The University of Wisconsin-Superior will host two events as part of its celebration of Indigenous Storytelling Week. Both events are free and open to the community.

Ojibwe Storytelling night will take place Tuesday, February 20, at 6 p.m. in the Yellowjacket Union Shippar Atrium. This event will host Michael Migizi Sullivan, Ph.D., an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) linguist from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in northern Wisconsin. This event is sponsored by UW-Superior’s Indigenous Cultures Resource Center and the Department of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Sullivan is currently the Native American Studies Faculty Director at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University and previously served as the resident linguist for the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School. 

He has traveled extensively across Ojibwe country exploring regional language variation and works closely with elders and tribes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Ontario. Sullivan is a firm believer in an Anishinaabe-centric self-determined pedagogy grounded in Anishinaabe language, worldview, and spiritual lifestyle. 

He currently resides with his family in the Skunawong community on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation where he enjoys the outdoors. Sullivan and his children enjoy singing at powwows, round dances, and ceremonies throughout the year.

On Thursday, February 22, at 6 p.m. in the Yellowjacket Union Shippar Atrium, UW-Superior students from FNS 333 – History of Indigenous People will be reading “Dreamtime,” Indigenous Australian stories by Kath Walker.