Our Neighbor Community Forum Presents Our Ojibwe Neighbor - Past, Present and Future

  Thursday, November 18 Salem Lutheran Church of Longville will be offering a presentation on Native American history, culture and concerns of the past, present and future. Mr. Dale Greene, a Leech Lake Ojibwe elder and expert on Native treaties and culture, will offer a presentation on Ojibwe history and culture affecting modern day issues and views.

   Mr. Greene has a long history working with the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Nation as a cultural specialist. Greene has been a witness for the County and Tribal Courts, Indian Child Welfare Act cases, human services (Child Welfare and Protection.) He is an expert in Ojibwe and Chippewa Treaty Rights cases and has experience in the LLBO Tribal Court as an Ojibwe family cultural witness for the Court and individual cases. He has also led Ojibwe Cultural Talking Circle Meditations for the Tribal Court and Tribal programs.

   In Greene’s last four years with the Tribal Government he was a Self-Governance Coordinator and point person for the Government to Government negotiations for Annual Funding Agreements from the U.S. Government. He has experience with public speaking as an Ojibwe Elder, speaking on Ojibwe history, 1854 and 1855 Chippewa Treaties, ICWA and MIFPA, tribal child welfare, cultural family-historic trauma, cultural awareness and spiritual teaching stories.

   Salem Lutheran Church is proud to present this forum as a way to bridge understanding and knowledge into the past, present and future of our neighbors, the Ojibwe Nation. Please join us at Salem Lutheran Church, 1340 County Road 5, Longville at 6:00 p.m on Thursday, November 18 for this informational packed evening with one of our neighbors Tribal Elder, Dale Green. For more information call 218-363-2011. Help bridge the connection with our neighbor the Ojibwe Nation.