Project Reclaim

FAIN: ZDH-283277-22

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN 55455-2009)
Mary Hermes (Project Director: May 2021 to present)

Creating a mobile application aimed at highlighting the relationship between the Ojibwe language and the land using AR technology as a means of preserving the Ojibwe language.

Our proposed activity—Project Reclaim—is a new land-based initiative that will document and transmit the relationship between the Ojibwe language and land through an augmented reality (AR) experience. This project’s deliverables are a community-based game design workshop and Reclaim, a mobile application that uses AR technology to recreate the experience of walking in the woods with Ojibwe Elders for Ojibwe students, particularly those who do not live in or near Ojibwe communities. While Ojibwe students are our primary audience, this resource will be made available to all approximately 170,750 Ojibwe people living in what is now the United States as well as the interested general public.