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An Ojibwe man in traditional regalia at the White Earth Ojibwe reservation at the turn of the 20th century. Minnesota Historical Society.
Larry Aitken, Sacred Pipe Carrier of the Leech Lake Ojibwe Band and Professor of American Indian Studies at Itasca Community College, holding an apron embroidered with the traditional floral pattern associated with Ojibwe historical identity. Photograph by Dave McDonald.
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Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities
These Humanities Initiatives grants support humanities education and scholarship at Tribal Colleges and Universities. Grants may be used to enhance or create humanities programs, or to develop institutional humanities resources.
Guidelines URL:
www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HI_TCU.html
Project
AD-50007, White Earth Tribal College:
To Sanction, To Give Authority, To Bring to Life: Gi-bugadin-a-maa-goom.
The White Earth Tribal and Community College received a Humanities Initiatives grant in 2007 to develop a digital resource to preserve and revitalize the Ojibwe language of the Anishinaabeg people of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Three institutions (Itasca Community College, the University of Minnesota at Duluth, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) collaborated with White Earth Tribal College to create an archive of stories and artifacts of the Anishinaabeg people. The project emphasized Ojibwe narratives that preserve the history of the Treaty of 1855, which created the Mille Lacs reservation.
Project URL: gibagadinamaagoom.info/