Book Discussion: Braiding Sweetgrass with Carol Amour & Kamewin

Carol Ann Amour has had four books and hundreds of articles published regionally and nationally including DINOSAUR HUNT by Gareth Stevens Publishers in Milwaukee and A MULTI-CULTURAL PORTRAIT OF THE CIVIL WAR by Marshall Cavendish in New York. Her articles and essays have appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the San Francisco Chronicle, Lady’s Circle, Reader’s Digest, the Lac du Flambeau News, and many others.

Kamewin, aside from being the Executive Director of the Waaswaaganing First Nations Institute for Indigenous Teaching and Learning, is on the Board of the Wisconsin Indian Education Association and is on the Lac du Flambeau Tribal Education Committee. She was co-founder of ENVISION a middle school project-based learning program with Ojibwe Culture at its heart and taught Ojibwemowin at the Lac du Flambeau Public school for many years. She published fifteen Ojibwe language books co-authored by fifth through eighth-grade students. She has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UWSP and is a licensed Ojibwe Language and Culture teacher in Lac du Flambeau.

This class is sponsored by the Waaswaaganing First Nations Institute for Indigenous Teaching and Learning.