This weekend's Nagaajiwanaang language camp in Sawyer is teaching more than Ojibwe vocabulary words and spelling lessons. The four-day camp is a lesson in all things Ojibwe, from attitude to native ...

Nov. 8—CLOQUET — For Michelle Goose, an Anishinaabe language instructor at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, land and the languages that developed on it are intertwined. You can't fully ...

BEMIDJI, Minn.—Classrooms in the Bemidji School District are getting some new names—in Ojibwe. Dozens of signs featuring words in Ojibwe are being made by five students at Bemidji High School and will ...

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Hope Flanagan, whose Ojibwe name is Wicoie Nandagikendan, consulted a 1994 dictionary when she asked others at an Ojibwe speaking group in south Minneapolis to help her find the words for “holds on to ...

This September, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa author and language advocate James Vukelich Kaagegaabaw is set to release his highly anticipated children’s book, Wisdom Weavers: Explore the Ojibwe ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- An endangered language spoken mostly by an elderly population can now be heard out of the mouths of kindergarteners in a room at Duluth’s Lowell Elementary School this year. There are ...

Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a “foreign” language. That’s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in Minnesota may be the only town off a ...

Ojibwe Words We Use Gimiwan Dustin Burnette, the executive director of the Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network, joins us to teach us about the Ojibwe origin of words and names like Bemidji or Kanabec ...

An endangered language spoken mostly by an elderly population can now be heard from the mouths of kindergartners in a room at Lowell Elementary School. There are 12 students in the new Ojibwe ...

[imgbelt img=ojibweprimer320.jpg]In Bemidji, Minnesota, a town with a history of angry race relations, a few well-placed Ojibwe words have opened the way for mutual trust and respect. Anton Treuer of ...

Anyone who’s seen the original 1977 “Star Wars: A New Hope” can recognize the blaring brass fanfare of its iconic theme song. But in a new version of the film, screening at Minnesota theaters this ...