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Join Dr. Sabine Meyer for Her Talk, The "Indian Lid" Controversy

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!

Jill Doerfler speaks to an audience at a lectern.

Grant will digitize significant work of early Indigenous literature

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.

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Mud Pies and Other Small Wonders

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.

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CAHSS student named finalist in national Indigenous fiction contest

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.

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TAG Student Hilary Pohl Finalist in Indigenous Fuction Prize Folio

AIS Department Tribal Administration and Governance student Hilary Pohl was a finalist in the Chapter House Journal's Summer 2025 Indigenous Fiction Prize with her story "She Who Helped Nanaboozhoo."

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A Chance Encounter: Friendship Inspires Scholarship

The 2024-25 issue of Confluence, the newsletter of the UMD College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, has published an article about the origins of the UMD American Indian Studies Scholarship, new in Fall 2024, and the two inaugural recipients for 2024-25, undergraduate students Olivia Johnson and Alyza Savage.