This teaching collection includes three digitized audio cassettes from the Labriola National American Indian Data Center collection entitled Ojibwemowin [kit] : the Ojibwe language by Judith L. Vollom, Thomas M. Vollom. Ojibwemowin is located in the Labriola Center, Hayden Library, on the ASU Tempe Campus. Kit includes [currently only the sound recordings have been digitized]: - 1 teacher's manual (loose-leaf) - 1 teacher's manual (bound) - 3 workbooks - 40 animal cards - 1 transparency - 106 verb sheets - 419 flashcards - 3 sound recordings.
Students learn words for trees. Tree, white birch, poplar, balsam fir, spruce, white cedar, red cedar, Norway pine, jack pine, white pine, red-ocher dogwood, willow, speckled/taig alder
Students learn inanimate and animate nouns for food- wild rice, salt, sugar, pepper, strawberry, blueberry, meat, pea, raspberry, bread, corn, frybread, cookie, tomato, pumpkin, chokecherry, cranberry, cucumber, bean.
Students learn words like, "My heart, tongue, my mouth, my tooth, my foot, my stomach, my arm, my hand, my finger, my back, my eye, my head."
Students learn phrases like "It is red, black, blue/green, white, it is brown/yellow," and "he or she is red, black, he or she is blue or green, he or she is white, he or she is brown/yellow."
Students learn Ojibwe phrases for fishing- water rippling towards/away from you, there are white caps, it is calm, it is sandy, it is deep.
Students learn phrases like "so much, so many, be quiet/still, all the time, gradually, on the shore, all/every, look/behold, always, in the direction of, over there, far/distant, don't, something, hurry, come on, when/at the time, now/today, tomorrow, yesterday, the day before yesterday, three days ago, the day after tomorrow, three days from now, maybe/perhaps."
Students learn phrases like, "It is so, it is that, I wish, if."
Students learn words like, "It is noon, it is night, it is day." etc.
Students learn how to tell time in Ojibwe.
Students learn phrases like "It is raining, it is not raining." etc.