Honoring the Land, Ensuring a Future - Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish (Gun Lake Tribe) Elizabeth Binoniemi-Smith, Virginia Sprague-Vanderband, John Shagonaby

Representatives from the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe) join our hosts today talk about current work that is being done to connect communities in in the area with the land, the past, and each other. The work that the Gun Lake Tribe is doing to protect this land is something you will want to find out more about! Guests in this episode: Virginia Sprague-Vanderband, Tribal Council Member John Shagonaby, Government Affairs Officer Elizabeth Binoniemi-Smith, Environmental Director Correction: In the episode, it is said that half the Gun Lake Tribe Members are elders. It is actually that about half the tribe are youth; not elders. Learn more: https://gunlaketribe-nsn.gov/departments/administration/language-culture/food-sovereignty/