Ariel Ojibway

Ariel Ojibway, a member of the Sault Ste. MarieTribe of Chippewa Indians, loves cooperative movements and human communities taking care of each other, the way our other-than-human family on Turtle Island takes care of us. She’s overly fond of books, hot cocoa, and puppies; she loves plants, libraries, and dance. She misplaces time easily. If she had her druthers, she’d always be by the water. Ariel wants to be part of telling stories to indigenize our children’s minds, and it makes her hopeful that the telling of the almost-silenced stories of stolen land, stolen people, and stolen histories is louder now than when she was young. She believes stories can lead our world to the right path. Learn more about The Story of the First Pawpsicle in this interview with Ariel and our other 2025 authors from our pulp.aadl.org site that covers Arts Around Ann Arbor.