Aho.

And in a way, we are going to talk.

Une cargelligo indigenous.

Cause I can I can do.

Them make an upward wing and boom!

Java bashagha sugar content.

Cool arpeggio, me goose and garlic.

I said there was a traditional Ojibwe protocol greeting.

I said hello to.

All of my relatives.

My name is Corgi gobble.

I'm Turtle clan.

I'm a descendant of Turtle Mountain.

I live close to Minneapolis.

Today and I want to thank all of you first and foremost for tuning in and listening to this five Ojibwe word of the day.

I have done variants of it, but I thought I would do the Ojibwe word for.

Here she is alive.

Here she lives, the Madison democracy.

So glasswork work.

Ernestine was the third Oakley.

The hook to love you guys.

We're gonna get until we get to lowdown on your, God, you woke up and Jody.

So what I said there was, there is a very similar.

Hello.

How are you doing?

I my name is Ernestine was a third, but I'm also known as the Hotel lady.

Which means she speaks as she's coming this way.

That's her own Oneida language.

O'Neill.

Taga of the Confederacy.

And, I am also of the Turtle clan.

And, yeah, I.

Know I got my relative.

Yeah, yeah.

And the people of the standing stone is the land and people from which I come.

I appreciate that, I love hearing Haudenosaunee.

That's really cool.

Yeah, yeah, I wish, I wish I was more as prominent as you are in your language.

I my great grandmother, was one of our our last, living first language native speakers.

And she's no longer with us.

I think she passed away about, oh, six, seven years ago.

Now, what do you think has been the most impactful thing?

And from you as a teacher, seeing, someone learning, their language, this know your particular language.

People learn.

I, I believe people acquire language differently at different stages in their life.

I think that the most efficient way to teach the language to our young children would be through immersion and, total immersion as well.

Not where you have a, a phrase in whatever indigenous language you're using, and then translating that into English.

But just using the language in that environment, kids can acquire the language very quickly.

That may not always be the best way for adult learner to learn the language.

Sometimes that can be very frustrating.

I like to use tools that we've already acquired through, like the Western education system where we're we're literate, we know how to read, we know how to write, we know how to use technology.

And in that case, I think maybe total immersion can be sometimes too daunting or and so they're using tools like literacy.

We have a ever growing body of literature growing right now.

As well as, using the technology to be able to listen to speakers who may no longer be living.

Like, go back to you to, to, to the word of the day again, you know, something real simple, but I think impactful.

What drove you to decide to want to do that?

Originally, when I began doing word of the day, it was when I was working in teaching with Indian education, with Minneapolis Public Schools.

For me, I am I'm generation X, so I was a late comer to using social media and Facebook and Myspace before that.

But I saw the the potential for it in my graduate studies.

I loved looking at the different dialects of Anishinaabe, Moin and rather than I think sometimes we get in this box where our way is the right way, rather than, oh wow, what an amazingly diverse and complicated language.

And that should really be something that's celebrated.

And if you can be humble about that, that, oh, maybe there are different ways that people either pronounce or describe similar concepts that can really enrich, your learning.

It can enrich your vocabulary and your understanding of what your relatives are trying to say.

So when I do that, it's always there's always the, the statement that, oh, this is how the language here in, They call it southwestern Chippewa, where it would be Minnesota Ojibwe in parts of, Michigan.

How they would say that here, just above the border in and like maybe Fort Francis school teaching and up north they have some different pronunciation or, different, yeah, definitely different pronunciations as well as different conjugations for particular, nouns, which, which is great.

And so if I hear someone say, in Doomtree I am from road.

And in doing Jabar, I can guess, oh, maybe you're from Winnipeg, maybe you are from Fort Frances.

Or if I hear and doing Jim-Bob, maybe you're from Wisconsin or a community here in Minnesota.

There's a lot of different ways to use a lot of different words.

Context who you're talking to, H all these different things.

It's, people love learning about that diversity.

As you begin learning the language, as you find a number of others who speak the language, maybe young people who are teaching at schools where you have language tables and your kids learning it, then they acknowledge that, oh, I'll, I'll spend the rest of my life doing this.

And I think that that can shift our focus.

And that's going to give us a great opportunity to to learn and acquire more knowledge and acquire more language and culture.