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Bemidji incorporates Ojibwe into city’s signs and daily life

By Cynthia Boyd | 05/21/12
US

Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a
“foreign” language.

That’s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in
Minnesota may be the only town off a reservation trying to incorporate the
area’s indigenous Ojibwe language into daily life.

All over town Ojibwe language signs are posted right alongside English
language labels, and for a just cause. The signage is part of a broader
effort to preserve the language spoken by an estimated 60,000 persons
across areas of the northern United States and into Canada as well as to
bridge cultural divides between whites and American Indians.

Access full article below:
http://www.minnpost.com/community-sketchbook/2012/05/bemidji-incorporates-ojibwe-city%E2%80%99s-signs-and-daily-life
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