Firefighters works in residential building damaged after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2025 (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Tribal members ferry kids on boats during a youth spearfishing event on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, Saturday, April 20, 2024, in Lac Du Flambeau, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)Tribal members ferry kids on boats during a youth spearfishing event on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, Saturday, April 20, 2024, in Lac Du Flambeau, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Educating children and helping future generations connect with their culture is paramount because of the history of cultural erasure enacted on many tribal members, Johnson explained. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the government and Christian missionaries sent Indigenous children from across the country to boarding schools, sometimes hundreds of miles away, and forcibly stripped many of their language, native foods and spiritual and cultural traditions.Some adults in the community now say they see those educational efforts to reckon with that legacy paying off, not just in the increased number of kids able to attend spearing nights but also in the ways they’re engaging with their culture. More students are asking to participate in traditional naming ceremonies and are proud to use their Indigenous names in class than when Wendy Fuller first started teaching science at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School where Jason is dean, she said.Jaylon Rising Sun Givens, 8, warms up by a fire after fishing on Pokegama Lake during a youth spearfishing event Sunday, April 21, 2024, in Lac Du Flambeau, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Jaylon Rising Sun Givens, 8, warms up by a fire after fishing on Pokegama Lake during a youth spearfishing event Sunday, April 21, 2024, in Lac Du Flambeau, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)She described how teaching science in a cultural context helps kids better understand and connect with everything from concepts like diffraction (to spear a fish, you have to understand how light is distorted underwater) to the cyclical patterns of nature.
“When they get their first fish, it’s so incredibly exciting,” Fuller said. And as she watches students embrace their culture, “that identity gets them back in touch with nature.”
John Johnson, tribal president of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, leaves a wake as he drives his boat on Pokegama Lake during a youth spearfishing event Saturday, April 20, 2024, in Lac Du Flambeau, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Substitute Ousseni Bouda scored in the 74th minute, and the San Jose Earthquakes extended the LA Galaxy’s MLS record season-opening winless streak to 16 games with a 1-0 victory Wednesday night.
Bouda slipped between two defenders and got his third goal of the season on a precise pass from fellow substitute Preston Judd for the Quakes, who snapped a four-game losing streak in the California Clasico rivalry.The defending MLS Cup champion Galaxy (0-12-4) are edging toward historic ignominy after dropping yet another match at the stadium where they went unbeaten in 2024 and
“The frustrating part for me was we had more than enough opportunities to open that game up and be on top … and we just never got there,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said. “That’s disappointing.”The MLS record is 19 straight winless matches in league play by the MetroStars in 1999. Real Salt Lake also played 18 straight without a win from 2005-06.