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‘Race against the clock’: the school fighting to save the Ojibwe language before its elders pass away

“They were angry and ignorant of treaty rights,” said Larry Nesper, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who witnessed some of the confrontations. “I heard one person say, ‘I’m poor, I’ve got a crappy education, I don’t have a lot of nice things, but at least I’m not a damn Indian.’”