FOT 2 Episode 3: Ojibway - The Spirit of Stories

According to ancient Anishnabe legend, the Great Spirit wished for an Island retreat, so he created Manitou Minissing, or Island of the Spirits. Today it's known as Manitoulin Island. This is a sacred place where by tradition, the greatest leaders and warriors, medicine men and women, were buried.

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Taped interviews with elders, another superb way to preserve snippets of a language for future study. Many languages have only a dwindling remnant of old fluent speakers. They should be recorded as much as possible, not only narrating traditional stories and singing the old songs, but also telling their own personal life stories. One aspect of language often found missing in the attested corpus of a language after the last speaker has died is hypothetical or theoretically complex speech samples.