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American Culture
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NATIVEAM 222: Elementary Ojibwe I explores both language and culture
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 — and can be taken to fulfill the LSA language requireme
University Origins
The Department of American Culture acknowledges the university’s origins in a land grant from the Anishinaabeg (including Odawa, Ojibwe, and Boodewadomi) and Wyandot, and we further acknowledge that our university stands, like almost all property in the United States, on lands obtained, generally in unconscionable ways, from indigenous peoples. Knowing where we are changes neither the past nor the present. However, through scholarship and pedagogy we work to create a future in which the past is thoroughly understood and the present supports human flourishing and justice while enacting an ethic of care and compassion.
