childrens books

[Richard Zane Smith]

This sounds great Tammy,
I'll find some time to send you the words in *wandat *(Wyandot)

we are at tedious revitalization with no speakers left to ask,
just swaying empty rocking chairs on worn down porches..............
(ever try to swim up a waterfall?)
we probably have the material in files...so it'll be a good academic
exercise for me.

richard



On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:

> Han mitakuyapi,
>
> We are creating a new website to host all the learning materials we have
> ever created.  On this website, teachers, parents and chidlren will be able
> to download most of it for free.  Some of the larger things like gameboards
> and their playing pieces of course can't be downloaded.
>
> By the end of this year we will have created over 100 books in the Dakotah
> language, most of them children's books.  For nearly all of the books we
> have commissioned original artwork so that our children see native people in
> their books.
>
> I would like to take one book, and have it translated into as many native
> languages as I can, and put those books on the site too so that other
> language groups, tribes, schools, can see how simple it would be to have
> these books we have created in their native language.
>
> Here is the text:
>
> Title:  I like dogs.
> Page 1.  A dob.
> Page 2.  A big dog.
> Page 3.  A little dog.
> Page 4.  A tall dog.
> Page 5.  A short dog.
> Page 6.  A skinny dog.
> Page 7.  A fat dog.
> Page 8.  I like dogs.
>
> Please send me any font I would need to download in order to create the
> book, as well as the name of the person translating, fax number and address,
> because sadly, in today's world we have to have a signed release for
> everything.  We will print a copy of book and send it to you and put a copy
> in our archives at Princeton.
>
>
> Tammy DeCoteau
> AAIA Native Language Program




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