Faculty, students and the Department of American Indian Studies have recently launched a new online dictionary of the Ojibwe language. The Ojibwe People’s Dictionary is an online search engine of more ...

Teacher Diana Lawrey's high school Ojibwe language classes were a little nervous to visit a Lowell Elementary kindergarten classroom on May 25. The high schoolers were afraid of "being shown up" by ...

One thing you won’t find at the annual Language Camp at the Kiwenz Campground in Sawyer is a strict schedule. In fact, a request for precise Ojibwe camp event times was met with smiles from organizers ...

CLOQUET, Minn. — Persia Erdrich’s son had just turned 2 years old when he spoke his first sentence in Ojibwe. The pair were visiting the Minnesota Zoo as part of a group of babies, toddlers, parents ...

The importance of a Native Nation’s language stands paramount to many Native Americans — and this year, programs have been created in schools across the northland to support Ojibwe language learning.

University of Minnesota senior Jaeden King is on a mission. “What’s going to happen to us if we don’t know the language?” she declares. “I wish to connect with my elders. I feel like there’s a ...

Reg Chapman joined WCCO-TV in May of 2009. He came to WCCO from WNBC-TV in New York City where he covered an array of stories for the station including the Coney Island plane crash, the crane collapse ...

Tony Drews was excited when, in elementary school, he received his Ojibwe name, Chinoodin. His grandmother's cousin gave it to him, explaining that it was the name of Drews' great-great-grandmother ...

Cole Premo is digital manager for CBS Minnesota. For more than a decade, he's been covering breaking news and weather, daily topics, stories from the Native community and more in Minnesota.

The Ojibwe language, spoken in Wisconsin for more than 1,000 years, will finally make its way onto the big screen in the state this weekend. The original “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” film that was ...

RED LAKE, MINN. – Fourth-grader Jaxon Prentice, sitting on a couch in the radio station studio, hides his smile behind a pillow on his lap when he hears his voice first hit the airwaves. “You’re ...

CLOQUET, Minn.-- Aborigines from one of Australia's largest universities are visiting northern Minnesota to learn about a people with a similar history: the Ojibwe. It's part of an exchange agreement ...