Revitalizing Ojibwe language, teaching traditional storytelling and educating young people on treaty history are all efforts that northern Minnesota's tribal communities often rely on volunteers to carry out.
A new Duluth-based Northland Foundation grant program, Maada'ookiing, aims to finance some of that volunteer work.
Built so that representatives from area tribal nations — not foundation staff — decide who is awarded money, Maada'ookiing translates to "distribution" in Ojibwe. Grants of up