Holden Hoy (right) is building a robot to help him learn the Ojibwe language Anishinaabemowin, an endangered Native American language. Hoy’s mentor, Danielle Boyer (left), is teaching him skills including coding and electrical circuitry. Kadin Mills/NPR
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — The idea came to Danielle Boyer in a toy store. The inspiration? It was Tickle Me Elmo.
“Whenever you’d press his belly, he would talk, and he would teach you things,” she
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