CLANS Project
Announcing a week-long program for tribal youth. The Creating and Learning Art in Native Settings project (CLANS) has invited American Indian artists to facilitate one or more traditional arts workshops during the week of July 16-20, 2012. These workshops will promote project-based learning inclusive of Anishinaabe language lessons, traditional songs, and storytelling. Workshops to be featured: black ash baskets porcupine quill projects basics of sewing beadwork hide moccasins hide tanning working with birch bark singing traditional songs hoop making and hoop dancing Workshops will take place at the Lac Vieux Desert tribal historic preservation building, the LVD youth center in Watersmeet and the natural setting of the Old Indian Village near the LVD reservation. See CLANS Project website. Applications for tribal youth to participate in this workshop will be available very soon. There are limited number of spots available. To learn more about the CLANS Project, contact April Lindala at (906) 227-1397 or Giiwe Martin at (906) 358-0137.

CLANS Project

Announcing a week-long program for tribal youth. The Creating and Learning Art in Native Settings project (CLANS) has invited American Indian artists to facilitate one or more traditional arts workshops during the week of July 16-20, 2012. These workshops will promote project-based learning inclusive of Anishinaabe language lessons, traditional songs, and storytelling.

Workshops to be featured:

black ash baskets

porcupine quill projects

basics of sewing

beadwork

hide moccasins

hide tanning

working with birch bark

singing traditional songs

hoop making and hoop dancing

Workshops will take place at the Lac Vieux Desert tribal historic preservation building, the LVD youth center in Watersmeet and the natural setting of the Old Indian Village near the LVD reservation.

See CLANS Project website.

Applications for tribal youth to participate in this workshop will be available very soon. There are limited number of spots available. To learn more about the CLANS Project, contact April Lindala at (906) 227-1397 or Giiwe Martin at (906) 358-0137.

Three strands of one braid.

ACADEMIC

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NAS Minor
NAS Courses offered
NAS 488 Service Learning Projects
Summer 2012 Classes
Fall 2012 Classes
Kinomaage field trips
Decolonizing Diet Project

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STUDENT SUPPORT

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

2012 CLANS Project
Summer Youth Programs **See video highlights from Native Report**
U.P.Indian Education Conference
Pow Wow Listings
Zaagkii Project
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News and Information

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KCP Visiting Professor
Dr. Scott Herron, Ethnobotanist from Ferris State University, presented "Endangered Foods, Lost Diets, and Securing our Earth Mother's Gifts". He also presented at the Kinomaagewin-Aki workshop at the Hannahville Indian Community. See the NMU video link.

KCP Visiting Professor

Dr. Scott Herron, Ethnobotanist from Ferris State University, presented "Endangered Foods, Lost Diets, and Securing our Earth Mother's Gifts". He also presented at the Kinomaagewin-Aki workshop at the Hannahville Indian Community.

See the NMU video link.

Ada Deer Commencement Speaker
The commencement speaker for May graduation was Ada Deer, Menominee. See the NMU announcement See the Photo highlights of Ada Deer's reception with the Center. To see more information, visit Ada Deer in Wisconsin Historical Society

Ada Deer
Commencement Speaker

The commencement speaker for May graduation was Ada Deer, Menominee. See the NMU announcement

Ada Deer

See the Photo highlights of Ada Deer's reception with the Center.

To see more information,
visit Ada Deer in Wisconsin Historical Society

Decolonizing Diet Project
We have now entered into the next segment of the planning and research phase. We look forward to working with volunteer research subjects in preparation of the start of the diet in Spring 2012. We will be contacting potential food providers and securing resources, such as food, equipment, or cash. If you would like to donate, or have any questions about the DDP, please contact Dr. Martin Reinhardt, principal investigator, at (906) 227-1397 or e-mail mreinhar@nmu.edu. The Great Lakes region as defined by the DDP. (click on map to enlarge). See the DDP Informational flyer; or visit the DDP blog. See the Faculty Research award announcement. Approved by IRB: Project #HS11-415

Decolonizing Diet Project

We have now entered into the next segment of the planning and research phase. We look forward to working with volunteer research subjects in preparation of the start of the diet in Spring 2012.

We will be contacting potential food providers and securing resources, such as food, equipment, or cash. If you would like to donate, or have any questions about the DDP, please contact Dr. Martin Reinhardt, principal investigator, at (906) 227-1397 or e-mail mreinhar@nmu.edu.

The Great Lakes region as defined by the DDP.

(click on map to enlarge).

See the DDP Informational flyer; or
visit the DDP blog. See the Faculty Research award announcement.

Approved by IRB: Project #HS11-415

Anishinaabe News
View our Winter 2011 edition of the Anishinaabe News, NMU's Native American student run newspaper. Writers, photographers and proofreaders welcome. Be a part of Anishinaabe News! Call the Center for Native American Studies at 227-1397 or e-mail nasa@nmu.edu.

Anishinaabe News

View our Winter 2011 edition of the Anishinaabe News, NMU's Native American student run newspaper.

Writers, photographers and proofreaders welcome. Be a part of Anishinaabe News! Call the Center for Native American Studies at 227-1397 or e-mail nasa@nmu.edu.

The Gift is in the Journey
"Minowaan mewizing bmi iyaangmaampii akiing" This saying is pivotal to the focus of NMU's Center for Native American Studies. We are all on a journey; your time at Northern Michigan University is a journey, one which you shape and mold. Pictured above: Whitman Woods Fire Site

The Gift is in the Journey

Fire Site
"Minowaan mewizing bmi iyaangmaampii
akiing"

This saying is pivotal to the focus of NMU's Center for Native American Studies. We are all on a journey; your time at Northern Michigan University is a journey, one which you shape and mold. Pictured above:

Whitman Woods Fire Site

Anishinaabe Words for the Month
Word for May - Kiik-shki-tonaa (Click on the link for information) Nimebine Giizis (Nimh-eh-bi-neh Gee-zehs) Sucker Moon - May Learn about the Moons of Anishinaabeg