The Nagaajiwanaang language camp in Sawyer, which started Thursday and continues through Sunday, offers more than just Ojibwe vocabulary lessons. The camp is a lesson in all things Ojibwe, from Native ...

ONAMIA, Minn. — The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and Rosetta Stone have joined forces to record and preserve the Ojibwe language and Mille Lacs dialect. "It's just amazing that we have this opportunity.

University of Minnesota senior Jaeden King is on a mission. “What’s going to happen to us if we don’t know the language?” she declares. “I wish to connect with my elders. I feel like there’s a ...

Awanibiisaa is the Ojibwe word for "misty rain." It might have been one of the many words learned by the 400-some people who gathered for last week's Ojibwe Immersion Camp in Sawyer. Then again, maybe ...

The University of Minnesota’s unique Dakota language and Ojibwe language majors allow students to pursue several paths involving their culture. Students are allowed the opportunity to learn the ...

The Ojibwe, or Anishinaabe, people have faced enemies familiar to Indigenous people worldwide: Colonialism and imperialism. In North America, these forces arrived in the form of westward European ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- In 2005, two volunteers set out on a mission to reconstruct a language native to the Bemidji area that had slowly deteriorated throughout the centuries. Nearly 10 years later, ...

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ONAMIA, Minn. -- Two decades ago, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in east-central Minnesota had 145 fluent speakers of the Ojibwe language. By 2019, that number had dwindled to just 25. Then, covid-19 ...

We meet an Ojibwe language immersion teacher who is an integral part of the Duluth Public... We meet an Ojibwe language immersion teacher who is an integral part of the Duluth Public Schools/Lowell ...

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