Elder Stan Bouchie, at the start of the Biigtigong Language Project (Moose Camp 2013), speaking about our Nishnaabe language and identity, and about hard work and commitment.
Dan Goodchild
Dan Goodchild exemplified leadership. He understood the importance of taking an active role in the well-being of our community...
Lawrence Desmoulin
Lawrence Desmoulin was a celebrated storyteller. He freely shared the meanings and teachings embedded in our Nishnaabe way of life through the telling and retelling of our sacred stories...
Moses Fisher
Moses Fisher was a strong advocate for, and practioner of, our Nishnaabe spiritual ways. In the face of calculated assaults on our Nishnaabe way of living, Moses continued to practice our traditional ways...
Moses Starr
Much of Moses Starr's life was spent on the water. He had a profound respect for, and intimate knowledge of, Gchigam (Lake Superior) and the waterways in our Biigtigong territory...
Mike Goodchild
Mike Goodchild was known to have a wonderful sense of humor. He especially enjoyed pulling pranks...
Ernest Otis
Ernest Otis was known to have a wonderful sense of humor. He especially enjoyed pulling pranks...
Louis Goodchild
Louis Goodchild was a visionary and a man of action. The hundreds of hours he spent documenting his life story was done for his family and for the "rest of the Indians to come"...