Living With the Land, featuring Louise Ogemahgeshig Fischer

During this captivating presentation, Anishinaabe Indian Louise Ogemahgeshig Fisher will inspire you to think about “living with the land” in new ways.

Covering medicinal plants and their uses, Indian history and ways of life, hunting, fishing, foods, clothing, gatherings, stars, storytelling, and more, Louise’s presentation is an exciting look into the past and inspiration for the present. Louise will share artifacts, sing an Indian song now and then, and having lived in the old ways, shares from experience and from the heart.  

This presentation is part of the Humanities Montana-Montana Conversations program and has been made possible by Humanities Montana.

Presenter Bio

Louise has been a speaker for Humanities Montana for many years, traveling to many parks, museums, schools and other places throughout the state. She is an artist and a drum maker. She also leads sweat lodge ceremonies and talking circles for the VA at Fort Harrison, helping out the PTSD Veterans. Louise has traveled to many states to do sweat lodge ceremonies for the Veterans, the VA staff, Tribes and other groups (in the past these ceremonies and other like ceremonies were not allowed. Since then, laws were passed to ensure that Indian people could do these types of ceremonies). 

Humanities Montana

Humanities Montana serves Montana’s multicultural communities through stories and conversation. They offer experiences that nurture imagination and ideas by speaking to Montanans’ diverse history, literature, and philosophy. Learn more at humanitiesmontana.org.