{"id":528,"date":"2017-02-01T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T04:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2017-02-18T15:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T23:47:14","slug":"bemidiji-talking-two-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji Talking Two-Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo credit: Bill Blackwell Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(<\/span>Bemidji, MN<\/span><\/i>) On Monday January, 30, 2017, over 50 people were in attendance to hear Arnold Dahl-Wooley, a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe<\/a>, discuss the history of Two Spirit people at the\u00a0Bemidji State University<\/a>\u2019s American Indian Resource Center in the Endazhi-Mawanji\u2019iding (Gathering Room). While many others turned in via the livestreaming of the lecture. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe American Indian Resource Center at\u00a0Bemidji State University<\/a> strives to promote inclusion and diversity, so people can be themselves,\u201d said Bill Blackwell Jr., Executive Director of American Indian Resource Center at Bemidji State University. \u201cThis #Two-Spirit<\/a> presentation, by Arnold Dahl, certainly assisted us in achieving that goal. The historical context of the Two Spirit population and their<\/p>\n

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Arnold Dahl-Wooley, a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Photo credit: Bill Blackwell Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

significance as spiritual beings was new to a lot of people. As someone who has several members in my family who identify as Two-Spirit, I took extra pride in having this discussion on our campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Blackwell continued, \u201cSome of the high points from Monday\u2019s talk were Arnold sharing his personal story as an Ojibwe who came out and how his family perceived it. Arnold did a great job of taking us through the Two-Spirit history: pre-contact, post-contact, and today\u2019s context and also did an amazing job with giving suggestions for what could be done by allies who are friends, teachers, and administrators.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arnold and his partner Matthew hold the honor of the first same-sex\/Two-Spirit couple to be recognized by the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe<\/a> and were married on the reservation in 2013<\/a>. Arnold is an advocate and works for and with the LGBTQ and Two-Spirit community as well as serves as Board Chair<\/a> for Leech Lake Tribal College.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bemidji State University<\/a>, located in northern Minnesota\u2019s scenic lake district, occupies a wooded campus along the shore of Lake Bemidji<\/a>. A member of the colleges and universities of <\/span>Minnesota State<\/span><\/a>, Bemidji State offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and 11 graduate degrees encompassing arts, sciences and select professional programs. Bemidji State has an enrollment of more than 5,100 students and a faculty and staff of more than 550. BSU\u2019s signature themes include environmental stewardship, civic engagement and global and multicultural understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Bemidji, MN) On Monday January, 30, 2017, over 50 people were in attendance to hear Arnold Dahl-Wooley, a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, discuss the history of Two Spirit people at the Bemidji State University’s American Indian Resource Center in the Endazhi-Mawanji’iding (Gathering Room). While many others turned in via the livestreaming of …Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,13],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-event","category-usa","tag-two-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}