Native American Heritage Month Student Celebration

Join Multicultural, American Indian, and Retention Services for a celebration of Native American Heritage Month!

This free, open to the community event features cultural foods and good conversation, as well as a talk by Dr. Roxanne Biidabinokwe Gould (Kitchiwikwendong Anishinaabe), titled: Rematriating Her Lifeblood: Indigenous Women’s Work to Protect Our Water.

Dr. Gould is a professor emerita of indigenous education and environmental studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Her work includes projects and research throughout the Indigenous world with a focus on Indigenous education, land and water justice, restorative practice, traditional ecological knowledge and environmental sustainability. Her international experience includes work with Indigenous women’s cooperatives in Guatemala, leading educators and students for decolonization travel seminars to Namibia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Bolivia. During her work with Bolivia, Dr. Gould facilitated a three-year agreement with Bolivia’s Ministry of Decolonization and the Phillips Indian Educators to work collaboratively on issues of climate change, education, health, well-being and culture. Her community work includes serving as founder of the Indigenous Women’s Water Sisterhood, and as co-founder of the Bdote Learning Center, a place-based Dakota and Ojibwe language immersion school. She also serves on the governing council of Makoce Ikikcupi, a Dakota land justice project, as founder and elder council member for Dream of Wild Health, a Native food sovereignty project, and on the Indigenous Round Table for the Science Museum of Minnesota.