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Hide Tanning Workshop
Left: Larry scrapes the hide to remove the fur. Right: Amanda scrapes the hide on a rack to soften. Judy Van Zile, Sokaogon Chippewa Community, held a hide tanning workshop on Friday, April 5 until Sunday, April 7. Students had the opportunity to learn this traditional craft first-hand. Judy started with scraping the hide and showed us each step to creating a smoked-tan hide. See photo highlights of the 2013 Hide Tanning Workshop in Gwinn, Michigan. Other photo highlights include the 2011 Hide Tanning Workshop in Mole Lake, Wisconsin.

Hide Tanning Workshop

Left: Larry scrapes the hide to remove the fur.
Right: Amanda scrapes the hide on a rack to soften.

Judy Van Zile, Sokaogon Chippewa Community, held a hide tanning workshop on Friday, April 5 until Sunday, April 7. Students had the opportunity to learn this traditional craft first-hand. Judy started with scraping the hide and showed us each step to creating a smoked-tan hide.

See photo highlights of the 2013 Hide Tanning Workshop in Gwinn, Michigan.
Other photo highlights include the 2011 Hide Tanning Workshop in Mole Lake, Wisconsin.

Three strands of one braid.

Mallory Huizenga starting plants for the Decolonizing Diet Project.

Frankie St. Clair preparing food for the 20th annual pow wow feast.

Desiree Hughes, learning hoop dancing at the CLANS Project.

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2012 CLANS Project
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	Visit the Center's on-line photo gallery at Native American Studies at NMU Flickr photostream. This extensive photo gallery documents many years of various activities at the Center. You can also visit the Decolonizing Diet Project Flickr photostream. Find these programs on Facebook: the Center for Native American Studies, the Native American Student Association, and the Decolonizing Diet Project.
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Click picture to enlarge. (Pictures can also be found at our Flickr site.)	Purchase your copy of the Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now. Voice on the Water is a compilation of over 70 writers and artists creating a "community portrait of contemporary American Indians in Michigan." Available at the Center for Native American Studies, 112 Whitman Hall. Check out the Center Store for other items available.

NAS 484 Native American Inclusion in the Classroom
Sign up for Fall semester: Native American Inclusion in the Classroom will provide students with an intensive American Indian curriculum review and development experience over four Saturdays in September. Students will utilize multiple evaluative tools as they examine existing curricular materials and will develop their own American Indian interdisciplinary thematic unit. For more information contact Dr. Martin Reinhardt at mreinhar@nmu.edu or call (906) 227-1397.

NAS 484 Native American Inclusion in the Classroom

Native American Inclusion in the Classroom will provide students with an intensive American Indian curriculum review and development experience over four Saturdays in September.

Students will utilize multiple evaluative tools as they examine existing curricular materials and will develop their own American Indian interdisciplinary thematic unit.

For more information contact Dr. Martin Reinhardt at mreinhar@nmu.edu or call (906) 227-1397.

Congratulations Graduates!
The Center for Native American Studies would like to extend our congratulations for the NMU graduates and the local high school graduates!

Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now
Joseph Bruchac and Grace Chaillier enjoyed the stories. Give a gift of word - an anthology of over 70 authors. Voice on the Water is available at the Center for Native American Studies, the NMU Bookstore, and local booksellers.

Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now

Joseph Bruchac and Grace Chaillier enjoyed the stories.

Give a gift of word - an anthology of over 70 authors. Voice on the Water is available at the Center for Native American Studies, the NMU Bookstore, and local booksellers.

Anishinaabe News
See our newest edition of the Anishinaabe News, NMU's Native American student run newspaper. If you would like to submit an article or have an idea for an article, send via e-mail to Gabe Waskiewicz at gwaskiew@nmu.edu. Writers, photographers and proofreaders welcome. Be a part of Anishinaabe News!

Anishinaabe News

See our newest edition of the Anishinaabe News, NMU's Native American student run newspaper.

If you would like to submit an article or have an idea for an article, send via e-mail to Gabe Waskiewicz at gwaskiew@nmu.edu. Writers, photographers and proofreaders welcome. Be a part of Anishinaabe News!

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
Phrase for April - Kitchi-Piitendaagwad-Maadaziwin Click on the phrase to hear the pronunciation and translation. Nimebine Giizis (Ni-meh-bi-neh Gee-zehs) Sucker Moon - May Learn about the Moons of Anishinaabeg