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An interesting shift in community attitudes here -- some years ago, someone I knew went to one
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of the Tewa pueblos to teach in the school there. When she heard the children speaking Tewa
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among themselves, she thought that it would help them relate to her as a co-learner if they would
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teach her a few words. When the parents learned about this, they told the students not to use
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their language in the hearing of the teacher, as they did not want any outsider to learn it.
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Rudy<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:56 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Documentary Follows Native Students Learning and Preserving Tewa Language (fwd link)<br>
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<div><font><font face="georgia,serif">Documentary Follows Native Students Learning and Preserving Tewa Language<br>
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By Vincent Schilling August 14, 2012 <br>
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In November 2009, Santa Fe Preparatory School in Santa Fe, New Mexico sent out a newsletter announcing a self-study curriculum in which Native teenagers would study the Tewa language with the help of a mentor. When producer/director Aimée Broustra heard about
it she decided to make a documentary.<br>
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“I knew this would be a story of inspiration and hope and it was a story that needed to be told,” Broustra said during a radio interview on Talk 1260 KTRC.<br>
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“The teenagers in The Young Ancestors are motivated and enthusiastic about learning because they understand the symbiotic relationship between language and culture; that one cannot survive for too long without the other,” Broustra says on the documentary’s
website, TheYoungAncestors.com. “In a broader context the documentary explores the burgeoning movement by Native Americans to revitalize their native languages in tribes throughout America.”<br>
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Read more:<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/14/documentary-follows-native-students-learning-and-preserving-tewa-language-128634" target="_blank">http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/14/documentary-follows-native-students-learning-and-preserving-tewa-language-128634</a>
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(via Indigenous Tweets)<br>
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