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Article: FULL CIRCLE; Winnie came home to White Earth, while a new generation revived some old traditions.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 30, 1999
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Last of a 6-part series for kids . Hello! Today is Friday (Boozhoo! Naano-giizhigad noongom) .
Last month, when Winnie Jourdain got her first computer, she clicked onto an Ojibwe Web site. She was fascinated to see her native language. And she was relieved.
"I'm afraid Ojibwe is going to be a lost language eventually," said Winnie, who has an Ojibwe calendar in her kitchen. "When I was young, everyone here spoke it. Now very few of us speak it."
But they're learning. Winona LaDuke, Winnie's friend, wanted so badly to learn Ojibwe that she and her two children moved into an apartment 60 miles from their White Earth home so she could study the language at Bemidji ...