Joe Rose 
Associate Professor and Director of Native American Studies at Northland College, WI. Rose is a member of the Bad River band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa (Ojibwe) nation.
Native American Spirituality and Sustainability
Joe Rose, a long-time educator and environmental activist, is deeply involved in the traditional way of life.
Rose was born on the Bad River Reservation and attended St. Mary’s Indian Mission School in Odanah, Wisconsin, through 8th grade. He graduated from DePadau High School in Ashland, Wisconsin, and earned a BA in biology and education from Northland College in Ashland. Rose has a master’s degree in education from Black Hills State College, Spearfish, South Dakota.
Rose has taught high school science and math and coached athletics. He served as Home-School Coordinator and Indian Guidance Counselor for Ashland High School. For the past 32 years, Rose has taught Native American Studies at Northland College.
Rose is a champion competition Indian dancer and is lead singer and drummer on traditional Native American songs. His traditional activities include hunting, fishing, wild rice harvesting, making maple sugar, constructing wigwams, tanning hides, building birch bark canoes and participating in Native American religious ceremonies.
Waverly Beach Campground, which Rose owns, is the site of a traditional roundhouse on the Bad River Indian Reservation, a place where individuals and groups engage in traditional Native American ceremonies, outdoor activities and teaching. Rose is a member of the Bad River Band of Chippewa and an elder in the Anishinabe Midewiwin or Grand Medicine Lodge.
An environmental activist on local and regional issues for three decades, Rose has been a spokesman for various environmental organizations and a guest speaker at many colleges and universities as well as religious, political and social organizations.
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