mathias | June 13, 2011

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Siletz Tribe of Oregon are being hosted this summer by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. in a series of festivals that celebrate American Indian music, culture, food and art. This year, their annual Living Earth Festival coincides with their Conversations with the Earth: [...]

Category: Choctaw, Mohawk, Native Language Events, Navajo (Diné) | No Comments »
Tags: Arkansas Education Television Network, Auto Immune Response, Becky Hobbs, Cherokee, Choctaw, Choctaw Days, Conversations with the Earth, Conway Kootenay, Gregg Analla, Gwen Coleman-Lester, Indigenous Voices on Climate Change, Isleta, Kissed by Lightning, Laguna Pueblo, Living Earth Festival, Marcus Amerman, Mitsitam Cafe, Mohawk, National Museum of the American Indian, Navajo, Pappy Johns Band, Plateros, Ramuson Theatre, Rebecca Miller, Red Power Squad, RedHorse Productions, Shelley Niro, Six Nations, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, The Long Walk, Trail of Tears, Victoria Blackie, Welcome Plaza, Will Wilson

mathias | June 8, 2011

This year, Beecher Bay (a.k.a. Scia’new) First Nation great grandmother Lee Charles started teaching Hul’qumi’num (a Coast Salish language) to 4th and 5th graders at Hans Helgesen Elementary School in British Columbia to non-Native and Native students alike (including her granddaughter, Danielle Charles-Horne). Charles was first asked to teach by Principal Julia Sahota. Though non-Native, [...]

Category: Choctaw, Coast Salish Languages, Gitxsanimaax, Hul'qumi'num, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Salish, Tsimshianic Languages | No Comments »
Tags: Beecher Bay, Choctaw, Coast Salish, Danielle Charles-Horn, Edmund Library, Fist Nations, French, Gitxsanimaax, Greg Rodgers, Hans Helgesen Elementary School, Hul'qumi'num, immersion, Julia Sahota, Lakota, Lee Charles, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma, Salish, Scia'new, Sue Tonnesen, Tsimshianic

mathias | February 18, 2011

There are several running theories on the etymology of ‘okay’ in English, which has been imported into so many languages (in part because they usually have /k/, low, and mid or at least high vowels). Unlike ‘good’ or ‘ehh’, it allows the speaker to express neutrality, though it usually connotes positivity. According to Merriam Webster, [...]

Category: Cherokee, Choctaw, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Native Languages | 1 Comment »
Tags: Cherokee, Choctaw, etymology, Lakota, Martin Van Buren

mathias | January 24, 2011

This week there has been tons of media coverage on increased support for Native language classes. Alyce Spotted Bear from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in New Town – vice president of Native American Studies and Tribal Relations at Fort Berthold Community College, as well as part of the NACIE (National Advisory Council on Indian [...]

Category: Arikara, Choctaw, Hidatsa, Mandan, Ojibwe (Ojibwa, Chippewa) | 1 Comment »
Tags: Alyce Spotted Bear, Arikara, Arikara language, Arikara language classes, Chippewa, Chippewa classes, Chippewa language, Chippewa language classes, Choctaw, Choctaw language classes, Choctaw languages, classes, Fort Berthold, Hidatsa, Hidatsa language, Hidatsa language classes, language classes, Mandan, Mandan language, Mandan language classes, Ojibwa, Ojibwa language, Ojibwa language classes, Ojibwe, Ojibwe classes, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Ojibwe language, Ojibwe language classes