This site was created by GLIFWC/Sea Grant intern Morgan Coleman as part of her projects on Great Lakes Literacy and Ojibwe culture. Additional contributions by Anne Moser from Wisconsin Sea Grant and Hannah Arbuckle from GLIFWC. Updates and resources have been added by Maya Reinfeldt, an undergraduate student at UW Madison, and now India-Bleu Niehoff, a graduate student at UW Madison.
The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission is an intertribal agency composed of eleven Ojibwe tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. GLIFWC's purpose is to assist its member tribes in exercising their reservation treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather in the territories ceded in the 1836, 1837, 1842, and 1854 Treaties.
Visit the GLIFWC to learn more.
Wisconsin Sea Grant is the University of Wisconsin-Madison branch of the National Sea Grant College Program. Wisconsin Sea Grant's mission is to promote sustainable use of Great Lakes resources through research, education, and outreach.
Visit Wisconsin Sea Grant to learn more.
Morgan Coleman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls with a Bachelor's degree in English. She has since earned her Masters in English from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. And is currently pursuing her PhD in English at the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.
Maya Reinfeldt was a library assistant in 2021 and 2022 and was then the Community Engaged Intern in the library during the summer of 2022. She is now Badger Talks Coordinator at UW Madison. She graduated from UW Madison with BA with Honors in International Studies and Russian Literature.
India-Bleu Niehoff was the Community Engaged Intern in the library for the Summer of 2023, and is now the library assistant. She recently graduated from University of Wisconsin- Madison with a Gender and Women's Studies major and Global Health Certificate. She is currently a graduate student at UW-Madison's iSchool pursuing her Masters in Library and Information Studies.