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 ...

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 ...

Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a “foreign” language. That’s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in Minnesota may be the only town off 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 ...

James Vukelich is the creator of 'Ojibwe Word of the Day' and has been recognized as a leading... James Vukelich is the creator of 'Ojibwe Word of the Day' and has been recognized as a leading voice ...

BEMIDJI, Minn.—Classrooms in the Bemidji School District are getting some new names—in Ojibwe. Dozens of signs featuring words in Ojibwe are being made by five students at Bemidji High School and will ...

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 ...

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Tony Drews was excited when, in elementary school, he received his Ojibwe name, Chinoodin. His grandmother's cousin gave it to him, explaining that it was the name of Drews' great-great-grandmother ...

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 ...

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