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Meet the robots programmed by kids to speak their Indigenous languages

Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve his language th

The idea came to Danielle Boyer in a toy store. The inspiration? It was Tickle Me Elmo.

"Whenever you'd press his belly, he would talk, and he would teach you things," she said. "There are toys that teach us in English, but there aren't toys that teach us Anishinaabemowin. And I wanted that to be different."

Anishinaabemowin includes the Potawatomi, Odawa and Ojibwe languages. Exact estimates vary, but there are fewer than 10,000 people in the U.S. who speak Anishinaabemowin. That number is around 25,000 in Canada. Some Native languages have just a few dozen fluent speakers, while others have none.

Boyer has seen how quickly language loss can happen. Her grandmother speaks Anishinaabemowin, but she is one of the last fluent speakers of their dialect.

"It is devastating to feel like your language could be lost," said Boyer, a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. "You lose your culture, you lose a way to describe who you are."

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Chemokmanmowen (contempary american english/long knife speak) the 100% weaponized language and Kiptownene - The Speaker

"Pity the chemokman, all he knows is pain and suffering because that is all his language allows him to know. A puddle seems deep if you've never seen the ocean"

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my adoptive family is celebrating thanksgiving in the other room …

like wow you’re thankful that you stole my peoples fruits , livestock , and let alone MY PEOPLES LAND ?!

wow oh ok oh ok WHITE CRAKER YOU CANT EVEN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASIA AND NORTH AMERICA YOU FUCKING DUMBASS . IM NOT INDIAN THIS IS MY LAND HOE

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Since biboon & the storytelling season are nearly over, please enjoy this collection of pictures that look like they could be from an aadizookaan

Mm yes so sacrit, very mno-bimaadiziwin

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Skrillex & Damian Marley - Make It Bun Dem

Always mad props to Skrillex for using real Anishnaabe actors in this video.

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On Anishinaabeg

While it’s used to identify the collective of tribes who call themselves anishinaabeg and similar: traditionally, this word was used to describe all humans.

Def: “People lowered down from the stars”

We’ve always been taught that humans were stardust ❤️

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“Lake” in eight Central Algonquian languages: mbes (Potawatomi), nbis (Odawa), nepēhsaeh (Menominee), nipihsi (Myaamia), nepithi (Sauk), shakaihkan (Innu), zaaga’igan (Ojibwe), sâkâhikan (Plains Cree)