When I think about how the Ojibwe have helped shape this great state, I tend to separate the ways we have influenced the land from the ways we have influenced its people. Maybe I do this because ...

One of those endangered A language is lost every fourteen days. One of those endangered tongues is Minnesota's own Ojibwe language. Now a new generation of tongues is Minnesota's own Ojibwe language.

Goose, a member of the Leech Lake Nation who has spent 15 years preserving and teaching the Ojibwe language, said there are more than 100 words in the Ojibwe language for snow, as an example.