Bad River Ojibwe With PATTY LOEW

Bad River Ojibwe

(This event is co-sponsored by the Wabeno Public Library and The Wabeno School District) 

Event: Guest Speaker Patty Loew
When: Friday, November 16 at 10a.m.
Where: Wabeno Elementary School Auditorium

4346 Mill Lane, Wabeno WI

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Patty Loew, Ph.D., is a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Life Sciences Communication as well as a documentary producer. For twenty years, Loew produced short and long-form documentaries and hosted news and public affairs programs for Wisconsin Public Television.

A member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Patty is the award-winning author of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal. The book won the Wisconsin Library Association's 2002 Outstanding Book Award. Her second book, Native People of Wisconsin, won the 2003 Best Juvenile Non-fiction Award from the Wisconsin Writers Council. Her documentary, “Way of the Warrior,” which received the 2008 Unity Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association, aired on PBS stations across the country in the fall of 2007.