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Department of American Indian Studies

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Through the exploration of indigenous narratives, heritage, and history, we strive to restore and promote the importance of American Indians in everyday life.

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The CLA Student Experience Today

Even though the liberal arts go back to the past – thousands of years – we provide the answers of the future. Learn about today’s transformative student experience.

Living in the Language

The University of Minnesota is offering student housing for residents who want to immerse themselves in learning Ojibwe or Dakota, two Native languages at risk of extinction.

Ojibwe Language Revitalization Focus of New NSF/NEH Grant

A team of researchers in Linguistics and American Indian Studies have been awarded an NSF/NEH Dynamic Language Infrastructure grant for their project, “Developing Indigenous…

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October 19, 2022

Joy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier: Poems in Conversation

The US Poet Laureate reads and talks with the author of WHEREAS, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.