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~ An Email Request from one of our members ~ Native American Languages ~ An Email Request from one of our members ~ Language scholars believe that prior to the arrival of Columbus, approximately 300 languages were spoken in North America; since then, the number of indigenous languages has dropped considerably. The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education list 154 indigenous American languages which are still spoken in the United States, the number of speakers, and where the speakers are located. Table 1 arranges the languages alphabetically, while Table 2 arranges them according to number of speakers. Excerpts from the 1887 Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs "Indians of different tribes associate with each other on terms of equality; they have not the Bible, but their religion, which we call superstition, teaches them that the Great Spirit made us all. In the difference of language to-day lies two-thirds of our trouble. ... Schools should be established, which children should be required to attend; their barbarous dialects should be blotted out and the English language substituted. ... The object of greatest solicitude should be to break down the prejudices of tribe among the Indians; to blot out the boundary lines which divide them into distinct nations, and fuse them into one homogeneous mass." Since 1988, Gregg Howard and Various Indian Peoples Publishing Co. has worked with the Cherokee , Chickasaw , Choctaw , Sioux , Kiowa , Delaware , Navajo , Mohawk , Muskogee/Creek , Lenape and Apache Indian people and has produced Language Programs to help preserve and protect these languages from extinction. The language learning programs we offer for sale have come from years of work with American Indian tribes and nations. Gregg now teaches the Cherokee language each week in Dallas and at: Texas A & M in Commerce, & Collin Creek Community College in Plano, Texas. Gregg is a member of the: Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Oklahoma Native Language Association The Tejas Storytellers National Storytellers Associations Gregg is also the spokesman for: The Cherokee Honor Society in Tahlequah, OK. Suggest a Native American subject you would like to be featured in future issues. **************************************************************************** Native American Press Releases ~ An Email Request from one of our members ~ The Chinle Valley Singers are Navajo women who believe strongly in preserving tradition through sharing their rich Navajo tradition in story-telling and in songs and dances which they have adapted from ceremonial contexts for use in Navajo social and entertainment contexts. The group¹s music has its roots in the rich tradition of Canyon de Chelley, Arizona. The Chinle Valley Singers began singing as a group in 1981 when they received a warm reception from communities on and off the Navajo reservation. Since then, they have performed at the Shiprock (New Mexico) Navajo Fair and have won numerous awards at the prestigious Navajo Nation Fair in Window Rock, Arizona. Suggest a Native American Press Release you would like to be featured in future issues. **************************************************************************** Schools on Indian Reservations ~ An Email Request from one of our members ~ "Being a teacher, I would like to see an article about schools on reservations, and what the children's lives are like there. Also what is it like to teach on a reservation....are all teachers supposed to be Indian?" American Indians make up just under 1 percent of the U.S. population. Only about 10 percent--or 53,000--of Indian students attend BIA schools, which include 173 boarding and day schools and 14 stand-alone dormitories. Children from the reservations' farthest reaches live in the dormitories so they can attend public schools that otherwise would remain inaccessible. While the BIA supports all the schools financially, it runs just under half of them; tribes operate the rest under grants or contracts with the federal government. New book explores cultural bind for students at a Pueblo school Nurturing Learning in Native American Students Schools Defend Themselves Against Governor Janklow's Attacks Education in Native America - Table of Contents Organizing in Indian country American Indians + Welfare State Liberalism = A Deadly Mix U.S. Department of Education's Indian Nations at Risk Task Force Tattered Promise "My students are also interested in how native children get into the acting business. I am new to this website, so if any of this has been done before, I apologize." Screen Actors Guild Directory How to become an actor Suggest a Native American subject you would like to be featured in future issues. |
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Native American Poem ********************************** Medicine Song Sung by Chief Geromino O, ha le O, ha le Through the air I fly upon the air Towards the sky, far, far, far, O, ha le O, ha le There to find the holy place, Ah, now the change comes o're me! O, ha le O, ha le Suggest a Native American poem you would like to be included in future issues. |
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Native American Prayer ********************************** Submitted by: WhiteBull As I walk the trail of life, In fear of the wind and rain Grant, oh Great Spirit, That I may always walk like a man... Suggest a Native American prayer you would like to be included in future issues. |
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