'Star Wars' Movie Features Voices from MN and WI Tribes

'Star Wars: A New Hope' is one of the most popular movies ever made, and it has been translated into more than 50 languages, but one was missing.

A new Ojibwe translation of the classic film premiered this week in Canada, and it features a lot of talented voices from Minnesota and Wisconsin. Ojibwe is the second-most popular Indigenous language in Canada, and the fourth most widely used in the United States. Star Wars only has one other Indigenous-language version, a Navajo dub was released in 2013.

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Several media outlets are highlighting some of the amazing talent used in the re-dubbing of the first Star Wars film, WDIO-TV talked to Niigaanii-Animikii Inini, he is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and works for the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Inini, also known as Kalvin Hartwig, is the voice of "Red Leader" in the new version of the film, he said he went to Winnipeg to record his part after doing two auditions for the role.

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The Star Tribune is reporting that University of Minnesota linguistics student, Dustin Morrow, plays the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi, and a Bemidji State University professor of Ojibwe language, Anton Treuer does the voice of a Stormtrooper and a droid.

CTV talked to Aandeg Muldrew, he played Luke Skywalker in the new dub, plus he was one of the translators that worked on the script, and he talks about how they had to make Ojibwe terms for things like "Lightsaber", "hyperdrive", and of course "The Force".

The Ojibwe language version of 'Star Wars: A New Hope' will be released in limited theaters, and it will be on Disney+ in the future.

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