By Karen Herzog
Leaders of several tribes from across the state met Friday with the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on ancestral lands of the Menominee and Ho-Chunk to discuss a common interest: how to increase the numbers of American Indian students who attend college and graduate.
The historic meeting in a UW-Stevens Point banquet room with white tablecloths began with a tobacco offering — pinches of tobacco rolled up in cloth and handed to each tribal leader as a gesture of respect from the Board of Regents. The tobacco offering was followed by an invocation and native honor song in Ojibwe from the director of the UW-Stevens Point Native American Center, Andy Gokee.
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