saturday afternoon, Umpaowastowin — or Pat Northrup, as she’s known in English — prepared to dance. Wearing a maroon dress with rows of metal cones stitched all around her skirt, she offered ...

Presented as an interconnected sequence of “new and used Anishinaabe prayers,” Beardslee’s timely debut places age-old poetic traditions in dialogue with contemporary ones. These carefully linked ...

MAPLE CITY — We are literate, intelligent and sophisticated. We are conservationists, scientists and mathematicians. We always have been and always will be. That’s the message Lois Beardslee said she ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The Gerald R. Ford International Airport recently installed a sculpture honoring the long history of American Indians in West Michigan. The sculpture, installed late April, was ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts possesses roughly 65,000 artworks. One of them, a black ash top hat referencing Anishinaabe treaties created by Kelly Church and donated by a collector to the DIA in 2020 ...