Ponemah News

A northern Minnesota man has been sentenced to probation after admitting that he left an underage drinking party as a drunken 18-year-old and crashed a pickup truck while racing, killing his teenage sister riding in the open bed.

The University of Minnesota is launching an online Ojibwe dictionary, with hopes it will help preserve the language few still speak.

Hope Flanagan, whose Ojibwe name is Wicoie Nandagikendan, consulted a 1994 dictionary when she asked others at an Ojibwe speaking group in south Minneapolis to help her find the words for "holds on to." A new online Ojibwe dictionary being launched next week will include links that will allow people to listen to the voices of native speakers.