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<DIV>I am not sure if I am double posting here or what....</DIV>
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<DIV>That is really quite a good idea. I recall when I was teaching in an
isolated fly in community and all the reading material was so totally foreign,
Heidi The Little Swiss Girl, and nothing else much better, I had the children,
they all spoke and wrote anishnabehmowin in both phonetic and syllabic form. We
wrote our own text books and ran them off on one of those old gum rubber
indelible ink copiers, many of you may not even know what I am talking about.
But, we did our own books complete with poetry and stories relative to the
community, surrounding familiar communities and their world and cosmology.</DIV>
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<DIV>Unfortunately, the catholic priest who did not like my methodologies came
in when I was away and burned everything.</DIV>
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<DIV>We also did all our own art work. I did manage to salvage a few of the
poems, about 6 or 7. I will attach some of them here for your perusal. Of course
this was in 1967...a millennium ago :)</DIV>
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<DIV>Here are three of them in English only. I no longer have the original
language, anishnabehmo - ojibway, which was their first language.</DIV>
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<DIV>Don't want to be too pushy so I will only say this
much.<BR>-------<BR>wahjeh<BR>rolland nadjiwon</DIV></DIV>
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<A title=annier@SFU.CA href="mailto:annier@SFU.CA">annie ross</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:21
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ILAT] Bly seeks state
office of indigenous language</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>regarding use of images:<BR><BR>this may seem a silly remark on
my part....but here goes.<BR><BR>why not ask people in your language classes,
their family members, and<BR>artist friends to make original art for your
language classes? and remember,<BR>everyone is an artist.<BR><BR>that way, all
the images and words will be created by the people themselves,<BR>and it may
help spread the work of language learning/retention further into<BR>the
community.<BR><BR>thank you everyone for your always awesome
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