POTAWATOMI TRAVELING TIMES Volume 23, Issue 21 • Datbëgon Gizes Leaf Moon • May 1, 2018 Nation’S Leading Native American Photographer Visits FCP Campus
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www.fcpotawatomi.com • [email protected] • (715) 478-7437 • FREE ® POTAWATOMI TRAVELING TIMES Volume 23, Issue 21 • datbëgon gizes Leaf Moon • May 1, 2018 Nation’s Leading Native American Photographer Visits FCP Campus Just some of the participants from the night along with Matika Wilbur (very back displaying peace signs). Courageous, motivated, activist, lov- couch, to hit the open road in search of Project 562 consists of Wilbur taking Wisconsin Indian Education Association ing, passionate, comical, intellectual, edu- opportunities to portray Native Ameri- her camera across America to document (WIEA) Conference in Keshena, Wis. cator and, most of all, the best infectious can culture as it is in this day and age. It through images and oral histories the and then drove here to speak with the laugh you will ever hear. These are just a has been her goal to represent modern people of the 562 federally-recognized Forest County Potawatomi tribal com- few descriptive words that sum up Mati- Indigenous people in the lives they live tribes in the United States. This number munity the night of April 20, 2018. In ka Wilbur, a 33-year-old photographer. today, as they are part of the American has, of course, now increased from when her presentation, she touched on stories Five years ago she sold all her belong- culture in every way. Though the ste- she started her journey in 2012. She of heartache, stories of hope, and stories ings, including her beloved Pottery Barn reotypical head-dressed chiefs that most says, “It’s been a whirlwind of a journey of triumph and encouragement. She internet search engines still pull up under and I’ve meet so many cool Indians, just spoke about the elders she has met along “Native American” searches represent everywhere! I started in Washington and her path and shared their wisdom and a proud heritage, Native Americans in worked my way into Oregon, California, their learning from past mistakes. She PAID today’s world are a fully integrated part of Arizona…there are 110 tribes in Califor- told stories of the hardships that young PRSRT STD PRSRT US POSTAGE American society in dress, education, and nia and I met like 60 of them though not people these days now have to deal with PERMIT NO. 317 PERMIT FOND DU LAC, WI FOND DU LAC, professional accomplishments and live them all. I went down into New Orleans and choices they have to make that peo- lives as “normal” as other Americans — a and did a whole story about the slave ple couldn’t imagine. She told stories of fact that Wilbur seeks to document and trade in Indian Country. In the Caribbe- how her very own spirit has been awak- share with the world through her work. an, I went to Puerto Rico and down to ened to make her people strong again and Wilbur is a member of the Swinomish Trinidad. Then I came back up to Florida to succeed in anything they do. and Tulalip tribes from the state of Wash- and I went to the Everglades. I flew up to She has fought and participated in ington, the Canoe people. She became Alaska and went whale hunting and kind environmental rights efforts to pro- a teacher on her reservation after com- of just zigzagged back and forth trying tect Mother Earth (specifically sharing pleting her advanced education. While to find friends. It’s just been an amazing powerful and moving stories of her time serving in this capacity, she noticed the whirlwind!” Not only has Wilbur visit- at Standing Rock reservation). She has lack of material portraying what Native ed these federally-recognized tribes, but marched with Indigenous women to pro- Americans are doing in the contempo- she has visited state-recognized ones as tect women’s rights. She has befriended rary world. This sparked the idea for the well. She realized in time that calling this people of different sexual orientation and project that she has been working on Project 562 was a bit shortsighted on identity. She has spoken for people who ever since and that is called Project 562. her end considering the vast abundance didn’t have the voice to speak for them- She says, “The time of sharing, building of Indigenous people on this land called selves at times. While doing all of this, cultural bridges, abolishing racism, and Turtle Island. She believes that “if” this she has captured their souls and stories honoring the legacy that this country is journey is ever finished, she will have on film to share with others across this built upon is among us. Project 562 is visited around 900 tribal communities. nation. that platform.” Wilbur was in this area speaking at the continued on pg. 3... 2 | Potawatomi Traveling Times • May 1, 2018 Elders Happy May Birthday to These Elders! 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