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Keeping it in the culture

Senior helps create course to teach, revitalize Ojibwe language

Janie Boschma
Issue date: 10/8/09 Section: Student Life

Senior Paul Ganas goes over a list of Ojibwe words and phrases before his
language class Monday in the Old Library's distance learning lab, where the
class is both broadcast live and recorded. Watch archived classes online.

When his mother took senior Paul Ganas to his very first powwow as a toddler,
she said he immediately got involved, dancing and swaying to the beat of the
drums.

Now that he's older, Ganas, 25, is involved with American Indian culture in a
more intimate way - learning to speak Ojibwe and teaching it to others, in turn
breathing new life into an endangered language.

"Someone needs to step up and take care of it," Ganas said. "(Otherwise) a whole
culture, a way of life, is going to disappear. I think that's something worth
saving."

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