(Mt. Pleasant, MI)
Email: smartin@sagchip.org
Website: www.sagchip.org/ziibiwing
Description: The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways, a 34,349 sq. ft. cultural center and museum belonging to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, embodies the tribe’s vision to maintain a facility that presents and protects its historical and cultural heritage. Established in 2004, the Ziibiwing Center is a distinctive treasure created to provide an enriched, diversified, and culturally relevant educational experience. This is accomplished through the center's award-winning Diba Jimooyung (Telling Our Story) permanent exhibit, changing exhibits, research center, Ojibwe language immersion room, gift shops, and numerous cultural and educational programs. In addition, exercising tribal sovereignty is part of the Ziibiwing Center team’s daily focus; work that includes locating ancestral remains and associated funerary objects for disposition and reburial, tribal collections maintenance, Ojibwe language revitalization, protecting tribal intellectual and spiritual property, and caring for burial, cemetery, and sacred sites.
