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[mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Harold
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:48 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Language Reclamation, Not Just Preservation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1>July 1, 2008 <o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p><b>Language Reclamation, Not Just Preservation</b> <br>
Rob McGinley Myers, Associate Producer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What inspires a person to learn the language of his ancestors, even though
he didn't grow up speaking that language himself? And what inspires him to join
a school where he can teach that language to children? What do those children
think about the language? And what affect can the effort have on an entire
community?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>These were a few of the questions I had for Keller Paap, a teacher in an
Ojibwe immersion school program called <a
href="http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/289036"><span style='color:#996666'>Waadookodaading</span></a>
(We Help Each Other) on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in north-central
Wisconsin. I got in touch with Paap while I was working on our recent program <a
href="http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/sustaining_language/"><span
style='color:#996666'>Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning</span></a>.
You can hear his story in the embedded audio above. He begins by introducing
himself in Ojibwe.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What I gleaned from talking to Paap was that this language revitalization
effort is doing more than merely preserving the language. It's literally
keeping the language alive so that it can continue to grow and change, with new
words and new ways of saying things. I love the way he describes his students'
relationship to the language. They aren't dwelling on the long-standing U.S.
policy of forcibly educating Native Americans in English. They aren't learing
Ojibwe as a political act or even as a cultural act. They're just living in it,
and making it their own.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This audio piece was produced with help from Trent Gilliss and Mitch Hanley.
Music by Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band. Keller Paap took the photo of
the Ojibwe road sign, which translates as "The Dam."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a
href="http://blog.speakingoffaith.org/post/40585532/language-reclamation-not-just-preservation-rob">http://blog.speakingoffaith.org/post/40585532/language-reclamation-not-just-preservation-rob</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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