HAYWARD, Wis. — Ganebik Johnson started learning traditional Ojibwe songs when he was about 2 years old. “They’re able to build their connection through feeling the cold and smelling the water and smelling the air.” Jason Bisonette drives his boat while spearfishing with his son on the Chippewa Flowage Monday, April 15, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. Gabe Bisonette spears a …
HAYWARD, Wis. — Chilly nights on northern Wisconsin’s Chippewa Flowage don’t deter 15-year-old spearfisher Gabe Bisonette. “It worries me, what I’ve seen in my lifetime, what’s my grandson going to see in his lifetime?” Gabe Bisonette, a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, spears a walleye by headlamp on the Chippewa Flowage Monday, April 15, …