For my first post...

I wanted to highlight a program that was originally aired on Twin Cities Public Television in November, 2010, called "First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language". The show follows educators' efforts to save the Ojibwe language and pass it on to the next generation. It can be viewed in its entirety here.



Here is an excerpt from the program page description:

"First Speakers takes viewers inside two Ojibwe immersion schools: Niigaane Ojibwemowin Immersion School on the Leech Lake Reservation near Bena, Minnesota and the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion Charter School on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation near Hayward, Wisconsin. In both programs, students are taught their academic content from music to math entirely in the Ojibwe language and within the values and traditional practices of the Ojibwe culture. Unique to the schools is the collaboration between fluent speaking elders and the teachers who have learned Ojibwe as their second language."