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 ...
The importance of a Native Nation’s language stands paramount to many Native Americans — and this year, programs have been created in schools across the northland to support Ojibwe language learning.
Teacher Diana Lawrey's high school Ojibwe language classes were a little nervous to visit a Lowell Elementary kindergarten classroom on May 25. The high schoolers were afraid of "being shown up" by ...
Carol Nickaboine pulls out a three-ring binder full of pictures and words, ready to teach the 4-year-olds plopped in front of her a lesson in their native language. ‘What is this?’ she asks, pointing ...
CROSBY — Join Unlimited Learning at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 13, in the Forum Room at Crosby-Ironton High School to hear from Chato Gonzales, an Ojibwe language expert and leader in the movement to revitalize ...
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 ...
DULUTH - Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe member William Gidagigwaneb Premo was in line at the grocery store recently behind a group of young Native American girls. One of them dropped a dollar, he said, so ...
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 ...
A collaborative effort between the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and the Minnesota Historical... A collaborative effort between the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and the Minnesota Historical Society/Minnesota ...
One thing you won’t find at the annual Language Camp at the Kiwenz Campground in Sawyer is a strict schedule. In fact, a request for precise Ojibwe camp event times was met with smiles from organizers ...
Cole Premo is digital manager for CBS Minnesota. For more than a decade, he's been covering breaking news and weather, daily topics, stories from the Native community and more in Minnesota.