<h1 style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:1px 0px 11px;color:rgb(0,51,119);font-size:22px;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18.66666603088379px">Language Preservation Efforts Spark Interest in Ojibwe</h1>
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Brenda Child manages the online Ojibwe People’s Dictionary.</p></div><div class="doctypeicon IIP Staff Written" style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.66666603088379px">
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Washington — Like many indigenous languages, Ojibwe is endangered. But some Americans are working to preserve the language and encourage people to learn it.</p><p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px">
BRENDA CHILD</p><p style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px">An associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Brenda Child manages the online Ojibwe People’s Dictionary. The interactive resource combines about 30,000 Ojibwe vocabulary entries with 60,000 clips of Ojibwe elders saying words, sentences and paragraphs in their native language. Child is a member of the Red Lake band of Ojibwe of northern Minnesota and grew up hearing the native language spoken in her home.</p>
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<br style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px">Read more: <a href="http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2012/10/20121015137502.html?CP.rss=true#ixzz29f5COqvr" style="border:0px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,51,153);text-decoration:none">http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2012/10/20121015137502.html?CP.rss=true#ixzz29f5COqvr</a></span><div>
<br></div><div>(via Indigenous Tweets)</div>