I'm going to be raw here....<div><br></div><div>this borrowing from outsider cultural icons is ...ok...if its only a kickstart.</div><div>but I think Native people can do ALOT better than borrowing Bernstain Bears or little kitty or whatever </div>
<div><br></div><div>Three Blind Mice sung in Hopi might be cute...but its not Hopi doesn't convey Hopi thought.<br>Amazing Grace sung in Wyandot might be beautiful...but its not representative of Wyandot thought.<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">We have our OWN artists,</div><div class="gmail_quote">Where are our OWN writers? with our OWN songs? our own icons? based in our OWN cultural perspectives?</div><div class="gmail_quote">
Is reviving language and culture simply coming up with our own "copycat" version of pop. society icons?</div><div class="gmail_quote"> </div><div class="gmail_quote">THEY have a cool teeshirt...now WE have a cool NDN version of the tee shirt.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">THEY have a cool gang-banger cap...now we have a cool NDN version of the same.</div><div class="gmail_quote">THEY have a cool award ceremonies...now WE have our version, an NDN award ceremonies.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">If the nations are looking to Indigenous people to be leaders towards a sustainable future</div><div class="gmail_quote">why (with all the creative people we have) are we slipping into being imitators and <i>followers</i> ?</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">sorry, i have heard alot of reasons given...just haven't heard many good ones</div><div class="gmail_quote">to explain why WE aren't cutting edge ourselves.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">just had to get that out..hope i didn't make anyone TOO mad.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-Richard</div><div class="gmail_quote">Wyandotte Oklahoma</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Berenstain Bears now speaking endangered language<br>
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By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press<br>
Wednesday, September 14, 2011<br>
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Papa Bear, Mama Bear and their cubs have helped children curb<br>
junk-food addictions and organize messy rooms for half a century. Now,<br>
from their tree house in idyllic Bear Country, the beloved Berenstain<br>
Bears are helping revive an endangered American Indian language.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div><i><span style="font-size:x-small">"this language of mine,of yours,is who we are and who we have been.It is where we find our stories,our lives,our ancestors;and it should be where we find our future too" Simon Anaviapik ... Inuit</span></i></div>
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