The University of Wisconsin-Superior will host a family friendly Ojibwe Storytelling Night featuring Niigaanibinesiikwe Hannah Orie on Wednesday, February 11, at 6 p.m. in the Yellowjacket Union Shippar Family Atrium. Sponsored by UW-Superior’s Indigenous Cultures Resource Center and Department of Student Support and Engagement, this event is free and open to the community.

Orie, an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Wisconsin, is a second-language learner of Ojibwemowin. She currently serves as a faculty assistant for the Native American Studies/Ojibwemowin program at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University and is a former elementary teacher at Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute.

Her interest in aadizookeng (sacred winter storytelling) began at Waadookodaading learning stories alongside middle-schoolers in an Ojibwe language arts class and attributes her expanding language proficiency and understanding of Anishinaabe values and teachings to these sacred legends.   

The Yellowjacket Union is at 1605 Catlin Ave.