<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Preserving a language</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Ray Kiogima, tribal elder and expert in Anishinaabemowin, writes definitive book on Odawa language</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Posted: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 4:02 pm</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">By Christina Rohn News-Review Staff Writer</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">USA</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Ray Kiogima is hoping to leave his legacy.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">For the past two years, the 80-year-old Harbor Springs native, and elder of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, has written and compiled everything he knows about Anishinaabemowin — his native language.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">With the help of the Andrew J. Blackbird Museum board, Kiogima has had the opportunity to publish “The Complete Odawa Language.”</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">“I wanted to preserve the Odawa language,” Kiogima said. “I’m thinking, after I’m gone, this will be here for people.”</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Kiogima has written the book in textbook form. It includes three dictionaries — Odawa phrases, English-to-Odawa and Odawa-to-English.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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