Aalynna, a Wicoie Nandagikendan Dakota High-5 Student in Minneapolis, MN, reads Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? in Dakota.

The Wicoie Nandagikendan Urban Immersion Program would like to thank Eric Carle and Bill Martin and his publishers for permitting the immersion project to share this book translated in Dakota and Ojibwe. Download the translation: Brown_Bear_Dakota (PDF)

The Wicoie Nandagikendan Urban Immersion Program would like to also thank William Mitchell Law School’s Copyright Clinic for their hard work in securing the right to share translated children’s books in Dakota and Ojibwe. This YouTube video is a real life result of that work.

The Wicoie Nandagikendan Urban Immersion Program would also like to thank Barbara Hanska, Cassandra Meyer, and Allison Kirby for the Dakota translation.

Forty children attending Wicoie Nandagikendan – Anishinabe Academy graduated from High Five to a filled auditorium of proud family members. The children entertained all of us with songs in Ojibwe or Dakota and their breath taking jumping from the stage.