{"id":37026,"date":"2019-05-28T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=37026"},"modified":"2019-05-28T08:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:50:52","slug":"new-bsu-scholarship-aims-to-attract-ojibwemowin-learners-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/28\/new-bsu-scholarship-aims-to-attract-ojibwemowin-learners-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New BSU scholarship aims to attract Ojibwemowin learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>BEMIDJI &mdash; A new scholarship at Bemidji State University could pave the way to a new major there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>The Bezhigoogahbow Ojibwemowin Scholarship is named after Larry P. Aitken, a trailblazing American Indian educator who passed away in October 2018, and it will pay one student $1,000 each year while they study the Ojibwe language, &ldquo;follow&rdquo;ing them as they advance through the university. Money for the new scholarship comes from an anonymous $26,000 donation to the school&rsquo;s nonprofit fundraising arm that was finalized on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>&ldquo;The Ojibwe language is so crucial to the culture, to everything that we do in our lifeways,&rdquo; said Bill Blackwell, Jr., who heads the university&rsquo;s American Indian Resource Center. &ldquo;They really felt like this was their contribution to making sure that continues at BSU&hellip;.We&rsquo;re the first Ojibwe language program, collegiately, in the world. We were the first ones to do it. And so their idea was how do we support that?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>BSU offers a minor in Ojibwemowin, and the scholarship, the thinking goes, could attract more students to that program and lay the groundwork to turn it into a full-fledged major course of study. Blackwell said the scholarship is a &ldquo;huge&rdquo; stepping stone toward that goal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to provide a student with some financial support to make sure that they go out and be a good student, learn more about the language, and hopefully pass that on to more people,&rdquo; Blackwell said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI &mdash; A new scholarship at Bemidji State University could pave the way to a new major there. The Bezhigoogahbow Ojibwemowin Scholarship is named after Larry P. Aitken, a trailblazing American Indian educator who passed away in October 2018, and it will pay one student $1,000 each year while they study the Ojibwe language, &ldquo;follow&rdquo;ing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37027,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions\/37027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}