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THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES LANGUAGE LESSON- Pa'nixwat IkWi Ikvi Treaty Days Pa'aniixwat, Naxsh Tausn PaxSaptit Ku Paxatpama Treaty Of 1855 Naami KwiySamniin XStwanat Tamanwit dutnipama Ku Waq'iShwitaipama. Our True Law Of Peace And Agreement To Protect Our Use Of All Sacred Lands, Water Food, Our Way Of Life, And Other Ways Of Life In This World. Afixan Naaptit Ku Paxat Kuuk PatkwapSnichashana Pa'aniixwat June 25, Is The Month And Date Of When They Signed The Treaty. Kwnkiina Pama'yayanxa, Payuurnnxa. Thats Wy We Celebrate With A Powpow. Paaxamit, Shp'auwit, Ku Shapawakmiktrta Payuumxa. We Celebrate With War Dancing, Softball Games, And Rodeo. Kiksht Language Lesson Treaties '1: ) u I J ( niMrtninr f i 4U Dragon CilttoraM Iwilx Emxanqanxuda Emxqw'alalma Ilchqwa Axeltuxkt Idmikiukdiksh Emxelpalaulma Land Fish Hunt Water Life Elders Talk Naxelkwachkw ixa wilx. Our land is returned to us. Enchaqaqmit pu anchxanqanxuda kwadan anxqwalaulma We have rights to fish and hunt. Alxaika ixelxashk-pama ilxagwamnbc alixal tuxa. Our water which is the giver of life. Puxa ikiukdiksh enqiqnan alma daminava anxdushima. What we learned from our Elders can be carried on. Kwankwan emshkiax kanawi emshaika dan shakdi. So lef s appreciate what we have. Paiute Language Lesson Numu Natiinehanena Treaties r treaty natunehanena tubewa wuni'e tuhoawi'e paa water0 "Ji moomatupu ' fi''!e'lders'Ijncff.'' r; rs A ' nanadyadoana talking ) !n. mabetseana . take care (t land fish hunt: - 1 ' Jitr!!J.r i ' ( wMim Onosoo mu numu no mu tibo'o natunehanena. Long ago when the treaties were made. Yise ka tupopema tupo'o. And papers were signed. Te tubewa punowse nake'a. Our land is returned to us. Odyise tamme mesoo wuni'e, mesoo tuhoawi'e. We have rights to fish and hunt. Moomoatupu tunedyooena mesoo nahane. What we learned from our Elders can be carried on. Te numu natukana mesoo nahane. We can harvest our Indians foods. Odyise tamme unu hemma soopedya a mabetseana. So lef s appreciate what we have, and take care of it. Poonedooa See you later , x z cx ( ; ? ':iv ; In order to keep our program efforts alive in the constant development of strengthening our languages and cultures, we will be re-visiting articles that have been printed with comments and questions for our community to think about and consider. Following is one of those articles with comments made in parenthesis: Speak, Cultural Memory: A Dead-Language Debate By ALEXANDER STILLE c. NY Times September 30, 2000 Over the last seven years, Jessie Little Doe Fermino, a member of the Mashpee tribe on Cape Cod, has been on a single- minded mis sion to revive the language of her ancestors, but when she applied to the National Endowment . of the Humanities for a grant to create a Wampanoag dictionary, she was turned down. "We got great reviews from the specialists, but the panel of non-specialists hated it," Ms. Fermino said. (Does the WS Tribes deal with the same situa-' tions; where we are subject to scrutiny by spe cialists or non- specialists, especially when it comes to our languages, culture, and histories? What about researchers? Are they giving true facts? ) , .? Daryl Baldwin, who is reviving the language of the Miami Nation in Indiana and raising his children in it, said he had met with a similar mixture of encouragement and skepticism: "I've run into people who say, Til give you an "A". r for effort, but you're never going to revive that language.' :r,r, :,.,.fr Agency Language Classes the LangufcgeTrailer ( , behind they$Vs Dorm ' Sarfiifeanguage Ti&Thurs. 3:30-4:30 PM Paiute Language Tues. 6:00-8:00 PM ; Cheryl Lohman Residence call pat 553-3393 Wasco Language Thurs. 5:00-6:30 PM ? Simnasho Language Classes Sahaptin Language Simnasho Longhouse Tues. & Thurs. 6:00-7:30 PM Some of the Language Teacherd have earned scholarships to attend the Northwest Indigenous Language Insti tute in Eugene, Oregon on the Univer sity of Oregon Campus. The Lan guage Program works hard at being as professional as the teachers hired ' through the district. This allows us to help Tribal Council acomplish it's PRI ORITY in providing resources to de- 1 velop new speakers of each of the ' three tribal langauges. Your commit ment to your children is greatly appreicated.
