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Native American Studies
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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
Welcome to Native American Studies
The Native American Studies (NAS) Program at the University of Michigan places American Indians at the center of broader inquiries into the nature of the human confrontation with intrusive power.
Faculty and students work together to explore, through the humanities and the social sciences, varieties of the Native American experience and the importance of Indians to American history, literature, religion, social sciences, politics, and law. Wherever we confront questions of identity that embroil American Studies, American Indians loom large.