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Eight days into a 1,200-mile trek along one of the longest rivers in the United States—the iconic Mississippi—Sharon Day was looking to hit mile 125 by day’s end. “We’re at Brainerd, heading south on [state highway] 371, and hope to get close to Little Falls [Minnesota] by tonight,” Day said by cell phone on the morning of International Women’s Day, March 8. She is traveling with a half dozen other walkers who have joined her from as far as Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, for the Mississippi W...
Ivy Vainio was a senior in high school in Duluth, Minnesota when she attended her first pow wow, with her mother, a member of the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe. “I remember it very well,” she says. “In the summer of 1986, she brought me to the Nimiiwin Pow Wow when they had it down at Bayfront Park. I remember seeing all the campers, some tipis, and all of the dancers in their colorful regalia. I was in awe knowing that this was part of my culture.” That senior year in high school brought another...
