About A. Ellie Mitchell

Ellie Mitchell is Anishinaabe (Eagle Clan), an enrolled citizen of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan. Since childhood, Ellie has dreamt of being a writer. Since 2016, she has been actively pursing that dream. Her work has appeared in Indian Country Today, Yellow Medicine Review, and was selected as a finalist in the 2020 Intertribal Agricultural Council's Storytelling Competition. Ellie occasionally contributes to The Tribal Observer, the community newspaper of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. She writes about business, beadwork, and fashion on the Bead & Powwow Supply Blog. Ellie is currently writing her first novel.

Ellie is the founder of Bead & Powwow Supply, an ecommerce company that specializes in beads and art supplies for contemporary Indigenous art and powwow regalia. She also works as an academic specialist at Michigan State University, doing outreach work with Indigenous communities, with a focus on Anishinaabemowin (Anishinaabe language). She served on the Board of Directors of the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinaabe Culture & Lifeways, for over eight years, including four as as chairperson. Ellie resides within the original treaty boundary of the Isabella Indian Reservation. 

Dibaajimoyaanh Anishinaabemong

Ellie Mitchell nda'zhinikaaz.

Migizi n'doodem.

Saginaw Ojibwe nda'aaw. 

Mount Pleasant ndo'njibaa. 

Nda-endaa ishkoganing geyaabi. Phil Peters gii-zhinikaaza Nmishomis-ba. Angela Peters zhinikaaza Ngashi.