One day in early fall 1930, a black car arrived at a small wood-frame house in Odanah, Wisconsin, to whisk 5-year-old Bernice Rabideaux and her four siblings away to St. Mary’s Catholic Indian ...

The stories in Mary Annette Pember’s new book, Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, are almost unbearable. They ...

or “Sister School,” on the Bad River reservation in Odanah, Wisconsin. According to the book, the experience created an intractable conflict between white Christian settler values and her ...

The same year, in Odanah, Wisconsin, a 14-year-old Ojibwe boy named Jason Pero died after being shot by a sheriff’s deputy who claimed he had a knife – a claim the boy’s family has disputed.

Sunny with a high of 55 °F (12.8 °C). Winds from NNE to NE at 6 to 11 mph (9.7 to 17.7 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 2 to 9 mph (3.2 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 35 °F (1.7 ...

Her involvement in the Methodist Youth Ministries as a young woman often took her to the Odanah Indian Reservation. She helped start a battered women’s shelter in Madison, Wisconsin. Her ...

Cloudy. A chance of showers this afternoon. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. South winds around 5 mph becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent. Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers ...

As for 5:30 p.m. the Wisconsin Department of Transportation closed a section of Highway 2 in both directions from Old Odanah Road to 26th Avenue. Video from resident Christie Branagan showed ...