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 ...

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 ...

Faculty, students and the Department of American Indian Studies have recently launched a new online dictionary of the Ojibwe language. The Ojibwe People’s Dictionary is an online search engine of more ...

The Ojibwe word for snow was a popular one as several Anishinaabe toddlers and their mothers and teachers trudged through the deep snow, the kids either delighting in last week's winter storm, or ...

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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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 ...

The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is taking steps to revitalize the critically endangered Ojibwe language and Mille Lacs dialect. The Band, whose members have resided in what is today East Central ...

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CLOQUET, Minn. — Persia Erdrich’s son had just turned 2 years old when he spoke his first sentence in Ojibwe. The pair were visiting the Minnesota Zoo as part of a group of babies, toddlers, parents ...

RED LAKE, MINN. – Fourth-grader Jaxon Prentice, sitting on a couch in the radio station studio, hides his smile behind a pillow on his lap when he hears his voice first hit the airwaves. “You’re ...

The Ojibwe language, spoken in Wisconsin for more than 1,000 years, will finally make its way onto the big screen in the state this weekend. The original “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” film that was ...