CD-ROM preserving the Anishinaabe Nation's language (fwd)

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CD-ROM preserving the Anishinaabe Nation's language

Posted on Tue, Mar. 08, 2005
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/11074762.htm

Can interactive technology help save the Anishinaabe nation's language?
One of the oldest and most historically important languages of North
America, Anishinaabemowin traditionally was passed on orally from a
tribe's elders to its younger members. Now, the language is in danger
of becoming extinct unless a new generation learns it.

With this in mind, an American Indian language expert who grew up on the
Wikwemikong Reservation in South Bay, Ontario, and now teaches in
Michigan, produced a user-friendly, interactive, instructional CD-ROM.
Recently released, it offers beginning, intermediate, advanced and
conversational levels of instruction and is appropriate for all age
levels. It includes colorful graphics, videos games and music.

Teacher Kenny Neganigwane Pheasant initiated the project, which also
involved well-known American Indian flutist and composer Anishinaabe
nation's language Charlie Wayne Watson, artist Zoey Wood-Salomon,
animator Robert Hughes and Jim Sundberg of JS Interactive, a multimedia
firm.

To order "Anishinaabemowin," send a check for $39 made out to Little
River Band of Ottawa Indians to Little River Band of Ottawa Indians,
375 River St., Manistee, MI 49660. For more information regarding
ordering, call 1-231-933-4406 or 1-231-690-3508 or e-mail Kenny
Pheasant at Pheasant9 at aol.com.