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Frauds / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by Sparks on February 18, 2024, 04:02:51 am »I couldn't find much about the non-profit Miniss Kitigan Drum […]
I found this. At this URL, an article can be downloaded:
https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/ALGQP/article/download/356/260/1122
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Keewaydinoquay: Anishinaabe-mashkikiikwe and Ethnobotanist
[By] WENDY GENIUSZ University of Minnesota
Papers of the 36th Algonquian Conference, ed. H.C. Wolfart
(Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2005), pp. 187-206.
From the time she was in graduate school until the end of her life,
Kee worked to build the Miniss Kitigan Drum, an organization dedicated
to teaching and maintaining Anishinaabe knowledge. She describes the
role and purpose of the Miniss Kitigan Drum (cf. note 9):
The Miniss Kitigan Drum, Inc. is the extended family of the Miniss
Kitigan Band of the Amikogenda Islands in Lake Michigan. By now
we are a pretty mixed lot genetically, and the roles we live out in the
dominant society are a contributing network across the entire continent.
The one thing we have in common is our determination to walk
the Sun Trail according to the ancient ecologically-orientated philosophies
of the Anishinaabeg (Native Americans of the Great Lakes
Regions).
Kee described this organization as dedicated to maintaining physical and
spiritual balance by teaching the ancient philosophies of the Anishinaabeg
and by maintaining an encampment where members can continue to
"learn and renew." While teaching at the University of Wisconsin she
started a Milwaukee branch. Through monthly meetings, teaching workshops,
and a summer retreat center, this nonprofit organization teaches
Anishinaabe philosophy and knowledge about plants. Kee taught Anishinaabe
philosophy and knowledge about maintaining and using plants as
food, medicine, and for construction through the Miniss Kitigan Drum
(Geniusz; Simonsen). When I asked Warber if she, too, was involved with
the Miniss Kitigan Drum, she told me that one could not know Kee and
not be involved with this organization because of her dedication to it.
Through Miniss Kitigan Drum, Kee also produced "Mukwah Miskomin
or KinnicKinnick: 'Gift of Bear'" and several other works.