Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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When leaders from the Red Lake Band of Chippewa and the city of Minneapolis broke ground Saturday on an affordable housing complex on Cedar Avenue, they were marking a turning point. Mayor Jacob Frey, who has made affordable housing a signature issue, described the ceremony as a key moment in a complicated story arc. A sense of urgency for the project sprang from a sprawling homeless encampment across Hiawatha Avenue, which then gave way to the city's Navigation Center temporary shelter. That sh...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gerri Howard was loath to let a digital recorder capture her voice for a new kind of dictionary. A fluent speaker of Ojibwe on Minnesota’s Leech Lake Reservation, she didn’t like how she sounded on playback. But the sense of urgency she and other Ojibwe speakers share about their endangered tongue prevailed. With help from elders such as Howard, a University of Minnesota professor and students have created the first online talking dictionary of Ojibwe. The effort involved crisscrossing Minnesota and Wisconsin to recor...
Gerri Howard was loath to let a digital recorder capture her voice for a new kind of dictionary. A fluent speaker of Ojibwe on Minnesota's Leech Lake Reservation, she didn't like how she sounded on playback. But the sense of urgency she and other Ojibwe speakers share about their endangered tongue prevailed. With help from elders such as Howard, a University of Minnesota professor and students have created the first online talking dictionary of Ojibwe. The effort involved crisscrossing Minnesota and Wisconsin to record the voices of the...
