Ojibwe language: Bemidji businesses adopt bilingual signage (fwd link)

[phil cash cash]

Published July 08 2009

Ojibwe language: Bemidji businesses adopt bilingual signage

By: Molly Miron, Bemidji Pioneer
USA

“Aaniin” “Boozhoo” – customers to Bemidji’s Cabin Coffee House & Café are now
welcomed in both Ojibwe and English.

Table tents show them numbers, animals and the major Red Lake clans in both
languages. And they can try their Ojibwe language skills to order
makade-mashkikiwaaboo (coffee) and naboob (soup).

Noemi Aylesworth, Cabin Coffee House owner, said the idea came from Shared
Vision, a Bemidji group working to make relations between American Indians and
members of the majority culture more comfortable and friendly.

Access full article below:
http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/article/id/25271/