Wayne “Mino-Giizhig” Valliere is an Ojibwe teacher, artist, and community leader from Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. He is an Ojibwe language and culture educator at Lac du Flambeau Public School on the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin, and leads a program called These Canoes Carry Culture, a program designed to teach Ojibwe youth the art of birchbark canoe building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.