Recently we observed the success of Navajo leaders who gave their traditions a boost by getting the original Star Wars movie dubbed into Dine', their traditional language.
A video that came to my attention this week was actually produced four years ago, but it represents up-to-date information and I'd like to recommend it now to anybody who wants to understand how a living language can be kept from dying and also why a people would take the trouble to save their dying language.
A few weeks ago, I embedded a rather short video in a blogpost about the Ojibwe Language Nest, a preschool in Upper Michigan. In the longer film that you can view below, First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language, a Minnesota Ojibwe community creates a language immersion school - not a preschool, but an actual accredited Pre-K through 8th grade school aimed at saving their language.
Phonetically, Ojibwe is pronounced "O-jib-way."
A shout-out to enrolled Stockbridge Mohican, Brent Michael Davids, whose flute provides the main title music of this ground-breaking documentary.
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