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Misi-ziibi means “great river” in the Anishinaabe language. For the Native peoples of upper Minnesota, misi-ziibi referred to the long, 1,300-mile stretch flowing south of the Crow Wing River, past present-day St. Louis and into the Gulf of Mexico. But the name was not the only thing taken from the Anishinaabe, argues Nathan Stanfield, who is set to receive his master's degree in architecture this spring.

Replacing invasive plants with native ones is the focus of the Topeka Riverbank Restoration Project, which will have its first public event Saturday.

This weekend features events for couples as well as opportunities for individual enrichment, musical entertainment, artistic insights, alien invasions, bird-wat

On Nov. 16, Randolph College conducted a ceremony highlighting a significant part of local and national history: acknowledging that the land the college sits on historically belonged to the Monacan

It is the first college in the area to do so, according to those who led the effort to put together the ceremony and related history project.