Has anyone done a newspaper article about the CRIT Mohave singers?? This is similar news ...should be done if it hasn't....<br>Have a happy 4th...<br><br>By the way, I was blown away by the increased fluency you CLEARLY have achieved in micro-teaching -- I shared that at the faculty meeting --- how much your confidence in teaching the language had improved since the first time at AILDI (remember that??...)
<br>Keep up the good work...See you soon I hope....<br><br>Susan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">phil cash cash</b> <<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Preserving past secures natives' future<br><br>Katie May / Standard Freeholder
<br>Local News - Tuesday, July 03, 2007 @ 08:00<br><a href="http://www.standard-freeholder.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=595682&catname=Local%20News&classif=">http://www.standard-freeholder.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=595682&catname=Local%20News&classif=
</a><br><br>Theresa Kenkiohkoktha Fox loves to sing. And she sings to keep her culture<br>alive.<br><br>As one of the founding members of the Akwesasne Women's Singing Society, Fox<br>said singing is her way of supporting the unity of First Nations people
<br>across Canada.<br><br>"It's part of our culture to sing," she said.<br><br>The women's musical group formed roughly 10 years ago. It now has<br>approximately 13 members, six of which performed traditional songs during
<br>the National Day of Action festivities last week. Fox said the songs,<br>mainly written about peace, are ways for all community members to learn the<br>Mohawk language and experience aboriginal culture.<br><br><br>Elizabeth Kahontihson Nanticoke, a fellow member, agreed.
<br><br>"When we hear the children singing the songs we know the language is going<br>to survive," she said. "They don't just sing the words - they know the<br>meaning behind the words."<br><br>Language is the key to preserving Mohawk culture for future generations,
<br>said Akwesasne's grand chief.<br><br>Tim Thompson spoke about the damaging effects of a November 2006 $160<br>million government-funding cut for aboriginal language programs on the<br>First Nations community as part of the Day of Action ceremonies.
<br><br>"If there's no language, there's no culture," he said.<br><br>Steevi King, 18, of St. Regis, Que., said students in the Akwesasne area<br>need more opportunities for cultural education in school.
<br><br>"A lot of it comes from our elders and our parents," said the recent Massena<br>High School graduate.<br><br>"We have to go off the reserve to go to high school and that's where, I<br>think, the tradition and language get lost."
<br><br>Thompson pointed to a ban on aboriginal languages enforced in residential<br>schools generations ago as a major reason why maintaining language classes<br>is important for today's youth.<br><br>He said today's children are learning the Mohawk language Kanienkeha in
<br>school and re-teaching their parents.<br><br>"They are our future and they are learning the language to preserve it for<br>the future," said Thompson. "That's a big success for the community."<br>
<br>The Assembly of First Nations organized the National Day of Action last<br>Friday to provide First Nations people with a unified opportunity for<br>peaceful protest and to raise awareness of aboriginal rights across the
<br>country.<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>____________________________________________________________<br>Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.<br><br>Associate Director, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL)
<br>Department of English (Primary) <br>American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>Second Language Acquisition & Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)<br>Department of Language,Reading and Culture<br>Department of Linguistics
<br>The Southwest Center (Research)<br> Phone for messages: (520) 621-1836<br><br><br>"Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities." <br>
<br> Wade Davis...(on a Starbucks cup...)