That heightened urgency comes in response to the realization that those ancestral teachings should be preserved alongside the Ojibwe language, which they were first expressed in but is now the first ...

GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. — The two-dozen schoolchildren sat in a circle for about an hour, enthralled, as Gordon Jourdain regaled them with tales of the Creator and the origins of their Ojibwe people. As ...

While Ojibwe is spoken across southern Canada and the Upper Midwest, the language is considered severely endangered. Since Minnesota is home to the greatest concentration of fluent Ojibwe speakers, ...

Earlier this month Dennis Jones was greeted with congratulations from his co-workers in the American Indian studies department. “Is my wife pregnant?” Jones recalled asking after so many ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. (AP) — The two-dozen ...

GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. — The two-dozen schoolchildren sat in a circle for about an hour, enthralled, as Gordon Jourdain regaled them with tales of the Creator and the origins of their Ojibwe people. As ...

Police officers arrested Jeremey Stafford on Friday in South Beach, records show. The screengrab on the right is from a surveillance video Mitch Novick shared after a police car struck Stafford on ...