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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 18 September 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_WALTERG580@aol.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"<a href="mailto:WALTERG580@aol.com">WALTERG580@aol.com</a>"</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:WALTERG580@aol.com">WALTERG580@aol.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Language death" 2007.09.19 (03) [E]
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<div>As a point of interest I am a Quarter Cherokee, which has a rich language
and culture and fortunately continues its traditions. On my mothers side, the
last fluent speaker was an uncle but despite the loss of the language in my
family Many still speak it.. The major reason for Cherokee language survival may
be that it has a written form, and a news paper is published daily at Talequah
the capital of the Cherokee Nation.</div>
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<div>Which is the second largest Tribe in the US, after the Navaho, whose
culture continues as well.<br><br>[Walter Gamble]<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span id="_user_sassisch@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">"R. F. Hahn"</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br></div></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Language death</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Osiyo</span>, Walter!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
It's certainly nice to hear from you. Welcome! Or <span style="font-style: italic;">Tsilugi!</span> in the ancestral language.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lots of Americans are of partly indigenous descent. It's just that most of them are either not aware of it or keep shtum about it. (It used to be considered a bad thing, so parents tended not to hand down this information in order to make it disappear.) And among these many Americans many are of Cherokee descent. In my introduction to Tsalagi (
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/tsalagi-info.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/tsalagi-info.php</a>) I mention several of the many well-known ones:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><ul style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<li>Kim Basinger</li><li>James
Brown</li><li>Kevin
Costner</li><li>Carmen
Electra</li><li>Jimi Hendrix</li><li>Michael Jackson</li><li>Val Kilmer</li><li>Eartha Kitt</li><li>Demi Moore</li><li>Chuck Norris</li><li>Elvis Presley</li><li>Robert Rauschenberg</li><li>Burt Reynolds</li><li>Tina Turner
</li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">As you may know, the Cherokee and the other four nations were considered "civilized" because they tried to become Europeanized (which is why they felt even more betrayed by the Trail of Tears). At the time this included owning African slaves. The released slaves (Freedmen), most of whom were part Cherokee, later became officially citizens of the Cherokee nation. Their citizenship was revoked in the 1980s. Because of a firestorm and threats to stop federal funding, the Cherokee nation (minus Freedmen) voted on it in March of this year and affirmed the ousting. Because of political pressure, this was revoked on May 15, 2007. Since then there has been a lot of friction and political and legal maneuvering, including Congresswoman Diane Watson introducing a bill that would sever ties between the United States and the Cherokee Nation until the Freedmen issue is resolved.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-style: italic;">Tohidu!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">P.S.: Walter, your name in brackets above is my reminder of one of our rules (
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rules-en.php">http://lowlands-l.net/rules-en.php</a>).</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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