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'Race against the clock': the school fighting to save the Ojibwe language before its elders pass away


‘Race against the clock’: the school fighting to save the Ojibwe language before its elders pass away
Mario Koran in Wisconsin
In the deep forest of the Lac Courte Oreilles tribal reservation, sixth-grade teacher Lisa Clemens abruptly halts the group of children behind her and points to the bald eagle circling just above the pines.

“Migizi!” her students shout back.
The sunny morning in early March is the first time many of the students and teachers of Waadookodaading, Wisconsin’s only Ojibwe immersion school, have been together since Covid-19 struck.
Waadookodaading means “a place where people help each other” in Ojibwe, the language of people indigenous to the Great Lakes region of Canada and the US upper midwest. At the school, the forest is the children’s classroom. Harvesting maple sap and wild rice turn into math lessons on calculating volume. They learn biology from the fish they catch, clean and eat. ....

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'Race against the clock': the school fighting to save the Ojibwe language before its elders pass away | Wisconsin


As autumn neared and cold weather approached the nation’s heartland, a state that took seven months to reach 100,000 cases saw its numbers double in just 36 days.
As infections spread from the state’s urban centers and college towns toward its rural northwoods, cases began spiking on reservations – worrying tribal leaders that they could see the devastation inflicted on the Navajo and other tribes further west.
In contrast to the rest of the state, whose partisan battles paralyzed the government’s response, tribal leaders used their local authority to aggressively lock down reservations, impose mask orders and curfews, and limit gatherings. ....

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