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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>This morning, one of my students from the Summer Research
Enhancement Program (SREP) left on a plane for Seattle, Washington, carrying a
CD that contained some Flash animations that she designed, composed and
narrated. These animations were for children, especially young girls, and
talked about the benefits and dangers of the Gardasil shot series. One of her
friends, also a SREP participant, created for her a second set of animations by
saying her message, but in Navajo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>My part in all of this, besides developing the first version of the
cancer movies as materials for the workshop, was to encourage them, and to help
them with the technology. Their part was the creativity, the dedication, the
courage, the determination, and then just taking one step after another to make
it happen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>What was interesting was that they didn’t say, Oh, it has
to be perfect. We need a linguist to approve this/an elder to say this/someone
to tell us it’s okay or give us money. They just did it. I am so proud of
them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>So today, in a time when so many languages are facing so many
challenges, the very first talking, bilingual HPV cells, polysorbate 80 molecules
and salt crystals took a ride to spread the message that science, technology,
math, medicine, and contemporary issues can be addressed in the language of the
people. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>And I am SO PROUD of them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Of me too, I guess, for carving a path for them to walk, and
then being there to help when they needed it. I went to bed at 3:45 this
morning, because it took that long to get everything ready. I was up again by
7:10 when the phone started ringing, and handed my student her CD at 7:50. Was
it painful, all this with no sleep? Yep. Was it worth it? You-betchie. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Mia <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>PS: The technology isn’t hard. It’s just that the
project was complex and needed that many people. Kind of like teepee poles. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Indigenous
Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard
Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ILAT] article<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Rosalyn,<br>
you said it so well.......<br>
I think for many of us, we've been thinking in a colonizers tongue so
long<br>
we've begun to see our own native languages as just more stuff to <i>pile on</i>
our lives.<br>
a non-essential, a seasoning, a bit of color, a sweetener...but thats about it.<br>
People are already stressing at their limits just keeping up with their bills.<br>
<br>
Sure, colonization might have brought "jobs" but it has been
disruptive<br>
deep within our minds and hearts,probably in ways still undetermined.<br>
When I remember what has happened to my own tribal members minds,<br>
it helps keep me from becoming discouraged by the sheer weight of this work.<br>
<br>
So sad to hear about the passing of your elder and mentor.<br>
Here to, every year at ceremonies we see we are losing more and more.<br>
Its like a piece of our backbone slowly being ripped out<br>
<br>
-Richard<br>
Wyandotte, Oklahoma<br>
<br>
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On 10/7/08 10:22 AM, "Rrlapier@AOL.COM" <Rrlapier@AOL.COM>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The key is to put "status" back
into the language. This article discusses how Latin has new status in the
education community and among kids. <br>
<br>
If a tribal language has no status, no one cares and people want to know the
language that carries status with it -- English. <br>
<br>
Rosalyn LaPier <br>
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