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Many places in Michigan, including cities and counties, have Native American names due to the state's Indigenous heritage.
Not all of Pebaamibines’ students are native, like English and American Indian studies senior Laura Ewald. Although not of American Indian heritage herself, Ewald said she has studied a number of ...
According to Ojibwe language experts, fewer than 1,000 people still speak Ojibwe fluently in Minnesota. Tayah Reyes came to see the film with a group of four friends. Reyes is Ojibwe.
Many of the schools were government-funded and based off the model at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, one of the largest ...
When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest.
NATIVEAM 222: Elementary Ojibwe I, cross listed as AMCULT 222, introduces University of Michigan students to the Ojibwe language.The course is the prerequisite to NATIVEAM 322 — Intermediate Ojibwe — ...
Only two of the languages that Star Wars has been translated into are Native American languages. This summer, Star Wars was — as a result of indigenous language activists — dubbed in a second Native ...
When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest.
A new version of the 1977 classic Star Wars opens in Minnesota theaters, now dubbed over in Ojibwe -- the indigenous language of one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States.