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These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.

Rebecca Jim
May 123 min read


BEAVERS to the Rescue
A beaver is yes, a rodent but they are also ecosystem engineers who can shape wetlands and create biodiversity.

Rebecca Jim
Apr 73 min read


JUSTICE
“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing." –Marcus Aurelius

Rebecca Jim
Mar 173 min read
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These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.

Rebecca Jim
May 123 min read


The Indian in Me
There was a phrase I heard used by my mother’s mother. Maude Bradshaw. She was my size, and my mother’s size, so of course I deemed her my Little Grandma. Maude was a stern mother to her 6 children. Her words became legendary in our family and many of her practical ways are part of my life. My Big Grandma was Cherokee and was a big woman, who I never heard claim knowledge from her heritage. Not like my Little Grandma who had a single black braid that when it wasn’t wrapped ar

Rebecca Jim
Feb 123 min read


Boarding School Drop Out
Myself I am the product of a boarding school experience. What happened there put me on the road to become a school counselor.

Rebecca Jim
Nov 4, 20244 min read


Bearing Witness
During the summer of 1964 Freedom Riders trained at Western University, which is now the white bricked portion of Miami University. It...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 5, 20244 min read


Start Dreaming
Without a dream, with no hope, with no plan for change, we will have no change. Billy Mills, began his Dreamstarter program on the 50th...

Rebecca Jim
Apr 5, 20233 min read


I Didn't Know To Ask
Monday morning brought me the opportunity to spend time with a group of women who spoke a language I had never heard spoken before that...

Rebecca Jim
Sep 25, 20223 min read
Be Brave
In the privacy of your car there is a thing you can do. Drive down Main Street, like usual, but when you are alone in your car, slow down,...

Rebecca Jim
Aug 21, 20224 min read
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