Ojibwe People's Dictionary
Partner Organizations: University of Minnesota, Minnesota Digital Library, Minitex.
The Ojibwe language, like many other indigenous languages, is endangered. Most current speakers are over the age of 65 and probably fewer than a thousand speakers of Ojibwe in the United States learned it as their first language.
Through this project, the partners are creating an Ojibwe dictionary that will be accessible online, serving to create a public and scholarly resource that will preserve and revitalize the Ojibwe language in Minnesota. The interactive, multi-media language and cultural heritage dictionary will link the voices of recorded language speakers to digitized images of cultural objects, photographs, maps, sound and visual recordings and documents from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Partner Organizations: University of Minnesota, Minnesota Digital Library, Minitex The Ojibwe language, like many other indigenous languages, is endangered. Most current speakers are over the age of 65 and probably fewer than a thousand speakers of Ojibwe in the United States learned it as their first language. Through this project, the partners are creating an Ojibwe dictionary that will be accessible online, serving to create a public and scholarly resource that will preserve and revitalize the Ojibwe language in Minnesota. The interactive, multi-media language and cultural heritage dictionary will link the voices of recorded language speakers to digitized images of cultural objects, photographs, maps, sound and visual recordings and documents from the Minnesota Historical Society.
(d) History Partnerships. $1,250,000 in 2010 and $2,750,000 in 2011 are for partnerships between and with the Minnesota Historical Society and partnering organizations to enhance access to Minnesota's history and cultural heritage in all regions of the state.