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Northland College Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Religion David Saetre

A Spirit of Imagination

How Northland Faced the 1918 Pandemic

Paulette Moore with her camera

Free Speech TV Premieres Moore’s Doc

Free Speech TV (FSTV), a nonprofit, national, independent news network, announces the premiere of Paulette Moore’s, The Spirit of Standing Rock, Wednesday, February 15 at 7 p.m. CST. Free Speech TV will host a Facebook Live interview event with the filmmaker immediately following the broadcast at 7:30 pm CST. The…

Manidoo-mitig (Spirit Pole) Ceremony

September 6, 2023, 5:30 pm6:00 pm

…p.m. on the first day of classes outside of Mead Hall and the Indigenous Cultures Center for our first Manidoo-mitig (Spirit Pole) Ceremony. Please bring a small dish to share or just bring yourself, and maybe a friend. This event is open to current Northland College students, faculty, and staff….

Photo from Standing Rock

Advocacy & Public Discourse

…to protect the spirit of objectivity in order to provide a trusted, impartial institution that can gather and convene scholars, community members, and public and private leaders as we examine the complex dimensions of a given problem. In so doing, Northland College allows space for respectful, civil disagreement as our…

Northland College senior at powwow

Powwow to Spotlight Proclamation, New Dances

…and honor given to gender-fluid Two-Spirit People, an ancient theme seen in different Indigenous cultures across the continent. As its name implies, the Switch Dance has both genders trade movements, a challenge when Men’s and Women’s traditional dancing are particularly distinct. The Switch Dance also serves to highlight the historic…

Paulette Moore with her camera

Moore Takes Standing Rock Doc on 3-City East Coast Tour

Northland College Filmmaker in Residence Paulette Moore will be screening and discussing The Spirit of Standing Rock, her documentary featuring activists known as Water Protectors, this week in Washington D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Buffalo, New York Water Protectors have stood with Standing Rock Sioux leaders in North Dakota to defend…

Northland College student Isa Meyer works with a display in the Native American Museum

Combining Forestry and Native American Studies

…become an ongoing project of discovery about the origins and meaning of the dolls. Carved from the driftwood of the cottonwood tree, each of the dolls “represents a specific Kachina spirit, of which there are several hundred. The word Kachina also refers to a person who transforms into a Kachina…

Q & A With Robin Wall Kimmerer

…a gathering of traditional plant elders and it was a pivot point for me. In listening to them, to their holistic perspective, which was simultaneously spiritual and physical, it re-awakened the desire to embrace both of these ways of knowing. I’ve been blessed by having good teachers along my path,…