Mike Laverdure, Migizi Miigwan (Eagle Feather) is an Anishinaabe (People From Whence Lowered) from the Makwa Doodem (Bear Clan) and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Mikinaak Wajiw. Working with Indigenous nations throughout the United States, Mike has designed a wide variety of projects including schools, community centers, clinics, casinos, multi-family housing, museums and more. Mike was the principal architect on the first Net Zero school located on Tribal lands in North America, on the Spirit Lake Nation reservation. His mission in life is to promote architecture and engineering as a valid and vital STEM career for Tribal youth and to have Native American architecture create real change in Tribal communities.
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