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Erik Redix, Ojibwe Language Coordinator with the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa joins this episode, along with Superior National Forest Archeologist Lee Johnson who returns to Forest North, to talk about the Ojibwe language, or Ojibwemowin, and some of the original place names in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Superior National Forest and the North Shore of Lake Superior.
Show Notes:
Ojibwe People's Dictionary | the Ojibwe People's Dictionary
https://www.nps.gov/grpo/learn/historyculture/north-shore-place-names.htm
https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/rivers-north-shore-ojibwe-dialects/
Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak | WTIP
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