White Earth Reservation Tribal Council Language Revitalization Project
2010 Grant Activities
Recording of 1st speakers. Webmaster hired to maintain language website. Conduct two half day gatherings for 1st Generation speakers.
2012 Grant Activies
In a previous language grant awarded to the White Earth Tribal Council, the Before You Know It software was created for Ipod, Ipads, and Iphones. This grant will continue the Before You Know It software development to include a deluxe version that is geared towards youth. Additionally, a board game will be printed and distributed throughout White Earth to further engage members. This game was developed by tribal member, Merlin Williams and his partner Academic Thomas Vollum. It is based on facts and the history of Minnesota’s reservations and includes a language component. Additionally, a community event will be held where youth will showcase their use and knowledge of the Ojibwe Language
2013 Grant Activities
This grant money will be used to further develop and identify a scope and sequence for Ojibwe Language instruction for preschool and early childhood, (K-3). Additionally, the Tribe will continue to develop and update their Ojibwe language website, Anishinaabemodaa and to collaborate with the KKWE radio station to provide live programming to listen to and learn the Ojibwe language. The tribe will also create billboards and newspaper ads to generate public awareness of the language resources available.
Minnesota’s most enduring languages are in danger of disappearing. Without timely intervention, the use of Dakota and Ojibwe languages – like indigenous languages throughout the globe -- will decline to a point beyond recovery.
These languages embody irreplaceable worldviews. They express, reflect, and maintain communal connections and ways of understanding the world. Deeper than the disuse of vocabulary or grammar, the loss of an indigenous language is destruction of a complex system for ordering the relationships among people and the natural world, for solving social problems, and connecting people to something beyond themselves.
$550,000 the first year and $700,000 the second year are for grants for programs that preserve Dakota and Ojibwe Indian languages and to foster educational programs in Dakota and Ojibwe languages
This project is one that builds on the prior year's project, expanding who is targeting in the learning of the Ojibwe language. In 2013's grant, the project will continue to work with the preschool module for Ojibwemodaa by developing a scope and sequence increasing it to reach early childhood (k-3). Additionally, this project will create quality learning materials and increase access of language materials and learning resources to the communities through the Anishinaabemodaa website.
$550,000 the first year and $700,000 the second year are for grants for programs that preserve Dakota and Ojibwe Indian languages and to foster educational programs in Dakota and Ojibwe languages
This project is one that builds on the prior year's project, expanding who is targeting in the learning of the Ojibwe language. In 2013's grant, the project will continue to work with the preschool module for Ojibwemodaa by developing a scope and sequence increasing it to reach early childhood (k-3). Additionally, this project will create quality learning materials and increase access of language materials and learning resources to the communities through the Anishinaabemodaa website.
$550,000 the first year and $700,000 the second year are for grants for programs that preserve Dakota and Ojibwe Indian languages and to foster educational programs in Dakota and Ojibwe languages
This project is one that builds on the prior year's project, expanding who is targeting in the learning of the Ojibwe language. In 2013's grant, the project will continue to work with the preschool module for Ojibwemodaa by developing a scope and sequence increasing it to reach early childhood (k-3). Additionally, this project will create quality learning materials and increase access of language materials and learning resources to the communities through the Anishinaabemodaa website.
$550,000 the first year and $700,000 the second year are for grants for programs that preserve Dakota and Ojibwe Indian languages and to foster educational programs in Dakota and Ojibwe languages
This project is one that builds on the prior year's project, expanding who is targeting in the learning of the Ojibwe language. In 2013's grant, the project will continue to work with the preschool module for Ojibwemodaa by developing a scope and sequence increasing it to reach early childhood (k-3). Additionally, this project will create quality learning materials and increase access of language materials and learning resources to the communities through the Anishinaabemodaa website.