David Treuer — Language and Meaning, an Ojibwe Story (Oct 1, 2009)

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Novelist and translator David Treuer is helping to compile the first practical grammar of the Ojibwe language. He describes an unfolding experience of how language forms what makes us human. Some memories and realities, he has found, can only be carried forward in time by Ojibwe. See more at www.onbeing.org/program/language-and-meaning-ojibwe-story/118

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