Word: ojibwa
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...Number of people who speak Ojibwa, an ancient Native American language used in more than 200 communities across the Great Lakes region...
...Percentage of Ojibwa speakers older than 60. Researchers are working to preserve the language before it becomes extinct...
...full of smoke. Then the drummers started tapping out the traditional song of healing. Crying and wailing ensued. No one in the tribe knew how one of their own could have strayed so far from the traditional path. The rest of the night was spent discussing, often in the Ojibwa's language, the need to spend more time with children, talking to them in the native tongue and teaching them the traditional dances, meeting more often, watching less TV. Meanwhile, the flashing sign in front of the Seven Clans Casino at Red Lake read WE ARE ONE IN OUR SORROW...
...died at Columbine on April 20, 1999. There are clear parallels with the Colorado incident: merciless gunfire, the black trench coat, the life-or-death question. But Red Lake has its disturbing distinctions. Instead of an affluent community, the setting this time was an impoverished reservation of the proud Ojibwa Nation in Minnesota. The terrifying revelation of Columbine was that caring parents could overlook signs of trouble in their offspring; the trouble in Red Lake centered on a clearly confused young man who had no parent to turn to for counsel or support, who used box cutters to slit...
...Indian casinos deserve a bad rap. I'd like to point out the good that the casinos of Minnesota's Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwa have done. Prior to our casinos, we had nothing. There was no source of clean water, we had tar-paper shacks for housing, and there were only dirt roads. Today, 14 years after passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and the building of the Mille Lacs' casinos, we have all the amenities of a good community. We have safe drinking water, modern housing, good roads and, best of all, jobs for our people...