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The valley was first inhabited by the Ojibwe and colonized by German and Scandinavian immigrants. The region also has a large Hmong community. While the term "Chippewa Valley" technically refers to the drainage basin of the Chippewa River and its tributaries, the name is more often applied to the Eau Claire-Chippewa Falls metropolitan area and the surrounding area—including communities not ...
Family Promise (formerly National Interfaith Hospitality Network) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, founded by Karen Olson in 1988. Family Promise [1] primarily serves families with children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, with the mission of "help[ing] homeless and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community-based ...
Ojibwe understanding of kinship is complex and includes the immediate family as well as extended family. It is considered a modified bifurcate merging kinship system . As with any bifurcate-merging kinship system, siblings generally share the same kinship term with parallel cousins because they are all part of the same clan.
The outbreak generated a long-lived tornado family that produced four intense tornadoes across the Lower Chippewa Valley, primarily along and near the Chippewa and Eau Claire rivers. The deadliest tornado of the outbreak was a destructive F5 that killed 21 people and injured 110 others in and near Colfax, Wisconsin. [nb 2] [nb 3] [nb 4]
Chippewa Falls (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ p ə w ə ˈ f ɔː l z / ⓘ) is a city located on the Chippewa River in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 14,731 in the 2020 census . [ 6 ] Incorporated as a city in 1869, it is the county seat of Chippewa County. [ 7 ]
Nov. 4—As Family Promise of the Palouse celebrates its 10-year anniversary this week, the nonprofit is embarking on a plan to provide transitional housing for families in Moscow and Pullman. "It ...
CHIPPEWA FALLS — In the living room of a private residence, a sweet and affectionate three-year-old girl sips a small amount of water from a small medicine cup. She tries carefully not to spill ...
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