President John Johnson on shared Ojibwe and Catholic beliefs
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians President John Johnson discusses hopes to share Ojibwe culture with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration following a land back transfer.
By Erica Ayisi | Here & Now, ICT News
November 17, 2025
John Johnson on hopes to share Ojibwe culture following a land back transfer.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
President John Johnson:
I feel in the future that if we invite the sisters back to come and spend some time with us, see what our culture's about, see how they intertwine with one another, we can make the best of it and then show 'em what our kids know. I'm very proud of some of the young ones that we have in Lac du Flambeau that are practicing our religion and our language and our culture, and that's what's going to move us forward in the future. I was telling one of the sisters up there today some of the teachings in the Catholic Bible are the same things that we have in our Ojibwe culture.
This report is in collaboration with our partners at ICT, formerly Indian Country Today.
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