BLACK RIVER FALLS — It’s 7:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and class for the Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums program at UW-Madison is just getting started.
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Librarian Tina McArthur, a member of Ho-Chunk Nation, walks through Waagax Hakiruxaraxara Hosto community library on Thursday. For nearly two decades, UW-Madison students have assisted libraries in 10 of the
12 tribal nations within Wisconsin’s borders.
OWEN ZILIAK, STATE JOURNAL
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The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is once again holding its Birds in Art exhibit that features 142 artists who paint, carve and sculpt.
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Cassy Leeport, UW-Madison’s director of Tribal Libraries, Archies and Museums, and a descendent of Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe, on Thursday shows first-year UW-Madison master’s student Cheyenne Woerman one of the picture books she is sorting at Ho-Chunk Nation’s Waagax Hakiruxaraxara Hosto community library in Black River Falls.
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Cheyenne Woerman, left, and Megan Walters push a cart of books to be shelved in the Ho-Chunk Nation Waagax Hakiruxaraxara Hosto community library. While UW-Madison’s program assisting tribal nation libraries enrolled 200 in its first 13 years, 71 students have enrolled in just the last three semesters.
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