Wisconsin Life

Tomahawk Circle: An Ojibwe Family Band


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For the members of Tomahawk Circle, playing in a rural family band is a labor of love. This Lac Du Flambeau Ojibwe drum group criss-crosses the country most summers to share their music with an extended community of Indigenous people. At Pow Wows from Washington state to North Carolina, members of Tomahawk Circle surround a single animal hide drum, and belt out songs in the Northern Original style. Joe O’Connell with Chippewa Valley Museum’s “Sounds Like Home” podcast brings us their story.
(Story originally aired 12/29/2020)
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