cultural resources
The resources included on this page were assembled by the Our Ways staff to help familiarize students, staff, families and the community with a traditional and contemporary understanding of our ways of being. There are many other resources not included on this list but available by contacting the Our Ways team at (414) 525-6144.
We will continually update this list of resources and encourage you to check back often.
origins & living our ways
Nama’o: The Ancient Story Teller
Sky Woman: a Haudenosaunee Creation Story
Living the Ho-Chunk Language: People of the Big Voice
recommended movies
tribal nations of wisconsin
BAD RIVER BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA
BROTHERTOWN NATION* (not federally/state recognized)
LAC COURTE OREILLES BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA
LAC DU FLAMBEAU BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA
MENOMINEE INDIAN TRIBE OF WISCONSIN
RED CLIFF BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA
organizations
books
A Nation within a Nation: Voices of the Oneida Wisconsin
Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town
Electa Quinney: Stockbridge Teacher
Good Seeds: : A Menominee Indian Food Memoir
How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century
Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir
Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood
Ojibwe Traditions Coloring and Activity Book Series
The Powwow Coloring and Activity Book
The Storytelling Coloring Book
Wild Ricing Coloring and Activity Book
People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families
People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin’s Love Affair with an Ancient Fish
Seventh Generation Earth Ethics
Skunk Hill: A Native Ceremonial Community in Wisconsin
The Story of Act 31: How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms
Water Panthers, Bears, and Thunderbird: Exploring Wisconsin’s Effigy Mounds