UM TodayLukas Films – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 The Globe and Mail: The new hope for Star Wars? An Ojibwe family in Winnipeg https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/the-globe-and-mail-the-new-hope-for-star-wars-an-ojibwe-family-in-winnipeg/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/the-globe-and-mail-the-new-hope-for-star-wars-an-ojibwe-family-in-winnipeg/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 17:54:06 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=201269 The new hope for Star Wars? An Ojibwe family in Winnipeg]]> As with the Skywalkers, the clan at the centre of the Star Wars movies, the production of an Ojibway-language dub of the film is a family story.

Pat Ningewance Nadeau was the lead translator of Star Wars: A New Hope (Anangong Miigaading), set to premiere Aug. 8, a partnership between Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council, the University of Manitoba, Disney/Lucasfilm, and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Nadeau’s son Maeengan Linklater was the project lead. And the role of Luke Skywalker is played by Linklater’s son Aandeg Jedi (AJ) Muldrew.

To read the full article, please visit The Globe and Mail. 

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