Tinker Schuman — a pipe carrier, healer, poet, artist, and an elder in the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe tribe known as Migizikwe, or Eagle Woman — will treat audiences to a cultural journey through stories, poems, and songs. The author will read her poetry and tell fascinating tales from her life as a great grandmother, grandmother, auntie, sister, spiritual mother, sundancer, jingle dress dancer, poet, and leader of women ceremonies and water ceremonies. Tinker will also guide the audience through the creation of free verse, enhanced by her poem, “Lost in the Party Life.”
Tinker is the author of poetry collections Reborn in the Sun, Ba Bii Dwe We Win (Sound of Living), Nin Nagumo (My Songs), and the poetry CD All My Relatives. She is also co-author of the book The Healing Blanket and the recipient of the “Elder of the Year” award by the Wisconsin Indian Education Association.
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