Students help language project in Bemidji schools (fwd link)

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Published January 13, 2012, 12:00 AM

Students help language project in Bemidji schools

By: Anne Williams, Bemidji Pioneer
USA

Students in the Bemidji School District may soon notice a change to
their classroom names.

A sign for the health office will have “Aakoziiwigamigoons” next to
it, the cafeteria will have “Wisiniiwigamig” and art room will include
“Mazinibii’igewigamig.”

Dozens of signs featuring words in Ojibwe are being made by five
students at Bemidji High School and will placed throughout the school
district. The project is being funded by Bemidji’s Ojibwe Language
Project, a subcommittee of Shared Vision, a Bemidji group working to
make relations between American Indians and members of the majority
culture friendlier.

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