Tribe strives to preserve Ojibwe language (fwd link)

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PUBLISHED: Sunday, June 8, 2008
Tribe strives to preserve Ojibwe language

By PATRICIA ECKER
Sun Staff Writer

Many Native American communities are realizing that the languages of their
ancestors and the unique dialect of their regions are disappearing.

In 2005, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe did an assessment of the Ojibwe
language use within its community and discovered that the number of fluent
speakers was very low.

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