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Immersion: Part One

The damaging impact of U.S government-run boarding schools is one of the leading...

The damaging impact of U.S government-run boarding schools is one of the leading causes for the steep decline in the use of the language. That damage is still felt by elders today. If the boarding schools of old are the past, then Ojibwe immersion programs like Niigaane School are the future.

AIR DATE 11/1/10

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About First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language

A language is lost every fourteen days. One of those endangered tongues is Minnesota’s own Ojibwe language. Now a new generation of Ojibwe scholars and educators are racing against time to save the language.

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#0 - First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language |
Monday, May 12 at 4am TPT MN
#0 - First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language |
Monday, May 12 at 4am TPT MN

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