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Ethiopian girl stretches before running (Girls Gotta Run Foundation)

If You Give a Girl a Pair of Sneakers . . . .

Dr. Patricia E. Ortman '71 Creates Girls Gotta Run Foundation

…and worldwide efforts to educate and empower girls and women, like the Girls Gotta Run program for girls in Ethiopia that I and my husband co-founded are more important than ever. And the backlash to the backlash, as evidenced by the national and international women’s marches that took place the…

SOEI Youth Programs

Girls Empowered Trails: Mt. Ashwabay

August 12August 15

We are still accepting registrations for youth programs! We will know by mid-April if our summer programs will be able to run or not. All registrations will be 100 percent refunded if a trip gets canceled. Girls Empowered Trails is for girls 10–13 years old interested in getting outside, working…

Students hiking on York.

7 Things to Do When You Visit Campus

…Pack your bathing suit and a picnic and spend sunrise, sunset, or anytime in between at one of the dozen beaches within an hour of campus. Hike Take a sunrise or sunset walk along the lakeshore in Ashland or take one of the many hikes in the region. Here’s three…

Native American dancers

Northland Celebrates Indigenous Cultures Awareness Month

…13 Identity, Place, and Belonging in Sami and Anishinaabe Cultures 6-7 p.m. Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute March 14 Panel Discussion: Multigenerational and Historic Trauma 6-8 p.m. Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute March 15 Craftwork Day 6-8 p.m. Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute March 16 The Creator’s Game: The Evolution of the Game…

A trail through the pines on Isle Royale

Girls Empowered Leadership and Adventure: Backpack—Isle Royale

July 17July 26

We are still accepting registrations for youth programs! We will know by mid-April if our summer programs will be able to run or not. All registrations will be 100 percent refunded if a trip gets canceled. Girls Empowered Leadership and Adventure: Backpack—Isle Royale is for girls 13–15 years old interested…

Forest Lodge Woods

Mamie Parker: On Fishing Not Kissing

…still not a lot of women and not a lot of girls that believe that they can do it. I was told that this is not a job for girls, and that you should go and become a medical doctor, or you should go and become a teacher, that you…

Northland College student with journal

296 miles on the Superior Hiking Trail

Jane Dahlgren Hikes Solo for May Term

Jane Dahlgren had never camped alone when she decided to hike solo for 296 miles. For college credits. While the extroverted sophomore was not familiar with solo tripping, she was no novice to adventure. A Seattle native, Dahlgren had hiked with her dad and brother on the Wonderland Trail, a…

Native American dancers

Powwow and Awareness

…available on our Facebook page. Indigenous Cultures Awareness Month Every March, Northland College host several events as part of celebrations marking Indigenous Cultures Awareness Month. The events promote awareness and understanding of Native American and indigenous culture with family-friendly workshops, speakers, and panels. The month’s events are free and open…

Sigurd Olson Articles

Some of these articles were published in 1951 in North Country Magazine. Sigurd also wrote a couple of hundred short sketches for newspapers; he wrote a few between 1937 and 1939, but most were from 1940 to 1943, and were syndicated to a number of newspapers, mostly in the Midwest….