Ojibwe language

What is the language learning experience been like? Like what language have you been working with?

I've been trying to learn Anishinaabemowin.

I'm finding it very, very difficult.

It's very challenging.

I said, I'm actually against the word love quite often because we use it and throw that word around like we know what it means.

And one of my students who studies the Ojibwe language and is a teacher, they said, this was so fascinating.

I didn't know because I don't speak Ojibwe.

They said, actually, one of the words... for love that gets translated as love in Ojibwe kind of means stingy.

Interesting.

Like to sort of covet something for yourself?

Thank you.

Thank you. . . . . . . . ¶¶ Anishinaabemowin.

Anishinaabemowin.

Anishinaabemowin.

No! No! Hey.

Hey.

I really enjoyed this movie.

It's more on the humor level, it's more towards three billboards than it is towards Banshees of Anishinaabemowin, but I really enjoyed this movie.

John Malkovich gives a performance for the ages, Sam Rockwell's great.

Um, uh, Steve Buscemi, all the, all the people are fantastic in that movie.

Um, to say one more thing on the idea of the names for something that I was also thinking about when I was naming the characters and specifically thinking about like older sister, middle sister, younger sister.

is that in Anishinaabemowin, there isn't just like a word for sister.

You're always in relationship to someone else.

So Nishime means my younger sister.

I guess I'll talk about, especially appropriate because he is my revolutionary era indigenous leader that I spend so much time talking about in the book and I've written about elsewhere, is this really kind of enigmatic guy named Siginok.

which in Anishinaabemowin translates to the Red-Winged Blackbird.

So that is his moniker.

And trying to piece together his life across different archives is a fascinating archival anecdote in and of itself.