Ojibwe Winter Stories with Anton Treuer,Dennis Jones & Dustin Burnette

About the Storytellers

Pebaamibines (Dennis Jones) has been serving as the elder-in-residence for the Minnesota State Mankato/Bemidji State Collaboration for the past year and a half. He's served as a guest speaker, advisor, and language teacher for students in the Ojibwe language courses. He's also a retired Ojibwe language and culture professor. He has taught in the American Indian studies department at the University of Minnesota. In his retirement he helps the native community of Minneapolis with Ojibwe ceremonies and traditions. He currently holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate of education. He is also a member of the Ojibwe medicine society. He is a First Nation member of the Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation in Ontario Canada and currently resides in Minneapolis MN USA with his wife Laura. He is a published author and has received numerous awards and accolades for his service.

Waagosh (Anton Treuer) is a professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and author of many books. He has a B.A. from Princeton University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is Editor of the Oshkaabewis (pronounced o-shkaah-bay-wis) Native Journal, the only academic journal of the Ojibwe language. Dr. Treuer has presented all over the U.S. and Canada and in several foreign countries on Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, Cultural Competence & Equity, Strategies for Addressing the “Achievement” Gap, and Tribal Sovereignty, History, Language, and Culture.  More About Anton Treuer

Gimiwan (Dustin Burnette) is a freelance Instructor of Ojibwe for Tribal Nations and a writer for Rosetta Stone that has been developing Ojibwe materials. He has worked for over a decade in Ojibwe immersion and language revitalization efforts. In 2020, he started the Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network (MIIN) to facilitate collaboration and communication between eleven Ojibwe language immersion organizations that have agreed to pool and share teaching resources. Taken from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Ziibiins Alexandra Johnson and Hope Flannagan will also be assisting during the storytelling event and language retreat.

Ziibiins Alexandra Johnson is from the Red Lake Nation and is an Ojibwe Language Curriculum Developer at Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminaang. She graduated with a B.A. in American Indian Studies, focusing on Ojibwe language from the University of Minnesota in 2016. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Auckland and earned her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the university in 2020.

Hope Flannagan is the community outreach and culture teacher at Dream of Wild Health in Minneapolis, MN.  Hope Flanagan (Seneca) is from the turtle clan.  She is an elder who teaches about plants and wild plant gathering.  She is also a Storyteller in the Native community. She has taught and worked in the Twin Cities Native community since the late 70’s. Most recently, Hope taught in an Ojibwe Immersion classroom for ten years, and prior to that as a Storyteller for Minneapolis Public Schools in drug and alcohol prevention for six years. She has worked at DWH since 2009 and transitioned to a year round position in 2018.