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 ...

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 ...

DASSEL — Each and every one of us is connected to our family past and future through an unbroken chain, and our actions have consequences that reverberate up and down that chain for generations to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

While Ojibwe is spoken across southern Canada and the Upper Midwest, the language is considered severely endangered. Since Minnesota is home to the greatest concentration of fluent Ojibwe speakers, ...

MENOMONIE (WQOW) - Earlier this year, UW-Stout graduate students got the chance to travel north to learn more about the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School. UW-Stout's School Psychology program prepares ...