First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language
First Speakers: Restoring The Ojibwe Language
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A language is lost every fourteen days. One of those is Minnesota's own 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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First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language is a local public television program presented by Minnesota PBS
First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language
First Speakers: Restoring The Ojibwe Language
Special | 56m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
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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