First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language
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Lecture Hall
USA/2010 — produced by John Whitehead | 57 min.
As recently as World War II, Ojibwemowin was the everyday language of the Anishinaabe people. Today, with fewer than one thousand fluent speakers left in the United States, Ojibwe elders and educators are racing against time to preserve it.
Narrated by author and poet Louise Erdrich, First Speakers explores language revitalization efforts in Minnesota and Wisconsin, where more than half of the remaining fluent Ojibwemowin speakers live.
First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language
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Lecture Hall
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