Free Concert - Is Michigan the Only Ojibwe Word You Know? March 15, 2007

Is “Michigan” the only Ojibwe word that you know?

Come learn more at our FREE concert!

Helen Roy and Dave Fuhst perform songs you know (Beatles, CCR, Hank Williams and more) in Anishinaabemowin (the language of the People of the Three Fires of Michigan – Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi)

March 15, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Roosevelt Auditorium
Eastern Michigan University

Helen Roy is a tribal member of the Wikwemikong First Nations Band, Canada’s only Unceded Indian Reservation on Manitoulin Island in the province of Ontario. Helen is a survivor of the Indian residential (boarding) school system. Though Native language was prohibited at all residential schools, she has fortunately been able to maintain Ojibwe as her first language. Recently Helen and a friend, David Fuhst, guitarist extraordinaire, released their first CD, “Pop Songs Anishinaabe’amaadeg” in August of 2005. In late 2006 they completed a second album of popular songs entitled “Anishinaabe Nagamowinan.”

Sponsored by
The Eastern Michigan University
Native American Student Organization, Campus Life and the Residence Hall Association