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Preserving a Language

U launches groundbreaking new Ojibwe-English ‘talking’ dictionary

Eugene Stillday was born in Ponemah on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, where he grew up speaking Ojibwe. That is, until his public school teachers forbade him from the practice and punished him and his classmates for speaking the only language they knew. (more…)

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