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Fri, Nov 15, 2024 7:00pm–10:00pm

Feel Good Friday: Feel Good Frybread

Performance in the Apse at UMMA's Feel Good Friday Fry Bread event.
Photo by Mark Gjukich
Fri, Nov 15, 2024
7:00pm–10:00pm
Whole Museum

It’s finally Friday, and you deserve to Feel Good! November is Feel Good Frybread: The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs’ Native American Heritage Month Committee, U-M’s Native American Student Association, and UMMA invite you to an evening celebrating Indigenous students and communities. And yes, frybread!

Join us for a free performance by Mato Wayuhi (Oglala Lakota), composer for the award winning FX/Hulu series Reservation Dogs, screenings of Living in Balance: Anishinaabe Star Knowledge, frybread by Eva and Robin Menefee of Anishnabe Meejim, book giveaways, hands-on art activities, and more!

SCHEDULE Of EVENTS:

  • All Night
    Planetarium Show with Living in Balance: Anishinaabe Star Knowledge

    Frybread Giveaway with Anishnabe Meejim

    Community Tables

    Screen Printing with Heron Hill Designs

    IndigiLit Book Giveaway with Ariel Ojibway

  • 7:00pm
    Manoomin’s Journey: Wild Rice & the Anishinaabe People Crankie Box Show
  • 7:30pm
    Book Reading with Stacie Sheldon
  • 8:00pm – 8:45pm
    Performance by Zoon
  • 9:00pm – 10:00pm
    Performance with Mato Wayuhi

Special Guests & Performers

Mato Wayuhi

Mato Wayuhi is an Oglala Lakota artist originally from South Dakota. He works in film/TV both as an actor, producer and musical composer, as well as writing his own music. Most notably, Mato is the composer for the award-winning FX/Hulu series Reservation Dogs.

He is also featured on the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Hollywood & Entertainment. His most recent album STANKFACE STANDING SOLDIER is an entirely self-produced record, which Forbes calls a “masterpiece that revolutionizes Indigenous music into a new era.”

Stacie Sheldon is an enrolled member of the Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians and is passionate about preserving the Ojibwe language. In 2006 she co-founded www.Ojibwe.net, a website that seeks to connect language teachers and learners. She has also authored a bilingual children’s book entitled Bebikaan-ezhiwebiziwinan Nimkii: The Adventures of Nimkii.

Stacie Sheldon

Website: Ojibwe.net
HHD is a collective by Joey and Daniel, who are currently based in Michigan. All items that they produce are one of a kind handmade and hand harvested. Any materials that cannot be made, they outsource within indigenous communities. They focus on creating with sustainability, respect, and conscientious consumption in mind. Their work is a blend of contemporary styles of art and older traditional woodland floral designs.

Heron Hill Designs

Website: heronhilldesigns.com
Ariel is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, and her white ancestors came from cold, wet places too. She wants to be part of telling old & new stories to indigenize our children's minds, and it makes her hopeful that the telling of the almost silenced stories of stolen land, stolen people, and stolen histories is louder now than when she was young. She believes stories can lead our world back to the right path.

Ariel Ojibway

Living in Balance: Anishinaabe Star Knowledge highlights Anishinaabe stories of constellations and moons in relation to contemporary insights about environmental changes. Teachings shared by Native Skywatchers Carl Gawboy, William Wilson, and Dr. Annette S. Lee are narrated by Aarin Dokum with Anishinaabemowin translations by Alphonse Pitawanakwat set to art by Elizabeth LaPensée.

Living in Balance: Anishinaabe Star Knowledge

The Manoomin’s Journey Crankie Box Show was developed by three Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) friends who bring together their unique perspectives and creativity to share a special language and cultural learning experience. They are also all members of the ladies hand drum group, Asiginaak-Negamojig (the Blackbird Singers) who will lend their voices during the show.

Manoomin’s Journey: Wild Rice & the Anishinaabe People

A Crankie Box Show
View of a gallery installation. Black walls with gold and silver text tell the story of the Burt Lake Band of Anishinaabe Native Americans
Photo by Jeri Hollister and Patrick Young, Michigan Imaging

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Visitors fill Museum galleries to look at exhibitions and public performances
Photo by Mark Gjukich

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SUPPORT

This program is presented in partnership with the Native American Student Association, Native American Heritage Month Committee and the Office for Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs. Generously supported by Rackham Graduate School, Hatcher Graduate Library, Arts Initiative, UofM Native American Studies Program, and SMTD.