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Motorola Launches Indigenous Collections App for Ojibwe Language and Cultural Preservation
Key points
- Motorola launched the Indigenous Collections app on Android.
- The app preserves Ojibwe language, stories, and cultural knowledge.
- Developed with the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community, including language instructors.
- Part of Motorola's Indigenous Languages Initiative with Lenovo Foundation.
New App for Cultural Preservation
Motorola has released its new Indigenous Collections app, a free application available on the Google Play Store. The app was created in collaboration with members of the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community. Its purpose is to chronicle and preserve the Ojibwe language, along with their stories, landmarks, and family knowledge.
Collaborative Development
Key collaborators in the app's development included Ojibwe language instructor Jason Jones and Dr. Anton Treuer, a Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University. The app distributes only publicly shared cultural knowledge, making it accessible to anyone who downloads it.
Importance of Storytelling
Dr. Treuer emphasized the value of the app's focus on preserving and sharing Ojibwe stories, noting that storytelling is an effective method for transmitting language, cultural knowledge, worldview, and community history. He also stated that the current collection represents a meaningful archive, with plans for future additions to increase its long-term significance.
Broader Initiative
This app is part of Motorola's larger Indigenous Languages Initiative, undertaken in partnership with the Lenovo Foundation. This initiative involves collaborating with indigenous communities to digitize and preserve their languages, and to apply these languages to make modern smartphone technology more accessible to indigenous speakers.
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Motorola released the Indigenous Collections app, a free Android application developed with the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community to preserve the Ojibwe language, stories, landmarks, and family knowledge. This initiative is part of Motorola's broader Indigenous Languages Initiative, aiming to digitize and preserve indigenous languages while integrating them into smartphone technology.