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‘Race against the clock’: the school fighting to save the Ojibwe language before its elders pass away Mario Koran in Wisconsin In the deep forest of the Lac Courte Oreilles tribal reservation, sixth-grade teacher Lisa Clemens abruptly halts the group of children behind her and points to the bald eagle circling just above the pines. “ “Migizi!” her students shout back. The sunny morning in early March is the first time many of the students and teachers of Waadookodaading, Wisconsin’s only Ojibwe immersion school, have been together since Covid-19 struck. Waadookodaa...

As autumn neared and cold weather approached the nation’s heartland, a state that took seven months to reach 100,000 cases saw its numbers double in just 36 days. As infections spread from the state’s urban centers and college towns toward its rural northwoods, cases began spiking on reservations – worrying tribal leaders that they could see the devastation inflicted on the Navajo and other tribes further west. In contrast to the rest of the state, whose partisan battles paralyzed the government’s response, tribal leaders used their local authority to aggressively lock dow...