Cecil H and Ida Green Visiting Professor lecture

More information on this event will be posted shortly. 

This event is open to the general public and does not require registration (but please note that our seating is limited). Coffee and tea will be served in the Piano Lounge at 4:30 pm, and the event will be followed by a reception in the Piano Lounge, Graham House. 

Mino-Giizhig (Wayne) Valliere (Waaswaaganing; Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin) is an internationally acclaimed Anishinaabe artist and educator, a National Heritage Fellow (the highest award for traditional artists in the United States), a recipient of the prestigious
Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship, and a respected cultural leader throughout the Western Great Lakes region. Valliere has dedicated his life to the preservation of Anishinaabe culture and language, not only mastering scores of art forms but working intensively with youth to transmit traditional knowledge to the next generation. Valliere has constructed dozens of birchbark canoes, revitalized traditional games and sports throughout the region, and taught Anishinaabemowin to hundreds of students in the public school.