Name: Fireside Wisdom: Honoring the Truth of Our Ancestors
Start: 2025-09-24T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-24T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Elgin Community College

Join Ojibwe Elder Joseph Standing Bear Schranz around the fire for timely Native teachings and perspectives. Enjoy hand drum and jingle dress dancing with Sergio and Maritza, and the beautiful songs and storytelling of renowned Algonquin/Metís flute player, Bill Buchholtz Allison. Indigenous baked goods provided by Dempsey House.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome.

Joseph Standing Bear Schranz is the President of Midwest SOARRING. You can learn more about their work here: [https://midwestsoarring.org/](https://midwestsoarring.org/)

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The Great Listening

Religion & Spirituality

Drum Circle

Creative Circle

Social

Outdoors

Community

Learning

Philosophy

Motivation & Success

Spiritual Growth

Energy Healing

International Friends

Community Outreach

People Helping People

Singing

Poetry

Nancy

Dawn Marie Yarbrough

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Carla Hasegawa-Ahrendt

Mira Rhead

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Blake Stephens 

Joseph Standing Bear Schranz is a White Earth Band Minnesota Ojibwe Elder doing incredible work as a Native activist, educator, and community leader in the Indigenous community across Illinois. For decades, Joseph has led the Midwest SOARRING Foundation (Save Our Ancestors’ Remains and Resources Indigenous Network Group) as founder and president. 

The Midwest SOARRING Foundation’s mission is to work toward repatriation, protect sacred sites, educate the public, and promote community building among all people regarding indigenous lifeways.
Midwest SOARRING invites all people to gather into an ever-widening wider circle that preserves Mother Earth, and the rich traditions of the ancestors. Midwest SOARRING invites you to learn about the many intertribal Native American lifeways that provide wisdom and direction in our contemporary world. In keeping with this path, the Midwest SOARRING Foundation works to maintain the traditions of the ancestors and to conserve and restore to health the natural environment.






Fireside Wisdom: Honoring the Truth of Our Ancestors

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