Ojibwe language: Bemidji businesses adopt bilingual signage (fwd link)

[Rolland Nadjiwon]

Great to see the old way of saying coffee and soup instead of kahpee and 
soopa

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wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon



phil cash cash wrote:
> Published July 08 2009
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> Ojibwe language: Bemidji businesses adopt bilingual signage
>
> By: Molly Miron, Bemidji Pioneer
> USA
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> “Aaniin” “Boozhoo” – customers to Bemidji’s Cabin Coffee House & Café are now
> welcomed in both Ojibwe and English.
>
> Table tents show them numbers, animals and the major Red Lake clans in both
> languages. And they can try their Ojibwe language skills to order
> makade-mashkikiwaaboo (coffee) and naboob (soup).
>
> Noemi Aylesworth, Cabin Coffee House owner, said the idea came from Shared
> Vision, a Bemidji group working to make relations between American Indians and
> members of the majority culture more comfortable and friendly.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/article/id/25271/
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