Indigenous language helps us engage with our environment in a way that places humans within a network of relationships and the whole of life. It sees others as extended family. During this Zoom presentation, Dr. Mark Freeland will introduce a few basic concepts of kinship and relationality in his language, Ojibwemowin, helping us to restore our relationship with land and embrace a worldview of kinship.

Mark Freeland is Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education, Director of American Indian Studies, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mark Freeland is Bear Clan and a member of the Bahweting community in Northern Michigan (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe Chippewa).