Gchi-Miigwech/Acknowledgements
Gchi-miigwech to Alan Ojiig Corbiere and Amy Debassige for their help testing this tool! Also, so many thanks to Mary Ann Corbiere for her help reviewing analyzer output and for providing her collection of sentences. Rand Valentine graciously provided the sentences from Weshki-Bmaadzijig Ji-Noondmowaad and has been a guiding light throughout this and associated projects. Alden Jole deserves credit for pointing me towards pyscript and the possibility of a static page, while the pyscript community (especially on Discord) deserve credit for making such a project possible. Last, but not least, a great big miigwech to Natasha Cruz, Eli Franz and Zoe Kyriacopoulos for their help processing and finding bugs! None of these people are to blame for the many problems with this site.
This site and the underlying Nishnaabemwin/Odawa/Eastern analyzers were created by Dustin Bowers. The source code for the analyzers can be accessed here. The analyzers are ultimately a fork of work done by Dustin Bowers from 2015-2017 in the ALT-lab at the University of Alberta.
Many thanks to Professor Chris Hammerly of the University of British Columbia, whose Anishinaabemowin/Southwestern analyzer is used here. The Anishinaabemowin/Southwestern analyzer is copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) by The Experimental Linguistics and Fieldwork Lab (ELF-Lab; https://github.com/ELF-Lab) at The University of British Columbia (UBC) in collaboration with the Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALT-Lab; https://altlab.ualberta.ca/) at the University of Alberta (UofA) and the Ojibwe People's Dictionary (OPD; http://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu) at the University of Minnesota (UofM). Note that the current development branch is at this project site, but the analyzer currently served by this site is this version)
In chronological order, the following organizations have provided support (financial or otherwise) for various stages of this work:
- National Endowment for the Humanities (Dynamic Language Infrastructure: Documenting Endangered Languages fellowship, award number FN-291243-23, 2023-2024)
- Reed College (2023-2024)
- Temple Beth Israel (in Eugene, OR, 2023-2024)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Canada Research Chair Grant (held by Alan Ojiig Corbiere, 2021-2022, 2025)
- Partnership Development Grant (award number 890-2013-0047, held by Antti Arppe, 2015-2017)
- Kule Institute for Advanced Study (Research Cluster Grant, held by Antti Arppe, 2015-2017)
Last updated: 08/27/2025