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Yarn and knitting needles

Northland Knit-together Wednesday

September 4, 2024, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

For fall 2024, the weekly Northland Knit-together meetup will be held on Wednesdays over the lunch hour in the Indigenous Cultures Center lounge (114B Mead Hall). This is an opportunity for interested employees to meet, eat, and craft. Just bring your lunch and supplies. Coffee and tea are available, and

Members of the Spiderwoman theater company perform on stage

Spiderwoman Theater’s “Misdemeanor Dream”

March 1, 2024, 7:00 pm9:30 pm

Northland College is proud to partner with Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College to bring New York’s Spiderwoman Theater company to our region. The Indigenous troupe will perform their original show Misdemeanor Dream Friday–Saturday, March 1–2, at Cloquet High School in Cloquet, Minnesota. Tickets are $25 each, and orders…

Professor Erica Hannickel sits at counter with glass of wine.

How Wine Shaped a Nation

Q&A WITH PROFESSOR ERICA HANNICKEL

…way to open a book about wine, my deeper questions were really about what has animated American wine culture since the 19th century. And I was surprised to find that it had so much to do with another deep natural-cum-cultural topic: Americans’ long love affair with “manifest destiny.” Q. Remind…

Stockton Island

DNT: Wild discovery: American marten found again in the Apostle Islands

Northland College Prof Erik Olson a Key Researcher

American martens have been discovered on Manitou and Stockton islands in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore for the first time in more than 40 years, park officials say. An American marten was verified on Manitou Island in 2014 when a visitor took a photo of it running between his legs….

Pine marten

Carnivore Project Reveals Return of the Marten on Apostle Islands

An Apostle Islands collaborative carnivore diversity and abundance project between the National Park Service, Northland College, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison led to an unexpected surprise: the discovery of American marten on Stockton Island. The American marten is on Wisconsin’s endangered species list and not been sighted in the islands…

Northland College senior at powwow

Powwow to Spotlight Proclamation, New Dances

…day instead as an opportunity to celebrate Indigenous diversity and resiliency,” said Northland College Indigenous Cultures Center (ICC) Director Katrina Werchouski. The proclamation is just the beginning. The ICC, Native American Student Association (NASA), and other powwow organizers have added several new features this year designed to educate attendees about…

Northland College Nordic Skiing

Essential Eligibility Criteria

Annually the Brother Bear Fund supports the entry fee for two Northland College students (one male and one female) to ski the American Birkebeiner 50K Skate or 55K Classic ski races. The fund also provides each student a $50 stipend prior to the race for expenses. We have selected recipients…

wolf head

TWA Responds to State Bill 602/AB712

Dear Sponsors of SB602/AB712, Members of the Committee on Sporting Heritage, Mining and Forestry, and Members of the Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, As you know, SB602/AB712 proposes to discontinue funding for wolf management and to make it illegal for state law enforcement officers to enforce laws related…