I live and work in Waaswaaganing, which is the name of Lac du Flambeau in Ojibwemowin, the Ojibwe language. Photos by Arnold Jack I have lived in Lac du Flambeau my whole life and work at Lakeland Union High School for a new program called Voyager. My childhood was pretty troubled. I grew up in
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My childhood was really centered around making art. I don’t know where I got my interest from, but I remember enjoying drawing as early as elementary school. My best friend and I used to have these drawing battles to see who the better artist was. Ramón would draw a ninja and I would draw Scooby-Doo,
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My name is Chi Ayaabe, Big Buck, I’m a Lac du Flambeau tribal member with Bad River, Lac Vieux Desert, and Michigan Tribal blood. Chi-Ayaabe is my Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) name. I’m from the Fish clan and I live In Lac du Flambeau (Waaswaaganing). I’m also known as Brian Jackson. Photos taken by Stanley Schrock I
I think my earliest understanding of wanting to work with wildlife was probably when I was six or seven, and my parents had a guest visiting from out of town. Photos by Stanley Schrock Share This Post To this day, I have no idea who this lady was. I just remember they were sitting outside
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My father was an English teacher. When I was seven years old, he asked me, ‘Masood, when you graduate, where would you like to go?’ I said, ‘I want to go to America.’ Photos by Hedi Lamarr Rudd He said, ‘Why is that?’ I answered, ‘Well, I’m reading a lot about America and learning about
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I was born in Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand in September 1976. I am the oldest of six children. Photos courtesy of Annie Vang When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, thousands of Hmong families were displaced from their homes. The Hmong people were recruited by the American military to fight in the war
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Joel: In high school, I took an entrepreneur leadership class. There they really pushed me to think about my community and where I come from. Photo by Abby Chi I had to think about the problems I’ve seen in my community and what I could do about them. I was born in the Democratic Republic
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My life is never dull. I’m the co-director of the Wild Rumpus Circus in Mazomanie, Wisconsin. The name ‘wild rumpus’ was inspired by Maurice Sendak’s great book, Where The Wild Things Are. Photos by Hedi Lamarr Rudd In the book, Max says, ‘Let the wild rumpus start,’ and we thought rumpus was such a fun
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I was born and raised on the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Indian reservation in northern Wisconsin — I had a lot of fun growing up there. Photos by Andi Stempniak As kids, we were outside all of the time. In the summer we spent the majority of our time swimming, and in the winter it was
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I was born in Taiwan, and my dad was a very poor preacher. When I was just a little tot, I remember my dad took my brother and me to the zoo in Taiwan. This was a huge treat for us. We saw something there that day we had never seen before—an American with blonde
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A long time ago, I dated a pilot who took me flying—multiple times, actually. And I fell in love with it. Photos by Hedi Lamarr Rudd It was one of those moments where a light bulb went off and I thought, ‘Hey, I could do this.’ And I thought more about it and decided if
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My name is Dylan Jennings, or Bizhikiins—Young Buffalo, as we translate from Ojibwemowin, our language. Photos by Megan Monday “My parents were really young when they had me, just out of high school. They met down by Waaswaaganing, or the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, near Minocqua. They stuck together to raise me and to take
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