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Ezhichigeyaang Bemijigamaag Gabe-gikendaasoowigamig Endazhi-gikenjigaadeg Anishinaabemowin<\/h2>\n
What we do in the Bemidji State University Ojibwe language program<\/em><\/p>\n Bemidji State University is home to the first collegiate Ojibwe language program in the United States, starting with adjunct classes in 1969 and a full three-year sequence of language courses starting in 1971. Additional current course offerings include Ojibwe Culture, Ojibwe Oral Literature and Instruction of Ojibwe.<\/p>\n Students can obtain a Minor in Ojibwe<\/a> at BSU. BSU Ojibwe program students include co-founders of Niigaane Ojibwe Immersion School and Wadookodaading Ojibwe Immersion Charter School, the highest performing Ojibwe immersion schools in the world, as well as many other language activists, scholars and cultural carriers.<\/p>\n There are currently around 400 Native students at BSU and most are involved with the Ojibwe language program in some capacity. The Ojibwe teaching staff at BSU has garnered numerous awards for excellence in instruction.<\/p>\n BSU offers a Bachelors of Science in Ojibwe Education<\/a> and Certificate in Instruction of Ojibwe<\/a>. With the advent of tribal schools and Ojibwe immersion programs in Reserve (Wisconsin), Bena (Minnesota), Red Lake (Minnesota) and Ponemah (Minnesota), BSU seeks to train a new generation of fluent speakers who have training and credentials necessary to accelerate this critical dimension of the Ojibwe language revitalization movement. A full-time retention specialist is also on staff to help guide students in the Bachelors of Science in Ojibwe Education program.<\/p>\n BSU staff assist in facilitating area language tables, coordinate activities with the campus language club and the Council of Indian Students and special events and activities for students that typically include trips to local Ojibwe ceremonies and language conferences. BSU’s Ojibwe program also participates in and often hosts a collegiate quiz bowl for Anishinaabemowin.<\/p>\n BSU is located in the heart of northern Minnesota right between the three largest reservations in the state and a short distance from all other Ojibwe communities in Minnesota. The relationship between the Ojibwe language program, the tribes and the communities they serve is deep and symbiotic. Fluent tribal elders regularly come to campus and the staff and students at BSU frequently go into the native communities for ceremonies, powwows, social and cultural events.<\/p>\n BSU staff has assisted the White Earth Reservation in presenting the preamble for their new constitution in the language and helping Red Lake Tribal Court to develop rulings and supporting material in the language. Tribal language and sovereignty go hand-in-hand. You are in Ojibwe country at BSU.<\/p>\n The academic record of the Ojibwe language program is truly distinguished. BSU Ojibwe language staff have published numerous books, ranging from the premier Ojibwe dictionary, A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe<\/em>, to award-winning Ojibwe in Minnesota <\/em>and a host of other languages, culture and history books, such as The Assassination of Hole in the Day<\/em>, Aaniin Ekidong: Ojibwe Vocabulary Project<\/em> and the first-ever monolingual young reader series for Ojibwe, Awesiinyensag: Dibaajimowinan Ji-gikinoo’amaageng<\/em>.<\/p>\n BSU Ojibwe staff are contributing to Rosetta Stone lessons in Ojibwe and have worked on the Ojibwe language adaptation of Star Wars: A New Hope.<\/em><\/p>\n BSU publishes the only academic journal of the Ojibwe language, the Oshkaabewis Native Journal.<\/em><\/i><\/a> The journal has been in print since 1979 and now produces hundreds of pages of text and several audio CDs every year. Currently the journal is under the stewardship of Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network.<\/p>\nGikinoo’amaagewin – Teaching<\/h3>\n
Endazhi-gikinoo’amawindwaa Gekinoo’amaagejig – Teacher Training<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\nEndazhi-wiidookawindwaa Gikinoo’amaaganag – Student Enrichment<\/h3>\n
Endaawaad Anishinaabeg – Indian Communities<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\nOzhibii’igewin – Scholarship<\/h3>\n
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<\/picture><\/p>\nTranslation<\/h3>\n
Oshkaabewis Native Journal<\/h3>\n