My mom personally exposed me to a lot of cultural activities, and my dad brought me to a lot of cultural activities and language events.

So I did grow up experiencing lots of legends and storytelling and ceremonies where I heard a lot of language.

And I think that, in part is what helped me learn it easier as I got older.

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Do you need so Gargi can clean?

Do you build your own?

Do dem mush cuz you didn't do in Japan?

Meno I only go meet in dining room.

My name is Gargi on a credit card, but my students call me on a critically and we are here in my second and third grade Ojibwe immersion classroom.

We have a full day of Ojibwe immersion here, so we don't use any English at all and everything that they are learning about in the school and state standards is in Ojibwe.

Through our cultural curriculum, these Anishinaabe guys assume us and I grown ish again to more toward enga anarchy in Oma uncanny.

We're not the first Ojibwe immersion program, but we are the first one working with Duluth Public Schools specific curriculum.

We follow the 13 moon Ojibwe calendar, and we teach all of the standards through cultural activities of what Anishinaabe people are learning about or our cultural teachings at that time of year.

So right away, when the students start in August and September, we're learning about, racing in the winter time, we do Odd Sukarno or Legends, and we are also studying things like snowshoeing and animal tracks.

And in the springtime we study sugarbush.

And I don't necessarily think that they would be exposed to all of that if they were following the public school curriculum.

Basic, signage questions.

Who wanna stay in you?

Oceanus with nearby geysers, who can, you know, and maybe some people think Anishinaabe.

They weren't scientists, but we were sciences essentially understanding and discovering patterns, not just what's happening in the stars, but how does light work?

What is going on at different parts of the year with patterns, with the seasons that is deeply engraved in our culture.

So I really like thinking about concepts of how do we talk about those things in the Ojibwe language?

And I work with certain elders that are first language speakers, so they have a deep understanding of the language.

And I also work with other second language speakers that are teachers.

Instead of translating directly from English.

What we do is we look at the deeper word root or what the word is trying to describe behind the scientific process.

For instance, our word for gas, when we're learning about solids, liquids and gases is when they say when, and the root meaning of Chicago way is that of the intrinsic property of something to sort of spread out into the container that it's filling, which is essentially what a gas means.

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So today we were learning about the water cycle.

We called it Asia.

And you sing a bit, to and on my email on YouTube, they giggle big is condensation is your way, bud is precipitation.

My one GB guessin is collection and some other really awesome lessons that we do.

We learn about animal life cycles in Ojibwe.

The solar system is one of my personal favorites to teach because we are integrating words about in Ojibwe about how to talk about gravity, planets, atmospheres, stars, star lifetimes, all those things.

Another great lesson that we're learning about is properties of light.

We have a great lesson that we've designed where students use many lasers with, either wooden blocks or mirrors or different shapes of glass, and they draw how the light rays travel.

And we learn how to talk about it all the language, and we relate it to cultural teachings, actually, about how Anishinaabe would use those teachings to spearfish long ago, even though we didn't have the equation necessarily written down, we had that understanding about the physics of light because we would use it when we spearfish.

We knew that the lightweight rays were bent when they were traveling through ice and water, so we knew that we had to aim the spirit a different angle.

What I've been studying partly in college, and I hope to do for later in my career, is studying astrophysics and physics.

The field of astronomy is actually the least diverse of all the sciences, and it is very underrepresented, especially in the Native American population.

I think about worldwide, there's only about 7000 official astronomers total, and only a very small percentage of that is Native American.

They think that by introducing and helping minorities and Native Americans be represented more in astronomy and the other scientific fields that our perspectives and our unique ways of looking at things, which does come from our languages and our cultures, will help us solve problems that they previously could not solve.