A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe language alive

Re:A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe lang... by nkurz on Sunday April 19, 2020 @09:37PM (#22920372)

1) 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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Re:A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe lang... by mchaver on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:43AM (#22922207)

Ojibwe is better described as a language continuum consisting of multiple languages. The larger the geographical distance between native speakers, the less likely their spoken form will be mutually intelligible. Like the Romance languages. Portuguese and Spanish are pretty close, and while they are much different from Romansh and Romanian speakers might be able to pick out words from each others' speech. So you probably learned moon from another variation of Ojibwe than the dictionary.

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Re:A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe lang... by DoofusOfDeath on Sunday April 19, 2020 @09:56PM (#22920474)

> 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].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxrM-lwQ5so

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Re:A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe lang... by justusthane on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:17AM (#22923565)

Crazy, WOJB was also one of my home radio stations (although being close to Ashland we got others as well). My dad DJd occasionally on WOJB when I was really little.

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Re:A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe lang... by 2snakes on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:54AM (#22923806)

My stepmom was a program director too! I still tune in sometimes.

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Re:A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe lang... by 2snakes on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:32AM (#22923653)

Yeah, James Vukelich does Ojibwe Word of the Day too I think.

WOJB is available to stream online now on their website and through TuneIn.

Great programming.

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