Monday's visit from Minnesota Department of Higher Education Commissioner Dennis Olson Jr. and lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan felt more like a reunion than a tour stop to promote proposals for the higher education budget Gov. Tim Walz and Flanagan released two weeks ago.

Both Olson and Flanagan greeted the audience of educators and students at the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College by speaking in Ojibwe.

When Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe, told the crowd she is a member of the wolf clan she got a smattering of "woohoos" from the crowd.

"Yeah, what's up, wo...