Instructor: Ona Kingbird
Subject Area: Social Studies
Ona Kingbird is a Twin Cities Ojibwa elder who has taught for 36 years in Minnesota public schools and prisons. As a Red Lake tribal member and bearer of the pipe given by her father, a medicine man, she preserved the culture of her students throughout the state of Minnesota.
Ona teaches Ojibwe history, language and culture all tied up in a course based on learning history through the understanding of land, language and personal experience.
