Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Winners • 1991. Open Spaces, Jim Dale Vickery. Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA) gave its inaugural award to Minnesota author Jim Dale Vickery for Open Spaces , a book that takes the reader to the unpopulated spaces in North America. Vickery, who…
Northland College’s Timber Wolf Alliance (TWA) successfully hosted the the 2024 Great Lakes Wolf Symposium on October 15–16, attracting over 150 participants from eleven states, two Canadian provinces, and as far away as the Netherlands. Held every four years, this symposium serves as a major gathering for wildlife experts, conservationists,…
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On Earth Day each year, Northland College announces its choices for the best in nature writing for the previous year. Three authors are selected to receive the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA) for adult, young adult, and children’s literature. Established in 1991, SONWA honors the literary legacy of…
Immediately following the Baccalaureate Ceremony, families of our graduates are invited to join faculty and staff in raising a glass to honor the Class of 2024 and their transition from students to alumni of Northland College. You must RSVP to attend. You can also claim tickets for the Baccalaureate Ceremony…
Makoons is the author of Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings (hardcover 2009, paperback 2023) and the editor of Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask (2015, written by her mother Mary Siisip Geniusz). Her mother’s Cree and Métis family…
Worried about the future of democracy? Want to learn more about how social change happens? Join Associate Professor Angela Stroud to discuss how we might move toward justice in the face of urgent threats, including climate change, social inequality, and global conflicts. This event is free and open to the…
Join Eiko Mizushima, Aziza Bisanz, and Lila Sarene for an evening of embodied storytelling and practice about opening to and deepening how we listen to our ancestors and our ancestral inheritance. With our bodies and the land as guides, we will gather information from those who came before us about…
