In remembrance · 1948 — 1980

Edward DeNomie (Asinbinaakwe'ige / Stone Raker)

Bad River Ojibwe, WWI veteran 32nd Red Arrow Division Patty's maternal grandfather. Subject of Way of the Warrior. Died 1980.

Edward DeNomie (Asinbinaakwe'ige / Stone Raker) appears in this brief because the work she or he did is part of the ground Patty walks on. As stories surface that touch this person, they collect here so the brief never loses the thread.

Coverage in The Weekly Brief

Issue 018 · September 6, 2026

Bad River Forester Gena Abramson Plants 400 Cedar Trees Along Denomie Creek to Heal the Reservation Forest

Mashkiiziibii Natural Resources Forester Gena Abramson, working with community volunteers, planted more than 400 giizhik (cedar) trees along Denomie Creek on the Bad River Reservation, replacing a green ash stand facing certain death from the emerald ash borer. The creek carries the name of your grandfather Edward DeNomie's family, and the act of planting cedar there is a quiet form of continuity: one generation healing what another generation built. This is mino-bimaadiziwin in practice, and it is the kind of story that belongs in the brief.

Issue 017 · August 30, 2026

Bad River Forester Gena Abramson Plants 400-Plus Giizhik Trees Along Denomie Creek to Replace Ash Lost to Emerald Borer

Mashkiiziibii Natural Resources Forester Gena Abramson, with community help, put more than 400 giizhik (cedar) trees in the ground along Denomie Creek on the Bad River Reservation, replacing a green ash stand the emerald ash borer has effectively sentenced to death. The creek's name carries its own weight here: Edward DeNomie, Patty's grandfather, is the ogichidaa for whom it is named, and watching his namesake waterway be tended this carefully is the kind of continuity that the Seventh Generation principle is built on. This is Bad River exercising stewardship, not waiting for a crisis.

Issue 006 · June 14, 2026

Pentagon Quietly Removes Native American Religion as a Distinct Category for Military Chaplains, Grouping It as 'Other'

The Department of Defense reduced its list of recognized religion codes used by military chaplains from more than 200 to just 31, eliminating Native American religion as a named category and folding it into a generic 'other' designation. ICT broke this story, and it deserves to be read by anyone who has watched a Native veteran try to access ceremony in a VA facility or on a military installation. For Patty, whose grandfather Edward DeNomie served in the 32nd Red Arrow Division and whose documentary Way of the Warrior traced the ogichidaa tradition across generations, this is not an abstraction. It is a policy decision that tells Native service members their spiritual practices are not worth naming.

Background · 2014 · wisconsin-academy

Patty Loew Builds the Wisconsin Indigenous Bookshelf Across the Decade Between Editions

Patty followed Indian Nations of Wisconsin with Native People of Wisconsin (2003), a social studies text for younger readers, and Seventh Generation Earth Ethics (2014), profiles of twelve Indigenous Wisconsin stewards including Joe Rose, Dot Davids, and Walter Bresette, which won the Midwest Book Award for Culture. Her PBS documentary Way of the Warrior aired nationally in 2007 and 2011, drawing on her grandfather Edward DeNomie's WWI service with the 32nd Red Arrow Division. The decade between INW editions produced the body of work the third edition now sits alongside.