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There’s an app for that: Inside the technological battle to save Indigenous languages

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Yvette Mollen, a professor, researcher, author and web content developer whose work is focused on preserving Innu-aimun, an Algonquian language spoken by Innu people in Quebec and Labrador.Amélie Philibert

“I will fight until the day I die for my language to survive and thrive.”

Yvette Mollen’s passion for championing Innu-aimun is unwavering. The professor, researcher, author and web content developer has dedicated most of her adult life to recording, preserving and passing on her ancestors’ tongue, an Algonquian language spoken by some 10,000 Innu in Quebec and Labrador. One way she does this is by developing interactive online games that help children learn Innu-aimun, while also seeing how their people lived, and still could live, on the land.

For Ms. Mollen — the recipient in 2024 of the Order of Quebec for her linguistic initiatives — Innu-aimun is the language closest to her heart, but all languages matter and deserve support to stay alive.

“Because if the Creator had wanted us all to speak the same language, he would have made it so,” she says.

In fact, the United Nations estimates that of the 7,000 or so languages spoken worldwide today, some 47 per cent are threatened or endangered, most of them Indigenous tongues. In Canada, there are more than 70 distinct Indigenous languages spoken by First Nations, Inuit and Métis, but according to Canada’s 2021 census, only 13.1 per cent of the Indigenous population reported knowing how to speak their traditional languages, down from 21.4 per cent in 2006.

What’s more, there is not a single Indigenous language in Canada that is not at risk, with the level of peril going from vulnerable (when a given language is still “used by some children in all domains” or “by all children in some domains”) to definitely,…

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Tonight’s full moon will be the lowest since 2006. Why it’s called the ‘strawberry moon’ — and how you can best view it.

Look up at the sky tonight, and you could be rewarded with a rare sighting: the so-called strawberry moon. Also known as June’s full moon, the strawberry moon earned its name because it takes place during the time of year when strawberries are ripe and ready for harvest. This year, the strawberry moon will be at its lowest point in nearly two decades and will reach full illumination in the early hours of June 11.

Here’s what stargazers should know ahead of the strawberry moon’s appearance.

What is the strawberry moon?

Named by Native American Algonquian tribes, the strawberry moon refers to June’s full moon, which takes place after the brief fruit harvesting season that coincides with its annual appearance. While the moon’s nickname isn’t a specific reference to its color, there’s a high likelihood that it will have a reddish hue when it nears the horizon.

“The origin of the name ‘Strawberry Moon’ has nothing to do with the Moon’s hue or experience,” according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. “A Moon usually appears reddish when it’s close to the horizon because the light rays must pass through the densest layers of the atmosphere.”

The nickname given to June’s full moon varies based on tribes. The Haida people, an Indigenous group in the Pacific Northwest, refer to it as the “berries ripen moon,” while the Muscogee call it the “blackberry moon” and the Shawnee tribe know it as the “raspberry moon.”

Why is the strawberry moon special this year?

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The strawberry moon in Aleppo, Syria, in June 2024. (Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

In the Northern Hemisphere, June’s full moon will reach its lowest point all year. This year, however, the strawberry moon will be the lowest…

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BPL to participate in virtual Smithsonian project

Burlington Public Library’s teen advisory group, TICOS (Teens Inspiring Changes, Optimism, and Service) has been selected to participate in the Democracy in Dialogue project sponsored by the Smithsonian.

As the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, the Smithsonian Institute is helping to engage young people by asking, ‘how has your community played a role in 250 years of the American experiment?’ through the Democracy in Dialogue virtual exchange project.

In 2026 the United States will celebrate its 250th birthday, and this project encourages students from all walks to life to engage in discovery, dialogue, and reflection by exploring the complexities in our nation’s history.

From the significant role that Burlington played with the Sauk and Meskwaki people to being the territorial capital and hosting the first Free Public Library West of the Mississippi, this area has a rich history for teens to explore.

The unique cultural storytelling component of this project will be carried out with our teen mural installation in the teen area of the library.

This will be the library’s first permanent mural and will feature greater Burlington’s story along with notable people from the area.

“I am so excited for this opportunity for our area teens,” said Becky Ruberg, the BPL Teen Specialist.

“What an awesome experience for them!”

As part of this grant the teens will meet weekly at the library and will meet virtually with their exchange cohort in Springfield, Illinois, several times throughout the summer.

“We are incredibly proud of our TICOS kids and Becky Ruberg, for being selected for this prestigious program,” said Library Director Brittany Jacobs. “Partnerships like this open doors for area students to world-class thinkers and doers and inspire curiosity on a magnificent scale. What a wonderfully creative and impactful way for us to participate in reflections on 250 years of US history.”

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WOMEN TODAY: Clarion attorney is right where she wants to be

CLARION – One might say that attorney Cassandra Munsee came by her interest in the law naturally, something passed down from her father.

“I decided pretty early on that I wanted to be an attorney. My dad was a state trooper and had been for as long as I can remember,” she said of her father, Rex Munsee, former state trooper and retired sheriff of Clarion County. “He would often talk about his cases. I was kind of fascinated by what he was doing, I found that type of work to be very interesting.”

She continued, discussing her early path, “I knew I was not the type of girl to wear a uniform and boots to work every day. My dad suggested in the summertime I spend one day a week interning with (former Clarion County District Attorney) Mark Aaron during high school. I got to go to court with him, I got some experience with what being a criminal attorney was like.”

Though initially interested in becoming a criminal defense attorney, even doing her senior project at Clarion-Limestone High School on the subject, Munsee ultimately pursued a different track, the result of a job prior to law school.

“The county had a job opening at domestic relations, calculating child support, and that kind of opened me up to family law,” she said. “I started seeing bits and pieces of custody matters or divorce matters playing out in front of me. I became really interested in family law.”

After a stint as an assistant district attorney following law school, Munsee opened her own practice, Munsee Law LLC on Liberty Street in Clarion, where she works primarily in family law.

“I’ll take an occasional DUI or personal injury case, but I’m exclusively family law,” she related. “I’m mostly divorce, custody, child support, adoption [cases]. Occasionally, I’ll take…

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Stan’s Garden Center grows longtime family business in Corry

A popular garden center in Corry is now operating under new ownership and the team, which has decades of cultivated experience, said they are grateful to be here. 

Stan’s Garden Center, located at 550 E. Columbus Ave., has partnered with and purchased Munsee’s Market, a family business that previously operated out of the Columbus Avenue location. The transition took place on Feb. 1.

“We have felt so welcomed here,” said Josh Skarzenski, third-generation owner of Stan’s Garden Center. “It’s almost like I have rewound in time. Everyone is so friendly and pleasant. Anything we have needed, everyone has been so helpful.”

Stan’s, which owns two other garden center locations in Erie, has been working with Corry resident Curt Munsee and his extended family members to make the transition. 

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Josh Skarzenski, third-generation owner of Stan’s Garden Center, selects a hanging basket for a customer inside their newly acquired Corry facility. Stan’s Garden Center also owns two locations in Erie. 

 

“We knew Josh was a good fit because of his small-town, family-run business background,” said Curt Munsee, who owned Munsee’s Market since 2014, a business he purchased from Jerry and Gloria Bell when it was Jerry’s Market. “Through the years, the market has been a great opportunity for our family to grow up experiencing and learning the business. So many great memories were made with my mom and dad, and all their kids and grandkids working together.”

Skarzenski said he is appreciative of the opportunity and support from the previous owners, many of whom are still involved in helping with the day-to-day.

“The Munsee family has been awesome,” he said. “I cannot describe this process as anything but smooth. They have been so generous.”

Skarzenski said he has always been somewhat familiar with Munsee’s Market, as most of…

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Indigenous Solidary Immersion Trip offers new perspective for Marquette students, faculty and staff

A group of 10 undergraduate students and five staff and faculty members from Marquette underwent a profound and transformative experience on the three-day “Indigenous Solidary Immersion Trip,” in April. Sponsored and planned by Marquette’s Center for Peacemaking and co-led by the Marquette Indigeneity Lab, this journey took this group to the Stockbridge-Munsee Nation in northeast Wisconsin. The trip was ably and generously hosted and led by Stockbridge-Munsee elder and Marquette alumna Jo Ann Schedler. 

Participants visit the Keek-Och Tribal Farm.

The focus of the trip was to educate students on-site about the history, culture and current projects of the Stockbridge-Munsee Nation. An early highlight was being welcomed to the tribal headquarters and speaking to tribal officials about their operations, sovereignty, government-to-government relations, treaties and more. Another highlight was the Keek-Och (“From the Earth”) Tribal Farm, a nation-owned farm that seeks to advance the Stockbridge-Munsee’s food sovereignty and preserve traditional farming practices and foods. 

Participants also took part in a walking tour at Many Trails Park with Misty Cook, an expert in Indigenous medicines, who taught the group about various plant- and tree-based medicines that could be gathered in the park. Other stops included the Arvid Miller Library and Museum, the Mohican Veterans Center, the Eunice Stick Gathering Place, the Health & Wellness Center and the New Elderly Center. 

The Lutheran Indian Mission Boarding School, located in Gresham, Wisconsin.

Toward the end of the trip, we visited the Lutheran Indian Mission Boarding School, a sobering and reflective stop as we contemplated the sad legacy of such schools, including the cultural, psychological and physical damage inflicted by Christians upon the local Indigenous peoples.

The journey began to conclude with a…

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