Mary "Fong" Hermes is a mixed hertiage (Dakota and Chinese). She lives with her husband and two high school children near the Lac Courte Orilles reservation where she works on Ojibwe language revitalization and education.  She has been a professor at the University of MInnesota Duluth for 10 years, and taught at Carleton College in Northfield MInnesota for four years before that.  Recently, she helped to found the Waadookoaading Ojibwe Immersion school and has been involved in creating Ojibwe language software for the past three years.  She grew up in St. Louis Missouri, was adopted and raised in an Catholic working class neighborhood.  After she left to attend Oberlin College for bassoon performance, she met her birth family.  She has been the recipient of many grants and fellowships, her academic work in American Indian language and culture widely published, but the accomplishment she is most proud of is her two children, John Lee and Bineshii.

 

Mary "Fong" Hermes is a mixed hertiage (Dakota and Chinese). She lives with her husband and two high school children near the Lac Courte Orilles reservation where she works on Ojibwe language revitalization and education.  She has been a professor at the University of MInnesota Duluth for 10 years, and taught at Carleton College in Northfield MInnesota for four years before that.  Recently, she helped to found the Waadookoaading Ojibwe Immersion school and has been involved in creating Ojibwe language software for the past three years.  She grew up in St. Louis Missouri, was adopted and raised in an Catholic working class neighborhood.  After she left to attend Oberlin College for bassoon performance, she met her birth family.  She has been the recipient of many grants and fellowships, her academic work in American Indian language and culture widely published, but the accomplishment she is most proud of is her two children, John Lee and Bineshii.