A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe language alive
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#31) I was unable to get past the popups to read the article until I tried opening the link in a "private" window. If you are having trouble, that might work for you as well. Alternatively: https://archive.is/DUdqz.
2) Growing up in Northern Wisconsin, the only public radio station we reliably received was from the Ojibwe reservation (https://www.wojb.org) and featured a segment called "Ojibwe word of the day". I thought I'd remembered the word for "moon", but checking the wonderful online Ojibwe dictionary at UMN (https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu), I think I must be mistaken --- or maybe there are multiple words for moon.
3) Anton Treuer (the subject of the article) teaches at Bemidji State, while his brother David teaches at USC. David's 2013 book "Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life" is an accessible and I think accurate introduction to the complexity of life on modern reservations (https://www.amazon.com/Rez-Life-Indians-Journey-Reservation/...).
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#4I'm struck by how many of them have seemingly ethnic-Japanese facial features.
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#5I'm struck by how many of them have seemingly ethnic-Japanese facial features.
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#61) I was unable to get past the popups to read the article until I tried opening the link in a "private" window. If you are having trouble, that might work for you as well. Alternatively: https://archive.is/DUdqz . 2) Growing up in Northern Wisconsin, the only public radio station we reliably received was from the Ojibwe reservation ( https://www.wojb.org ) and featured a segment called "Ojibwe word of the day". I th…
> 3) Anton Treuer (the subject of the article) teaches at Bemidji State, while his brother David teaches at USC.
I was desperately hoping you were going to tell us about Dave from Bemidji [0].
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#9The part of Northern Ontario where I grew up is part of the Ojibwe nation.
The most impressive thing about the nation to me is how inhospitable the region is. The winter where I'm from typically lasts about 8 months, it snowed a few days ago. The area wasn't really permanently inhabited by white people until well after industrialization.
I couldn't imagine living there without shipping or heating infrastructure.
It's unfortunate that we've lost so much of the history and traditions that enabled the Ojibwe to thrive there. Public school definitely didn't help, we learned absolutely nothing about their culture despite maybe a quarter of my class being native kids.
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#10I'm struck by how many of them have seemingly ethnic-Japanese facial features.
Not just Japanese, but East (and North) Asian in general. In fact, because of the genetic similarities, and of course lack of samples, a lot of DNA profiling lumps Indigenous Americans and East Asians in one group.
I have Native American ancestry, and was doing research on our history and was shocked to see the grouping, but also not so shocked, as it makes sense.