mathias | April 24, 2011

On April 12th a talk on indigenous cultures and languages of Russia and in Western New York was held at Fredonia’s Dialogues on Diversity by SUNY, moderated by Cheryl John (director of the Native American Western Consortium). In Russia and North America, young indigenous people are performing the age old tradition of preferring acrolects (prestigious [...]

Category: Native Language Events, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora | No Comments »
Tags: Andrea Cooke, Cheryl John, Fredonia's Dialogues on Diversity, Gowanda, Iroquois, Native American Western Consortium, Seneca, SUNY, Tuscarora, Vince Schiffert, Zinaida Zavyalova

mathias | February 10, 2011

Under a 100k National Endowment for the Humanities grant, professor of German and Humanities Katie Faull from Bucknell University (PA) was translating old diaries written in Moravian (Czeck) when she came across letters written in the Onondaga (Iroquois) language, which has around 65-115 remaining speakers, but most use it ceremonially. She gave the current chief [...]

Category: Iroquoian Languages, Native Languages, Onondaga | No Comments »
Tags: Alf Siewers, Big Indian, Bucknell University, Circle Rock, Cultures at the Confluence, Czeck, Iroquois, Katie Faull, Little Indian Rock, Moravian, Oneida, Onondaga, Paul Nevin, petroglyphs, Shikellamy, Susquehannock, Swatana, translation