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A Chippewa inventor created shoulder robots that speak her endangered Indigenous language after seeing Tickle Me Elmo in a toy store. Fewer than 1,000 people still speak Anishinaabemowin fluently in the United States.
In Alice Springs, babies and toddlers are learning Pertame entirely without English, keeping an endangered language alive. The program is now expanding to become Australia's first total immersion Indigenous language school.