From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue May 4 18:47:32 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:47:32 -0700 Subject: Native languages face extinction (fwd link) Message-ID: Native languages face extinction Culture: Snuneymuxw experience reflects trend across B.C. BY DUSTIN WALKER, THE DAILY NEWS MAY 4, 2010 Canada There are only five Snuneymuxw people left who are fluent in the traditional Hul'q'umi'num' language, elder Gary Manson estimates. "And that's probably pushing it." A report released last week on the demise of First Nations languages in B.C. says that three languages are designated as "sleeping" with no fluent speakers and 22 are nearly extinct. The Hul'q'umi'num' language, traditionally spoken by First Nations from the Malahat to Nanoose Bay, has 278 fluent speakers and is classified as "severely endangered." 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Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past." - L. Frank Baum To the Original Peoples of the Fourth World and all International Press Services: At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this unit is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 American Aboriginals on December 29,1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to decay unburied in the driving snow. According to reports from Indigenous Rights Movement Radio host Wanblee this afternoon, Lakota resident Theresa TwoBulls was given less than 24 hrs notice that three US Army 7th Cavalry helicopters would make a landing on the sacred burial grounds at Wounded Knee. As of this writing, the US military was confronted by angry but peaceful and steadfast community resistance as the Aboriginal people of the area have so far, according to reports from Lakota people on the ground, managed to prevent the aircraft from touching Indigenous ground. For all American Aboriginals of the Americas, this is a sacred area. This is the place where the promise of a people died while fleeing from a genocidal US military unit hell-bent on liquidating the continent of its Indigenous population. There has never been any official apology offered for this massacre and the military awards bestowed upon the genocidal aggressors involved in this conflict still stand, as does a physical monument in honour of the US Army killed during Custer's "last stand" against a defiant and united Indigenous resistance to their own demise. The history of the US Army 7th Cavalry is important to understanding the level of violence used against Indigenous peoples. It is important to remember that after the US Seventh Cavalry officially ended the "Indian Wars" at home, they were then dispatched to do battle against Indigenous Filipinos struggling to maintain their hard-won national independence from the colonialist Spanish. In other words, the US War Department sent this very same unit to do overseas what was done here to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. In this historical light, it is only logical for Indigenous peoples to assume that the Obama administration is attempting to make a political point out of this spectacle. Only, what sort of message are you sending by insulting and humiliating a people already suffering from five centuries of continuous pro-Europocentric, anti-Indigenous genocide? This domestic military action is a deliberate insult and an obvious message of ongoing colonialism, state-sponsored racism and apathetic Indigenous genocide to all Indigenous peoples across the Fourth World; to the whole of the Lakota/Dakota Nation; and to the Indigenous residents of Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee. The symbolism of dispatching the Seventh Cavalry to Wounded Knee in an attempt to land weapons of mass destruction on Aboriginal sacred ground tells us how little this government, and this particular administration, respects the people of Indian Country and our significant historical perspective as survivors of the racist Euro-settler xenophobic purges waged against the Indian in the Americas. To make matters worse, this action comes on the heels of newly-passed legislation in Arizona state that requires law officers to racially-profile anyone they believe "looks", "sounds" or "dresses" like an illegal immigrant, a thinly veiled "race law" that directly effects both our Indigenous sisters and brothers native to Occupied Mexico as well as the Native American population of Arizona in the United States. Given that most Indigenous peoples of the Americas share the same general physiotype and more often than not, similar Spanish last names, the passage of this guideline will without a doubt lead to widespread abuses against that state's brown-skinned population. The legal door now opened, Texas and other states led by neo-confederate constituencies are moving to pass their own anti-immigrant/anti-Indigenous directives that will broadly effect anyone and everyone who could be perceived by the colonial European majority as a "foreign invader". The Obama administration has shown America and the world that they are no different than any other previous US government in their view that the American Indian on both sides of the US border is nothing more than a prop or a tool to be displayed only when it is useful to promote the "contemporary" 21st century neo-colonialist capitalist agenda. The Obama administration, an office headed by a man of African descent, has shamed itself and all those who have supported his candidacy in arrogantly dismissing the memory of our people interred at Wounded Knee by rubbing the military might of the historically anti-Indigenous 7th Cavalry in our faces by forcibly entering Indian Country in an attempt to land their machines of war on top of the bodies of our ancestral dead. Clearly, the culture war against the American Indian is not over. Welcome to the new American century. The Aboriginal News Group -- The Aboriginal News Group is an international association of Indigenist blog-journalists working to provide accurate under-reported Indigenous news items to the people of the Fourth World and others with a concern for human justice and Aboriginal political issues. -- ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ Light travels faster than sound. 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URL: From twoelkenterprise at YAHOO.COM Wed May 5 12:17:29 2010 From: twoelkenterprise at YAHOO.COM (Two Elk) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 05:17:29 -0700 Subject: US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds In-Reply-To: <4BE0F0BF.5040109@shaw.ca> Message-ID: I believe the LEAST we can do is get the full & correct information Before we fan the Flames...shall we...or shall we continue to follow the fools?   Lakota protesters chase off military helicopters at Wounded Knee Heidi Bell Gease Journal staff | Posted: Monday, May 3, 2010 7:15 pm | Oglala Sioux Tribal President Theresa Two Bulls apologized to tribal members Monday for giving permission for three Colorado Army National Guard helicopters to land near the Wounded Knee Massacre site Saturday as part of an educational program. "I did not intend to be disrespectful," she said during an Oglala Sioux Tribal Council meeting in Pine Ridge. "I just wanted to open the door, to start communication, and I apologize that there's a lack of communication." But descendants of massacre victims and survivors, many of whom protested the Black Hawk helicopters' arrival Saturday, said the way the visit was handled was "disrespectful and appalling." "That's a sacred site," said Phyllis Hollow Horn, president of the Wounded Knee community. "Blood was spilled there by our relatives, by the United States 7th Cavalry." That was the story Guardsmen came to hear. According to a news release from Two Bulls' office, the Colorado National Guard requested permission about two weeks ago to visit Wounded Knee. At the site, massacre descendant Marie Fox Belly was to tell the Guardsmen how U.S. soldiers killed nearly 300 Native Americans there on Dec. 29, 1890. "The opportunity to hear the true stories from the descendants of the Wounded Knee Massacre would enable the National Guard members to realize the consequences of weak leadership," the news release states. Two Bulls said she informed Wounded Knee District tribal council representatives Garfield Little Dog and Philip Jumping Eagle of the visit but received no response. She also informed the local Community Action Program (CAP) office and spoke on KILI radio about the Guard's visit. Somehow, though, Wounded Knee residents didn't get the message until Friday or Saturday. For them, seeing three Black Hawk helicopters descending over the mass grave site where their ancestors lie buried touched off deep-seated fears and emotions. As a descendant of massacre survivors, Wilma Thin Elk of Manderson grew up hearing the story of Wounded Knee. "I thought, ‘So are we going to be the next ones to lay here, to get killed here?'" she said. A five-minute cell phone video posted on You Tube shows the three helicopters approaching the site. One touches down, staying on the ground for about 30 seconds before taking off again. The video shows about 20 people who can be heard shouting, "We don't want United States military here!" and "This is our land!" Debra White Plume of Manderson described how people of all ages, some carrying sage or eagle feathers, went running toward the helicopters. She said several women ran under the choppers as they attempted to land, waving banners and a United Nations flag and refusing to move. The helicopters eventually left. Tribal Police Chief Everett Little Whiteman said his office was notified of the visit and officers were there to provide security. He called the incident a "peaceful protest." But one local resident observed that many in the community "don't like military around" because of the history of Wounded Knee. "Something bad could have happened, the way that was handled," he said. "There should have been some kind of communication but there wasn't," Hollow Horn said Monday. "I'm just kind of disappointed in our tribal president." Two Bulls took full responsibility at Monday's council meeting for the mishap, saying council members had nothing to do with it. "I apologize if I was disrespectful to anybody," she said. "But as a leader you have to make choices. And in the past, you've seen tourist buses going up there to the (Wounded Knee) site. "Why have not the descendants and the people of that community complained about that?," she asked. "That's been going on for many years." Two Bulls also called on tribal members to help set up a meeting of all Wounded Knee descendants from the Oglala and other tribes. Tribal council members then approved a resolution by Little Dog that the tribe and its members not allow the U.S. Military to come "anywhere near" the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre mass grave out of honor and respect for the dead. In a news release from the Colorado Army National Guard, Maj. Gen. H. Michael Edwards, the Adjutant General of Colorado, said the Guard had welcomed the opportunity to "participate in paying tribute to those who lost their lives there (at Wounded Knee)." "As a 150-year-old, community-based organization, we value heritage and the importance of remembering those who came before us," he stated. "Due to our concern for the safety of citizens on the ground, who were closely observing our arrival, we chose to depart the area." The release also quoted Colorado public affairs officer Army Capt. Michael Odgers, who said that "while the Battle of Wounded Knee is a dark chapter in the history of the Army, without learning from the mistakes of our past we are doomed to repeat them." "This trip was taken to better understand our shared histories, and we hope those who protested the visit can begin to understand our motives," Odgers stated. "It's unfortunate that this valuable learning opportunity was lost, and we sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding this visit created." On Monday, Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened Saturday. "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to the site ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" Contact Heidi Bell Gease at 394-8419 or heidi.bell at rapidcityjournal.com http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_91954776-56cf-11df-a8a4-001cc4c03286.html VIDEO: Helicopters try to land at Wounded Knee http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/html_82c203ec-56cf-11df-b10c-001cc4c03286.html Wounded Knee 5-1-2010.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rmTSif15VA Update; Helicopters attempt to land at Wounded Knee - KOTA Territory News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UU9MXfVK8 Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MSSMBwpB8 Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MD27uVY_s0 News Alert- pt. 1 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiE5Nw94ylQ News Alert- pt. 2 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuK0jLEohA News Alert- pt. 3 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZhjfFLPow News Alert- pt. 4 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRinjsoWCU News Alert- pt. 5 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhPAllxJUU Wounded Knee landing called insult to memories STEVE YOUNG • syoung at argusleader.com • May 4, 2010 http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100504/NEWS/5040333/1001/news Planned educational presentation becomes Black Hawk fiasco By Carol Berry, Today correspondent Story Published: May 4, 2010 (Story Updated: May 4, 2010 http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/midwest/92761779.html "We are all students and we are all teachers. We are students of those who know more and we are teachers of those who know less..." TLAKEALEL Kalpulli De Koacalco Koacalco, Mexico http://www.twoelkenterprise.com/EducServIntro.htm --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: From: Rolland Nadjiwon Subject: [ILAT] US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 10:14 PM Indigenous Crisis - US 7th Cavalry Continues to Insult the People of Indian Country and the Lakota TerritoriesPress Release Aboriginal News Group Press Statement 05.01.2010 “The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untameable creatures from the face of the earth. In this lies future safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.” - L. Frank Baum To the Original Peoples of the Fourth World and all International Press Services: At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this unit is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 American Aboriginals on December 29,1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to decay unburied in the driving snow. According to reports from Indigenous Rights Movement Radio host Wanblee this afternoon, Lakota resident Theresa TwoBulls was given less than 24 hrs notice that three US Army 7th Cavalry helicopters would make a landing on the sacred burial grounds at Wounded Knee. As of this writing, the US military was confronted by angry but peaceful and steadfast community resistance as the Aboriginal people of the area have so far, according to reports from Lakota people on the ground, managed to prevent the aircraft from touching Indigenous ground. For all American Aboriginals of the Americas, this is a sacred area. This is the place where the promise of a people died while fleeing from a genocidal US military unit hell-bent on liquidating the continent of its Indigenous population. There has never been any official apology offered for this massacre and the military awards bestowed upon the genocidal aggressors involved in this conflict still stand, as does a physical monument in honour of the US Army killed during Custer’s “last stand” against a defiant and united Indigenous resistance to their own demise. The history of the US Army 7th Cavalry is important to understanding the level of violence used against Indigenous peoples. It is important to remember that after the US Seventh Cavalry officially ended the "Indian Wars" at home, they were then dispatched to do battle against Indigenous Filipinos struggling to maintain their hard-won national independence from the colonialist Spanish. In other words, the US War Department sent this very same unit to do overseas what was done here to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. In this historical light, it is only logical for Indigenous peoples to assume that the Obama administration is attempting to make a political point out of this spectacle. Only, what sort of message are you sending by insulting and humiliating a people already suffering from five centuries of continuous pro-Europocentric, anti-Indigenous genocide? This domestic military action is a deliberate insult and an obvious message of ongoing colonialism, state-sponsored racism and apathetic Indigenous genocide to all Indigenous peoples across the Fourth World; to the whole of the Lakota/Dakota Nation; and to the Indigenous residents of Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee. The symbolism of dispatching the Seventh Cavalry to Wounded Knee in an attempt to land weapons of mass destruction on Aboriginal sacred ground tells us how little this government, and this particular administration, respects the people of Indian Country and our significant historical perspective as survivors of the racist Euro-settler xenophobic purges waged against the Indian in the Americas. To make matters worse, this action comes on the heels of newly-passed legislation in Arizona state that requires law officers to racially-profile anyone they believe “looks”, “sounds” or “dresses” like an illegal immigrant, a thinly veiled “race law” that directly effects both our Indigenous sisters and brothers native to Occupied Mexico as well as the Native American population of Arizona in the United States. Given that most Indigenous peoples of the Americas share the same general physiotype and more often than not, similar Spanish last names, the passage of this guideline will without a doubt lead to widespread abuses against that state’s brown-skinned population. The legal door now opened, Texas and other states led by neo-confederate constituencies are moving to pass their own anti-immigrant/anti-Indigenous directives that will broadly effect anyone and everyone who could be perceived by the colonial European majority as a “foreign invader”. The Obama administration has shown America and the world that they are no different than any other previous US government in their view that the American Indian on both sides of the US border is nothing more than a prop or a tool to be displayed only when it is useful to promote the “contemporary” 21st century neo-colonialist capitalist agenda. The Obama administration, an office headed by a man of African descent, has shamed itself and all those who have supported his candidacy in arrogantly dismissing the memory of our people interred at Wounded Knee by rubbing the military might of the historically anti-Indigenous 7th Cavalry in our faces by forcibly entering Indian Country in an attempt to land their machines of war on top of the bodies of our ancestral dead. Clearly, the culture war against the American Indian is not over. Welcome to the new American century.  The Aboriginal News Group -- The Aboriginal News Group is an international association of Indigenist blog-journalists working to provide accurate under-reported Indigenous news items to the people of the Fourth World and others with a concern for human justice and Aboriginal political issues. -- ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. ______________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Wed May 5 13:41:44 2010 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:41:44 -0500 Subject: US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds In-Reply-To: <467525.16439.qm@web54006.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Kweh, I think what Wilma Thin Elk said was so well put: "...Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened Saturday. *"We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to the site * *... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?"* Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over it!" but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of what many in the majority culture choose to remain ignorant about. What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of cultural ignorance. The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the worst damage. Richard Zane Smith Wyandotte, Okl. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Two Elk wrote: > I believe the LEAST we can do is get the full & correct information Before > we fan the Flames...shall we...or shall we continue to follow the fools? > > > Lakota protesters chase off military helicopters at Wounded Knee > Heidi Bell Gease Journal staff | Posted: Monday, May 3, 2010 7:15 pm | > Oglala Sioux Tribal President Theresa Two Bulls apologized to tribal > members Monday for giving permission for three Colorado Army National Guard > helicopters to land near the Wounded Knee Massacre site Saturday as part of > an educational program. > "I did not intend to be disrespectful," she said during an Oglala Sioux > Tribal Council meeting in Pine Ridge. "I just wanted to open the door, to > start communication, and I apologize that there's a lack of communication." > But descendants of massacre victims and survivors, many of whom protested > the Black Hawk helicopters' arrival Saturday, said the way the visit was > handled was "disrespectful and appalling." > "That's a sacred site," said Phyllis Hollow Horn, president of the Wounded > Knee community. "Blood was spilled there by our relatives, by the United > States 7th Cavalry." > That was the story Guardsmen came to hear. According to a news release from > Two Bulls' office, the Colorado National Guard requested permission about > two weeks ago to visit Wounded Knee. At the site, massacre descendant Marie > Fox Belly was to tell the Guardsmen how U.S. soldiers killed nearly 300 > Native Americans there on Dec. 29, 1890. > "The opportunity to hear the true stories from the descendants of the > Wounded Knee Massacre would enable the National Guard members to realize the > consequences of weak leadership," the news release states. > Two Bulls said she informed Wounded Knee District tribal council > representatives Garfield Little Dog and Philip Jumping Eagle of the visit > but received no response. She also informed the local Community Action > Program (CAP) office and spoke on KILI radio about the Guard's visit. > Somehow, though, Wounded Knee residents didn't get the message until Friday > or Saturday. For them, seeing three Black Hawk helicopters descending over > the mass grave site where their ancestors lie buried touched off deep-seated > fears and emotions. > As a descendant of massacre survivors, Wilma Thin Elk of Manderson grew up > hearing the story of Wounded Knee. "I thought, ‘So are we going to be the > next ones to lay here, to get killed here?'" she said. > A five-minute cell phone video posted on You Tube shows the three > helicopters approaching the site. One touches down, staying on the ground > for about 30 seconds before taking off again. > The video shows about 20 people who can be heard shouting, "We don't want > United States military here!" and "This is our land!" > Debra White Plume of Manderson described how people of all ages, some > carrying sage or eagle feathers, went running toward the helicopters. She > said several women ran under the choppers as they attempted to land, waving > banners and a United Nations flag and refusing to move. The helicopters > eventually left. > Tribal Police Chief Everett Little Whiteman said his office was notified of > the visit and officers were there to provide security. He called the > incident a "peaceful protest." > But one local resident observed that many in the community "don't like > military around" because of the history of Wounded Knee. "Something bad > could have happened, the way that was handled," he said. > "There should have been some kind of communication but there wasn't," > Hollow Horn said Monday. "I'm just kind of disappointed in our tribal > president." > Two Bulls took full responsibility at Monday's council meeting for the > mishap, saying council members had nothing to do with it. > "I apologize if I was disrespectful to anybody," she said. "But as a leader > you have to make choices. And in the past, you've seen tourist buses going > up there to the (Wounded Knee) site. > "Why have not the descendants and the people of that community complained > about that?," she asked. "That's been going on for many years." > Two Bulls also called on tribal members to help set up a meeting of all > Wounded Knee descendants from the Oglala and other tribes. > Tribal council members then approved a resolution by Little Dog that the > tribe and its members not allow the U.S. Military to come "anywhere near" > the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre mass grave out of honor and respect for the > dead. > In a news release from the Colorado Army National Guard, Maj. Gen. H. > Michael Edwards, the Adjutant General of Colorado, said the Guard had > welcomed the opportunity to "participate in paying tribute to those who lost > their lives there (at Wounded Knee)." > "As a 150-year-old, community-based organization, we value heritage and the > importance of remembering those who came before us," he stated. "Due to our > concern for the safety of citizens on the ground, who were closely observing > our arrival, we chose to depart the area." > The release also quoted Colorado public affairs officer Army Capt. Michael > Odgers, who said that "while the Battle of Wounded Knee is a dark chapter in > the history of the Army, without learning from the mistakes of our past we > are doomed to repeat them." > "This trip was taken to better understand our shared histories, and we hope > those who protested the visit can begin to understand our motives," Odgers > stated. "It's unfortunate that this valuable learning opportunity was lost, > and we sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding this visit created." > On Monday, Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what > happened Saturday. > "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come > to the site ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" > Contact Heidi Bell Gease at 394-8419 or heidi.bell at rapidcityjournal.com > > http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_91954776-56cf-11df-a8a4-001cc4c03286.html > VIDEO: Helicopters try to land at Wounded Knee > > http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/html_82c203ec-56cf-11df-b10c-001cc4c03286.html > Wounded Knee 5-1-2010.wmv > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rmTSif15VA > Update; Helicopters attempt to land at Wounded Knee - KOTA Territory News > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UU9MXfVK8 > Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 1 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MSSMBwpB8 > Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 2 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MD27uVY_s0 > > News Alert- pt. 1 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiE5Nw94ylQ > News Alert- pt. 2 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuK0jLEohA > News Alert- pt. 3 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZhjfFLPow > News Alert- pt. 4 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRinjsoWCU > News Alert- pt. 5 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhPAllxJUU > Wounded Knee landing called insult to memories > STEVE YOUNG • syoung at argusleader.com • May 4, 2010 > http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100504/NEWS/5040333/1001/news > > Planned educational presentation becomes Black Hawk fiasco > By Carol Berry, Today correspondent > Story Published: May 4, 2010 > (Story Updated: May 4, 2010 > http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/midwest/92761779.html > > > "We are all students and we are all teachers. > We are students of those who know more > and we are teachers of those who know less..." > > TLAKEALEL > Kalpulli De Koacalco > Koacalco, Mexico > > http://www.twoelkenterprise.com/EducServIntro.htm > > --- On *Tue, 5/4/10, Rolland Nadjiwon * wrote: > > > From: Rolland Nadjiwon > Subject: [ILAT] US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded > Knee Sacred Burial grounds > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 10:14 PM > > > Indigenous Crisis - US 7th Cavalry Continues to Insult the People of > Indian Country and the Lakota Territories > Press Release > Aboriginal News Group Press Statement > 05.01.2010 > > “The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the > total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we > had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more > wrong and wipe these untamed and untameable creatures from the face of the > earth. In this lies future safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are > under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as > full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.” > > - L. Frank Baum > > To the Original Peoples of the Fourth World and all International Press > Services: > > At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air > division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred > Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this > unit is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 > American Aboriginals on December 29,1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry > gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, > women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South > Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to > decay unburied in the driving snow. > > According to reports from Indigenous Rights Movement Radio host Wanblee > this afternoon, Lakota resident Theresa TwoBulls was given less than 24 hrs > notice that three US Army 7th Cavalry helicopters would make a landing on > the sacred burial grounds at Wounded Knee. As of this writing, the US > military was confronted by angry but peaceful and steadfast community > resistance as the Aboriginal people of the area have so far, according to > reports from Lakota people on the ground, managed to prevent the aircraft > from touching Indigenous ground. > > For all American Aboriginals of the Americas, this is a sacred area. This > is the place where the promise of a people died while fleeing from a > genocidal US military unit hell-bent on liquidating the continent of its > Indigenous population. There has never been any official apology offered for > this massacre and the military awards bestowed upon the genocidal aggressors > involved in this conflict still stand, as does a physical monument in honour > of the US Army killed during Custer’s “last stand” against a defiant and > united Indigenous resistance to their own demise. > > The history of the US Army 7th Cavalry is important to understanding the > level of violence used against Indigenous peoples. It is important to > remember that after the US Seventh Cavalry officially ended the "Indian > Wars" at home, they were then dispatched to do battle against Indigenous > Filipinos struggling to maintain their hard-won national independence from > the colonialist Spanish. In other words, the US War Department sent this > very same unit to do overseas what was done here to the Indigenous peoples > of the Americas. In this historical light, it is only logical for Indigenous > peoples to assume that the Obama administration is attempting to make a > political point out of this spectacle. Only, what sort of message are you > sending by insulting and humiliating a people already suffering from five > centuries of continuous pro-Europocentric, anti-Indigenous genocide? > > This domestic military action is a deliberate insult and an obvious message > of ongoing colonialism, state-sponsored racism and apathetic Indigenous > genocide to all Indigenous peoples across the Fourth World; to the whole of > the Lakota/Dakota Nation; and to the Indigenous residents of Pine Ridge and > Wounded Knee. The symbolism of dispatching the Seventh Cavalry to Wounded > Knee in an attempt to land weapons of mass destruction on Aboriginal sacred > ground tells us how little this government, and this particular > administration, respects the people of Indian Country and our significant > historical perspective as survivors of the racist Euro-settler xenophobic > purges waged against the Indian in the Americas. > > To make matters worse, this action comes on the heels of newly-passed > legislation in Arizona state that requires law officers to racially-profile > anyone they believe “looks”, “sounds” or “dresses” like an illegal > immigrant, a thinly veiled “race law” that directly effects both our > Indigenous sisters and brothers native to Occupied Mexico as well as the > Native American population of Arizona in the United States. Given that most > Indigenous peoples of the Americas share the same general physiotype and > more often than not, similar Spanish last names, the passage of this > guideline will without a doubt lead to widespread abuses against that > state’s brown-skinned population. The legal door now opened, Texas and other > states led by neo-confederate constituencies are moving to pass their own > anti-immigrant/anti-Indigenous directives that will broadly effect anyone > and everyone who could be perceived by the colonial European majority as a > “foreign invader”. > > The Obama administration has shown America and the world that they are no > different than any other previous US government in their view that the > American Indian on both sides of the US border is nothing more than a prop > or a tool to be displayed only when it is useful to promote the > “contemporary” 21st century neo-colonialist capitalist agenda. The Obama > administration, an office headed by a man of African descent, has shamed > itself and all those who have supported his candidacy in arrogantly > dismissing the memory of our people interred at Wounded Knee by rubbing the > military might of the historically anti-Indigenous 7th Cavalry in our faces > by forcibly entering Indian Country in an attempt to land their machines of > war on top of the bodies of our ancestral dead. > > Clearly, the culture war against the American Indian is not over. Welcome > to the new American century. > > > The Aboriginal News Group > -- > The Aboriginal News Group is an international association of Indigenist > blog-journalists working to provide accurate under-reported Indigenous news > items to the people of the Fourth World and others with a concern for human > justice and Aboriginal political issues. > > -- > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ______________________________________________ > > Light travels faster than sound. > That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. > ______________________________________________ > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hardman at UFL.EDU Wed May 5 15:13:41 2010 From: hardman at UFL.EDU (MJ Hardman) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:13:41 -0400 Subject: US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thank you, Richard. Your words are a balm on troubled times. MJ On 5/5/10 9:41 AM, "Richard Zane Smith" wrote: > Kweh, > > I think what Wilma Thin Elk said was so well put: > "...Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened > Saturday. > "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to > the site  > ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" > > Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over it!" > but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of  > what many in the majority culture choose to remain ignorant about. > > What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" > may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of cultural > ignorance. > The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the worst damage. > > > Richard Zane Smith > Wyandotte, Okl. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From twoelkenterprise at YAHOO.COM Wed May 5 19:08:45 2010 From: twoelkenterprise at YAHOO.COM (Two Elk) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:08:45 -0700 Subject: US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thank You Richard,   given all to be considered...Pres. Two Bulls DID Invite them...nonetheless, although the "idea" was good...the execution leaves much to be desired...   the question arises...Why did not Pres. Two Bulls recognize the Hallowed Ground of the Gravesite & WK village?  It's simple logistics...   However, the purposeful confusion generated alleging it was the 7th Cav., calling it WK III, and claiming "warrior women" repelled the "attack"   is certainly not only overdone but inflamatory at it's best...   hence...the resulting confusion...   given Pres. Two Bulls press conf.. & attempt to address her mistake it is certainly NOT what too many allege...   hmmmm...   Normally I say NOTHING...forgive my response but this is just WRONG...   AnpetuWaste!   HehakaNunpa "We are all students and we are all teachers. We are students of those who know more and we are teachers of those who know less..." TLAKEALEL Kalpulli De Koacalco Koacalco, Mexico http://www.twoelkenterprise.com/EducServIntro.htm --- On Wed, 5/5/10, Richard Zane Smith wrote: From: Richard Zane Smith Subject: Re: [ILAT] US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 7:41 AM Kweh, I think what Wilma Thin Elk said was so well put: "...Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened Saturday. "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to the site  ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over it!" but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of  what many in the majority culture choose to remain ignorant about. What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of cultural ignorance. The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the worst damage. Richard Zane Smith Wyandotte, Okl. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Two Elk wrote: I believe the LEAST we can do is get the full & correct information Before we fan the Flames...shall we...or shall we continue to follow the fools?   Lakota protesters chase off military helicopters at Wounded Knee Heidi Bell Gease Journal staff | Posted: Monday, May 3, 2010 7:15 pm | Oglala Sioux Tribal President Theresa Two Bulls apologized to tribal members Monday for giving permission for three Colorado Army National Guard helicopters to land near the Wounded Knee Massacre site Saturday as part of an educational program. "I did not intend to be disrespectful," she said during an Oglala Sioux Tribal Council meeting in Pine Ridge. "I just wanted to open the door, to start communication, and I apologize that there's a lack of communication." But descendants of massacre victims and survivors, many of whom protested the Black Hawk helicopters' arrival Saturday, said the way the visit was handled was "disrespectful and appalling." "That's a sacred site," said Phyllis Hollow Horn, president of the Wounded Knee community. "Blood was spilled there by our relatives, by the United States 7th Cavalry." That was the story Guardsmen came to hear. According to a news release from Two Bulls' office, the Colorado National Guard requested permission about two weeks ago to visit Wounded Knee. At the site, massacre descendant Marie Fox Belly was to tell the Guardsmen how U.S. soldiers killed nearly 300 Native Americans there on Dec. 29, 1890. "The opportunity to hear the true stories from the descendants of the Wounded Knee Massacre would enable the National Guard members to realize the consequences of weak leadership," the news release states. Two Bulls said she informed Wounded Knee District tribal council representatives Garfield Little Dog and Philip Jumping Eagle of the visit but received no response. She also informed the local Community Action Program (CAP) office and spoke on KILI radio about the Guard's visit. Somehow, though, Wounded Knee residents didn't get the message until Friday or Saturday. For them, seeing three Black Hawk helicopters descending over the mass grave site where their ancestors lie buried touched off deep-seated fears and emotions. As a descendant of massacre survivors, Wilma Thin Elk of Manderson grew up hearing the story of Wounded Knee. "I thought, ‘So are we going to be the next ones to lay here, to get killed here?'" she said. A five-minute cell phone video posted on You Tube shows the three helicopters approaching the site. One touches down, staying on the ground for about 30 seconds before taking off again. The video shows about 20 people who can be heard shouting, "We don't want United States military here!" and "This is our land!" Debra White Plume of Manderson described how people of all ages, some carrying sage or eagle feathers, went running toward the helicopters. She said several women ran under the choppers as they attempted to land, waving banners and a United Nations flag and refusing to move. The helicopters eventually left. Tribal Police Chief Everett Little Whiteman said his office was notified of the visit and officers were there to provide security. He called the incident a "peaceful protest." But one local resident observed that many in the community "don't like military around" because of the history of Wounded Knee. "Something bad could have happened, the way that was handled," he said. "There should have been some kind of communication but there wasn't," Hollow Horn said Monday. "I'm just kind of disappointed in our tribal president." Two Bulls took full responsibility at Monday's council meeting for the mishap, saying council members had nothing to do with it. "I apologize if I was disrespectful to anybody," she said. "But as a leader you have to make choices. And in the past, you've seen tourist buses going up there to the (Wounded Knee) site. "Why have not the descendants and the people of that community complained about that?," she asked. "That's been going on for many years." Two Bulls also called on tribal members to help set up a meeting of all Wounded Knee descendants from the Oglala and other tribes. Tribal council members then approved a resolution by Little Dog that the tribe and its members not allow the U.S. Military to come "anywhere near" the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre mass grave out of honor and respect for the dead. In a news release from the Colorado Army National Guard, Maj. Gen. H. Michael Edwards, the Adjutant General of Colorado, said the Guard had welcomed the opportunity to "participate in paying tribute to those who lost their lives there (at Wounded Knee)." "As a 150-year-old, community-based organization, we value heritage and the importance of remembering those who came before us," he stated. "Due to our concern for the safety of citizens on the ground, who were closely observing our arrival, we chose to depart the area." The release also quoted Colorado public affairs officer Army Capt. Michael Odgers, who said that "while the Battle of Wounded Knee is a dark chapter in the history of the Army, without learning from the mistakes of our past we are doomed to repeat them." "This trip was taken to better understand our shared histories, and we hope those who protested the visit can begin to understand our motives," Odgers stated. "It's unfortunate that this valuable learning opportunity was lost, and we sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding this visit created." On Monday, Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened Saturday. "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to the site ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" Contact Heidi Bell Gease at 394-8419 or heidi.bell at rapidcityjournal.com http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_91954776-56cf-11df-a8a4-001cc4c03286.html VIDEO: Helicopters try to land at Wounded Knee http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/html_82c203ec-56cf-11df-b10c-001cc4c03286.html Wounded Knee 5-1-2010.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rmTSif15VA Update; Helicopters attempt to land at Wounded Knee - KOTA Territory News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UU9MXfVK8 Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MSSMBwpB8 Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MD27uVY_s0 News Alert- pt. 1 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiE5Nw94ylQ News Alert- pt. 2 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuK0jLEohA News Alert- pt. 3 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZhjfFLPow News Alert- pt. 4 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRinjsoWCU News Alert- pt. 5 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhPAllxJUU Wounded Knee landing called insult to memories STEVE YOUNG • syoung at argusleader.com • May 4, 2010 http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100504/NEWS/5040333/1001/news Planned educational presentation becomes Black Hawk fiasco By Carol Berry, Today correspondent Story Published: May 4, 2010 (Story Updated: May 4, 2010 http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/midwest/92761779.html "We are all students and we are all teachers. We are students of those who know more and we are teachers of those who know less..." TLAKEALEL Kalpulli De Koacalco Koacalco, Mexico http://www.twoelkenterprise.com/EducServIntro.htm --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: From: Rolland Nadjiwon Subject: [ILAT] US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 10:14 PM Indigenous Crisis - US 7th Cavalry Continues to Insult the People of Indian Country and the Lakota TerritoriesPress Release Aboriginal News Group Press Statement 05.01.2010 “The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untameable creatures from the face of the earth. In this lies future safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.” - L. Frank Baum To the Original Peoples of the Fourth World and all International Press Services: At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this unit is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 American Aboriginals on December 29,1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to decay unburied in the driving snow. According to reports from Indigenous Rights Movement Radio host Wanblee this afternoon, Lakota resident Theresa TwoBulls was given less than 24 hrs notice that three US Army 7th Cavalry helicopters would make a landing on the sacred burial grounds at Wounded Knee. As of this writing, the US military was confronted by angry but peaceful and steadfast community resistance as the Aboriginal people of the area have so far, according to reports from Lakota people on the ground, managed to prevent the aircraft from touching Indigenous ground. For all American Aboriginals of the Americas, this is a sacred area. This is the place where the promise of a people died while fleeing from a genocidal US military unit hell-bent on liquidating the continent of its Indigenous population. There has never been any official apology offered for this massacre and the military awards bestowed upon the genocidal aggressors involved in this conflict still stand, as does a physical monument in honour of the US Army killed during Custer’s “last stand” against a defiant and united Indigenous resistance to their own demise. The history of the US Army 7th Cavalry is important to understanding the level of violence used against Indigenous peoples. It is important to remember that after the US Seventh Cavalry officially ended the "Indian Wars" at home, they were then dispatched to do battle against Indigenous Filipinos struggling to maintain their hard-won national independence from the colonialist Spanish. In other words, the US War Department sent this very same unit to do overseas what was done here to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. In this historical light, it is only logical for Indigenous peoples to assume that the Obama administration is attempting to make a political point out of this spectacle. Only, what sort of message are you sending by insulting and humiliating a people already suffering from five centuries of continuous pro-Europocentric, anti-Indigenous genocide? This domestic military action is a deliberate insult and an obvious message of ongoing colonialism, state-sponsored racism and apathetic Indigenous genocide to all Indigenous peoples across the Fourth World; to the whole of the Lakota/Dakota Nation; and to the Indigenous residents of Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee. The symbolism of dispatching the Seventh Cavalry to Wounded Knee in an attempt to land weapons of mass destruction on Aboriginal sacred ground tells us how little this government, and this particular administration, respects the people of Indian Country and our significant historical perspective as survivors of the racist Euro-settler xenophobic purges waged against the Indian in the Americas. To make matters worse, this action comes on the heels of newly-passed legislation in Arizona state that requires law officers to racially-profile anyone they believe “looks”, “sounds” or “dresses” like an illegal immigrant, a thinly veiled “race law” that directly effects both our Indigenous sisters and brothers native to Occupied Mexico as well as the Native American population of Arizona in the United States. Given that most Indigenous peoples of the Americas share the same general physiotype and more often than not, similar Spanish last names, the passage of this guideline will without a doubt lead to widespread abuses against that state’s brown-skinned population. The legal door now opened, Texas and other states led by neo-confederate constituencies are moving to pass their own anti-immigrant/anti-Indigenous directives that will broadly effect anyone and everyone who could be perceived by the colonial European majority as a “foreign invader”. The Obama administration has shown America and the world that they are no different than any other previous US government in their view that the American Indian on both sides of the US border is nothing more than a prop or a tool to be displayed only when it is useful to promote the “contemporary” 21st century neo-colonialist capitalist agenda. The Obama administration, an office headed by a man of African descent, has shamed itself and all those who have supported his candidacy in arrogantly dismissing the memory of our people interred at Wounded Knee by rubbing the military might of the historically anti-Indigenous 7th Cavalry in our faces by forcibly entering Indian Country in an attempt to land their machines of war on top of the bodies of our ancestral dead. Clearly, the culture war against the American Indian is not over. Welcome to the new American century.  The Aboriginal News Group -- The Aboriginal News Group is an international association of Indigenist blog-journalists working to provide accurate under-reported Indigenous news items to the people of the Fourth World and others with a concern for human justice and Aboriginal political issues. -- ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ Light travels faster than sound. 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Stop the insanity! Fair and humane immigration reform won't happen unless we fight for it. Dear Rolland, Arizona's stringent new anti-immigrant law, SB1070, has whipped up a firestorm of controversy - with good reason. *Arizona's law has the effect of legalizing racial profiling. * The draconian new law requires anyone who the police "reasonably suspect" of being an "illegal immigrant" to produce papers proving they are here legally. If *for any reason* you don't show documentation, you'll be criminally prosecuted for the trespassing, jailed and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to face deportation. The Arizona law is an assault on the very notion of human rights. It turns the state's Latinos and anyone else who fits a police officer's idea of what an "illegal immigrant" looks like into criminal suspects. *A "reasonable suspicion" cannot be formed without resorting to racial profiling.* International law guarantees human rights to all without distinction of race or color. It is all too easy to deny a person's human rights if you consider them as less than human. Dehumanizing and misguided SB1070 usurps federal jurisdiction on immigration policy and sets a dangerous precedent other states are already looking to follow. The absence of national immigration reform is no excuse to trample on human rights. Urge Congress to craft a fair and humane immigration policy that respects human rights. Amnesty has outlined core reform principles at this critical juncture in the immigration debate. Stand with us in championing them: * *Provide a formal process through which undocumented people can obtain legal status.* A legalization scheme can make a significant contribution towards protecting immigrants' rights, particularly in reducing labor exploitation and promoting social cohesion. * *Reform immigration policies that unnecessarily separate families.* Immigration judges should have the authority to review all decisions to detain immigrants and the discretion to stop deportation in the interest of family unity. To ensure fairness, these decisions should be subject to federal court review. * *Fully guarantee immigrant workers' labor rights, including the right to join unions.* * *Focus on protecting the rights of immigrants most at risk* of human rights violations, including undocumented immigrants, immigrant women and immigrant children. * *Restore immigration enforcement responsibilities exclusively to federal authorities* and terminates unconstitutional state and local law enforcement programs and state laws purporting to enforce immigration standards. Anti-immigrant forces are emboldened; they want other states to enact similar legislation, and they're thirsty for an even bigger victory - sweeping, get-tough federal enforcement legislation. We must act swiftly to balance the scales of justice. Contact your Senators today and urge them protect - not sacrifice - human rights as they work to fix our nation's broken immigration system. 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That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. ______________________________________________ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: UNPRECEDENTED FINE FOR RANCHERS IN UNCONTACTED TRIBE ‘COVERUP’ Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 05:02:21 -0400 From: Survival International To: Rolland SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE * *6 May 2010 UNPRECEDENTED FINE FOR RANCHERS IN UNCONTACTED TRIBE ‘COVERUP’ Members of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode group on the day they were contacted for the first time, in 2004. © GAT/Survival In an unprecedented move, Paraguayan authorities have fined the Brazilian cattle-ranching firm accused of illegally clearing forest which is home to the last group of uncontacted Indians outside the Amazon basin. ‘The company, Yaguarete Pora SA, concealed key information about the existence of indigenous people in the area where it had a licence to work,’ said Paraguay’s Environment Ministry (SEAM), which imposed the fine. Yaguarete failed to acknowledge that the rich forest it is bulldozing in order to graze cattle is the ancestral territory of uncontacted Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians , some of whom have recently been seen nearby. SEAM’s response is to fine the company approximately 75 million guaranies ($16,000/ £10,500) and order it to write a new report, an ‘Environmental Impact Assessment’, before considering whether to issue the company with a new licence. SEAM made it clear that some Totobiegosode, who have already been contacted, have confirmed the existence of uncontacted relatives in the area where Yaguarete has been working . Yaguarete recently accused Paraguay’s Environment Minister, Oscar Rivas, of working for Survival International after Survival’s exposé of the company’s destruction of thousands of hectares of the Totobiegosode’s forest, and the subsequent cancellation by SEAM of Yaguarete’s licence to work there. Survival director, Stephen Corry, said today, ‘Whilst this fine sends out a welcome message, SEAM shouldn’t only fine Yaguarete: it should ban the company from working there. That forest is the ancestral territory of the Totobiegosode, and the Indians have been trying to gain land title to the area since 1993. Destroying that forest is both immoral and unconstitutional.’ To read this story online: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5918 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu May 6 16:54:46 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 09:54:46 -0700 Subject: Preserving the Lushootseed language for the next generation (fwd link) Message-ID: May 06, 2010 Preserving the Lushootseed language for the next generation Once spoken by thousands of Coast Salish people in this area, Lushootseed was almost lost. Now the battle to save and revive the language is making progress. By Holly Taylor USA The notion that we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, but rather, we borrow it from our children, has become a cliché of the environmental movement. But could the same thing be true of a language? Lushootseed tribal language teachers, students, and advocates from around Puget Sound gathered at a conference on Saturday (May 1) to celebrate the rich cultural inheritance of their Puget Salish language, but also to assess the language's chances of survival in the 21st century. The conference, hosted by Seattle University, was guided by the idea that today's Lushootseed speakers are taking care of the language for the next generation. Access full article below: http://crosscut.com/2010/05/06/tribes/19787/Preserving-the-Lushootseed-language-for-the-next-generation/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"What was the whole point?" >> >> Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over >> it!" >> but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of >> what many in the majority culture choose to remain ignorant about. >> >> What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" >> may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of >> cultural ignorance. >> The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the >> worst damage. >> >> >> Richard Zane Smith >> Wyandotte, Okl. >> >> _______________________ Mona M. Smith media artist/producer/director Allies, LLC Allies: media/art 4720 32nd Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55406 763-219-1696 Indian Treaty Signers Project Martin Case, Director 5001 1/2 34th Ave. South Minneapolis, MN 55406 indiantreatysigners at gmail.com http://www.alliesmediaart.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The 27-year-old Anchio is one of 20 young Mapuche selected to attend the first course ever organised to teach filmmaking to members of Chile's largest native group, in order to draw attention to their experiences and problems. Taiñ Azkintun ("Our View" in the Mapuche language) is the name of this initiative organised by the non-governmental Citizen's Observatory and the Mapuche newspaper Azkintuwe. The course is financed by the Canadian embassy and sponsored by La Frontera University and the Catholic University of Temuco, both based in Araucanía. "The idea is to give them basic but essential tools so that they can inform and communicate from their communities, whether in the sphere of reporting wrongs, communicating culture or maintaining and recovering language," Mapuche journalist Pedro Cayuqueo, the editor of Azkintuwe and one of the project's coordinators, told IPS. 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I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea of what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time. I have been thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the main reasons I have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, LOL!) on my Mac.... I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn about it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... Eekoshi pitamaa. Heather -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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One of the main reasons I > have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software > (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, > LOL!) on my Mac.... > > I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML > for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn about > it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere > mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! > > Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... > > Eekoshi pitamaa. > Heather > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"I realised while working with Aboriginal communities that kids weren't talking with their grandparents in their language," producer Cath Trimboli, told AFP. "It is disappearing, kids are not encouraged to talk in this language. So I wanted to work on this." Noongar is one of about 60 indigenous languages still spoken in Australia, compared with about 250 -- and up to 700 dialects -- in circulation at the time of white settlement in 1788. Of 13 Noongar dialects, just five now remain. Access full article below: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h0ZauoIno0mypuCvR6-yGQP_cLhQ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon May 10 22:09:49 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:09:49 -0700 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Heather, you are becoming braver by the day...xml, ubuntu, etc.! What next? ;-) l8ter, Phil On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:35 AM, s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi Heather, > > w3schools might be a good place to start with > XML. You'll find useful tutorials and other resources, and it's free. In > terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with no > problems, no Microsoft, and no viruses. > > Good luck, > Shannon > > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: > >> Taanshi, >> >> Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >> >> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea of >> what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a >> partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time. I have been >> thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps >> I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the main reasons I >> have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software >> (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, >> LOL!) on my Mac.... >> >> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML >> for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn about >> it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere >> mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! >> >> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >> >> Eekoshi pitamaa. >> Heather >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bulbulthegreat at GMAIL.COM Mon May 10 22:24:10 2010 From: bulbulthegreat at GMAIL.COM (=?UTF-8?B?U2xhdm9tw61yIMSMw6lwbMO2?=) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 00:24:10 +0200 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: LaTeX and Perl, what else? :) On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 00:09, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > Heather, you are becoming braver by the day...xml, ubuntu, etc.!  What > next?  ;-)  l8ter, Phil > > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:35 AM, s.t. bischoff > wrote: >> >> Hi Heather, >> >> w3schools might be a good place to start with XML. You'll find useful >> tutorials and other resources, and it's free. In terms of linux, I've been >> using Ubuntu for about five years with no problems, no Microsoft, and no >> viruses. >> >> Good luck, >> Shannon >> >> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: >>> >>> Taanshi, >>> >>> Well,  I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >>> >>> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea >>> of what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about.  I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a >>> partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time.  I  have been >>> thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps >>> I should put a Linux distribution instead....  One of the main reasons I >>> have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software >>> (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, >>> LOL!) on my Mac.... >>> >>> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to >>> XML for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"?  I want to learn >>> about it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the >>> mere mention of any kind of computer programming!  LOL! >>> >>> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >>> >>> Eekoshi pitamaa. >>> Heather >> > > From aidan at USYD.EDU.AU Mon May 10 23:48:36 2010 From: aidan at USYD.EDU.AU (Aidan Wilson) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:48:36 +1000 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Heather, as a linux convert of some 4 years ago, and as a former Windows slave, I fully recommend upgrading to Ubuntu. The amount of control over how your computer operates is wonderful - you'll find that you can make it do what you want it to do, how you want it to do it, as opposed to Windows doing what it thinks you want to do, and doing it however it likes. However I would warn that there can, nay, will be difficult times when you need to configure something somewhere to fix some serious issue (such as an external wi-fi card not being supported immediately, or flash not working unless you manually download and install it from Adobe). It will require you to perform some actions in the terminal (Unix version of cmd). But on the plus side, there is a huge support community of volunteers who are always willing to help out Windows apostates. Firstly there are the Ubuntu Forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/) where you will likely get timely advice, or if you're familiar with chatrooms, there's the #ubuntu channel on the freenode IRC server (irc://chat.freenode.net/#ubuntu - needs an IRC client, like ircle on a mac or babbel on both mac and windows). Here, there are probably hundreds of users who tend to answer questions very quickly. I'd also suggest, if you want to keep windows, to run a dual-boot. The configuration I had, which worked extraordinarily well for 3 years, was to take my laptop hard drive and partition it into three drives, one for data and the other two for the two operating systems, linux and windows. Both can communicate with the data partition equally well, so the net effect is that you can simply reboot in windows and go back to the file you were just working on in linux and open it in a windows program. However this configuration takes quite some setting up. As for XML, you really should get a license for Oxygen, an XML editor. It won't teach you about xml, W3schools is excellent for that, but it will allow you to edit XML files without breaking the very delicate structure, as it validates as you type, and produces errors and red squiggly lines under ill-formed chunks. -Aidan Wilson -- Aidan Wilson The University of Sydney +612 9036 9558 +61428 458 969 aidan.wilson at usyd.edu.au On Mon, 10 May 2010, s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi Heather, > > w3schools might be a good place to start with XML. You'll find useful tutorials and other resources, and it's > free. In terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with no problems, no Microsoft, and no > viruses. > > Good luck, > Shannon > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: > Taanshi, > > Well,  I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... > > I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea of what Linux (Ubuntu?) > is all about.  I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a partitioning program (Parallels) with at the > same time.  I  have been thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that > perhaps I should put a Linux distribution instead....  One of the main reasons I have wanted to > put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software (propriety and open source) I can't use (or > at least don't think I can, LOL!) on my Mac.... > > I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML for > non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"?  I want to learn about it now that I don't feel > as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere mention of any kind of computer programming! > LOL! > > Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... > > Eekoshi pitamaa. > Heather > > > > From aidan at USYD.EDU.AU Mon May 10 23:53:29 2010 From: aidan at USYD.EDU.AU (Aidan Wilson) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:53:29 +1000 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: By the way, an academic license for OxygenXML, which includes personal not-for-profit use, is $64. http://www.oxygenxml.com/buy_new_licenses_academic.html -Aidan On Tue, 11 May 2010, Aidan Wilson wrote: > Heather, as a linux convert of some 4 years ago, and as a former Windows > slave, I fully recommend upgrading to Ubuntu. The amount of control over how > your computer operates is wonderful - you'll find that you can make it do > what you want it to do, how you want it to do it, as opposed to Windows doing > what it thinks you want to do, and doing it however it likes. > > However I would warn that there can, nay, will be difficult times when you > need to configure something somewhere to fix some serious issue (such as an > external wi-fi card not being supported immediately, or flash not working > unless you manually download and install it from Adobe). It will require you > to perform some actions in the terminal (Unix version of cmd). > > But on the plus side, there is a huge support community of volunteers who are > always willing to help out Windows apostates. Firstly there are the Ubuntu > Forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/) where you will likely get timely advice, or > if you're familiar with chatrooms, there's the #ubuntu channel on the > freenode IRC server (irc://chat.freenode.net/#ubuntu - needs an IRC client, > like ircle on a mac or babbel on both mac and windows). Here, there are > probably hundreds of users who tend to answer questions very quickly. > > I'd also suggest, if you want to keep windows, to run a dual-boot. The > configuration I had, which worked extraordinarily well for 3 years, was to > take my laptop hard drive and partition it into three drives, one for data > and the other two for the two operating systems, linux and windows. Both can > communicate with the data partition equally well, so the net effect is that > you can simply reboot in windows and go back to the file you were just > working on in linux and open it in a windows program. However this > configuration takes quite some setting up. > > As for XML, you really should get a license for Oxygen, an XML editor. It > won't teach you about xml, W3schools is excellent for that, but it will allow > you to edit XML files without breaking the very delicate structure, as it > validates as you type, and produces errors and red squiggly lines under > ill-formed chunks. > > -Aidan Wilson > > From hsouter at GMAIL.COM Tue May 11 03:59:02 2010 From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:59:02 -0600 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Kihchi-maarsiI! Heather On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:35 AM, s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi Heather, > > w3schools might be a good place to start with > XML. You'll find useful tutorials and other resources, and it's free. In > terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with no > problems, no Microsoft, and no viruses. > > Good luck, > Shannon > > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: > >> Taanshi, >> >> Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >> >> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea of >> what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a >> partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time. I have been >> thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps >> I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the main reasons I >> have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software >> (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, >> LOL!) on my Mac.... >> >> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML >> for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn about >> it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere >> mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! >> >> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >> >> Eekoshi pitamaa. >> Heather >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hsouter at GMAIL.COM Tue May 11 04:02:11 2010 From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 22:02:11 -0600 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It is thanks to the support of the list members of ILAT! Just "watching and listening" for a few years has done wonders for me....! Thanks to you all! Eekoshi pitamaa. Heather On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash < cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote: > Heather, you are becoming braver by the day...xml, ubuntu, etc.! What > next? ;-) l8ter, Phil > > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:35 AM, s.t. bischoff wrote: > >> Hi Heather, >> >> w3schools might be a good place to start with >> XML. You'll find useful tutorials and other resources, and it's free. In >> terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with no >> problems, no Microsoft, and no viruses. >> >> Good luck, >> Shannon >> >> >> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: >> >>> Taanshi, >>> >>> Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >>> >>> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea >>> of what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a >>> partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time. I have been >>> thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps >>> I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the main reasons I >>> have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software >>> (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, >>> LOL!) on my Mac.... >>> >>> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to >>> XML for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn >>> about it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the >>> mere mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! >>> >>> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >>> >>> Eekoshi pitamaa. >>> Heather >>> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hsouter at GMAIL.COM Tue May 11 04:08:04 2010 From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 22:08:04 -0600 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Wahwaa! Misheet l'iinformasyoñ! Kihchi-maarsii! Wow! Lots of information! Thanks! Eekoshi pitamaa. That's it for now. Heather On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Aidan Wilson wrote: > Heather, as a linux convert of some 4 years ago, and as a former Windows > slave, I fully recommend upgrading to Ubuntu. The amount of control over how > your computer operates is wonderful - you'll find that you can make it do > what you want it to do, how you want it to do it, as opposed to Windows > doing what it thinks you want to do, and doing it however it likes. > > However I would warn that there can, nay, will be difficult times when you > need to configure something somewhere to fix some serious issue (such as an > external wi-fi card not being supported immediately, or flash not working > unless you manually download and install it from Adobe). It will require you > to perform some actions in the terminal (Unix version of cmd). > > But on the plus side, there is a huge support community of volunteers who > are always willing to help out Windows apostates. Firstly there are the > Ubuntu Forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/) where you will likely get timely > advice, or if you're familiar with chatrooms, there's the #ubuntu channel on > the freenode IRC server (irc://chat.freenode.net/#ubuntu - needs an IRC > client, like ircle on a mac or babbel on both mac and windows). Here, there > are probably hundreds of users who tend to answer questions very quickly. > > I'd also suggest, if you want to keep windows, to run a dual-boot. The > configuration I had, which worked extraordinarily well for 3 years, was to > take my laptop hard drive and partition it into three drives, one for data > and the other two for the two operating systems, linux and windows. Both can > communicate with the data partition equally well, so the net effect is that > you can simply reboot in windows and go back to the file you were just > working on in linux and open it in a windows program. However this > configuration takes quite some setting up. > > As for XML, you really should get a license for Oxygen, an XML editor. It > won't teach you about xml, W3schools is excellent for that, but it will > allow you to edit XML files without breaking the very delicate structure, as > it validates as you type, and produces errors and red squiggly lines under > ill-formed chunks. > > -Aidan Wilson > > -- > Aidan Wilson > > The University of Sydney > +612 9036 9558 > +61428 458 969 > aidan.wilson at usyd.edu.au > > > > On Mon, 10 May 2010, s.t. bischoff wrote: > > Hi Heather, >> >> w3schools might be a good place to start with XML. You'll find useful >> tutorials and other resources, and it's >> free. In terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with >> no problems, no Microsoft, and no >> viruses. >> >> Good luck, >> Shannon >> >> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: >> Taanshi, >> >> Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better >> idea of what Linux (Ubuntu?) >> is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a partitioning >> program (Parallels) with at the >> same time. I have been thinking about putting a Windows OS on it >> but now I am thinking that >> perhaps I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the >> main reasons I have wanted to >> put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software (propriety and >> open source) I can't use (or >> at least don't think I can, LOL!) on my Mac.... >> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction >> to XML for >> non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn >> about it now that I don't feel >> as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere mention of any >> kind of computer programming! >> LOL! >> >> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >> >> Eekoshi pitamaa. >> Heather >> >> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed May 12 19:05:14 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 12:05:14 -0700 Subject: Australian TV Show Imparts the First Lessons in an Aboriginal Language (fwd link) Message-ID: Australian TV Show Imparts the First Lessons in an Aboriginal Language by Savitha on May 11, 2010 at 9:49 PM India An Australian TV channel has begun broadcasting the first lessons in an Aboriginal language with a motive to help young children stay in touch with their native dialects. 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URL: From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Wed May 12 20:39:03 2010 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 15:39:03 -0500 Subject: US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds In-Reply-To: <30A4F201-4792-4E0B-A086-9CA75A5C3BF6@alliesmediaart.com> Message-ID: Thanks Mona, great! look forward to meeting you as well. it should be a great time! actually ...I'm tryin not to think about it too much i don't want to get all nervous *toooo* early! Richard Zane Smith Wyandotte, Ok On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Mona Smith wrote: > Richard, I agree. Hope to meet you this fall when you're in Mpls. St Paul > for your award! > > m > > > On May 5, 2010, at 10:13 AM, MJ Hardman wrote: > > Thank you, Richard. Your words are a balm on troubled times. MJ > > On 5/5/10 9:41 AM, "Richard Zane Smith" wrote: > > Kweh, > > I think what Wilma Thin Elk said was so well put: > "...Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened > Saturday. > *"We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and > come to the site > ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" > * > Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over it!" > but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of > what many in the majority culture choose to remain ignorant about. > > What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" > may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of cultural > ignorance. > The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the worst > damage. > > > Richard Zane Smith > Wyandotte, Okl. > > > > _______________________ > Mona M. 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That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. ______________________________________________ UBCIC Calls on New Zealand and Canada to Stop Denying International Legal Reality Press Release May 12, 2010 (Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, Canada - May 12, 2010) Like the Canadian government, the New Zealand government recently announced that it will adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within the bounds of its own legal and constitutional frameworks. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by 144 States at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2007. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs stated "By deliberately interpreting the UN Declaration in accordance with the constitution and laws of each state, the Canadian and New Zealand governments are attempting to legitimize the 'status quo' by further entrenching the existing injustices and discrimination of their domestic policies within what is considered by the vast majority of Indigenous groups as one of the most important international human rights instruments of the United Nations." Grand Chief Phillip continued "The UBCIC supports all Indigenous Peoples in their fight for recognition. As an example, the UN Human Rights Committee supported the Te Kāhui Ngahuru call for New Zealand to negotiate on their stalled Treaty of Waitangi issues. What was New Zealand's response? Proposed legislation that will extinguish Te Kāhui Ngahuru's legal right to ask the courts to determine its claim. Sadly, Canada has already enacted similar legislation, the Specific Claims Tribunal Act." In October 2008, the Specific Claims Tribunal Act (SCTA) came into force to eliminate the backlog of specific claims through a fair, timely, joint and independent process. A key element of the SCTA was to implement an independent Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) centre for First Nations and the Government of Canada. Indigenous organizations suggested a range of options such as an independent centre to provide mediation services through legislation or linking to or creating a non-governmental organization to service ADR. In February 2010, the Federal Minister of Indian Affairs, Chuck Strahl unilaterally and arrogantly dismissed the options as too costly or outside the scope of the legislation. Canada responded by stating the new ADR centre will be housed in government offices, administrated by government staff and will only provide mediation services in the area of negotiations and no other part of the process. "The UBCIC does not recognize, embrace or endorse the fairness, independence, impartiality, openness and transparency of a mediation process that is housed and administrated by the Government of Canada and is limited to only one stage in the process for resolving the many specific claims of First Nations" stated Grand Chief Phillip. "As Indigenous Peoples, our fight is the same the world over. Our Title and Rights are ignored, trivialized and dismissed. Ongoing injustices such as woefully inadequate land reserves or Crown mismanagement of the Te Kāhui Ngahuru or the many outstanding specific claims in Canada, add to the severe economic, cultural and social suffering of our Indigenous communities." Grand Chief Phillip concluded "New Zealand and Canada continue to deny the international legal reality of our Indigenous rights. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is truly a historically significant instrument, a milestone and clarion call of the ongoing fight that unifies the 370 million Indigenous Peoples globally." - 30 - Media inquiries: Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of BC Indian Chiefs Phone: (250) 490-5314 PDF COPY: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/files/PDF/UBCICPress_NZWAI56_UNDRIP_051210.pdf The UBCIC is a NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations This page and all other News Releases can be found at: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/News_Releases/ ================================ UBCIC email alerts or text alerts, go to: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/subscribe/ Follow UBCIC on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UBCIC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The two-day conference will host workshops on innovative language-learning methods to help create a shift in B.C.’s endangered languages. Three individuals who have worked in recent years in language-teaching have come together to accomplish new things for Aboriginal languages. Language-instructor and community organizer Dustin Rivers, from the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) people in North Vancouver, started using language-teaching methods previously unheard of. Dustin Rivers was introduced to Evan Gardner and Willem Larsen from Portland, Oregon, who shared their innovative language teaching & learning method called “Where Are Your Keys?”. This method has been used with native communities in Oregon, with great success in creating fluent speakers and language-teachers of dying languages. The hope is to bring more of this success to other Aboriginal communities. Dustin, Evan, and Willem are inviting Aboriginal people, their families, and friends from British Columbia and elsewhere to learn techniques, approaches, and methods to save endangered languages. Individuals attending the conference will be introduced to new concepts on teaching and learning languages that they can immediately apply to their own endangered languages. It only costs $50 to register before the June 1st, 2010 deadline. For additional information, also visit our website http://www.saveyourlanguage.wordpress.com For further information, please contact Conference Coordinator Dustin Rivers at dustin.rivers at gmail.com or call 604-999-2780 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I very much look forward to the work he will be doing with language revitalization, awakening a sleeping language. I have enjoyed working with him and watching the development of a new scholar in our field with a language that needs such a scholar so badly. May the future be all that he and I would wish. MJ Dr. MJ Hardman Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú website: http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Fri May 21 17:02:47 2010 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:02:47 -0500 Subject: Scholar in Siraya In-Reply-To: Message-ID: congrats! Dr.Jimmy! you deserved it with all that time, passion and energy put into this important work... i know about *sleeping languages* and now that i brought it up, if you or if *ANYONE here *has ideas for waking up* **sleeping tribal members* besides literally lighting fires under them... well...I'm all ears. Richard Zane Smith Wyandotte, Okla. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:05 PM, MJ Hardman wrote: > It is with pleasure that I can announce that Dr. Chun Huang received his > degree on May 1 with his dissertation "Language Revitalization and Identity > Politics: An examination of Siraya Reclamation in Taiwan" which was rated > 'outstanding'. I very much look forward to the work he will be doing with > language revitalization, awakening a sleeping language. I have enjoyed > working with him and watching the development of a new scholar in our field > with a language that needs such a scholar so badly. May the future be all > that he and I would wish. > > MJ > > Dr. MJ Hardman > Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú > website: http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/ > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From huangc20 at UFL.EDU Fri May 21 18:18:25 2010 From: huangc20 at UFL.EDU (Chun Jimmy Huang) Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:18:25 -0400 Subject: Scholar in Siraya Message-ID: Thank you, Richard As for waking up sleeping tribal members, well, we began by just "listening." Say, our language was labeled (and still is by some) as "extinct" or "dead." But me and my friends (in their 40s) didn't give up. We went on to visit some elders. At first, the elders were reluctant to talk... they probably didn't want to be reminded of being "savages," which was/is the label the mainstream put on us. But then as they realized that we were sincere, they became willing, and eager, to talk. From there we found out we actually have rememberers, who know some words and phrases. In addition to linguistic input, the elders also told us stories (in the dominant languages), taught us songs, taught us how to make some tools, or showed us pottery they had hidden away for decades. We listened to them, and we learned from them. Then we taught the young ones what we had learned. And... somehow, the young ones have been very interested since, even though learning these things wouldn't bring them any practical benefit (like entering college) since our people have not yet been officially recognized by Taiwan's govt. So anyway, we have had no problem with the young people... and many of the older ones. Still, we do face difficulty convincing the middle-agers, like the parents of those school-age children. until today, some parents think of learning our heritage as "useless." But anyway, we are progressing and optimistic. So... allow me to say that "all ears" is right. Some members may have been sleeping, but many of them do have "dreams." Listen to their dreams first and then one day they may wake up and put an effort to make the dreams come true. Jimmy On Fri May 21 13:02:47 EDT 2010, Richard Zane Smith wrote: > congrats! Dr.Jimmy! > you deserved it with all that time, passion and energy > put into this important work... i know about *sleeping languages* > and now that i brought it up, if you or > if *ANYONE here *has ideas for waking up* **sleeping tribal > members* > besides literally lighting fires under them... well...I'm all > ears. > > Richard Zane Smith > Wyandotte, Okla. > > > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:05 PM, MJ Hardman > wrote: > >> It is with pleasure that I can announce that Dr. Chun Huang >> received his >> degree on May 1 with his dissertation "Language Revitalization >> and Identity >> Politics: An examination of Siraya Reclamation in Taiwan" which >> was rated >> 'outstanding'. I very much look forward to the work he will be >> doing with >> language revitalization, awakening a sleeping language. I have >> enjoyed >> working with him and watching the development of a new scholar >> in our field >> with a language that needs such a scholar so badly. May the >> future be all >> that he and I would wish. >> >> MJ >> >> Dr. MJ Hardman >> Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Per?? >> website: http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/ >> >> >> >> >> From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Sat May 22 16:25:22 2010 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:25:22 -0400 Subject: Scholar in Siraya In-Reply-To: <948267927.125511274465905022.JavaMail.osg@osgjas01.cns.ufl.edu> Message-ID: Congratulations Dr. Chun Jimmy Huang. It is a great pleasure to see your success and know how well you will use it for your people and all indigenous peoples. I have already used much of your information and some of the video of your people as springboards and stepping stones for some of our own peoples who are struggling with identity, culture and independence based on the sovereignty of creation. I know I will use the information again. I am (supposedly) teaching a half course at University of British Colombia in July. The course title is 'ancestral memory' and is, it appears to me, the captivating motivation for many indigenous peoples internationally. I have received much feed back on what other peoples are doing and suggestions which are so valuable to me. I will be using much of what you have written me if it is ok with you. Indigenous peoples are moving so strongly and connecting so well I often think I can feel it happening like and aura of good feeling around the earth. We are so in need of the wisdom and knowledge that has allowed us to continue to live on this planet so much longer than so called modern civilizations. Perhaps not in my life time, but I know and feel the strength of what our peoples are doing to try and have the earth be a better place for human survival. I know you are a great part of that and I am proud to have come to know you...even if it is cyber...lol ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory… ______________________________________________ On 21/05/2010 2:18 PM, Chun Jimmy Huang wrote: > Thank you, Richard > > As for waking up sleeping tribal members, well, we began by just > "listening." Say, our language was labeled (and still is by some) as > "extinct" or "dead." But me and my friends (in their 40s) didn't give > up. We went on to visit some elders. At first, the elders were > reluctant to talk... they probably didn't want to be reminded of being > "savages," which was/is the label the mainstream put on us. But then > as they realized that we were sincere, they became willing, and eager, > to talk. From there we found out we actually have rememberers, who > know some words and phrases. In addition to linguistic input, the > elders also told us stories (in the dominant languages), taught us > songs, taught us how to make some tools, or showed us pottery they had > hidden away for decades. We listened to them, and we learned from > them. Then we taught the young ones what we had learned. And... > somehow, the young ones have been very interested since, even though > learning these things wouldn't bring them any practical benefit (like > entering college) since our people have not yet been officially > recognized by Taiwan's govt. So anyway, we have had no problem with > the young people... and many of the older ones. Still, we do face > difficulty convincing the middle-agers, like the parents of those > school-age children. until today, some parents think of learning our > heritage as "useless." But anyway, we are progressing and optimistic. > > So... allow me to say that "all ears" is right. Some members may have > been sleeping, but many of them do have "dreams." Listen to their > dreams first and then one day they may wake up and put an effort to > make the dreams come true. > > Jimmy > > > On Fri May 21 13:02:47 EDT 2010, Richard Zane Smith > wrote: > >> congrats! Dr.Jimmy! >> you deserved it with all that time, passion and energy >> put into this important work... i know about *sleeping languages* >> and now that i brought it up, if you or >> if *ANYONE here *has ideas for waking up* **sleeping tribal members* >> besides literally lighting fires under them... well...I'm all ears. >> >> Richard Zane Smith >> Wyandotte, Okla. >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:05 PM, MJ Hardman wrote: >> >>> It is with pleasure that I can announce that Dr. Chun Huang received >>> his >>> degree on May 1 with his dissertation "Language Revitalization and >>> Identity >>> Politics: An examination of Siraya Reclamation in Taiwan" which was >>> rated >>> 'outstanding'. I very much look forward to the work he will be doing >>> with >>> language revitalization, awakening a sleeping language. I have enjoyed >>> working with him and watching the development of a new scholar in >>> our field >>> with a language that needs such a scholar so badly. May the future >>> be all >>> that he and I would wish. >>> >>> MJ >>> >>> Dr. MJ Hardman >>> Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Per?? >>> website: http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/ > -- From scoronelmolina at GMAIL.COM Mon May 24 13:53:46 2010 From: scoronelmolina at GMAIL.COM (Serafin Coronel-Molina) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:53:46 -0400 Subject: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Quechua and Spanish Message-ID: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Quechua and Spanish at The Ohio State University Rank according to qualifications. Minimum requirement MA or equivalent degree. Native or near native fluency in Quechua 2 and Spanish, and working command of English. Position involves teaching up to eight courses per year, which will include beginning and intermediate courses in Quechua 2, beginning, intermediate or advanced Spanish language courses, as well as courses in linguistics or Latin American literatures and cultures. Teaching experience desirable. Salary and benefits according to rank. To receive full consideration applications should be received by June 30, 2010. However, review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Send application materials, including a CV and three recent letters of recommendation to Prof. Abril Trigo, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, 298 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd., Columbus, OH 43210-1340, USA. Contact: trigo.1 at osu.edu, 614-292-8695. The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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Access full article below: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/salts-of-the-earth-20100524-w7st.html ~~~ Note: Although not necessarily a tech/language article per se, it reminds me of the same here in the US where Zuni and other SW indigenous groups traditionally harvest natural salts. Phil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon May 24 23:37:50 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 16:37:50 -0700 Subject: Saving the language of the Cherokee (fwd link) Message-ID: Saving the language of the Cherokee By Rob Reynolds in Americas on May 15th, 2010 At a primary school in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Native American nation is fighting hard to keep its ancestral language alive for a new generation. It is a total immersion programme, with all lessons taught in Cherokee. Children read and write the language, using a syllabary developed by a self-taught genius named Sequoyah, who brought literacy to the Cherokee in the 19th century. And a 21st century tool is helping the language of Sequoyah survive: the Askongodeesk—or as we say in English, the laptop computer. Access full article below: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2010/05/14/saving-language-cherokee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET Tue May 25 15:17:07 2010 From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:17:07 -0500 Subject: Question about Phrases cds Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chimiskwew at HOTMAIL.COM Tue May 25 16:10:01 2010 From: chimiskwew at HOTMAIL.COM (Cathy Wheaton) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:01 -0500 Subject: Question about Phrases cds In-Reply-To: <25595638.305302.1274800627681.JavaMail.root@vms076.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: We have already created several language phrase files, CD's and videos in multiple languages (Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Anishnaabemowin and Nakota) on our First Nation Language Speaking Project lessons (which are free) and can be downloaded and freely copies and shared. http://www.allanadam.com/index.php?page=lessons It is imperative as a new language learner (which I am) that each phrase have it's own track on the CD so the phrase can be listened to repeatedly over and over again, one at a time. I have often had to listen to difficult phrase as much as 20-30 times in order to really hear the phrase properly. We record up to 99 seperate tracks on each CD with one phrase per track. Then the learner is free to choose individual phrases to learn and repeat as they would like as repitition is essetial to learning langauge. If you include more than one phrase on a track, it is very frustrating to learn a new phrase when you constantly have to search for the phrase you are learning. We have been very successful in doing all of our language lessons this way. We have a master phrase list we use with our speakers and we start and stop each after each phrase is spoken, once in English, once slowly in the language we are teaching and a second time at normal speaking rate so people will know the rhythm as well as the sound. Like you we are grassroots, have no funding, no support from any institutions and exist solely by donating our own time in recording our languages for others to learn at no cost. We record phrases and then upload them to the internet so anyone can make their own CD and we now have people all over North America who use the lessons. If you have any questions on how we create our lessons, please contact us, we are excited to know you are doing this as well! "First Nations Language Speaking Project" (306) 425-0488 La Ronge, SK or email chimiskwew at hotmail.com Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:17:07 -0500 From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET Subject: [ILAT] Question about Phrases cds To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Han mitakuyapi, (Greetings my relatives) I have a question, or a few questions to ask. I consider our language program to be a grassroots program. We don't have any linguists or experts that help us and we can't afford to retain anyone. So I'm hoping that someone might be able to help us with this. Even though we don't feel that language phrases cds are the best way to learn, we have repeatedly over the last few years been asked by adults to make cds. We also think that if we create something in Dakotah, it will be available forever if all efforts to revitalize our languages fail. We also know that adults want to learn to speak complete phrases. And that if we create these cds it might make people more apt to try and learn more. Our questions are: How many phrases should we put on each cd without risking overwhelming the learner and creating the opposite effect of people giving up on learning because they think it's too difficult? How many times should be repeat each phrase in the native language? We were thinking of repeating each phrase four times. And we have been thinking about putting 64 phrases on each cd, which would be four times four times four. I think everyone who might either be native or work with natives would know that for most of our cultures, four is an important number. Nina pidamaya for any ideas you may have. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mccreery at UVIC.CA Tue May 25 18:55:30 2010 From: mccreery at UVIC.CA (Dale McCreery) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:55:30 -0700 Subject: Question about Phrases cds In-Reply-To: <25595638.305302.1274800627681.JavaMail.root@vms076.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: Taanshi! Dale McCreery here, I think that there isn't a real worry about including too many phrases on a single CD, the important thing is to make sure that the phrases are structured. A large amount of unrelated phrases is overwhelming, but the more ways the phrases are related to each other the more readily a learner can absorb them. Most CDs like this are arranged by topic, and that is one way of making connections, but I think that including a lot of phrases that are very similar to each other structurally (such as differing in only a single word or a tense) would make it easier for those who listen to the CD to retain the phrases. Even on a CD of phrases, unless there is some sort of a progression of complexity, people can listen to the CD a hundred times and retain only a couple phrases. So, my basic suggestions are: 1. include as much as possible 2. make it as structured as possible (as many connections between phrases as possible) 3. make a progression of complexity, or at least include a repetition of similar types of structures frequently. -dale- From andrekar at NCIDC.ORG Tue May 25 19:54:44 2010 From: andrekar at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:54:44 -0700 Subject: Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Survey (language) Message-ID: The Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Project at the University of Cambridge investigates ways of writing dictionaries that better facilitate the maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages. It explores the relationship between documenting a language and sustaining it, and entails collaboration with linguists, dictionary- makers and educators, as well as members of endangered-language communities themselves, in order to determine what lexicographic methodologies work particularly well pedagogically for language maintenance and revitalization. In addition to developing a methodology for writing dictionaries that are more community-focussed and collaborative in their making, content, and format, the Project is creating an online catalogue of dictionary projects around the world. If you would like your dictionary to be included in the catalogue, please fill out the Dictionary Survey at http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie/elad1.php or contact Sarah Ogilvie at svo21 at cam.ac.uk. We really hope you will want to participate, in order to make the catalogue as comprehensive as possible. -- Dr Sarah Ogilvie Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow Lucy Cavendish College Lady Margaret Road University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 0BU. Tel. Office (+44) 01223 764018 Tel. Mobile (+44) 07540 133790 From andrekar at NCIDC.ORG Tue May 25 20:13:59 2010 From: andrekar at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:13:59 -0700 Subject: 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation Message-ID: 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation: Strategies for Moving Forward. Honolulu, Hawai'i, February 11-13, 2011 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011 The 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) will be held February 11-13, 2011, at the Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center on the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus. Two days of optional technical training workshops will precede the conference (Feb. 9-10). An optional fieldtrip to Hilo (on the Big Island of Hawai'i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the conference (Feb. 14-15). The 1st ICLDC, with its theme “Supporting Small Languages Together," underscored the need for communities, linguists, and other academics to work in close collaboration. The theme of the 2nd ICLDC is “Strategies for Moving Forward." We aim to build on the strong momentum created at the 1st ICLDC and to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich, accessible records which can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech communities. We hope you will join us. TOPICS We welcome abstracts on best practices for language documentation and conservation moving forward, which may include: - Archiving matters - Community-based documentation/conservation initiatives - Data management - Fieldwork methods - Ethical issues - Interdisciplinary fieldwork - Language planning - Lexicography - Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality - Orthography design - Reference grammar design - Reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization efforts - Teaching/learning small languages - Technology in documentation – methods and pitfalls - Topics in areal language documentation - Training in documentation methods – beyond the university This is not an exhaustive list and individual proposals on topics outside these areas are warmly welcomed. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region discussed. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint (co-authored) proposal. ABSTRACTS ARE DUE BY AUGUST 31, 2010, with notification of acceptance by September 30, 2010. We ask for ABSTRACTS OF NO MORE THAN 400 WORDS for online publication so that conference participants can have a good idea of the content of your paper and a 50-WORD SUMMARY for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic. See ICLDC conference website for ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM. We will only be accepting proposal submissions for papers or posters. Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication. (Most presentations from the 1st ICLDC were recorded and can be heard as podcasts here: http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5961.) 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Name: Pasted Graphic.tiff Type: image/tiff Size: 9654 bytes Desc: not available URL: From andrekar at NCIDC.ORG Tue May 25 20:12:12 2010 From: andrekar at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:12:12 -0700 Subject: Reversing Language Shift: How to Reawaken a Language (UK, Sep 2010) Message-ID: FEL XIV (the 14th Foundation for Endangered Languages conference), in Carmarthen, Wales, UK, 13-15 September 2010: http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-1931.html Full Title: Reversing Language Shift: How to Reawaken a Language Short Title: FEL XIV Date: 13-Sep-2010 - 15-Sep-2010 Location: Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom Contact Person: Hywel Lewis Meeting Email: h.lewistrinity- cm.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2010/index.htm Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2010 Meeting Description: Language revitalisation requires the collaboration of a wide range of expertise. Institutional, political, and local support all play crucial roles, along with educationists and language planners. But how can these, working together, have practical effects in the daily language usage of ordinary people, and how can they achieve the goal of slowing down language erosion and revitalising language tradition? Abstracts are invited on all topics in language revitalisation and reversing language shift. A language-relevant excursion is planned for the afternoon of 15 September as well as cultural entertainment during the evenings of 13 and 14 September. Carmarthen's nearest airport is Cardiff, 110 Km away. If direct flights to Cardiff are unavailable, try Bristol (175 Km from Carmarthen) before any of the London airports. The Carmarthen (Caerfyrddin - 'Castle Merlin') campus of University of Wales: Trinity Saint David is situated on the edge of a market town with a population of 13,500, most of them fluent Welsh-speakers. The town claims to be the oldest in Wales, with a mediaeval castle and a Roman amphitheatre. Carmarthen's name under Roman rule was Moridunum Demetarum ('Sea Fort of Dyfed', in British). Trinity University College, Carmarthen and Saint David's University College, Lampeter, are merging, a process to be completed by September 2010. Trinity University College is famous in Wales for promotion of bilingualism and bilingual teaching, recognised by the Welsh Assembly Government as a key provider of Welsh-medium higher education. Call for Papers Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition University of Wales: Trinity Saint David, Carmarthen, Wales 13-15 September, 2010 Language revitalisation is now receiving greater attention from academics, language planners, politicians, institutions and organisations worldwide. A step further than documentation, language revitalisation, supported by active policy, offers the possibility of reversing a shift that threatens over half of the world's languages. Many take language vitality to be symbolic of national and cultural identity. In the Celtic regions, in particular, governments are taking a leading role in the struggle to reverse language shift by various efforts including attempts to increase the number of speakers of the respective languages. Wales provides a good vantage point from which to consider prospects for reversing language shift. It has experience in gauging levels of political support at local, national and international levels. Census figures show an increase in the number of users of Welsh, especially amongst the younger generation, which can be attributed, like the language revival in Estonia, to the education system. However, some academics doubt whether such increases in speaker numbers lead to increased language fluency and use. While efforts to achieve the Welsh Assembly's goal of a "bilingual Wales" have led to demands for greater legislative powers and autonomy on linguistic issues, the constant net immigration into the traditional heartlands is steadily reducing the density of Welsh-speakers there. Language revitalisation requires the collaboration of a wide range of expertise. Institutional, political, and local support all play crucial roles, along with educationists and language planners. But how can these, working together, have practical effects in the daily language usage of ordinary people, and how can they achieve the goal of slowing down language erosion and revitalising language tradition? Abstracts are invited on all topics in language revitalisation and reversing language shift, such as the following: -The roles and influences of formal educational systems -The roles of political independence, campaigns for linguistic rights, and community attitudes -The role of different domains of language use: is there a 'best practice' in ordering their importance in language policy? -The roles of corpus planning, documentary linguistics, and technologies, especially the internet -Can there be a corpus standard without oppressive purism? If so, how else can a corpus standard be propagated? -Language change in/through revitalisation -Special problems in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural context -Whether strategies for reversing language shift in places like Wales can be applied where there are many minority languages -How to integrate monolingual immigrants into bilingual society Other relevant issues might include these questions: -Is political independence crucial for ethnolinguistic vitality? -Are there useful links between the problem of reversing language shift where there is only a single minority language, and the problem where there is a host of small languages? -What role is there for technology in reversing language shift? -Are the benefits of bilingualism, cognitive and otherwise, still contested? -Is there an inescapable trend towards larger language units, and fewer languages? -If, as has been said, a shrinking language minority always lacks the will to stop shrinking, must attempts to save such a community focus on their will to save themselves? Papers may focus on any endangered language situation in the world. The language of papers is English or Welsh. The content of all papers will be made accessible to those who lack Welsh. Each presentation at the Conference will last twenty minutes, with a further ten minutes for discussion and questions and answers. Keynote lectures (by invitation only) will last forty-five minutes each. Abstract submission: An abstract of up to 500 words should be submitted before 30 April, 2010. Abstracts received after this deadline will not be accepted. The following information should also be provided on a separate page: NAME(S): Names of the author(s) TITLE: Title of the paper INSTITUTION: Institutional affiliation, if any E-MAIL: E-mail address of first author, if any ADDRESS: Postal address of the first author TEL: Telephone number of the first author, if any FAX: Fax number of the first author, if any. Submit abstracts either by email or post: 1. E-mail Please send your abstract (with the other necessary details) via e-mail to both of the following addresses: h.lewistrinity-cm.ac.uk nostlerchibcha.demon.co.uk with the subject of the e-mail stating: "FEL Abstract: (last name of the author(s)): (title of paper)" 2. Post If you cannot submit by e-mail, please send your abstract and details on paper to the following address (to arrive by 30 April 2010): FEL XIV Conference Administration Foundation for Endangered Languages 172 Bailbrook Lane Bath BA1 7AA United Kingdom The name of the first author will be used in all correspondence. Writers will be informed once their abstracts have been accepted and will be required to submit their full papers for publication in the Proceedings by August 1st, 2010, together with their registration fee (to be announced soon). Important Dates -Abstract arrival deadline: April 30, 2010 - Notification of acceptance of paper: May 31, 2010 -In case of acceptance, the full paper will be due by August 1st, 2010 It is a condition of speaking at the conference that authors will submit a hard copy of their paper by this deadline. (Further details on the format of text will be specified to the authors.) -Conference dates: September 13-15, 2010 Conference Chair: Dr Hywel Glyn Lewis Ysgol y Gymraeg ac Astudiaethau Dwyieithrwydd Prifysgol Cymru: Y Drindod Dewi Sant, Caerfyrddin, Cymru or School of Welsh and Bilingualism Studies University of Wales: Trinity Saint David Carmarthen SA31 3EP Wales, UK Tel. +44 (0)1267-676680 e-mail: h.lewistrinity-cm.ac.uk The Foundation for Endangered Languages is a non-profit membership organisation, registered as Charity 1070616 in England and Wales, founded in 1996. Its objective is to support, enable and assist the documentation, protection and promotion of endangered languages all over the world. The Foundation awards small grants for projects. It also publishes a newsletter, OGMIOS. It has hosted a conference every years since 1996, most recently in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (2004), Stellenbosch, South Africa (2005), Mysore, India (2006), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, (2007), Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, Netherlands (2008) and Khorugh/ Khorog, Tajikistan (2009). The FEL conferences bring together experts, scholars and enthusiasts from all over the world. The Proceedings of FEL conferences are available as published volumes. For further information visit: www.ogmios.org -- Damien Hall University of York Department of Language and Linguistic Science Heslington YORK YO10 5DD UK Tel. (office) +44 (0)1904 432665 (mobile) +44 (0)771 853 5634 Fax +44 (0)1904 432673 http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/lang/people/pages/hall.htm Kúmateech Xávin/Later 'Tater André Cramblit, Operations Director Northern California Indian Development Council (NCIDC) (http://www.ncidc.org) 707.445.8451 To subscribe to a blog of interest to Natives send go to: www.andrekaruk.posterous.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Pasted Graphic.tiff Type: image/tiff Size: 9654 bytes Desc: not available URL: From sganeshhcu at GMAIL.COM Tue May 25 20:35:02 2010 From: sganeshhcu at GMAIL.COM (sree ganesh) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 02:05:02 +0530 Subject: Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Survey (language) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, I have prepared a English - Telugu dictionary, (Telugu is a Dravidian language). It is a corpus based dictionary. I would like to know, how can i publish that dictionary. Thnaks Sri. On 26 May 2010 01:24, Andre Cramblit wrote: > The Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Project at the University of > Cambridge investigates ways of writing dictionaries that better facilitate > the maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages. It explores the > relationship between documenting a language and sustaining it, and entails > collaboration with linguists, dictionary-makers and educators, as well as > members of endangered-language communities themselves, in order to determine > what lexicographic methodologies work particularly well pedagogically for > language maintenance and revitalization. > > In addition to developing a methodology for writing dictionaries that are > more community-focussed and collaborative in their making, content, and > format, the Project is creating an online catalogue of dictionary projects > around the world. If you would like your dictionary to be included in the > catalogue, please fill out the Dictionary Survey at > http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie/elad1.phpor contact Sarah Ogilvie at > svo21 at cam.ac.uk. We really hope you will want to participate, in order to > make the catalogue as comprehensive as possible. > > > -- > Dr Sarah Ogilvie > Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow > Lucy Cavendish College > Lady Margaret Road > University of Cambridge > Cambridge CB3 0BU. > > Tel. Office (+44) 01223 764018 > Tel. Mobile (+44) 07540 133790 > -- T. Sree Ganesh Language Maintainer for Telugu Red Hat Software Services Pvt Ltd Pune. Email: mrthottempudi at yahoo.com Phone: 020 - 40057382. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wjposer at LDC.UPENN.EDU Wed May 26 06:42:44 2010 From: wjposer at LDC.UPENN.EDU (William J Poser) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 02:42:44 -0400 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It isn't a single source, and some of it is either off-topic or aimed at hard-core programmers, but anyone doing language work in a Unix environment may find my Computational Resources for Linguistic Research page useful: http://billposer.org/Linguistics/Computation/Resources.html I have done nearly all of my work on some variety of Unix system since 1982 and have been running GNU/Linux on my personal machines since 1995. Bill From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Wed May 26 13:56:49 2010 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:56:49 -0500 Subject: Question about Phrases cds In-Reply-To: <4a932049e31473d54a38cf1fb7ed3443.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> Message-ID: kweh all, These have been helpful suggestions. keep 'em coming! as a NON-trained language teacher also involved in making recordings, I really appreciate these kinds of tips. Its very easy to become discouraged by lack of immediate interest in something so crucial to our tribal identity. building a *foundation* for language learning seems to be in itself an art and being an artist ,I'm always seeking to learn new skills. --organizing mountains of data into "easy to get to" research files. (I still cannot make heads or tails out of TOOLBOX!) --how to spark a hunger in tribal members for learning their own heritage tongue. --how to introduce language rules "naturally" without overwhelming learners (especially as i'm still learning the complexity of rules myself). --how much emphasis should be placed on "correctness" orally and grammatically. If i wasn't for hearing what others here are doing and the rare conference i can sneak off to, It would be all to easy to give up completely. so thanks! Richard Zane Smith Wyandotte Oklahoma On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dale McCreery wrote: > Taanshi! > Dale McCreery here, I think that there isn't a real worry about including > too many phrases on a single CD, the important thing is to make sure that > the phrases are structured. A large amount of unrelated phrases is > overwhelming, but the more ways the phrases are related to each other the > more readily a learner can absorb them. Most CDs like this are arranged > by topic, and that is one way of making connections, but I think that > including a lot of phrases that are very similar to each other > structurally (such as differing in only a single word or a tense) would > make it easier for those who listen to the CD to retain the phrases. Even > on a CD of phrases, unless there is some sort of a progression of > complexity, people can listen to the CD a hundred times and retain only a > couple phrases. > > So, my basic suggestions are: > 1. include as much as possible > 2. make it as structured as possible (as many connections between phrases > as possible) > 3. make a progression of complexity, or at least include a repetition of > similar types of structures frequently. > > -dale- > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM Wed May 26 15:02:00 2010 From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:02:00 -0400 Subject: Question about Phrases cds In-Reply-To: <4a932049e31473d54a38cf1fb7ed3443.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> Message-ID: Hi all, Sounds like lots of good work going on---In terms of acquiring language, Dale's advice is very good -- begin simple and build on what you have to increasing complexity. The key to learning is repetition and providing a context for use. The number of phrases won't matter as much as their ability to be put to use---in really practical, everyday language. Organizing them by topic is useful, but within a topic, structure still matters and should be a consideration for how the phrases are ordered for language learners. That's just my take....Thanks to all for sharing these grassroots efforts. Susan On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Dale McCreery wrote: > Taanshi! > Dale McCreery here, I think that there isn't a real worry about including > too many phrases on a single CD, the important thing is to make sure that > the phrases are structured. A large amount of unrelated phrases is > overwhelming, but the more ways the phrases are related to each other the > more readily a learner can absorb them. Most CDs like this are arranged > by topic, and that is one way of making connections, but I think that > including a lot of phrases that are very similar to each other > structurally (such as differing in only a single word or a tense) would > make it easier for those who listen to the CD to retain the phrases. Even > on a CD of phrases, unless there is some sort of a progression of > complexity, people can listen to the CD a hundred times and retain only a > couple phrases. > > So, my basic suggestions are: > 1. include as much as possible > 2. make it as structured as possible (as many connections between phrases > as possible) > 3. make a progression of complexity, or at least include a repetition of > similar types of structures frequently. > > -dale- > -- ********************************************************************************************** Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. (Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation. E-mail: spenfiel at nsf.gov Phone at NSF: 703-292-4535) Department of English (Primary) Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) The Southwest Center University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harveyd at SOU.EDU Thu May 27 00:31:29 2010 From: harveyd at SOU.EDU (Dan Harvey) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:31:29 -0700 Subject: Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Survey (language) Message-ID: You might check out the WOLF project ([W]ord [O]riented [L]inuistics [F]ramework). The web-site is at http://cs.sou.edu/~harveyd/wolf for details. I expect to be sending out a release notice tomorrow. Dan Harvey Professor of Computer Science Southern Oregon University harveyd at sou.edu >>> Andre Cramblit 05/25/10 1:05 PM >>> The Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Project at the University of Cambridge investigates ways of writing dictionaries that better facilitate the maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages. It explores the relationship between documenting a language and sustaining it, and entails collaboration with linguists, dictionary- makers and educators, as well as members of endangered-language communities themselves, in order to determine what lexicographic methodologies work particularly well pedagogically for language maintenance and revitalization. In addition to developing a methodology for writing dictionaries that are more community-focussed and collaborative in their making, content, and format, the Project is creating an online catalogue of dictionary projects around the world. If you would like your dictionary to be included in the catalogue, please fill out the Dictionary Survey at http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie/elad1.php or contact Sarah Ogilvie at svo21 at cam.ac.uk. We really hope you will want to participate, in order to make the catalogue as comprehensive as possible. -- Dr Sarah Ogilvie Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow Lucy Cavendish College Lady Margaret Road University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 0BU. Tel. Office (+44) 01223 764018 Tel. Mobile (+44) 07540 133790 From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu May 27 05:04:33 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 22:04:33 -0700 Subject: Million Indigenous placenames in danger of disappearing (fwd link) Message-ID: Million Indigenous placenames in danger of disappearing Posted Wed May 26, 2010 5:14am AEST Australia Placenames: Harold Koch says Canberra is an example of an Indigenous word that is now pronounced incorrectly. (ABC Local: Jim Trail) MAP: Canberra 2600 The editors of a new book on Aboriginal languages say more than a million Indigenous placenames are in danger of being lost forever. Access full article below: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/26/2909320.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To subscribe, you can visit http://cs.sou.edu/~harveyd and click on the subscribe button at the top-right corner of the page. The forum’s site is http://groups.google.com/group/acornsproject ACORNS ([A][C]quisition [O]f [R]estored [N]ative [S]peech) supports tribal efforts for language revitalization. It is freeware that enables language teachers or their students to easily create language lessons. ELK ([E]xtended [L]inguistic [K]eyboards) is freeware designed to provide a cross-platform approach to creating indigenous keyboard mappings. It can be used to create and use .keylayout files, popular on MAC systems. WOLF ([W]ord [O]riented [L]inguistic [F]ramework) is a dictionary creation program with an easy-to-use interface. It uses rows and columns of cells, similar to EXCEL, but is geared for use by linguists creating dictionaries. Please sign up for this forum if you would like to participate. Thanks for your interest, Dan Dan Harvey Professor of Computer Science Southern Oregon University harveyd at sou.edu From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu May 27 19:06:12 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 12:06:12 -0700 Subject: Thornes Helps Tribe Preserve Native Language (fwd link) Message-ID: Thornes Helps Tribe Preserve Native Language Posted in Campus News on May 27, 2010 USA For more than a decade, Tim Thornes has worked with members of the Burns Paiute Tribe to revive its language for future generations. Thornes, assistant professor of linguistics in the Department of Writing, has interviewed elders from various tribal communities in an effort to document and preserve the Northern Paiute language. Northern Paiute is an endangered Native American language spoken by just a few hundred people with most of its active fluent native speakers over the age of 50. The tribe resides mainly in northern Nevada and eastern Oregon. 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"I didn't speak a word of English when I went to school, so I was severely beaten by the nuns," White Bird told about 300 people gathered at The Forks Oodena Celebration Circle on Wednesday during the Day of Healing and Reconciliation for residential school survivors and their families. Access full article below: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/robbed-of-their-language-and-pride-94999764.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From candaceg at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu May 27 23:13:52 2010 From: candaceg at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Candace K. Galla) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:13:52 -0700 Subject: American Indian Language Development Institute 2010 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: * We are still accepting registrations for the American Indian Language Development Institute *31st Annual Summer Institute *** June 7—June 23 , 2010 The University of Arizona ** “Ancestral Voices: Transitioning into Today’s Technology” * Please join us for our annual American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) at the University of Arizona. AILDI 2010 will be an exciting and intensive two weeks offering classes & special lectures on the integration of Indigenous knowledge, language, and science and technology. Other courses will include Indigenous language immersion methods & application, linguistics for Native American communities with curriculum and materials development a component of all AILDI courses. AILDI continues its tradition of providing a holistic experience for its participants with local culture, and opportunities to engage in nearby Native American community activities. This year all students will attend one morning class together, and select an afternoon class of their choice. MORNING COURSE - LING 421/521 - Language Maintenance, Preservation and Revitalization (Lucille Watahomigie) AFTERNOON COURSE (choose 1) - LING 432/532 - American Indian Language Immersion Level 2 (Jennie DeGroat) - LRC 430/530 - Multimedia Technology for Indigenous Language Communities (Stacey Oberly) - LING445/545A - Applied Linguistics for Native American Communities (Keisha Josephs) ****There is an additional course that will be offered as a 1-week intensive course. The course will meet for a total of 45 contact hours, July 6-10 & July 12. - LING 476/576 - Indigenous Knowledge (Gregory Cajete) For more information visit our website www.u.arizona.edu/~aildi/ A reminder that ALL materials MUST BE INCLUDED in your packet to be considered for partial tuition support. Funding is limited, and will be applied to Tuition fees ONLY. If you are being sponsored by your employer, tribe, or other sponsoring agency PLEASE indicate that on your application. If you have any questions, contact the AILDI Office at 520-621-1068, or via email at Maxine Sam at mrs1 at email.arizona.eduThank you again for your continued support and we look for to your participation in AILDI 2010. Mahalo nui loa, Candace <<> <><><> <> >< <>+<> >< <> <><><> <> > Candace K. Galla, Ph.D. | Program Coordinator American Indian Language Development Institute University of Arizona College of Education Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies Room 511 PO Box 210069 Tucson, AZ 85721 O: (520) 621.1068 | F: (520) 621.8174 http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aild -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FINALFlier.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 114755 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The ACORNS project is a long-term development effort involving both graduate and undergraduate students. ACORNS and WOLF software is free for download (http://cs.sou.edu/~harveyd and click on projects, selecting the WOLF project). Developers that wish to make contributions should contact harveyd at sou.edu The motivation for WOLF ([W]ord [O]riented [L]inguistic [F]ramework) is to provide an easy-to-use framework where linguists easily can create indigenous dictionaries. The interface has an EXCEL feel, but geared for use by linguists. Each word is a row in the dictionary. Words and definitions within words can contain additional row and column sub-cells. The software supports, among other things, dictionaries containing up to one hundred languages, a variety of search and sort facilities, XML import and export, embedded multimedia, and IPA phonetics. A more detailed list follows. Future releases will provide apps that run on mobile devices, plug-in capabilities to support developer enhancements, automatic speech recognition, dictionary based games, and wiki-like capabilities for posting dictionaries to the Web. WOLF Version 1.00 features As mentioned above, the current WOLF release is designed to have a feel similar to EXCEL, but geared for use by linguists. We chose this design because many linguists use EXCEL, despite its limitations for creating dictionaries. WOLF version 1.00 supports: • Up to one hundred languages in a single dictionary • Unlimited numbers of definitions and examples for a single word • Uses the standardized GOLD ontology and ISO language codes • Multimedia objects including audio, picture, and video embedded with words, examples, and definitions • Entry of phonetic representations • Searching by ontological terms, by category, and by word using regular expressions • Sort facility • Import and Export facilities employing XML • Entry of the dictionary copyright notice and contacts for contributing authors • Ability to directly record audio and incorporate it into the dictionary • Undo and redo facilities to recover from errors • Hard copy printouts Wolf version 1.00 is a good start, but more work needs to be done. We list some of the improvements below. We also eagerly seek feedback from linguists for suggestions that will encourage widespread acceptance of this package. Developers that want to contribute should contact us at harveyd at sou.edu To do list • Comprehensive printout of dictionaries using general-purpose user-defined templates • Implementation of a WIKI-like application for creating a Web presence • Applications that run on mobile devices (like a phraselator type program) • Import from and export to other dictionary formats (like EXCEL, Toolbox, and Lift). • Dictionary-based games that can run within WOLF, on the Web, or on mobile devices • Automatic speech recognition and pronunciation verification capabilities • Plugin capabilities to incorporate developer contributions WOLF, though being freeware, is not yet open source. However, our intention is to make it so at some point after the software matures. From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri May 28 18:30:43 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:30:43 -0700 Subject: Yaqui tapes a treasure for UA researchers (fwd link) Message-ID: SURVIVORS' ACCOUNTS OF WOES IN MEXICO ARE BEING DIGITIZED Yaqui tapes a treasure for UA researchers Becky Pallack Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:00 am While there are thousands of Yaqui speakers in Sonora, Mexico, there are only 50 to 60 left in the U.S., mainly in Arizona. The Yaqui language is also known as Hiaki and Yoeme. Several University of Arizona researchers are working with a set of tape-recorded interviews in the endangered Yaqui language describing firsthand accounts of tribal persecution by the Mexican government. Maria Florez Leyva, a native speaker of Arizona Yaqui, was working with associate linguistics professor Heidi Harley on the grammar of the language when she mentioned her tapes. Harley said she could hardly believe it when she learned Leyva had been working since 1969 to document the history of persecution of the tribe. She had stored away interviews with tribal elders who recalled childhood memories of deportations by the Mexican government. There are no other known first-person accounts of that period in Yaqui history, Harley said. Access full article below: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/education/college/article_548b2543-1d8d-5264-973e-58da5943f2a2.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri May 28 18:33:14 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:33:14 -0700 Subject: Aboriginal astronomers: world's oldest? (fwd link) Message-ID: Aboriginal astronomers: world's oldest? BY: BRIDGET BRENNAN | MAY-28-2010 Indigenous perspectives are adding insight to western astronomical understanding of the southern night sky. THERE’S GROWING EVIDENCE THAT Australia’s indigenous people could be the world’s oldest astronomers, according to CSIRO astrophysicist Ray Norris, who is based at the Australia Telescope National Facility in Sydney. Access full article below: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/indigenous-belief-enlightens-astronomers.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Mon May 31 17:40:30 2010 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:40:30 -0400 Subject: Israeli raid of relief aid ships to Gaza Message-ID: A bit much and too far I would suggest....so are Canada and the US still supporting them, I wonder.... http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/31/israel-gaza-aid-death.html -- ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory… ______________________________________________ From wjposer at LDC.UPENN.EDU Mon May 31 17:54:18 2010 From: wjposer at LDC.UPENN.EDU (William J Poser) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:54:18 -0400 Subject: Israeli raid of relief aid ships to Gaza In-Reply-To: <4C03F48E.4000202@shaw.ca> Message-ID: That article, like much of the press about the "aid convoy", is seriously misleading. This is not a humanitarian convoy. The aid that it purportedly contains is quite unnecessary: contrary to Hamas' claims, there are no serious shortages of materials in Gaza. Israel allows hundreds of times the content of these ships to enter every week, including substantial amounts of building materials such as cement. What these Hamas supporters don't like is that fact that Israel works with the NGOs and UN to supervise the distribution and use of construction materials so that they are used for legitimate purposes and not to fortify the rocket emplacements used by Hamas for its illegal indiscriminate attacks. The reason that I said "purportedly" above is that when the ships of a previous such "aid convoy" were inspected, it was found that they did not contain the 60 tons of aid that they were claimed to but were in fact all but empty. Finally, if you look at the organisers of the "aid" convoy, you'll find that they are not neutral humanitarians like, say, Medecins Sans Frontieres or the Red Cross - they're partisans of Hamas, supporters of genocide and terrorism. (Hamas not only calls for the destruction of Israel but for the extermination of Jews, and since taking control of Gaza has killed or driven out most of the Christian Arab population.) That article is so misleading that I feel compelled to reply, but really we probably should avoid getting into the morass of Middle Eastern politics on this list, which is devoted to other purposes. Bill From phonosemantics at EARTHLINK.NET Mon May 31 18:16:47 2010 From: phonosemantics at EARTHLINK.NET (jess tauber) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:16:47 -0400 Subject: Israeli raid of relief aid ships to Gaza Message-ID: Let us all remember that language varies quite a bit in how it marks persons, numbers, and agendas... JT From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue May 4 18:47:32 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:47:32 -0700 Subject: Native languages face extinction (fwd link) Message-ID: Native languages face extinction Culture: Snuneymuxw experience reflects trend across B.C. BY DUSTIN WALKER, THE DAILY NEWS MAY 4, 2010 Canada There are only five Snuneymuxw people left who are fluent in the traditional Hul'q'umi'num' language, elder Gary Manson estimates. "And that's probably pushing it." A report released last week on the demise of First Nations languages in B.C. says that three languages are designated as "sleeping" with no fluent speakers and 22 are nearly extinct. The Hul'q'umi'num' language, traditionally spoken by First Nations from the Malahat to Nanoose Bay, has 278 fluent speakers and is classified as "severely endangered." 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Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past." - L. Frank Baum To the Original Peoples of the Fourth World and all International Press Services: At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this unit is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 American Aboriginals on December 29,1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to decay unburied in the driving snow. According to reports from Indigenous Rights Movement Radio host Wanblee this afternoon, Lakota resident Theresa TwoBulls was given less than 24 hrs notice that three US Army 7th Cavalry helicopters would make a landing on the sacred burial grounds at Wounded Knee. As of this writing, the US military was confronted by angry but peaceful and steadfast community resistance as the Aboriginal people of the area have so far, according to reports from Lakota people on the ground, managed to prevent the aircraft from touching Indigenous ground. For all American Aboriginals of the Americas, this is a sacred area. This is the place where the promise of a people died while fleeing from a genocidal US military unit hell-bent on liquidating the continent of its Indigenous population. There has never been any official apology offered for this massacre and the military awards bestowed upon the genocidal aggressors involved in this conflict still stand, as does a physical monument in honour of the US Army killed during Custer's "last stand" against a defiant and united Indigenous resistance to their own demise. The history of the US Army 7th Cavalry is important to understanding the level of violence used against Indigenous peoples. It is important to remember that after the US Seventh Cavalry officially ended the "Indian Wars" at home, they were then dispatched to do battle against Indigenous Filipinos struggling to maintain their hard-won national independence from the colonialist Spanish. In other words, the US War Department sent this very same unit to do overseas what was done here to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. In this historical light, it is only logical for Indigenous peoples to assume that the Obama administration is attempting to make a political point out of this spectacle. Only, what sort of message are you sending by insulting and humiliating a people already suffering from five centuries of continuous pro-Europocentric, anti-Indigenous genocide? This domestic military action is a deliberate insult and an obvious message of ongoing colonialism, state-sponsored racism and apathetic Indigenous genocide to all Indigenous peoples across the Fourth World; to the whole of the Lakota/Dakota Nation; and to the Indigenous residents of Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee. The symbolism of dispatching the Seventh Cavalry to Wounded Knee in an attempt to land weapons of mass destruction on Aboriginal sacred ground tells us how little this government, and this particular administration, respects the people of Indian Country and our significant historical perspective as survivors of the racist Euro-settler xenophobic purges waged against the Indian in the Americas. To make matters worse, this action comes on the heels of newly-passed legislation in Arizona state that requires law officers to racially-profile anyone they believe "looks", "sounds" or "dresses" like an illegal immigrant, a thinly veiled "race law" that directly effects both our Indigenous sisters and brothers native to Occupied Mexico as well as the Native American population of Arizona in the United States. Given that most Indigenous peoples of the Americas share the same general physiotype and more often than not, similar Spanish last names, the passage of this guideline will without a doubt lead to widespread abuses against that state's brown-skinned population. The legal door now opened, Texas and other states led by neo-confederate constituencies are moving to pass their own anti-immigrant/anti-Indigenous directives that will broadly effect anyone and everyone who could be perceived by the colonial European majority as a "foreign invader". The Obama administration has shown America and the world that they are no different than any other previous US government in their view that the American Indian on both sides of the US border is nothing more than a prop or a tool to be displayed only when it is useful to promote the "contemporary" 21st century neo-colonialist capitalist agenda. The Obama administration, an office headed by a man of African descent, has shamed itself and all those who have supported his candidacy in arrogantly dismissing the memory of our people interred at Wounded Knee by rubbing the military might of the historically anti-Indigenous 7th Cavalry in our faces by forcibly entering Indian Country in an attempt to land their machines of war on top of the bodies of our ancestral dead. Clearly, the culture war against the American Indian is not over. Welcome to the new American century. The Aboriginal News Group -- The Aboriginal News Group is an international association of Indigenist blog-journalists working to provide accurate under-reported Indigenous news items to the people of the Fourth World and others with a concern for human justice and Aboriginal political issues. -- ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ Light travels faster than sound. 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Lakota protesters chase off military helicopters at Wounded Knee Heidi Bell Gease Journal staff | Posted: Monday, May 3, 2010 7:15 pm | Oglala Sioux Tribal President Theresa Two Bulls apologized to tribal members Monday for giving permission for three Colorado Army National Guard helicopters to land near the Wounded Knee Massacre site Saturday as part of an educational program. "I did not intend to be disrespectful," she said during an Oglala Sioux Tribal Council meeting in Pine Ridge. "I just wanted to open the door, to start communication, and I apologize that there's a lack of communication." But descendants of massacre victims and survivors, many of whom protested the Black Hawk helicopters' arrival Saturday, said the way the visit was handled was "disrespectful and appalling." "That's a sacred site," said Phyllis Hollow Horn, president of the Wounded Knee community. "Blood was spilled there by our relatives, by the United States 7th Cavalry." That was the story Guardsmen came to hear. According to a news release from Two Bulls' office, the Colorado National Guard requested permission about two weeks ago to visit Wounded Knee. At the site, massacre descendant Marie Fox Belly was to tell the Guardsmen how U.S. soldiers killed nearly 300 Native Americans there on Dec. 29, 1890. "The opportunity to hear the true stories from the descendants of the Wounded Knee Massacre would enable the National Guard members to realize the consequences of weak leadership," the news release states. Two Bulls said she informed Wounded Knee District tribal council representatives Garfield Little Dog and Philip Jumping Eagle of the visit but received no response. She also informed the local Community Action Program (CAP) office and spoke on KILI radio about the Guard's visit. Somehow, though, Wounded Knee residents didn't get the message until Friday or Saturday. For them, seeing three Black Hawk helicopters descending over the mass grave site where their ancestors lie buried touched off deep-seated fears and emotions. As a descendant of massacre survivors, Wilma Thin Elk of Manderson grew up hearing the story of Wounded Knee. "I thought, ?So are we going to be the next ones to lay here, to get killed here?'" she said. A five-minute cell phone video posted on You Tube shows the three helicopters approaching the site. One touches down, staying on the ground for about 30 seconds before taking off again. The video shows about 20 people who can be heard shouting, "We don't want United States military here!" and "This is our land!" Debra White Plume of Manderson described how people of all ages, some carrying sage or eagle feathers, went running toward the helicopters. She said several women ran under the choppers as they attempted to land, waving banners and a United Nations flag and refusing to move. The helicopters eventually left. Tribal Police Chief Everett Little Whiteman said his office was notified of the visit and officers were there to provide security. He called the incident a "peaceful protest." But one local resident observed that many in the community "don't like military around" because of the history of Wounded Knee. "Something bad could have happened, the way that was handled," he said. "There should have been some kind of communication but there wasn't," Hollow Horn said Monday. "I'm just kind of disappointed in our tribal president." Two Bulls took full responsibility at Monday's council meeting for the mishap, saying council members had nothing to do with it. "I apologize if I was disrespectful to anybody," she said. "But as a leader you have to make choices. And in the past, you've seen tourist buses going up there to the (Wounded Knee) site. "Why have not the descendants and the people of that community complained about that?," she asked. "That's been going on for many years." Two Bulls also called on tribal members to help set up a meeting of all Wounded Knee descendants from the Oglala and other tribes. Tribal council members then approved a resolution by Little Dog that the tribe and its members not allow the U.S. Military to come "anywhere near" the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre mass grave out of honor and respect for the dead. In a news release from the Colorado Army National Guard, Maj. Gen. H. Michael Edwards, the Adjutant General of Colorado, said the Guard had welcomed the opportunity to "participate in paying tribute to those who lost their lives there (at Wounded Knee)." "As a 150-year-old, community-based organization, we value heritage and the importance of remembering those who came before us," he stated. "Due to our concern for the safety of citizens on the ground, who were closely observing our arrival, we chose to depart the area." The release also quoted Colorado public affairs officer Army Capt. Michael Odgers, who said that "while the Battle of Wounded Knee is a dark chapter in the history of the Army, without learning from the mistakes of our past we are doomed to repeat them." "This trip was taken to better understand our shared histories, and we hope those who protested the visit can begin to understand our motives," Odgers stated. "It's unfortunate that this valuable learning opportunity was lost, and we sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding this visit created." On Monday, Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened Saturday. "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to the site ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" Contact Heidi Bell Gease at 394-8419 or heidi.bell at rapidcityjournal.com http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_91954776-56cf-11df-a8a4-001cc4c03286.html VIDEO: Helicopters try to land at Wounded Knee http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/html_82c203ec-56cf-11df-b10c-001cc4c03286.html Wounded Knee 5-1-2010.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rmTSif15VA Update; Helicopters attempt to land at Wounded Knee - KOTA Territory News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UU9MXfVK8 Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MSSMBwpB8 Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MD27uVY_s0 News Alert- pt. 1 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiE5Nw94ylQ News Alert- pt. 2 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuK0jLEohA News Alert- pt. 3 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZhjfFLPow News Alert- pt. 4 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRinjsoWCU News Alert- pt. 5 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhPAllxJUU Wounded Knee landing called insult to memories STEVE YOUNG ? syoung at argusleader.com ? May 4, 2010 http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100504/NEWS/5040333/1001/news Planned educational presentation becomes Black Hawk fiasco By Carol Berry, Today correspondent Story Published: May 4, 2010 (Story Updated: May 4, 2010 http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/midwest/92761779.html "We are all students and we are all teachers. We are students of those who know more and we are teachers of those who know less..." TLAKEALEL Kalpulli De Koacalco Koacalco, Mexico http://www.twoelkenterprise.com/EducServIntro.htm --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: From: Rolland Nadjiwon Subject: [ILAT] US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 10:14 PM Indigenous Crisis - US 7th Cavalry Continues to Insult the People of Indian Country and the Lakota TerritoriesPress Release Aboriginal News Group Press Statement 05.01.2010 ?The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untameable creatures from the face of the earth. In this lies future safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.? - L. Frank Baum To the Original Peoples of the Fourth World and all International Press Services: At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this unit is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 American Aboriginals on December 29,1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to decay unburied in the driving snow. According to reports from Indigenous Rights Movement Radio host Wanblee this afternoon, Lakota resident Theresa TwoBulls was given less than 24 hrs notice that three US Army 7th Cavalry helicopters would make a landing on the sacred burial grounds at Wounded Knee. As of this writing, the US military was confronted by angry but peaceful and steadfast community resistance as the Aboriginal people of the area have so far, according to reports from Lakota people on the ground, managed to prevent the aircraft from touching Indigenous ground. For all American Aboriginals of the Americas, this is a sacred area. This is the place where the promise of a people died while fleeing from a genocidal US military unit hell-bent on liquidating the continent of its Indigenous population. There has never been any official apology offered for this massacre and the military awards bestowed upon the genocidal aggressors involved in this conflict still stand, as does a physical monument in honour of the US Army killed during Custer?s ?last stand? against a defiant and united Indigenous resistance to their own demise. The history of the US Army 7th Cavalry is important to understanding the level of violence used against Indigenous peoples. It is important to remember that after the US Seventh Cavalry officially ended the "Indian Wars" at home, they were then dispatched to do battle against Indigenous Filipinos struggling to maintain their hard-won national independence from the colonialist Spanish. In other words, the US War Department sent this very same unit to do overseas what was done here to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. In this historical light, it is only logical for Indigenous peoples to assume that the Obama administration is attempting to make a political point out of this spectacle. Only, what sort of message are you sending by insulting and humiliating a people already suffering from five centuries of continuous pro-Europocentric, anti-Indigenous genocide? This domestic military action is a deliberate insult and an obvious message of ongoing colonialism, state-sponsored racism and apathetic Indigenous genocide to all Indigenous peoples across the Fourth World; to the whole of the Lakota/Dakota Nation; and to the Indigenous residents of Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee. The symbolism of dispatching the Seventh Cavalry to Wounded Knee in an attempt to land weapons of mass destruction on Aboriginal sacred ground tells us how little this government, and this particular administration, respects the people of Indian Country and our significant historical perspective as survivors of the racist Euro-settler xenophobic purges waged against the Indian in the Americas. To make matters worse, this action comes on the heels of newly-passed legislation in Arizona state that requires law officers to racially-profile anyone they believe ?looks?, ?sounds? or ?dresses? like an illegal immigrant, a thinly veiled ?race law? that directly effects both our Indigenous sisters and brothers native to Occupied Mexico as well as the Native American population of Arizona in the United States. Given that most Indigenous peoples of the Americas share the same general physiotype and more often than not, similar Spanish last names, the passage of this guideline will without a doubt lead to widespread abuses against that state?s brown-skinned population. The legal door now opened, Texas and other states led by neo-confederate constituencies are moving to pass their own anti-immigrant/anti-Indigenous directives that will broadly effect anyone and everyone who could be perceived by the colonial European majority as a ?foreign invader?. The Obama administration has shown America and the world that they are no different than any other previous US government in their view that the American Indian on both sides of the US border is nothing more than a prop or a tool to be displayed only when it is useful to promote the ?contemporary? 21st century neo-colonialist capitalist agenda. The Obama administration, an office headed by a man of African descent, has shamed itself and all those who have supported his candidacy in arrogantly dismissing the memory of our people interred at Wounded Knee by rubbing the military might of the historically anti-Indigenous 7th Cavalry in our faces by forcibly entering Indian Country in an attempt to land their machines of war on top of the bodies of our ancestral dead. Clearly, the culture war against the American Indian is not over. Welcome to the new American century. ?The Aboriginal News Group -- The Aboriginal News Group is an international association of Indigenist blog-journalists working to provide accurate under-reported Indigenous news items to the people of the Fourth World and others with a concern for human justice and Aboriginal political issues. -- ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ Light travels faster than sound. That?s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. ______________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Wed May 5 13:41:44 2010 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:41:44 -0500 Subject: US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds In-Reply-To: <467525.16439.qm@web54006.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Kweh, I think what Wilma Thin Elk said was so well put: "...Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened Saturday. *"We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to the site * *... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?"* Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over it!" but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of what many in the majority culture choose to remain ignorant about. What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of cultural ignorance. The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the worst damage. Richard Zane Smith Wyandotte, Okl. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Two Elk wrote: > I believe the LEAST we can do is get the full & correct information Before > we fan the Flames...shall we...or shall we continue to follow the fools? > > > Lakota protesters chase off military helicopters at Wounded Knee > Heidi Bell Gease Journal staff | Posted: Monday, May 3, 2010 7:15 pm | > Oglala Sioux Tribal President Theresa Two Bulls apologized to tribal > members Monday for giving permission for three Colorado Army National Guard > helicopters to land near the Wounded Knee Massacre site Saturday as part of > an educational program. > "I did not intend to be disrespectful," she said during an Oglala Sioux > Tribal Council meeting in Pine Ridge. "I just wanted to open the door, to > start communication, and I apologize that there's a lack of communication." > But descendants of massacre victims and survivors, many of whom protested > the Black Hawk helicopters' arrival Saturday, said the way the visit was > handled was "disrespectful and appalling." > "That's a sacred site," said Phyllis Hollow Horn, president of the Wounded > Knee community. "Blood was spilled there by our relatives, by the United > States 7th Cavalry." > That was the story Guardsmen came to hear. According to a news release from > Two Bulls' office, the Colorado National Guard requested permission about > two weeks ago to visit Wounded Knee. At the site, massacre descendant Marie > Fox Belly was to tell the Guardsmen how U.S. soldiers killed nearly 300 > Native Americans there on Dec. 29, 1890. > "The opportunity to hear the true stories from the descendants of the > Wounded Knee Massacre would enable the National Guard members to realize the > consequences of weak leadership," the news release states. > Two Bulls said she informed Wounded Knee District tribal council > representatives Garfield Little Dog and Philip Jumping Eagle of the visit > but received no response. She also informed the local Community Action > Program (CAP) office and spoke on KILI radio about the Guard's visit. > Somehow, though, Wounded Knee residents didn't get the message until Friday > or Saturday. For them, seeing three Black Hawk helicopters descending over > the mass grave site where their ancestors lie buried touched off deep-seated > fears and emotions. > As a descendant of massacre survivors, Wilma Thin Elk of Manderson grew up > hearing the story of Wounded Knee. "I thought, ?So are we going to be the > next ones to lay here, to get killed here?'" she said. > A five-minute cell phone video posted on You Tube shows the three > helicopters approaching the site. One touches down, staying on the ground > for about 30 seconds before taking off again. > The video shows about 20 people who can be heard shouting, "We don't want > United States military here!" and "This is our land!" > Debra White Plume of Manderson described how people of all ages, some > carrying sage or eagle feathers, went running toward the helicopters. She > said several women ran under the choppers as they attempted to land, waving > banners and a United Nations flag and refusing to move. The helicopters > eventually left. > Tribal Police Chief Everett Little Whiteman said his office was notified of > the visit and officers were there to provide security. He called the > incident a "peaceful protest." > But one local resident observed that many in the community "don't like > military around" because of the history of Wounded Knee. "Something bad > could have happened, the way that was handled," he said. > "There should have been some kind of communication but there wasn't," > Hollow Horn said Monday. "I'm just kind of disappointed in our tribal > president." > Two Bulls took full responsibility at Monday's council meeting for the > mishap, saying council members had nothing to do with it. > "I apologize if I was disrespectful to anybody," she said. "But as a leader > you have to make choices. And in the past, you've seen tourist buses going > up there to the (Wounded Knee) site. > "Why have not the descendants and the people of that community complained > about that?," she asked. "That's been going on for many years." > Two Bulls also called on tribal members to help set up a meeting of all > Wounded Knee descendants from the Oglala and other tribes. > Tribal council members then approved a resolution by Little Dog that the > tribe and its members not allow the U.S. Military to come "anywhere near" > the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre mass grave out of honor and respect for the > dead. > In a news release from the Colorado Army National Guard, Maj. Gen. H. > Michael Edwards, the Adjutant General of Colorado, said the Guard had > welcomed the opportunity to "participate in paying tribute to those who lost > their lives there (at Wounded Knee)." > "As a 150-year-old, community-based organization, we value heritage and the > importance of remembering those who came before us," he stated. "Due to our > concern for the safety of citizens on the ground, who were closely observing > our arrival, we chose to depart the area." > The release also quoted Colorado public affairs officer Army Capt. Michael > Odgers, who said that "while the Battle of Wounded Knee is a dark chapter in > the history of the Army, without learning from the mistakes of our past we > are doomed to repeat them." > "This trip was taken to better understand our shared histories, and we hope > those who protested the visit can begin to understand our motives," Odgers > stated. "It's unfortunate that this valuable learning opportunity was lost, > and we sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding this visit created." > On Monday, Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what > happened Saturday. > "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come > to the site ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" > Contact Heidi Bell Gease at 394-8419 or heidi.bell at rapidcityjournal.com > > http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_91954776-56cf-11df-a8a4-001cc4c03286.html > VIDEO: Helicopters try to land at Wounded Knee > > http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/html_82c203ec-56cf-11df-b10c-001cc4c03286.html > Wounded Knee 5-1-2010.wmv > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rmTSif15VA > Update; Helicopters attempt to land at Wounded Knee - KOTA Territory News > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UU9MXfVK8 > Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 1 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MSSMBwpB8 > Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 2 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MD27uVY_s0 > > News Alert- pt. 1 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiE5Nw94ylQ > News Alert- pt. 2 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuK0jLEohA > News Alert- pt. 3 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZhjfFLPow > News Alert- pt. 4 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRinjsoWCU > News Alert- pt. 5 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhPAllxJUU > Wounded Knee landing called insult to memories > STEVE YOUNG ? syoung at argusleader.com ? May 4, 2010 > http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100504/NEWS/5040333/1001/news > > Planned educational presentation becomes Black Hawk fiasco > By Carol Berry, Today correspondent > Story Published: May 4, 2010 > (Story Updated: May 4, 2010 > http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/midwest/92761779.html > > > "We are all students and we are all teachers. > We are students of those who know more > and we are teachers of those who know less..." > > TLAKEALEL > Kalpulli De Koacalco > Koacalco, Mexico > > http://www.twoelkenterprise.com/EducServIntro.htm > > --- On *Tue, 5/4/10, Rolland Nadjiwon * wrote: > > > From: Rolland Nadjiwon > Subject: [ILAT] US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded > Knee Sacred Burial grounds > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 10:14 PM > > > Indigenous Crisis - US 7th Cavalry Continues to Insult the People of > Indian Country and the Lakota Territories > Press Release > Aboriginal News Group Press Statement > 05.01.2010 > > ?The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the > total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we > had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more > wrong and wipe these untamed and untameable creatures from the face of the > earth. In this lies future safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are > under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as > full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.? > > - L. Frank Baum > > To the Original Peoples of the Fourth World and all International Press > Services: > > At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air > division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred > Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this > unit is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 > American Aboriginals on December 29,1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry > gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, > women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South > Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to > decay unburied in the driving snow. > > According to reports from Indigenous Rights Movement Radio host Wanblee > this afternoon, Lakota resident Theresa TwoBulls was given less than 24 hrs > notice that three US Army 7th Cavalry helicopters would make a landing on > the sacred burial grounds at Wounded Knee. As of this writing, the US > military was confronted by angry but peaceful and steadfast community > resistance as the Aboriginal people of the area have so far, according to > reports from Lakota people on the ground, managed to prevent the aircraft > from touching Indigenous ground. > > For all American Aboriginals of the Americas, this is a sacred area. This > is the place where the promise of a people died while fleeing from a > genocidal US military unit hell-bent on liquidating the continent of its > Indigenous population. There has never been any official apology offered for > this massacre and the military awards bestowed upon the genocidal aggressors > involved in this conflict still stand, as does a physical monument in honour > of the US Army killed during Custer?s ?last stand? against a defiant and > united Indigenous resistance to their own demise. > > The history of the US Army 7th Cavalry is important to understanding the > level of violence used against Indigenous peoples. It is important to > remember that after the US Seventh Cavalry officially ended the "Indian > Wars" at home, they were then dispatched to do battle against Indigenous > Filipinos struggling to maintain their hard-won national independence from > the colonialist Spanish. In other words, the US War Department sent this > very same unit to do overseas what was done here to the Indigenous peoples > of the Americas. In this historical light, it is only logical for Indigenous > peoples to assume that the Obama administration is attempting to make a > political point out of this spectacle. Only, what sort of message are you > sending by insulting and humiliating a people already suffering from five > centuries of continuous pro-Europocentric, anti-Indigenous genocide? > > This domestic military action is a deliberate insult and an obvious message > of ongoing colonialism, state-sponsored racism and apathetic Indigenous > genocide to all Indigenous peoples across the Fourth World; to the whole of > the Lakota/Dakota Nation; and to the Indigenous residents of Pine Ridge and > Wounded Knee. The symbolism of dispatching the Seventh Cavalry to Wounded > Knee in an attempt to land weapons of mass destruction on Aboriginal sacred > ground tells us how little this government, and this particular > administration, respects the people of Indian Country and our significant > historical perspective as survivors of the racist Euro-settler xenophobic > purges waged against the Indian in the Americas. > > To make matters worse, this action comes on the heels of newly-passed > legislation in Arizona state that requires law officers to racially-profile > anyone they believe ?looks?, ?sounds? or ?dresses? like an illegal > immigrant, a thinly veiled ?race law? that directly effects both our > Indigenous sisters and brothers native to Occupied Mexico as well as the > Native American population of Arizona in the United States. Given that most > Indigenous peoples of the Americas share the same general physiotype and > more often than not, similar Spanish last names, the passage of this > guideline will without a doubt lead to widespread abuses against that > state?s brown-skinned population. The legal door now opened, Texas and other > states led by neo-confederate constituencies are moving to pass their own > anti-immigrant/anti-Indigenous directives that will broadly effect anyone > and everyone who could be perceived by the colonial European majority as a > ?foreign invader?. > > The Obama administration has shown America and the world that they are no > different than any other previous US government in their view that the > American Indian on both sides of the US border is nothing more than a prop > or a tool to be displayed only when it is useful to promote the > ?contemporary? 21st century neo-colonialist capitalist agenda. The Obama > administration, an office headed by a man of African descent, has shamed > itself and all those who have supported his candidacy in arrogantly > dismissing the memory of our people interred at Wounded Knee by rubbing the > military might of the historically anti-Indigenous 7th Cavalry in our faces > by forcibly entering Indian Country in an attempt to land their machines of > war on top of the bodies of our ancestral dead. > > Clearly, the culture war against the American Indian is not over. Welcome > to the new American century. > > > The Aboriginal News Group > -- > The Aboriginal News Group is an international association of Indigenist > blog-journalists working to provide accurate under-reported Indigenous news > items to the people of the Fourth World and others with a concern for human > justice and Aboriginal political issues. > > -- > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ______________________________________________ > > Light travels faster than sound. > That?s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. > ______________________________________________ > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hardman at UFL.EDU Wed May 5 15:13:41 2010 From: hardman at UFL.EDU (MJ Hardman) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:13:41 -0400 Subject: US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thank you, Richard. Your words are a balm on troubled times. MJ On 5/5/10 9:41 AM, "Richard Zane Smith" wrote: > Kweh, > > I think what Wilma Thin Elk said was so well put: > "...Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened > Saturday. > "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to > the site? > ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" > > Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over it!" > but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of? > what many in the majority culture choose to remain?ignorant about. > > What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" > may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of cultural > ignorance. > The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the worst damage. > > > Richard Zane Smith > Wyandotte, Okl. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From twoelkenterprise at YAHOO.COM Wed May 5 19:08:45 2010 From: twoelkenterprise at YAHOO.COM (Two Elk) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:08:45 -0700 Subject: US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thank You Richard, ? given all to be considered...Pres. Two Bulls DID Invite them...nonetheless, although the "idea" was good...the execution leaves much to be desired... ? the question arises...Why did not Pres. Two Bulls recognize the Hallowed Ground of the Gravesite & WK village?? It's simple logistics... ? However, the purposeful confusion generated alleging it was the 7th Cav., calling it WK III, and claiming "warrior women" repelled the "attack"?? is certainly not only overdone but inflamatory at it's best... ? hence...the resulting confusion... ? given Pres. Two Bulls press conf.. & attempt to address her mistake it is certainly NOT what too many allege... ? hmmmm... ? Normally I say NOTHING...forgive my response but this is just WRONG... ? AnpetuWaste! ? HehakaNunpa "We are all students and we are all teachers. We are students of those who know more and we are teachers of those who know less..." TLAKEALEL Kalpulli De Koacalco Koacalco, Mexico http://www.twoelkenterprise.com/EducServIntro.htm --- On Wed, 5/5/10, Richard Zane Smith wrote: From: Richard Zane Smith Subject: Re: [ILAT] US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 7:41 AM Kweh, I think what Wilma Thin Elk said was so well put: "...Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened Saturday. "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to the site? ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over it!" but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of? what many in the majority culture choose to remain?ignorant about. What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of cultural ignorance. The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the worst damage. Richard Zane Smith Wyandotte, Okl. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Two Elk wrote: I believe the LEAST we can do is get the full & correct information Before we fan the Flames...shall we...or shall we continue to follow the fools? ? Lakota protesters chase off military helicopters at Wounded Knee Heidi Bell Gease Journal staff | Posted: Monday, May 3, 2010 7:15 pm | Oglala Sioux Tribal President Theresa Two Bulls apologized to tribal members Monday for giving permission for three Colorado Army National Guard helicopters to land near the Wounded Knee Massacre site Saturday as part of an educational program. "I did not intend to be disrespectful," she said during an Oglala Sioux Tribal Council meeting in Pine Ridge. "I just wanted to open the door, to start communication, and I apologize that there's a lack of communication." But descendants of massacre victims and survivors, many of whom protested the Black Hawk helicopters' arrival Saturday, said the way the visit was handled was "disrespectful and appalling." "That's a sacred site," said Phyllis Hollow Horn, president of the Wounded Knee community. "Blood was spilled there by our relatives, by the United States 7th Cavalry." That was the story Guardsmen came to hear. According to a news release from Two Bulls' office, the Colorado National Guard requested permission about two weeks ago to visit Wounded Knee. At the site, massacre descendant Marie Fox Belly was to tell the Guardsmen how U.S. soldiers killed nearly 300 Native Americans there on Dec. 29, 1890. "The opportunity to hear the true stories from the descendants of the Wounded Knee Massacre would enable the National Guard members to realize the consequences of weak leadership," the news release states. Two Bulls said she informed Wounded Knee District tribal council representatives Garfield Little Dog and Philip Jumping Eagle of the visit but received no response. She also informed the local Community Action Program (CAP) office and spoke on KILI radio about the Guard's visit. Somehow, though, Wounded Knee residents didn't get the message until Friday or Saturday. For them, seeing three Black Hawk helicopters descending over the mass grave site where their ancestors lie buried touched off deep-seated fears and emotions. As a descendant of massacre survivors, Wilma Thin Elk of Manderson grew up hearing the story of Wounded Knee. "I thought, ?So are we going to be the next ones to lay here, to get killed here?'" she said. A five-minute cell phone video posted on You Tube shows the three helicopters approaching the site. One touches down, staying on the ground for about 30 seconds before taking off again. The video shows about 20 people who can be heard shouting, "We don't want United States military here!" and "This is our land!" Debra White Plume of Manderson described how people of all ages, some carrying sage or eagle feathers, went running toward the helicopters. She said several women ran under the choppers as they attempted to land, waving banners and a United Nations flag and refusing to move. The helicopters eventually left. Tribal Police Chief Everett Little Whiteman said his office was notified of the visit and officers were there to provide security. He called the incident a "peaceful protest." But one local resident observed that many in the community "don't like military around" because of the history of Wounded Knee. "Something bad could have happened, the way that was handled," he said. "There should have been some kind of communication but there wasn't," Hollow Horn said Monday. "I'm just kind of disappointed in our tribal president." Two Bulls took full responsibility at Monday's council meeting for the mishap, saying council members had nothing to do with it. "I apologize if I was disrespectful to anybody," she said. "But as a leader you have to make choices. And in the past, you've seen tourist buses going up there to the (Wounded Knee) site. "Why have not the descendants and the people of that community complained about that?," she asked. "That's been going on for many years." Two Bulls also called on tribal members to help set up a meeting of all Wounded Knee descendants from the Oglala and other tribes. Tribal council members then approved a resolution by Little Dog that the tribe and its members not allow the U.S. Military to come "anywhere near" the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre mass grave out of honor and respect for the dead. In a news release from the Colorado Army National Guard, Maj. Gen. H. Michael Edwards, the Adjutant General of Colorado, said the Guard had welcomed the opportunity to "participate in paying tribute to those who lost their lives there (at Wounded Knee)." "As a 150-year-old, community-based organization, we value heritage and the importance of remembering those who came before us," he stated. "Due to our concern for the safety of citizens on the ground, who were closely observing our arrival, we chose to depart the area." The release also quoted Colorado public affairs officer Army Capt. Michael Odgers, who said that "while the Battle of Wounded Knee is a dark chapter in the history of the Army, without learning from the mistakes of our past we are doomed to repeat them." "This trip was taken to better understand our shared histories, and we hope those who protested the visit can begin to understand our motives," Odgers stated. "It's unfortunate that this valuable learning opportunity was lost, and we sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding this visit created." On Monday, Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened Saturday. "We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to the site ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" Contact Heidi Bell Gease at 394-8419 or heidi.bell at rapidcityjournal.com http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_91954776-56cf-11df-a8a4-001cc4c03286.html VIDEO: Helicopters try to land at Wounded Knee http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/html_82c203ec-56cf-11df-b10c-001cc4c03286.html Wounded Knee 5-1-2010.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rmTSif15VA Update; Helicopters attempt to land at Wounded Knee - KOTA Territory News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UU9MXfVK8 Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MSSMBwpB8 Wounded Knee 2010 Press Conference Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MD27uVY_s0 News Alert- pt. 1 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiE5Nw94ylQ News Alert- pt. 2 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuK0jLEohA News Alert- pt. 3 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZhjfFLPow News Alert- pt. 4 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRinjsoWCU News Alert- pt. 5 Wounded Knee, SD 5/1/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhPAllxJUU Wounded Knee landing called insult to memories STEVE YOUNG ? syoung at argusleader.com ? May 4, 2010 http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100504/NEWS/5040333/1001/news Planned educational presentation becomes Black Hawk fiasco By Carol Berry, Today correspondent Story Published: May 4, 2010 (Story Updated: May 4, 2010 http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/midwest/92761779.html "We are all students and we are all teachers. We are students of those who know more and we are teachers of those who know less..." TLAKEALEL Kalpulli De Koacalco Koacalco, Mexico http://www.twoelkenterprise.com/EducServIntro.htm --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: From: Rolland Nadjiwon Subject: [ILAT] US Seventh Cavalry air division attempt landing on Wounded Knee Sacred Burial grounds To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 10:14 PM Indigenous Crisis - US 7th Cavalry Continues to Insult the People of Indian Country and the Lakota TerritoriesPress Release Aboriginal News Group Press Statement 05.01.2010 ?The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untameable creatures from the face of the earth. In this lies future safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.? - L. Frank Baum To the Original Peoples of the Fourth World and all International Press Services: At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this unit is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 American Aboriginals on December 29,1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to decay unburied in the driving snow. According to reports from Indigenous Rights Movement Radio host Wanblee this afternoon, Lakota resident Theresa TwoBulls was given less than 24 hrs notice that three US Army 7th Cavalry helicopters would make a landing on the sacred burial grounds at Wounded Knee. As of this writing, the US military was confronted by angry but peaceful and steadfast community resistance as the Aboriginal people of the area have so far, according to reports from Lakota people on the ground, managed to prevent the aircraft from touching Indigenous ground. For all American Aboriginals of the Americas, this is a sacred area. This is the place where the promise of a people died while fleeing from a genocidal US military unit hell-bent on liquidating the continent of its Indigenous population. There has never been any official apology offered for this massacre and the military awards bestowed upon the genocidal aggressors involved in this conflict still stand, as does a physical monument in honour of the US Army killed during Custer?s ?last stand? against a defiant and united Indigenous resistance to their own demise. The history of the US Army 7th Cavalry is important to understanding the level of violence used against Indigenous peoples. It is important to remember that after the US Seventh Cavalry officially ended the "Indian Wars" at home, they were then dispatched to do battle against Indigenous Filipinos struggling to maintain their hard-won national independence from the colonialist Spanish. In other words, the US War Department sent this very same unit to do overseas what was done here to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. In this historical light, it is only logical for Indigenous peoples to assume that the Obama administration is attempting to make a political point out of this spectacle. Only, what sort of message are you sending by insulting and humiliating a people already suffering from five centuries of continuous pro-Europocentric, anti-Indigenous genocide? This domestic military action is a deliberate insult and an obvious message of ongoing colonialism, state-sponsored racism and apathetic Indigenous genocide to all Indigenous peoples across the Fourth World; to the whole of the Lakota/Dakota Nation; and to the Indigenous residents of Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee. The symbolism of dispatching the Seventh Cavalry to Wounded Knee in an attempt to land weapons of mass destruction on Aboriginal sacred ground tells us how little this government, and this particular administration, respects the people of Indian Country and our significant historical perspective as survivors of the racist Euro-settler xenophobic purges waged against the Indian in the Americas. To make matters worse, this action comes on the heels of newly-passed legislation in Arizona state that requires law officers to racially-profile anyone they believe ?looks?, ?sounds? or ?dresses? like an illegal immigrant, a thinly veiled ?race law? that directly effects both our Indigenous sisters and brothers native to Occupied Mexico as well as the Native American population of Arizona in the United States. Given that most Indigenous peoples of the Americas share the same general physiotype and more often than not, similar Spanish last names, the passage of this guideline will without a doubt lead to widespread abuses against that state?s brown-skinned population. The legal door now opened, Texas and other states led by neo-confederate constituencies are moving to pass their own anti-immigrant/anti-Indigenous directives that will broadly effect anyone and everyone who could be perceived by the colonial European majority as a ?foreign invader?. The Obama administration has shown America and the world that they are no different than any other previous US government in their view that the American Indian on both sides of the US border is nothing more than a prop or a tool to be displayed only when it is useful to promote the ?contemporary? 21st century neo-colonialist capitalist agenda. The Obama administration, an office headed by a man of African descent, has shamed itself and all those who have supported his candidacy in arrogantly dismissing the memory of our people interred at Wounded Knee by rubbing the military might of the historically anti-Indigenous 7th Cavalry in our faces by forcibly entering Indian Country in an attempt to land their machines of war on top of the bodies of our ancestral dead. Clearly, the culture war against the American Indian is not over. Welcome to the new American century. ?The Aboriginal News Group -- The Aboriginal News Group is an international association of Indigenist blog-journalists working to provide accurate under-reported Indigenous news items to the people of the Fourth World and others with a concern for human justice and Aboriginal political issues. -- ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ Light travels faster than sound. 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Stop the insanity! Fair and humane immigration reform won't happen unless we fight for it. Dear Rolland, Arizona's stringent new anti-immigrant law, SB1070, has whipped up a firestorm of controversy - with good reason. *Arizona's law has the effect of legalizing racial profiling. * The draconian new law requires anyone who the police "reasonably suspect" of being an "illegal immigrant" to produce papers proving they are here legally. If *for any reason* you don't show documentation, you'll be criminally prosecuted for the trespassing, jailed and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to face deportation. The Arizona law is an assault on the very notion of human rights. It turns the state's Latinos and anyone else who fits a police officer's idea of what an "illegal immigrant" looks like into criminal suspects. *A "reasonable suspicion" cannot be formed without resorting to racial profiling.* International law guarantees human rights to all without distinction of race or color. It is all too easy to deny a person's human rights if you consider them as less than human. Dehumanizing and misguided SB1070 usurps federal jurisdiction on immigration policy and sets a dangerous precedent other states are already looking to follow. The absence of national immigration reform is no excuse to trample on human rights. Urge Congress to craft a fair and humane immigration policy that respects human rights. Amnesty has outlined core reform principles at this critical juncture in the immigration debate. Stand with us in championing them: * *Provide a formal process through which undocumented people can obtain legal status.* A legalization scheme can make a significant contribution towards protecting immigrants' rights, particularly in reducing labor exploitation and promoting social cohesion. * *Reform immigration policies that unnecessarily separate families.* Immigration judges should have the authority to review all decisions to detain immigrants and the discretion to stop deportation in the interest of family unity. To ensure fairness, these decisions should be subject to federal court review. * *Fully guarantee immigrant workers' labor rights, including the right to join unions.* * *Focus on protecting the rights of immigrants most at risk* of human rights violations, including undocumented immigrants, immigrant women and immigrant children. * *Restore immigration enforcement responsibilities exclusively to federal authorities* and terminates unconstitutional state and local law enforcement programs and state laws purporting to enforce immigration standards. Anti-immigrant forces are emboldened; they want other states to enact similar legislation, and they're thirsty for an even bigger victory - sweeping, get-tough federal enforcement legislation. We must act swiftly to balance the scales of justice. Contact your Senators today and urge them protect - not sacrifice - human rights as they work to fix our nation's broken immigration system. 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Members of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode group on the day they were contacted for the first time, in 2004. ? GAT/Survival In an unprecedented move, Paraguayan authorities have fined the Brazilian cattle-ranching firm accused of illegally clearing forest which is home to the last group of uncontacted Indians outside the Amazon basin. ?The company, Yaguarete Pora SA, concealed key information about the existence of indigenous people in the area where it had a licence to work,? said Paraguay?s Environment Ministry (SEAM), which imposed the fine. Yaguarete failed to acknowledge that the rich forest it is bulldozing in order to graze cattle is the ancestral territory of uncontacted Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians , some of whom have recently been seen nearby. SEAM?s response is to fine the company approximately 75 million guaranies ($16,000/ ?10,500) and order it to write a new report, an ?Environmental Impact Assessment?, before considering whether to issue the company with a new licence. SEAM made it clear that some Totobiegosode, who have already been contacted, have confirmed the existence of uncontacted relatives in the area where Yaguarete has been working . Yaguarete recently accused Paraguay?s Environment Minister, Oscar Rivas, of working for Survival International after Survival?s expos? of the company?s destruction of thousands of hectares of the Totobiegosode?s forest, and the subsequent cancellation by SEAM of Yaguarete?s licence to work there. Survival director, Stephen Corry, said today, ?Whilst this fine sends out a welcome message, SEAM shouldn?t only fine Yaguarete: it should ban the company from working there. 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By Holly Taylor USA The notion that we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, but rather, we borrow it from our children, has become a clich? of the environmental movement. But could the same thing be true of a language? Lushootseed tribal language teachers, students, and advocates from around Puget Sound gathered at a conference on Saturday (May 1) to celebrate the rich cultural inheritance of their Puget Salish language, but also to assess the language's chances of survival in the 21st century. The conference, hosted by Seattle University, was guided by the idea that today's Lushootseed speakers are taking care of the language for the next generation. Access full article below: http://crosscut.com/2010/05/06/tribes/19787/Preserving-the-Lushootseed-language-for-the-next-generation/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"What was the whole point?" >> >> Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over >> it!" >> but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of >> what many in the majority culture choose to remain ignorant about. >> >> What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" >> may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of >> cultural ignorance. >> The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the >> worst damage. >> >> >> Richard Zane Smith >> Wyandotte, Okl. >> >> _______________________ Mona M. Smith media artist/producer/director Allies, LLC Allies: media/art 4720 32nd Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55406 763-219-1696 Indian Treaty Signers Project Martin Case, Director 5001 1/2 34th Ave. South Minneapolis, MN 55406 indiantreatysigners at gmail.com http://www.alliesmediaart.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The 27-year-old Anchio is one of 20 young Mapuche selected to attend the first course ever organised to teach filmmaking to members of Chile's largest native group, in order to draw attention to their experiences and problems. Tai? Azkintun ("Our View" in the Mapuche language) is the name of this initiative organised by the non-governmental Citizen's Observatory and the Mapuche newspaper Azkintuwe. The course is financed by the Canadian embassy and sponsored by La Frontera University and the Catholic University of Temuco, both based in Araucan?a. "The idea is to give them basic but essential tools so that they can inform and communicate from their communities, whether in the sphere of reporting wrongs, communicating culture or maintaining and recovering language," Mapuche journalist Pedro Cayuqueo, the editor of Azkintuwe and one of the project's coordinators, told IPS. 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"Every year we lose language speakers." There are about 32 languages in 59 dialects in B.C. and about 109,588 members of the First Nation population were surveyed for this report. Access full article below: http://www2.canada.com/westerly/story.html?id=9b10404c-b2bc-4c58-9066-cbc770a8963b -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jomeara421 at GMAIL.COM Sun May 9 13:16:48 2010 From: jomeara421 at GMAIL.COM (John O'Meara) Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 09:16:48 -0400 Subject: Lakehead University - Chair, Department of Aboriginal Education Message-ID: Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada is searching for a Chair of the Department of Lakehead Aboriginal Education, in the Faculty of Education. Please pass this position description on on to anyone who might be interested. Thanks. ************************** The Faculty of Education at Lakehead University invites applications for the position of Chair of Aboriginal Education. A mutually acceptable starting date after August 1, 2010 can be negotiated. The successful candidate will be an Aboriginal scholar who will provide leadership for the Department of Aboriginal Education, and who will be responsible for existing Aboriginal programs within the Faculty of Education: the Native Language Instructors? Program and both on-campus and off-campus Native Teacher Education Programs. The Coordinators of these programs report to the Chair. The successful candidate will work closely with other departments within the Faculty of Education, and will play a significant role in the recruitment and retention of students in Aboriginal programs. The successful candidate will be able to work in the University environment, including with the Aboriginal Management Council, which provides oversight for Aboriginal programming across the University. The successful candidate also will be able to work with partners outside the University, including Aboriginal organizations, individual communities, and government organizations. Responsibilities will also include teaching in undergraduate and graduate programs, supervision of graduate students, and continued research productivity. A completed PhD is required as is an established record of scholarship in Aboriginal education. Experience in the K-12 school system or equivalent is preferred. Ability to speak an aboriginal language would be an asset. Candidates must have the necessary qualifications to be appointed as a tenured professor at the Associate Professor or Professor level. Preference will be given to those of Aboriginal descent. The Faculty of Education has 33 full-time faculty members and offers Pre-Service, Native Teacher Education, Native Language Instruction, Continuing Education, MEd and PhD programs. The University?s Strategic Plan reflects the University?s commitment to Aboriginal students. The University has a significant number of Aboriginal students, and a wide variety of Aboriginal programs. For further information, please contact Dr. John O?Meara, Dean of the Faculty of Education, at (807) 343-8054 or jomeara at lakeheadu.ca. Detailed information on our undergraduate and graduate programs is available on the Faculty of Education website athttp://education.lakeheadu.ca Review of applications will begin on June 1, 2010, and continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit in both hard copy and pdf: a curriculum vitae, a statement of their teaching and research interests (including course outlines and teaching evaluations from previously-taught courses), copies of publications, and the names of three referees to: Dr. Laurie S. Hayes Vice-President (Academic) and Provost Lakehead University 955 Oliver Road Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1 Email: vpacademic at lakeheadu.ca A completed Confirmation of Immigration/Citizenship Status should accompany your package. This form is available on our website at http://hr.lakeheadu.ca/pdf/immig.pdf Lakehead University is an equal opportunity employer. *************** Dr. John O'Meara Professor and Dean Faculty of Education Lakehead University Thunder Bay ON P7B 5E1 Telephone: 807-343-8054; Cell 807-472-4228; Fax 807-346-7918 Web Site: http://education.lakeheadu.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hsouter at GMAIL.COM Mon May 10 01:46:35 2010 From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter) Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 19:46:35 -0600 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... Message-ID: Taanshi, Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea of what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time. I have been thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the main reasons I have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, LOL!) on my Mac.... I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn about it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... Eekoshi pitamaa. Heather -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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One of the main reasons I > have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software > (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, > LOL!) on my Mac.... > > I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML > for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn about > it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere > mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! > > Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... > > Eekoshi pitamaa. > Heather > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"I realised while working with Aboriginal communities that kids weren't talking with their grandparents in their language," producer Cath Trimboli, told AFP. "It is disappearing, kids are not encouraged to talk in this language. So I wanted to work on this." Noongar is one of about 60 indigenous languages still spoken in Australia, compared with about 250 -- and up to 700 dialects -- in circulation at the time of white settlement in 1788. Of 13 Noongar dialects, just five now remain. Access full article below: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h0ZauoIno0mypuCvR6-yGQP_cLhQ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon May 10 22:09:49 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:09:49 -0700 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Heather, you are becoming braver by the day...xml, ubuntu, etc.! What next? ;-) l8ter, Phil On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:35 AM, s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi Heather, > > w3schools might be a good place to start with > XML. You'll find useful tutorials and other resources, and it's free. In > terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with no > problems, no Microsoft, and no viruses. > > Good luck, > Shannon > > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: > >> Taanshi, >> >> Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >> >> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea of >> what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a >> partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time. I have been >> thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps >> I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the main reasons I >> have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software >> (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, >> LOL!) on my Mac.... >> >> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML >> for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn about >> it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere >> mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! >> >> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >> >> Eekoshi pitamaa. >> Heather >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bulbulthegreat at GMAIL.COM Mon May 10 22:24:10 2010 From: bulbulthegreat at GMAIL.COM (=?UTF-8?B?U2xhdm9tw61yIMSMw6lwbMO2?=) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 00:24:10 +0200 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: LaTeX and Perl, what else? :) On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 00:09, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > Heather, you are becoming braver by the day...xml, ubuntu, etc.!? What > next?? ;-)? l8ter, Phil > > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:35 AM, s.t. bischoff > wrote: >> >> Hi Heather, >> >> w3schools might be a good place to start with XML. You'll find useful >> tutorials and other resources, and it's free. In terms of linux, I've been >> using Ubuntu for about five years with no problems, no Microsoft, and no >> viruses. >> >> Good luck, >> Shannon >> >> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: >>> >>> Taanshi, >>> >>> Well,? I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >>> >>> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea >>> of what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about.? I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a >>> partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time.? I? have been >>> thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps >>> I should put a Linux distribution instead....? One of the main reasons I >>> have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software >>> (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, >>> LOL!) on my Mac.... >>> >>> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to >>> XML for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"?? I want to learn >>> about it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the >>> mere mention of any kind of computer programming!? LOL! >>> >>> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >>> >>> Eekoshi pitamaa. >>> Heather >> > > From aidan at USYD.EDU.AU Mon May 10 23:48:36 2010 From: aidan at USYD.EDU.AU (Aidan Wilson) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:48:36 +1000 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Heather, as a linux convert of some 4 years ago, and as a former Windows slave, I fully recommend upgrading to Ubuntu. The amount of control over how your computer operates is wonderful - you'll find that you can make it do what you want it to do, how you want it to do it, as opposed to Windows doing what it thinks you want to do, and doing it however it likes. However I would warn that there can, nay, will be difficult times when you need to configure something somewhere to fix some serious issue (such as an external wi-fi card not being supported immediately, or flash not working unless you manually download and install it from Adobe). It will require you to perform some actions in the terminal (Unix version of cmd). But on the plus side, there is a huge support community of volunteers who are always willing to help out Windows apostates. Firstly there are the Ubuntu Forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/) where you will likely get timely advice, or if you're familiar with chatrooms, there's the #ubuntu channel on the freenode IRC server (irc://chat.freenode.net/#ubuntu - needs an IRC client, like ircle on a mac or babbel on both mac and windows). Here, there are probably hundreds of users who tend to answer questions very quickly. I'd also suggest, if you want to keep windows, to run a dual-boot. The configuration I had, which worked extraordinarily well for 3 years, was to take my laptop hard drive and partition it into three drives, one for data and the other two for the two operating systems, linux and windows. Both can communicate with the data partition equally well, so the net effect is that you can simply reboot in windows and go back to the file you were just working on in linux and open it in a windows program. However this configuration takes quite some setting up. As for XML, you really should get a license for Oxygen, an XML editor. It won't teach you about xml, W3schools is excellent for that, but it will allow you to edit XML files without breaking the very delicate structure, as it validates as you type, and produces errors and red squiggly lines under ill-formed chunks. -Aidan Wilson -- Aidan Wilson The University of Sydney +612 9036 9558 +61428 458 969 aidan.wilson at usyd.edu.au On Mon, 10 May 2010, s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi Heather, > > w3schools might be a good place to start with XML. You'll find useful tutorials and other resources, and it's > free. In terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with no problems, no Microsoft, and no > viruses. > > Good luck, > Shannon > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: > Taanshi, > > Well,? I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... > > I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea of what Linux (Ubuntu?) > is all about.? I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a partitioning program (Parallels) with at the > same time.? I? have been thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that > perhaps I should put a Linux distribution instead....? One of the main reasons I have wanted to > put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software (propriety and open source) I can't use (or > at least don't think I can, LOL!) on my Mac.... > > I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML for > non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"?? I want to learn about it now that I don't feel > as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere mention of any kind of computer programming! > LOL! > > Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... > > Eekoshi pitamaa. > Heather > > > > From aidan at USYD.EDU.AU Mon May 10 23:53:29 2010 From: aidan at USYD.EDU.AU (Aidan Wilson) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:53:29 +1000 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: By the way, an academic license for OxygenXML, which includes personal not-for-profit use, is $64. http://www.oxygenxml.com/buy_new_licenses_academic.html -Aidan On Tue, 11 May 2010, Aidan Wilson wrote: > Heather, as a linux convert of some 4 years ago, and as a former Windows > slave, I fully recommend upgrading to Ubuntu. The amount of control over how > your computer operates is wonderful - you'll find that you can make it do > what you want it to do, how you want it to do it, as opposed to Windows doing > what it thinks you want to do, and doing it however it likes. > > However I would warn that there can, nay, will be difficult times when you > need to configure something somewhere to fix some serious issue (such as an > external wi-fi card not being supported immediately, or flash not working > unless you manually download and install it from Adobe). It will require you > to perform some actions in the terminal (Unix version of cmd). > > But on the plus side, there is a huge support community of volunteers who are > always willing to help out Windows apostates. Firstly there are the Ubuntu > Forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/) where you will likely get timely advice, or > if you're familiar with chatrooms, there's the #ubuntu channel on the > freenode IRC server (irc://chat.freenode.net/#ubuntu - needs an IRC client, > like ircle on a mac or babbel on both mac and windows). Here, there are > probably hundreds of users who tend to answer questions very quickly. > > I'd also suggest, if you want to keep windows, to run a dual-boot. The > configuration I had, which worked extraordinarily well for 3 years, was to > take my laptop hard drive and partition it into three drives, one for data > and the other two for the two operating systems, linux and windows. Both can > communicate with the data partition equally well, so the net effect is that > you can simply reboot in windows and go back to the file you were just > working on in linux and open it in a windows program. However this > configuration takes quite some setting up. > > As for XML, you really should get a license for Oxygen, an XML editor. It > won't teach you about xml, W3schools is excellent for that, but it will allow > you to edit XML files without breaking the very delicate structure, as it > validates as you type, and produces errors and red squiggly lines under > ill-formed chunks. > > -Aidan Wilson > > From hsouter at GMAIL.COM Tue May 11 03:59:02 2010 From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:59:02 -0600 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Kihchi-maarsiI! Heather On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:35 AM, s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi Heather, > > w3schools might be a good place to start with > XML. You'll find useful tutorials and other resources, and it's free. In > terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with no > problems, no Microsoft, and no viruses. > > Good luck, > Shannon > > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: > >> Taanshi, >> >> Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >> >> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea of >> what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a >> partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time. I have been >> thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps >> I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the main reasons I >> have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software >> (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, >> LOL!) on my Mac.... >> >> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML >> for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn about >> it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere >> mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! >> >> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >> >> Eekoshi pitamaa. >> Heather >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hsouter at GMAIL.COM Tue May 11 04:02:11 2010 From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 22:02:11 -0600 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It is thanks to the support of the list members of ILAT! Just "watching and listening" for a few years has done wonders for me....! Thanks to you all! Eekoshi pitamaa. Heather On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash < cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote: > Heather, you are becoming braver by the day...xml, ubuntu, etc.! What > next? ;-) l8ter, Phil > > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:35 AM, s.t. bischoff wrote: > >> Hi Heather, >> >> w3schools might be a good place to start with >> XML. You'll find useful tutorials and other resources, and it's free. In >> terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with no >> problems, no Microsoft, and no viruses. >> >> Good luck, >> Shannon >> >> >> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: >> >>> Taanshi, >>> >>> Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >>> >>> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea >>> of what Linux (Ubuntu?) is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a >>> partitioning program (Parallels) with at the same time. I have been >>> thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that perhaps >>> I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the main reasons I >>> have wanted to put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software >>> (propriety and open source) I can't use (or at least don't think I can, >>> LOL!) on my Mac.... >>> >>> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to >>> XML for non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn >>> about it now that I don't feel as if I am having an allergic reaction at the >>> mere mention of any kind of computer programming! LOL! >>> >>> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >>> >>> Eekoshi pitamaa. >>> Heather >>> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hsouter at GMAIL.COM Tue May 11 04:08:04 2010 From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 22:08:04 -0600 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Wahwaa! Misheet l'iinformasyo?! Kihchi-maarsii! Wow! Lots of information! Thanks! Eekoshi pitamaa. That's it for now. Heather On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Aidan Wilson wrote: > Heather, as a linux convert of some 4 years ago, and as a former Windows > slave, I fully recommend upgrading to Ubuntu. The amount of control over how > your computer operates is wonderful - you'll find that you can make it do > what you want it to do, how you want it to do it, as opposed to Windows > doing what it thinks you want to do, and doing it however it likes. > > However I would warn that there can, nay, will be difficult times when you > need to configure something somewhere to fix some serious issue (such as an > external wi-fi card not being supported immediately, or flash not working > unless you manually download and install it from Adobe). It will require you > to perform some actions in the terminal (Unix version of cmd). > > But on the plus side, there is a huge support community of volunteers who > are always willing to help out Windows apostates. Firstly there are the > Ubuntu Forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/) where you will likely get timely > advice, or if you're familiar with chatrooms, there's the #ubuntu channel on > the freenode IRC server (irc://chat.freenode.net/#ubuntu - needs an IRC > client, like ircle on a mac or babbel on both mac and windows). Here, there > are probably hundreds of users who tend to answer questions very quickly. > > I'd also suggest, if you want to keep windows, to run a dual-boot. The > configuration I had, which worked extraordinarily well for 3 years, was to > take my laptop hard drive and partition it into three drives, one for data > and the other two for the two operating systems, linux and windows. Both can > communicate with the data partition equally well, so the net effect is that > you can simply reboot in windows and go back to the file you were just > working on in linux and open it in a windows program. However this > configuration takes quite some setting up. > > As for XML, you really should get a license for Oxygen, an XML editor. It > won't teach you about xml, W3schools is excellent for that, but it will > allow you to edit XML files without breaking the very delicate structure, as > it validates as you type, and produces errors and red squiggly lines under > ill-formed chunks. > > -Aidan Wilson > > -- > Aidan Wilson > > The University of Sydney > +612 9036 9558 > +61428 458 969 > aidan.wilson at usyd.edu.au > > > > On Mon, 10 May 2010, s.t. bischoff wrote: > > Hi Heather, >> >> w3schools might be a good place to start with XML. You'll find useful >> tutorials and other resources, and it's >> free. In terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with >> no problems, no Microsoft, and no >> viruses. >> >> Good luck, >> Shannon >> >> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter wrote: >> Taanshi, >> >> Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... >> I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better >> idea of what Linux (Ubuntu?) >> is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a partitioning >> program (Parallels) with at the >> same time. I have been thinking about putting a Windows OS on it >> but now I am thinking that >> perhaps I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the >> main reasons I have wanted to >> put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software (propriety and >> open source) I can't use (or >> at least don't think I can, LOL!) on my Mac.... >> I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction >> to XML for >> non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn >> about it now that I don't feel >> as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere mention of any >> kind of computer programming! >> LOL! >> >> Well, I look forward to your suggestions.... >> >> Eekoshi pitamaa. >> Heather >> >> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed May 12 19:05:14 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 12:05:14 -0700 Subject: Australian TV Show Imparts the First Lessons in an Aboriginal Language (fwd link) Message-ID: Australian TV Show Imparts the First Lessons in an Aboriginal Language by Savitha on May 11, 2010 at 9:49 PM India An Australian TV channel has begun broadcasting the first lessons in an Aboriginal language with a motive to help young children stay in touch with their native dialects. 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MJ > > On 5/5/10 9:41 AM, "Richard Zane Smith" wrote: > > Kweh, > > I think what Wilma Thin Elk said was so well put: > "...Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened > Saturday. > *"We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and > come to the site > ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?" > * > Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over it!" > but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of > what many in the majority culture choose to remain ignorant about. > > What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples" > may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of cultural > ignorance. > The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the worst > damage. > > > Richard Zane Smith > Wyandotte, Okl. > > > > _______________________ > Mona M. 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That?s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. ______________________________________________ UBCIC Calls on New Zealand and Canada to Stop Denying International Legal Reality Press Release May 12, 2010 (Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, Canada - May 12, 2010) Like the Canadian government, the New Zealand government recently announced that it will adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within the bounds of its own legal and constitutional frameworks. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by 144 States at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2007. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs stated "By deliberately interpreting the UN Declaration in accordance with the constitution and laws of each state, the Canadian and New Zealand governments are attempting to legitimize the 'status quo' by further entrenching the existing injustices and discrimination of their domestic policies within what is considered by the vast majority of Indigenous groups as one of the most important international human rights instruments of the United Nations." Grand Chief Phillip continued "The UBCIC supports all Indigenous Peoples in their fight for recognition. As an example, the UN Human Rights Committee supported the Te K?hui Ngahuru call for New Zealand to negotiate on their stalled Treaty of Waitangi issues. What was New Zealand's response? Proposed legislation that will extinguish Te K?hui Ngahuru's legal right to ask the courts to determine its claim. Sadly, Canada has already enacted similar legislation, the Specific Claims Tribunal Act." In October 2008, the Specific Claims Tribunal Act (SCTA) came into force to eliminate the backlog of specific claims through a fair, timely, joint and independent process. A key element of the SCTA was to implement an independent Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) centre for First Nations and the Government of Canada. Indigenous organizations suggested a range of options such as an independent centre to provide mediation services through legislation or linking to or creating a non-governmental organization to service ADR. In February 2010, the Federal Minister of Indian Affairs, Chuck Strahl unilaterally and arrogantly dismissed the options as too costly or outside the scope of the legislation. Canada responded by stating the new ADR centre will be housed in government offices, administrated by government staff and will only provide mediation services in the area of negotiations and no other part of the process. "The UBCIC does not recognize, embrace or endorse the fairness, independence, impartiality, openness and transparency of a mediation process that is housed and administrated by the Government of Canada and is limited to only one stage in the process for resolving the many specific claims of First Nations" stated Grand Chief Phillip. "As Indigenous Peoples, our fight is the same the world over. Our Title and Rights are ignored, trivialized and dismissed. Ongoing injustices such as woefully inadequate land reserves or Crown mismanagement of the Te K?hui Ngahuru or the many outstanding specific claims in Canada, add to the severe economic, cultural and social suffering of our Indigenous communities." Grand Chief Phillip concluded "New Zealand and Canada continue to deny the international legal reality of our Indigenous rights. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is truly a historically significant instrument, a milestone and clarion call of the ongoing fight that unifies the 370 million Indigenous Peoples globally." - 30 - Media inquiries: Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of BC Indian Chiefs Phone: (250) 490-5314 PDF COPY: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/files/PDF/UBCICPress_NZWAI56_UNDRIP_051210.pdf The UBCIC is a NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations This page and all other News Releases can be found at: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/News_Releases/ ================================ UBCIC email alerts or text alerts, go to: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/subscribe/ Follow UBCIC on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UBCIC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The two-day conference will host workshops on innovative language-learning methods to help create a shift in B.C.?s endangered languages. Three individuals who have worked in recent years in language-teaching have come together to accomplish new things for Aboriginal languages. Language-instructor and community organizer Dustin Rivers, from the Skwxwu?7mesh (Squamish) people in North Vancouver, started using language-teaching methods previously unheard of. Dustin Rivers was introduced to Evan Gardner and Willem Larsen from Portland, Oregon, who shared their innovative language teaching & learning method called ?Where Are Your Keys??. This method has been used with native communities in Oregon, with great success in creating fluent speakers and language-teachers of dying languages. The hope is to bring more of this success to other Aboriginal communities. 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I very much look forward to the work he will be doing with language revitalization, awakening a sleeping language. I have enjoyed working with him and watching the development of a new scholar in our field with a language that needs such a scholar so badly. May the future be all that he and I would wish. MJ Dr. MJ Hardman Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Per? website: http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Fri May 21 17:02:47 2010 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:02:47 -0500 Subject: Scholar in Siraya In-Reply-To: Message-ID: congrats! Dr.Jimmy! you deserved it with all that time, passion and energy put into this important work... i know about *sleeping languages* and now that i brought it up, if you or if *ANYONE here *has ideas for waking up* **sleeping tribal members* besides literally lighting fires under them... well...I'm all ears. Richard Zane Smith Wyandotte, Okla. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:05 PM, MJ Hardman wrote: > It is with pleasure that I can announce that Dr. Chun Huang received his > degree on May 1 with his dissertation "Language Revitalization and Identity > Politics: An examination of Siraya Reclamation in Taiwan" which was rated > 'outstanding'. I very much look forward to the work he will be doing with > language revitalization, awakening a sleeping language. I have enjoyed > working with him and watching the development of a new scholar in our field > with a language that needs such a scholar so badly. May the future be all > that he and I would wish. > > MJ > > Dr. MJ Hardman > Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Per? > website: http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/ > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From huangc20 at UFL.EDU Fri May 21 18:18:25 2010 From: huangc20 at UFL.EDU (Chun Jimmy Huang) Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:18:25 -0400 Subject: Scholar in Siraya Message-ID: Thank you, Richard As for waking up sleeping tribal members, well, we began by just "listening." Say, our language was labeled (and still is by some) as "extinct" or "dead." But me and my friends (in their 40s) didn't give up. We went on to visit some elders. At first, the elders were reluctant to talk... they probably didn't want to be reminded of being "savages," which was/is the label the mainstream put on us. But then as they realized that we were sincere, they became willing, and eager, to talk. From there we found out we actually have rememberers, who know some words and phrases. In addition to linguistic input, the elders also told us stories (in the dominant languages), taught us songs, taught us how to make some tools, or showed us pottery they had hidden away for decades. We listened to them, and we learned from them. Then we taught the young ones what we had learned. And... somehow, the young ones have been very interested since, even though learning these things wouldn't bring them any practical benefit (like entering college) since our people have not yet been officially recognized by Taiwan's govt. So anyway, we have had no problem with the young people... and many of the older ones. Still, we do face difficulty convincing the middle-agers, like the parents of those school-age children. until today, some parents think of learning our heritage as "useless." But anyway, we are progressing and optimistic. So... allow me to say that "all ears" is right. Some members may have been sleeping, but many of them do have "dreams." Listen to their dreams first and then one day they may wake up and put an effort to make the dreams come true. Jimmy On Fri May 21 13:02:47 EDT 2010, Richard Zane Smith wrote: > congrats! Dr.Jimmy! > you deserved it with all that time, passion and energy > put into this important work... i know about *sleeping languages* > and now that i brought it up, if you or > if *ANYONE here *has ideas for waking up* **sleeping tribal > members* > besides literally lighting fires under them... well...I'm all > ears. > > Richard Zane Smith > Wyandotte, Okla. > > > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:05 PM, MJ Hardman > wrote: > >> It is with pleasure that I can announce that Dr. Chun Huang >> received his >> degree on May 1 with his dissertation "Language Revitalization >> and Identity >> Politics: An examination of Siraya Reclamation in Taiwan" which >> was rated >> 'outstanding'. I very much look forward to the work he will be >> doing with >> language revitalization, awakening a sleeping language. I have >> enjoyed >> working with him and watching the development of a new scholar >> in our field >> with a language that needs such a scholar so badly. May the >> future be all >> that he and I would wish. >> >> MJ >> >> Dr. MJ Hardman >> Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Per?? >> website: http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/ >> >> >> >> >> From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Sat May 22 16:25:22 2010 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:25:22 -0400 Subject: Scholar in Siraya In-Reply-To: <948267927.125511274465905022.JavaMail.osg@osgjas01.cns.ufl.edu> Message-ID: Congratulations Dr. Chun Jimmy Huang. It is a great pleasure to see your success and know how well you will use it for your people and all indigenous peoples. I have already used much of your information and some of the video of your people as springboards and stepping stones for some of our own peoples who are struggling with identity, culture and independence based on the sovereignty of creation. I know I will use the information again. I am (supposedly) teaching a half course at University of British Colombia in July. The course title is 'ancestral memory' and is, it appears to me, the captivating motivation for many indigenous peoples internationally. I have received much feed back on what other peoples are doing and suggestions which are so valuable to me. I will be using much of what you have written me if it is ok with you. Indigenous peoples are moving so strongly and connecting so well I often think I can feel it happening like and aura of good feeling around the earth. We are so in need of the wisdom and knowledge that has allowed us to continue to live on this planet so much longer than so called modern civilizations. Perhaps not in my life time, but I know and feel the strength of what our peoples are doing to try and have the earth be a better place for human survival. I know you are a great part of that and I am proud to have come to know you...even if it is cyber...lol ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory? ______________________________________________ On 21/05/2010 2:18 PM, Chun Jimmy Huang wrote: > Thank you, Richard > > As for waking up sleeping tribal members, well, we began by just > "listening." Say, our language was labeled (and still is by some) as > "extinct" or "dead." But me and my friends (in their 40s) didn't give > up. We went on to visit some elders. At first, the elders were > reluctant to talk... they probably didn't want to be reminded of being > "savages," which was/is the label the mainstream put on us. But then > as they realized that we were sincere, they became willing, and eager, > to talk. From there we found out we actually have rememberers, who > know some words and phrases. In addition to linguistic input, the > elders also told us stories (in the dominant languages), taught us > songs, taught us how to make some tools, or showed us pottery they had > hidden away for decades. We listened to them, and we learned from > them. Then we taught the young ones what we had learned. And... > somehow, the young ones have been very interested since, even though > learning these things wouldn't bring them any practical benefit (like > entering college) since our people have not yet been officially > recognized by Taiwan's govt. So anyway, we have had no problem with > the young people... and many of the older ones. Still, we do face > difficulty convincing the middle-agers, like the parents of those > school-age children. until today, some parents think of learning our > heritage as "useless." But anyway, we are progressing and optimistic. > > So... allow me to say that "all ears" is right. Some members may have > been sleeping, but many of them do have "dreams." Listen to their > dreams first and then one day they may wake up and put an effort to > make the dreams come true. > > Jimmy > > > On Fri May 21 13:02:47 EDT 2010, Richard Zane Smith > wrote: > >> congrats! Dr.Jimmy! >> you deserved it with all that time, passion and energy >> put into this important work... i know about *sleeping languages* >> and now that i brought it up, if you or >> if *ANYONE here *has ideas for waking up* **sleeping tribal members* >> besides literally lighting fires under them... well...I'm all ears. >> >> Richard Zane Smith >> Wyandotte, Okla. >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:05 PM, MJ Hardman wrote: >> >>> It is with pleasure that I can announce that Dr. Chun Huang received >>> his >>> degree on May 1 with his dissertation "Language Revitalization and >>> Identity >>> Politics: An examination of Siraya Reclamation in Taiwan" which was >>> rated >>> 'outstanding'. I very much look forward to the work he will be doing >>> with >>> language revitalization, awakening a sleeping language. I have enjoyed >>> working with him and watching the development of a new scholar in >>> our field >>> with a language that needs such a scholar so badly. May the future >>> be all >>> that he and I would wish. >>> >>> MJ >>> >>> Dr. MJ Hardman >>> Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Per?? >>> website: http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/ > -- From scoronelmolina at GMAIL.COM Mon May 24 13:53:46 2010 From: scoronelmolina at GMAIL.COM (Serafin Coronel-Molina) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:53:46 -0400 Subject: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Quechua and Spanish Message-ID: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Quechua and Spanish at The Ohio State University Rank according to qualifications. Minimum requirement MA or equivalent degree. Native or near native fluency in Quechua 2 and Spanish, and working command of English. Position involves teaching up to eight courses per year, which will include beginning and intermediate courses in Quechua 2, beginning, intermediate or advanced Spanish language courses, as well as courses in linguistics or Latin American literatures and cultures. Teaching experience desirable. Salary and benefits according to rank. To receive full consideration applications should be received by June 30, 2010. However, review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Send application materials, including a CV and three recent letters of recommendation to Prof. Abril Trigo, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, 298 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd., Columbus, OH 43210-1340, USA. Contact: trigo.1 at osu.edu, 614-292-8695. The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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Children read and write the language, using a syllabary developed by a self-taught genius named Sequoyah, who brought literacy to the Cherokee in the 19th century. And a 21st century tool is helping the language of Sequoyah survive: the Askongodeesk?or as we say in English, the laptop computer. Access full article below: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2010/05/14/saving-language-cherokee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET Tue May 25 15:17:07 2010 From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:17:07 -0500 Subject: Question about Phrases cds Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chimiskwew at HOTMAIL.COM Tue May 25 16:10:01 2010 From: chimiskwew at HOTMAIL.COM (Cathy Wheaton) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:01 -0500 Subject: Question about Phrases cds In-Reply-To: <25595638.305302.1274800627681.JavaMail.root@vms076.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: We have already created several language phrase files, CD's and videos in multiple languages (Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Anishnaabemowin and Nakota) on our First Nation Language Speaking Project lessons (which are free) and can be downloaded and freely copies and shared. http://www.allanadam.com/index.php?page=lessons It is imperative as a new language learner (which I am) that each phrase have it's own track on the CD so the phrase can be listened to repeatedly over and over again, one at a time. I have often had to listen to difficult phrase as much as 20-30 times in order to really hear the phrase properly. We record up to 99 seperate tracks on each CD with one phrase per track. Then the learner is free to choose individual phrases to learn and repeat as they would like as repitition is essetial to learning langauge. If you include more than one phrase on a track, it is very frustrating to learn a new phrase when you constantly have to search for the phrase you are learning. We have been very successful in doing all of our language lessons this way. We have a master phrase list we use with our speakers and we start and stop each after each phrase is spoken, once in English, once slowly in the language we are teaching and a second time at normal speaking rate so people will know the rhythm as well as the sound. Like you we are grassroots, have no funding, no support from any institutions and exist solely by donating our own time in recording our languages for others to learn at no cost. We record phrases and then upload them to the internet so anyone can make their own CD and we now have people all over North America who use the lessons. If you have any questions on how we create our lessons, please contact us, we are excited to know you are doing this as well! "First Nations Language Speaking Project" (306) 425-0488 La Ronge, SK or email chimiskwew at hotmail.com Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:17:07 -0500 From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET Subject: [ILAT] Question about Phrases cds To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Han mitakuyapi, (Greetings my relatives) I have a question, or a few questions to ask. I consider our language program to be a grassroots program. We don't have any linguists or experts that help us and we can't afford to retain anyone. So I'm hoping that someone might be able to help us with this. Even though we don't feel that language phrases cds are the best way to learn, we have repeatedly over the last few years been asked by adults to make cds. We also think that if we create something in Dakotah, it will be available forever if all efforts to revitalize our languages fail. We also know that adults want to learn to speak complete phrases. And that if we create these cds it might make people more apt to try and learn more. Our questions are: How many phrases should we put on each cd without risking overwhelming the learner and creating the opposite effect of people giving up on learning because they think it's too difficult? How many times should be repeat each phrase in the native language? We were thinking of repeating each phrase four times. And we have been thinking about putting 64 phrases on each cd, which would be four times four times four. I think everyone who might either be native or work with natives would know that for most of our cultures, four is an important number. Nina pidamaya for any ideas you may have. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mccreery at UVIC.CA Tue May 25 18:55:30 2010 From: mccreery at UVIC.CA (Dale McCreery) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:55:30 -0700 Subject: Question about Phrases cds In-Reply-To: <25595638.305302.1274800627681.JavaMail.root@vms076.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: Taanshi! Dale McCreery here, I think that there isn't a real worry about including too many phrases on a single CD, the important thing is to make sure that the phrases are structured. A large amount of unrelated phrases is overwhelming, but the more ways the phrases are related to each other the more readily a learner can absorb them. Most CDs like this are arranged by topic, and that is one way of making connections, but I think that including a lot of phrases that are very similar to each other structurally (such as differing in only a single word or a tense) would make it easier for those who listen to the CD to retain the phrases. Even on a CD of phrases, unless there is some sort of a progression of complexity, people can listen to the CD a hundred times and retain only a couple phrases. So, my basic suggestions are: 1. include as much as possible 2. make it as structured as possible (as many connections between phrases as possible) 3. make a progression of complexity, or at least include a repetition of similar types of structures frequently. -dale- From andrekar at NCIDC.ORG Tue May 25 19:54:44 2010 From: andrekar at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:54:44 -0700 Subject: Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Survey (language) Message-ID: The Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Project at the University of Cambridge investigates ways of writing dictionaries that better facilitate the maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages. It explores the relationship between documenting a language and sustaining it, and entails collaboration with linguists, dictionary- makers and educators, as well as members of endangered-language communities themselves, in order to determine what lexicographic methodologies work particularly well pedagogically for language maintenance and revitalization. In addition to developing a methodology for writing dictionaries that are more community-focussed and collaborative in their making, content, and format, the Project is creating an online catalogue of dictionary projects around the world. If you would like your dictionary to be included in the catalogue, please fill out the Dictionary Survey at http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie/elad1.php or contact Sarah Ogilvie at svo21 at cam.ac.uk. We really hope you will want to participate, in order to make the catalogue as comprehensive as possible. -- Dr Sarah Ogilvie Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow Lucy Cavendish College Lady Margaret Road University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 0BU. Tel. Office (+44) 01223 764018 Tel. Mobile (+44) 07540 133790 From andrekar at NCIDC.ORG Tue May 25 20:13:59 2010 From: andrekar at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:13:59 -0700 Subject: 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation Message-ID: 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation: Strategies for Moving Forward. Honolulu, Hawai'i, February 11-13, 2011 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011 The 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) will be held February 11-13, 2011, at the Hawai?i Imin International Conference Center on the University of Hawai?i at Manoa campus. Two days of optional technical training workshops will precede the conference (Feb. 9-10). An optional fieldtrip to Hilo (on the Big Island of Hawai'i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the conference (Feb. 14-15). The 1st ICLDC, with its theme ?Supporting Small Languages Together," underscored the need for communities, linguists, and other academics to work in close collaboration. The theme of the 2nd ICLDC is ?Strategies for Moving Forward." We aim to build on the strong momentum created at the 1st ICLDC and to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich, accessible records which can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech communities. We hope you will join us. TOPICS We welcome abstracts on best practices for language documentation and conservation moving forward, which may include: - Archiving matters - Community-based documentation/conservation initiatives - Data management - Fieldwork methods - Ethical issues - Interdisciplinary fieldwork - Language planning - Lexicography - Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality - Orthography design - Reference grammar design - Reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization efforts - Teaching/learning small languages - Technology in documentation ? methods and pitfalls - Topics in areal language documentation - Training in documentation methods ? beyond the university This is not an exhaustive list and individual proposals on topics outside these areas are warmly welcomed. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region discussed. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint (co-authored) proposal. ABSTRACTS ARE DUE BY AUGUST 31, 2010, with notification of acceptance by September 30, 2010. We ask for ABSTRACTS OF NO MORE THAN 400 WORDS for online publication so that conference participants can have a good idea of the content of your paper and a 50-WORD SUMMARY for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic. See ICLDC conference website for ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM. We will only be accepting proposal submissions for papers or posters. Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication. (Most presentations from the 1st ICLDC were recorded and can be heard as podcasts here: http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5961.) 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Institutional, political, and local support all play crucial roles, along with educationists and language planners. But how can these, working together, have practical effects in the daily language usage of ordinary people, and how can they achieve the goal of slowing down language erosion and revitalising language tradition? Abstracts are invited on all topics in language revitalisation and reversing language shift. A language-relevant excursion is planned for the afternoon of 15 September as well as cultural entertainment during the evenings of 13 and 14 September. Carmarthen's nearest airport is Cardiff, 110 Km away. If direct flights to Cardiff are unavailable, try Bristol (175 Km from Carmarthen) before any of the London airports. The Carmarthen (Caerfyrddin - 'Castle Merlin') campus of University of Wales: Trinity Saint David is situated on the edge of a market town with a population of 13,500, most of them fluent Welsh-speakers. The town claims to be the oldest in Wales, with a mediaeval castle and a Roman amphitheatre. Carmarthen's name under Roman rule was Moridunum Demetarum ('Sea Fort of Dyfed', in British). Trinity University College, Carmarthen and Saint David's University College, Lampeter, are merging, a process to be completed by September 2010. Trinity University College is famous in Wales for promotion of bilingualism and bilingual teaching, recognised by the Welsh Assembly Government as a key provider of Welsh-medium higher education. Call for Papers Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition University of Wales: Trinity Saint David, Carmarthen, Wales 13-15 September, 2010 Language revitalisation is now receiving greater attention from academics, language planners, politicians, institutions and organisations worldwide. A step further than documentation, language revitalisation, supported by active policy, offers the possibility of reversing a shift that threatens over half of the world's languages. Many take language vitality to be symbolic of national and cultural identity. In the Celtic regions, in particular, governments are taking a leading role in the struggle to reverse language shift by various efforts including attempts to increase the number of speakers of the respective languages. Wales provides a good vantage point from which to consider prospects for reversing language shift. It has experience in gauging levels of political support at local, national and international levels. Census figures show an increase in the number of users of Welsh, especially amongst the younger generation, which can be attributed, like the language revival in Estonia, to the education system. However, some academics doubt whether such increases in speaker numbers lead to increased language fluency and use. While efforts to achieve the Welsh Assembly's goal of a "bilingual Wales" have led to demands for greater legislative powers and autonomy on linguistic issues, the constant net immigration into the traditional heartlands is steadily reducing the density of Welsh-speakers there. Language revitalisation requires the collaboration of a wide range of expertise. Institutional, political, and local support all play crucial roles, along with educationists and language planners. But how can these, working together, have practical effects in the daily language usage of ordinary people, and how can they achieve the goal of slowing down language erosion and revitalising language tradition? Abstracts are invited on all topics in language revitalisation and reversing language shift, such as the following: -The roles and influences of formal educational systems -The roles of political independence, campaigns for linguistic rights, and community attitudes -The role of different domains of language use: is there a 'best practice' in ordering their importance in language policy? -The roles of corpus planning, documentary linguistics, and technologies, especially the internet -Can there be a corpus standard without oppressive purism? If so, how else can a corpus standard be propagated? -Language change in/through revitalisation -Special problems in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural context -Whether strategies for reversing language shift in places like Wales can be applied where there are many minority languages -How to integrate monolingual immigrants into bilingual society Other relevant issues might include these questions: -Is political independence crucial for ethnolinguistic vitality? -Are there useful links between the problem of reversing language shift where there is only a single minority language, and the problem where there is a host of small languages? -What role is there for technology in reversing language shift? -Are the benefits of bilingualism, cognitive and otherwise, still contested? -Is there an inescapable trend towards larger language units, and fewer languages? -If, as has been said, a shrinking language minority always lacks the will to stop shrinking, must attempts to save such a community focus on their will to save themselves? Papers may focus on any endangered language situation in the world. The language of papers is English or Welsh. The content of all papers will be made accessible to those who lack Welsh. Each presentation at the Conference will last twenty minutes, with a further ten minutes for discussion and questions and answers. Keynote lectures (by invitation only) will last forty-five minutes each. Abstract submission: An abstract of up to 500 words should be submitted before 30 April, 2010. Abstracts received after this deadline will not be accepted. The following information should also be provided on a separate page: NAME(S): Names of the author(s) TITLE: Title of the paper INSTITUTION: Institutional affiliation, if any E-MAIL: E-mail address of first author, if any ADDRESS: Postal address of the first author TEL: Telephone number of the first author, if any FAX: Fax number of the first author, if any. Submit abstracts either by email or post: 1. E-mail Please send your abstract (with the other necessary details) via e-mail to both of the following addresses: h.lewistrinity-cm.ac.uk nostlerchibcha.demon.co.uk with the subject of the e-mail stating: "FEL Abstract: (last name of the author(s)): (title of paper)" 2. Post If you cannot submit by e-mail, please send your abstract and details on paper to the following address (to arrive by 30 April 2010): FEL XIV Conference Administration Foundation for Endangered Languages 172 Bailbrook Lane Bath BA1 7AA United Kingdom The name of the first author will be used in all correspondence. Writers will be informed once their abstracts have been accepted and will be required to submit their full papers for publication in the Proceedings by August 1st, 2010, together with their registration fee (to be announced soon). Important Dates -Abstract arrival deadline: April 30, 2010 - Notification of acceptance of paper: May 31, 2010 -In case of acceptance, the full paper will be due by August 1st, 2010 It is a condition of speaking at the conference that authors will submit a hard copy of their paper by this deadline. (Further details on the format of text will be specified to the authors.) -Conference dates: September 13-15, 2010 Conference Chair: Dr Hywel Glyn Lewis Ysgol y Gymraeg ac Astudiaethau Dwyieithrwydd Prifysgol Cymru: Y Drindod Dewi Sant, Caerfyrddin, Cymru or School of Welsh and Bilingualism Studies University of Wales: Trinity Saint David Carmarthen SA31 3EP Wales, UK Tel. +44 (0)1267-676680 e-mail: h.lewistrinity-cm.ac.uk The Foundation for Endangered Languages is a non-profit membership organisation, registered as Charity 1070616 in England and Wales, founded in 1996. Its objective is to support, enable and assist the documentation, protection and promotion of endangered languages all over the world. The Foundation awards small grants for projects. It also publishes a newsletter, OGMIOS. It has hosted a conference every years since 1996, most recently in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (2004), Stellenbosch, South Africa (2005), Mysore, India (2006), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, (2007), Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, Netherlands (2008) and Khorugh/ Khorog, Tajikistan (2009). The FEL conferences bring together experts, scholars and enthusiasts from all over the world. The Proceedings of FEL conferences are available as published volumes. For further information visit: www.ogmios.org -- Damien Hall University of York Department of Language and Linguistic Science Heslington YORK YO10 5DD UK Tel. (office) +44 (0)1904 432665 (mobile) +44 (0)771 853 5634 Fax +44 (0)1904 432673 http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/lang/people/pages/hall.htm K?mateech X?vin/Later 'Tater Andr? Cramblit, Operations Director Northern California Indian Development Council (NCIDC) (http://www.ncidc.org) 707.445.8451 To subscribe to a blog of interest to Natives send go to: www.andrekaruk.posterous.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Pasted Graphic.tiff Type: image/tiff Size: 9654 bytes Desc: not available URL: From sganeshhcu at GMAIL.COM Tue May 25 20:35:02 2010 From: sganeshhcu at GMAIL.COM (sree ganesh) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 02:05:02 +0530 Subject: Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Survey (language) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, I have prepared a English - Telugu dictionary, (Telugu is a Dravidian language). It is a corpus based dictionary. I would like to know, how can i publish that dictionary. Thnaks Sri. On 26 May 2010 01:24, Andre Cramblit wrote: > The Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Project at the University of > Cambridge investigates ways of writing dictionaries that better facilitate > the maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages. It explores the > relationship between documenting a language and sustaining it, and entails > collaboration with linguists, dictionary-makers and educators, as well as > members of endangered-language communities themselves, in order to determine > what lexicographic methodologies work particularly well pedagogically for > language maintenance and revitalization. > > In addition to developing a methodology for writing dictionaries that are > more community-focussed and collaborative in their making, content, and > format, the Project is creating an online catalogue of dictionary projects > around the world. If you would like your dictionary to be included in the > catalogue, please fill out the Dictionary Survey at > http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie/elad1.phpor contact Sarah Ogilvie at > svo21 at cam.ac.uk. We really hope you will want to participate, in order to > make the catalogue as comprehensive as possible. > > > -- > Dr Sarah Ogilvie > Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow > Lucy Cavendish College > Lady Margaret Road > University of Cambridge > Cambridge CB3 0BU. > > Tel. Office (+44) 01223 764018 > Tel. Mobile (+44) 07540 133790 > -- T. Sree Ganesh Language Maintainer for Telugu Red Hat Software Services Pvt Ltd Pune. Email: mrthottempudi at yahoo.com Phone: 020 - 40057382. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wjposer at LDC.UPENN.EDU Wed May 26 06:42:44 2010 From: wjposer at LDC.UPENN.EDU (William J Poser) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 02:42:44 -0400 Subject: Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It isn't a single source, and some of it is either off-topic or aimed at hard-core programmers, but anyone doing language work in a Unix environment may find my Computational Resources for Linguistic Research page useful: http://billposer.org/Linguistics/Computation/Resources.html I have done nearly all of my work on some variety of Unix system since 1982 and have been running GNU/Linux on my personal machines since 1995. Bill From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Wed May 26 13:56:49 2010 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:56:49 -0500 Subject: Question about Phrases cds In-Reply-To: <4a932049e31473d54a38cf1fb7ed3443.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> Message-ID: kweh all, These have been helpful suggestions. keep 'em coming! as a NON-trained language teacher also involved in making recordings, I really appreciate these kinds of tips. Its very easy to become discouraged by lack of immediate interest in something so crucial to our tribal identity. building a *foundation* for language learning seems to be in itself an art and being an artist ,I'm always seeking to learn new skills. --organizing mountains of data into "easy to get to" research files. (I still cannot make heads or tails out of TOOLBOX!) --how to spark a hunger in tribal members for learning their own heritage tongue. --how to introduce language rules "naturally" without overwhelming learners (especially as i'm still learning the complexity of rules myself). --how much emphasis should be placed on "correctness" orally and grammatically. If i wasn't for hearing what others here are doing and the rare conference i can sneak off to, It would be all to easy to give up completely. so thanks! Richard Zane Smith Wyandotte Oklahoma On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dale McCreery wrote: > Taanshi! > Dale McCreery here, I think that there isn't a real worry about including > too many phrases on a single CD, the important thing is to make sure that > the phrases are structured. A large amount of unrelated phrases is > overwhelming, but the more ways the phrases are related to each other the > more readily a learner can absorb them. Most CDs like this are arranged > by topic, and that is one way of making connections, but I think that > including a lot of phrases that are very similar to each other > structurally (such as differing in only a single word or a tense) would > make it easier for those who listen to the CD to retain the phrases. Even > on a CD of phrases, unless there is some sort of a progression of > complexity, people can listen to the CD a hundred times and retain only a > couple phrases. > > So, my basic suggestions are: > 1. include as much as possible > 2. make it as structured as possible (as many connections between phrases > as possible) > 3. make a progression of complexity, or at least include a repetition of > similar types of structures frequently. > > -dale- > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM Wed May 26 15:02:00 2010 From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:02:00 -0400 Subject: Question about Phrases cds In-Reply-To: <4a932049e31473d54a38cf1fb7ed3443.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> Message-ID: Hi all, Sounds like lots of good work going on---In terms of acquiring language, Dale's advice is very good -- begin simple and build on what you have to increasing complexity. The key to learning is repetition and providing a context for use. The number of phrases won't matter as much as their ability to be put to use---in really practical, everyday language. Organizing them by topic is useful, but within a topic, structure still matters and should be a consideration for how the phrases are ordered for language learners. That's just my take....Thanks to all for sharing these grassroots efforts. Susan On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Dale McCreery wrote: > Taanshi! > Dale McCreery here, I think that there isn't a real worry about including > too many phrases on a single CD, the important thing is to make sure that > the phrases are structured. A large amount of unrelated phrases is > overwhelming, but the more ways the phrases are related to each other the > more readily a learner can absorb them. Most CDs like this are arranged > by topic, and that is one way of making connections, but I think that > including a lot of phrases that are very similar to each other > structurally (such as differing in only a single word or a tense) would > make it easier for those who listen to the CD to retain the phrases. Even > on a CD of phrases, unless there is some sort of a progression of > complexity, people can listen to the CD a hundred times and retain only a > couple phrases. > > So, my basic suggestions are: > 1. include as much as possible > 2. make it as structured as possible (as many connections between phrases > as possible) > 3. make a progression of complexity, or at least include a repetition of > similar types of structures frequently. > > -dale- > -- ********************************************************************************************** Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. (Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation. E-mail: spenfiel at nsf.gov Phone at NSF: 703-292-4535) Department of English (Primary) Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) The Southwest Center University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harveyd at SOU.EDU Thu May 27 00:31:29 2010 From: harveyd at SOU.EDU (Dan Harvey) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:31:29 -0700 Subject: Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Survey (language) Message-ID: You might check out the WOLF project ([W]ord [O]riented [L]inuistics [F]ramework). The web-site is at http://cs.sou.edu/~harveyd/wolf for details. I expect to be sending out a release notice tomorrow. Dan Harvey Professor of Computer Science Southern Oregon University harveyd at sou.edu >>> Andre Cramblit 05/25/10 1:05 PM >>> The Endangered Languages and Dictionaries Project at the University of Cambridge investigates ways of writing dictionaries that better facilitate the maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages. It explores the relationship between documenting a language and sustaining it, and entails collaboration with linguists, dictionary- makers and educators, as well as members of endangered-language communities themselves, in order to determine what lexicographic methodologies work particularly well pedagogically for language maintenance and revitalization. In addition to developing a methodology for writing dictionaries that are more community-focussed and collaborative in their making, content, and format, the Project is creating an online catalogue of dictionary projects around the world. If you would like your dictionary to be included in the catalogue, please fill out the Dictionary Survey at http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie/elad1.php or contact Sarah Ogilvie at svo21 at cam.ac.uk. We really hope you will want to participate, in order to make the catalogue as comprehensive as possible. -- Dr Sarah Ogilvie Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow Lucy Cavendish College Lady Margaret Road University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 0BU. Tel. Office (+44) 01223 764018 Tel. Mobile (+44) 07540 133790 From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu May 27 05:04:33 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 22:04:33 -0700 Subject: Million Indigenous placenames in danger of disappearing (fwd link) Message-ID: Million Indigenous placenames in danger of disappearing Posted Wed May 26, 2010 5:14am AEST Australia Placenames: Harold Koch says Canberra is an example of an Indigenous word that is now pronounced incorrectly. (ABC Local: Jim Trail) MAP: Canberra 2600 The editors of a new book on Aboriginal languages say more than a million Indigenous placenames are in danger of being lost forever. Access full article below: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/26/2909320.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To subscribe, you can visit http://cs.sou.edu/~harveyd and click on the subscribe button at the top-right corner of the page. The forum?s site is http://groups.google.com/group/acornsproject ACORNS ([A][C]quisition [O]f [R]estored [N]ative [S]peech) supports tribal efforts for language revitalization. It is freeware that enables language teachers or their students to easily create language lessons. ELK ([E]xtended [L]inguistic [K]eyboards) is freeware designed to provide a cross-platform approach to creating indigenous keyboard mappings. It can be used to create and use .keylayout files, popular on MAC systems. WOLF ([W]ord [O]riented [L]inguistic [F]ramework) is a dictionary creation program with an easy-to-use interface. It uses rows and columns of cells, similar to EXCEL, but is geared for use by linguists creating dictionaries. Please sign up for this forum if you would like to participate. Thanks for your interest, Dan Dan Harvey Professor of Computer Science Southern Oregon University harveyd at sou.edu From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu May 27 19:06:12 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 12:06:12 -0700 Subject: Thornes Helps Tribe Preserve Native Language (fwd link) Message-ID: Thornes Helps Tribe Preserve Native Language Posted in Campus News on May 27, 2010 USA For more than a decade, Tim Thornes has worked with members of the Burns Paiute Tribe to revive its language for future generations. Thornes, assistant professor of linguistics in the Department of Writing, has interviewed elders from various tribal communities in an effort to document and preserve the Northern Paiute language. Northern Paiute is an endangered Native American language spoken by just a few hundred people with most of its active fluent native speakers over the age of 50. The tribe resides mainly in northern Nevada and eastern Oregon. 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"I didn't speak a word of English when I went to school, so I was severely beaten by the nuns," White Bird told about 300 people gathered at The Forks Oodena Celebration Circle on Wednesday during the Day of Healing and Reconciliation for residential school survivors and their families. Access full article below: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/robbed-of-their-language-and-pride-94999764.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From candaceg at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu May 27 23:13:52 2010 From: candaceg at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Candace K. Galla) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:13:52 -0700 Subject: American Indian Language Development Institute 2010 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: * We are still accepting registrations for the American Indian Language Development Institute *31st Annual Summer Institute *** June 7?June 23 , 2010 The University of Arizona ** ?Ancestral Voices: Transitioning into Today?s Technology? * Please join us for our annual American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) at the University of Arizona. AILDI 2010 will be an exciting and intensive two weeks offering classes & special lectures on the integration of Indigenous knowledge, language, and science and technology. Other courses will include Indigenous language immersion methods & application, linguistics for Native American communities with curriculum and materials development a component of all AILDI courses. AILDI continues its tradition of providing a holistic experience for its participants with local culture, and opportunities to engage in nearby Native American community activities. This year all students will attend one morning class together, and select an afternoon class of their choice. MORNING COURSE - LING 421/521 - Language Maintenance, Preservation and Revitalization (Lucille Watahomigie) AFTERNOON COURSE (choose 1) - LING 432/532 - American Indian Language Immersion Level 2 (Jennie DeGroat) - LRC 430/530 - Multimedia Technology for Indigenous Language Communities (Stacey Oberly) - LING445/545A - Applied Linguistics for Native American Communities (Keisha Josephs) ****There is an additional course that will be offered as a 1-week intensive course. The course will meet for a total of 45 contact hours, July 6-10 & July 12. - LING 476/576 - Indigenous Knowledge (Gregory Cajete) For more information visit our website www.u.arizona.edu/~aildi/ A reminder that ALL materials MUST BE INCLUDED in your packet to be considered for partial tuition support. Funding is limited, and will be applied to Tuition fees ONLY. If you are being sponsored by your employer, tribe, or other sponsoring agency PLEASE indicate that on your application. If you have any questions, contact the AILDI Office at 520-621-1068, or via email at Maxine Sam at mrs1 at email.arizona.eduThank you again for your continued support and we look for to your participation in AILDI 2010. Mahalo nui loa, Candace <<> <><><> <> >< <>+<> >< <> <><><> <> > Candace K. 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The ACORNS project is a long-term development effort involving both graduate and undergraduate students. ACORNS and WOLF software is free for download (http://cs.sou.edu/~harveyd and click on projects, selecting the WOLF project). Developers that wish to make contributions should contact harveyd at sou.edu The motivation for WOLF ([W]ord [O]riented [L]inguistic [F]ramework) is to provide an easy-to-use framework where linguists easily can create indigenous dictionaries. The interface has an EXCEL feel, but geared for use by linguists. Each word is a row in the dictionary. Words and definitions within words can contain additional row and column sub-cells. The software supports, among other things, dictionaries containing up to one hundred languages, a variety of search and sort facilities, XML import and export, embedded multimedia, and IPA phonetics. A more detailed list follows. Future releases will provide apps that run on mobile devices, plug-in capabilities to support developer enhancements, automatic speech recognition, dictionary based games, and wiki-like capabilities for posting dictionaries to the Web. WOLF Version 1.00 features As mentioned above, the current WOLF release is designed to have a feel similar to EXCEL, but geared for use by linguists. We chose this design because many linguists use EXCEL, despite its limitations for creating dictionaries. WOLF version 1.00 supports: ? Up to one hundred languages in a single dictionary ? Unlimited numbers of definitions and examples for a single word ? Uses the standardized GOLD ontology and ISO language codes ? Multimedia objects including audio, picture, and video embedded with words, examples, and definitions ? Entry of phonetic representations ? Searching by ontological terms, by category, and by word using regular expressions ? Sort facility ? Import and Export facilities employing XML ? Entry of the dictionary copyright notice and contacts for contributing authors ? Ability to directly record audio and incorporate it into the dictionary ? Undo and redo facilities to recover from errors ? Hard copy printouts Wolf version 1.00 is a good start, but more work needs to be done. We list some of the improvements below. We also eagerly seek feedback from linguists for suggestions that will encourage widespread acceptance of this package. Developers that want to contribute should contact us at harveyd at sou.edu To do list ? Comprehensive printout of dictionaries using general-purpose user-defined templates ? Implementation of a WIKI-like application for creating a Web presence ? Applications that run on mobile devices (like a phraselator type program) ? Import from and export to other dictionary formats (like EXCEL, Toolbox, and Lift). ? Dictionary-based games that can run within WOLF, on the Web, or on mobile devices ? Automatic speech recognition and pronunciation verification capabilities ? Plugin capabilities to incorporate developer contributions WOLF, though being freeware, is not yet open source. However, our intention is to make it so at some point after the software matures. From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri May 28 18:30:43 2010 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:30:43 -0700 Subject: Yaqui tapes a treasure for UA researchers (fwd link) Message-ID: SURVIVORS' ACCOUNTS OF WOES IN MEXICO ARE BEING DIGITIZED Yaqui tapes a treasure for UA researchers Becky Pallack Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:00 am While there are thousands of Yaqui speakers in Sonora, Mexico, there are only 50 to 60 left in the U.S., mainly in Arizona. The Yaqui language is also known as Hiaki and Yoeme. Several University of Arizona researchers are working with a set of tape-recorded interviews in the endangered Yaqui language describing firsthand accounts of tribal persecution by the Mexican government. Maria Florez Leyva, a native speaker of Arizona Yaqui, was working with associate linguistics professor Heidi Harley on the grammar of the language when she mentioned her tapes. Harley said she could hardly believe it when she learned Leyva had been working since 1969 to document the history of persecution of the tribe. She had stored away interviews with tribal elders who recalled childhood memories of deportations by the Mexican government. There are no other known first-person accounts of that period in Yaqui history, Harley said. Access full article below: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/education/college/article_548b2543-1d8d-5264-973e-58da5943f2a2.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Mon May 31 17:40:30 2010 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:40:30 -0400 Subject: Israeli raid of relief aid ships to Gaza Message-ID: A bit much and too far I would suggest....so are Canada and the US still supporting them, I wonder.... http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/31/israel-gaza-aid-death.html -- ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ______________________________________________ A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory? ______________________________________________ From wjposer at LDC.UPENN.EDU Mon May 31 17:54:18 2010 From: wjposer at LDC.UPENN.EDU (William J Poser) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:54:18 -0400 Subject: Israeli raid of relief aid ships to Gaza In-Reply-To: <4C03F48E.4000202@shaw.ca> Message-ID: That article, like much of the press about the "aid convoy", is seriously misleading. This is not a humanitarian convoy. The aid that it purportedly contains is quite unnecessary: contrary to Hamas' claims, there are no serious shortages of materials in Gaza. Israel allows hundreds of times the content of these ships to enter every week, including substantial amounts of building materials such as cement. What these Hamas supporters don't like is that fact that Israel works with the NGOs and UN to supervise the distribution and use of construction materials so that they are used for legitimate purposes and not to fortify the rocket emplacements used by Hamas for its illegal indiscriminate attacks. The reason that I said "purportedly" above is that when the ships of a previous such "aid convoy" were inspected, it was found that they did not contain the 60 tons of aid that they were claimed to but were in fact all but empty. Finally, if you look at the organisers of the "aid" convoy, you'll find that they are not neutral humanitarians like, say, Medecins Sans Frontieres or the Red Cross - they're partisans of Hamas, supporters of genocide and terrorism. (Hamas not only calls for the destruction of Israel but for the extermination of Jews, and since taking control of Gaza has killed or driven out most of the Christian Arab population.) That article is so misleading that I feel compelled to reply, but really we probably should avoid getting into the morass of Middle Eastern politics on this list, which is devoted to other purposes. Bill From phonosemantics at EARTHLINK.NET Mon May 31 18:16:47 2010 From: phonosemantics at EARTHLINK.NET (jess tauber) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:16:47 -0400 Subject: Israeli raid of relief aid ships to Gaza Message-ID: Let us all remember that language varies quite a bit in how it marks persons, numbers, and agendas... JT