ST. CLOUD — Move over, Spanish and French. St. Cloud public schools next year will be offering Somali and Ojibwe to all students as elective languages. "It just makes sense for us to have it," said ...

DULUTH - Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe member William Gidagigwaneb Premo was in line at the grocery store recently behind a group of young Native American girls. One of them dropped a dollar, he said, so ...

Dustin Morrow, a student earning his master’s degree in linguistics at the University of Minnesota, remembers the first time he heard someone casually speaking Ojibwe. He was 25 years old and ...

In a budding partnership, a dozen students visited the school to learn more about its focus on community-involved learning, ...

DASSEL — Each and every one of us is connected to our family past and future through an unbroken chain, and our actions have consequences that reverberate up and down that chain for generations to ...

At Lowell Elementary School, students are able to opt-in to learning Ojibwe through the school’s Misaabekong Ojibwe Immersion Program. “We’ve had this Ojibwe immersion program for eight years, so ...

ONAMIA, Minnesota — Two decades ago, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in east-central Minnesota had 145 fluent speakers of the Ojibwe language. By 2019, that number had dwindled to just 25. Then, ...

CLOQUET, Minn. — Persia Erdrich’s son had just turned 2 years old when he spoke his first sentence in Ojibwe. The pair were visiting the Minnesota Zoo as part of a group of babies, toddlers, parents ...

Cole Premo is digital manager for CBS Minnesota. For more than a decade, he's been covering breaking news and weather, daily topics, stories from the Native community and more in Minnesota.

No matter how he reaches people who are interested in learning Ojibwe, James is more than glad to help. (instrumental music) (speaks foreign language) (speaks foreign language) - What I said there was ...

University of Minnesota senior Jaeden King is on a mission. “What’s going to happen to us if we don’t know the language?” she declares. “I wish to connect with my elders. I feel like there’s a ...

The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is taking steps to revitalize the critically endangered Ojibwe language and Mille Lacs dialect. The Band, whose members have resided in what is today East Central ...