Mar 1
Posted by cmoreno in language education, technology
Rachel and others at the Cherokee Nation Immersion School are the new keepers of their culture’s fire, carrying into the information age the Cherokee language and its syllabary, created by Sequoyah nearly two centuries ago.
Although the font was created through an agreement between the tribe and Apple Inc. a few years ago, the students have a new tool to help type the language: a keyboard overlay that replaces the letters of the English alphabet with those of the 85-character syllabary.
Tags: cherokee, cherokee language, cherokee syllabary, children speaking, children writing, keyboard
well, we’re starting march of RIGHT!
‘got a fresh new email newsletter setup and ready to rock, thanks to mailchimp (hey, subscribe please!), and we’ve got a project set up on indegogo (i won’t mention that we haven’t been accepted yet by kickstarter, or that they’re a great service and you should check them out…maybe even [...]
Tags: fundraising, ignite tulsa, planning, powerpoint
Huge News!
the Native Language Project was selected to speak at Ignite Tulsa this year! I’m very excited about this. The event in tulsa is part of Global Ignite Week, and is produced by local event organizers and sponsored by O’Reilly Media, so this is our 5 minutes of fame on a national and [...]
Tags: email newsletter, ignite tulsa, presentation, website updates
it occurs to me that i’ve bitten off more than i can chew.
obviously, you say? …well not so obvious to me i guess. in any case, i now see a little more clearly how to approach and develop this project a little better, thanks IN GREAT PART to feed back from andrew, rebecca, ken, frank, [...]
part of the motivation for this project of course, is that our lives on this planet are too short.
there’s not enough time to write down / record all of our thoughts, not enough time to sit and listen to our elders for months or years, as much as we would want to completely just stop [...]
Tags: do what you wish
i spent today putting together a nice little powerpoint file that i hope takes all the notes, ideas, etc. that i’ve cobbled together, in to one cohesive presentation. ideally i’ll be able to take this around and show the scope of the project as well as talk about what is the next step we [...]
Tags: native language project, powerpoint, strategic planning
Certainly a lot has happened in the last 4 months. We’ve gotten a lot of great support, ideas, conversation and brainstorming help, and just a lot of love in general from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, as well as Tulsans Andrew & Rebecca, Frank & Heather, and Anthony in Michigan. In [...]
Tags: native heritage month, osage, osage language, strategic plan
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/power-paths/film.html
POWER PATHS offers a unique glimpse into the global energy crisis from the perspective of a culture pledged to protect the planet, historically exploited by corporate interests and neglected by public policy makers.
The film follows an intertribal coalition as they fight to transform their local economies by replacing coal mines and smog-belching power plants with [...]
Tags: community building, economic development, native wisdom, navajo, tribal self-sufficiency
Doris Jean Lamar, 82, is the last living person who can speak fluently the language of the Wichita Indians. Lamar, who lives in Anadarko, Ok., learned to speak the language from her grandmother.
Last Voice from Travis Heying on Vimeo.
Tags: lost languages, wichita tribe
this weekend i am working on a twitter account:
http://twitter.com/nativelanguage
and a website:v
http://www.nativelanguageproject.com/
…not much up there now obviously but it’s a start and it will grow with time!
Tags: native language project, twitter, website
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