American Indian Studies

Looking for Humanities and/or Cultural Diversity LEs this Spring? Need a creative writing course for the Creative Writing Certificate? Check out AMIN 3630 - Native New Worlds: Zombie Killers, Detectives, and Astronauts in American Indian Genre Fiction!

Join Nate Smith (Red Cliff Band) for an exploration of Ojibwe plant harvesting and preparation. Through storytelling and traditional plant demonstrations, participants will learn practical gathering techniques grounded in gratitude, reciprocity, and sustainability to build a more respectful, meaningful relationship with the natural world.

Join Dr. Meyer in the Library Rotunda (KAML 460) on Monday, September 14th from 11am - 12pm for her talk, The “Indian Lid” Controversy: Liquor, Law, and Anishinaabe Lives in Allotment-Era Minnesota.

Attend in person or RSVP to watch live via Zoom!

A team of researchers including UMD’s Jill Doerfler received $98,000 to create a digital edition of a 19th-century Ojibwe manuscript literary magazine.

Join author Ozhaawashkogiizhigokwe, Janis A. Fairbanks, in the Kathryn A. Martin Library Rotunda on Tuesday, April 7th from 2:00-3:00pm for an inspiring talk about her book, Sugar Bush Babies: Stories of My Ojibwe Grandmother.

This summer, College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (CAHSS) student Hilary Pohl received national recognition for a short story written as part of a class assignment.