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.

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 ...

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 ...

Dustin Morrow, a student earning his master’s degree in linguistics at the University of Minnesota, remembers the first time he heard someone casually speaking Ojibwe. He was 25 years old and ...

ONAMIA, Minnesota — 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, ...

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 ...

At Lowell Elementary School, students are able to opt-in to learning Ojibwe through the school’s Misaabekong Ojibwe Immersion Program. “We’ve had this Ojibwe immersion program for eight years, so ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Parkhill remembers receiving a call from a community leader in a northern Ontario First Nation about three years ago asking if he had a tool that might help students learn Ojibwe. *Special offer ...

Reg Chapman joined WCCO-TV in May of 2009. He came to WCCO from WNBC-TV in New York City where he covered an array of stories for the station including the Coney Island plane crash, the crane collapse ...

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