Peggy Flanagan

Peggy Flanagan begins her campaign stump speeches by stating that she wants to introduce herself in the traditional way, in the Ojibwe language. She follows this by saying, “My name is Peggy Flanagan. My Ojibwe name [Gizhiiwewidamookwe] is Speaks in a Loud and Clear Voice Woman.”

Flanagan, the Minnesota lieutenant governor, is the daughter of Marvin Manypenny, an Anishinaabe activist who fought tirelessly for tribal sovereignty for Native people in the United States. Her mother, Patricia Elizabeth Flanagan, was a lifetime activist in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (“DFL”). She worked on Hubert Humphrey’s presidential campaign. Her grandmother, mother and aunts were Irish social-justice activists for decades. Continue reading.