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<DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=4>Catherine: Right Here!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=4>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=4>From: "Ozbolt, Ivan C." <</FONT><A
href="mailto:ivan.ozbolt@ou.edu"><FONT color=#800080
size=4>ivan.ozbolt@ou.edu</FONT></A><FONT color=#800080 size=4>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=4>To: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU"><FONT color=#800080
size=4>siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU</FONT></A><FONT color=#800080
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<DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=4>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:30
AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=4>Subject: RE: Fw: [NativeNews] Norman students
hope film helps rescuenative tongues</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR><FONT color=#800080></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT
color=#800080 size=4>Hello,<BR><BR>This is the film you are talking about. It is
possible to watch it online:<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2301063736330495553"><FONT
color=#800080
size=4>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2301063736330495553</FONT></A><BR><BR><BR><FONT
color=#800080 size=4>Sincerely,<BR>Ivan
Ozbolt<BR><BR>________________________________________<BR>From: </FONT><A
href="mailto:owner-siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU"><FONT color=#800080
size=4>owner-siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU</FONT></A><FONT color=#800080 size=4>
[owner-siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU] On Behalf Of Jimm GoodTracks
[jgoodtracks@gmail.com]<BR>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:18 AM<BR>To:
</FONT><A href="mailto:siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU"><FONT color=#800080
size=4>siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU</FONT></A><BR><FONT color=#800080 size=4>Cc:
</FONT><A href="mailto:TalkIndianOK@yahoogroups.com"><FONT color=#800080
size=4>TalkIndianOK@yahoogroups.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT color=#800080
size=4>Subject: Re: Fw: [NativeNews] Norman students hope film helps
rescuenative tongues<BR><BR>Good Question, Catherine.<BR><BR>----- Original
Message -----<BR>From: "Catherine Rudin" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:carudin1@wsc.edu"><FONT color=#800080
size=4>carudin1@wsc.edu</FONT></A><FONT color=#800080 size=4>><BR>To:
<</FONT><A href="mailto:siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU"><FONT color=#800080
size=4>siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU</FONT></A><FONT color=#800080
size=4>><BR>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:32 AM<BR>Subject: Re: Fw:
[NativeNews] Norman students hope film helps
rescuenative<BR>tongues<BR><BR><BR>> Is it possible to get a copy of this
film?<BR>> Catherine<BR>><BR>>>>> "Jimm GoodTracks"
<</FONT><A href="mailto:jgoodtracks@gmail.com"><FONT color=#800080
size=4>jgoodtracks@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT color=#800080 size=4>> 01/14/09
8:33 PM >>><BR>><BR>> ----- Original Message -----<BR>> From:
Pat Benabe<BR>> To: Jimm Goodtracks<BR>> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009
6:46 PM<BR>> Subject: Fw: [NativeNews] Norman students hope film helps rescue
native<BR>> tongues<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> ----- Original Message
-----<BR>> From: Robert Schmidt<BR>> To: Native News<BR>> Sent:
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:19 PM<BR>> Subject: [NativeNews] Norman
students hope film helps rescue native<BR>> tongues<BR>><BR>><BR>>
</FONT><A
href="http://www.newsok.com/norman-students-hope-film-helps-rescue-native-tongues"><FONT
color=#800080
size=4>http://www.newsok.com/norman-students-hope-film-helps-rescue-native-tongues</FONT></A><BR><FONT
color=#800080 size=4>> /article/3337198<BR>><BR>> Norman students hope
film helps rescue native tongues<BR>> Norman club interviewed tribal elders
for award-winning language<BR>> documentary<BR>><BR>> BY JENNIFER
GRISWOLD<BR>> Published: January 12, 2009<BR>><BR>> NORMAN - A
documentary about the dying languages of American Indian tribes<BR>> has
received state honors for a group of Norman students, and is being<BR>>
used<BR>> in classrooms as a teaching tool.<BR>><BR>> Students in
Norman High School's Native American Club were recognized<BR>> recently by
state Education Department officials for their documentary,<BR>> titled "When
It's Gone, It's Gone."<BR>><BR>> The students interviewed tribal elders
representing American Indian tribes<BR>> in Oklahoma and asked them about
their native languages and the struggle<BR>> to<BR>> keep their languages
and cultures alive.<BR>><BR>> Most of the elders on the video are in their
80s and have witnessed the<BR>> languages of their tribes dying out as the
younger generations were raised<BR>> in an English-speaking
society.<BR>><BR>> Oklahoma has 39 federally recognized tribes, and many
are losing their<BR>> languages with few fluent speakers left, said Desa
Dawson, director of<BR>> world languages for the state Education
Department.<BR>><BR>> Mosiah Bluecloud, a former Norman High School
student, said working on the<BR>> documentary changed his
life.<BR>><BR>> "I felt sad as I listened to them talk about their
children. It kind of<BR>> made me feel helpless," he said.<BR>><BR>>
Bluecloud, a Kickapoo, decided to change his major at the University of<BR>>
Oklahoma to linguistics, and he wants to become fluent in his native<BR>>
language.<BR>><BR>> Dawson said she's received comments from high school
and college language<BR>> teachers across the state who've shown the video in
their classes and used<BR>> it to start discussions about the cultural
importance of language.<BR>><BR>> The video has struck a chord with
people, Dawson said.<BR>><BR>> "You express your culture through your
language, and without that<BR>> language,<BR>> it makes it that much more
difficult to maintain your culture," Dawson<BR>> said.<BR>><BR>> The 13
students who worked on the documentary and spoke to the elders<BR>> learned a
lot through the project, said Judith Blake, club sponsor.<BR>><BR>>
Bluecloud said he's surprised word about the film spread like it
did.<BR>><BR>> "I hope it does something," Bluecloud said. "I hope kids go
to their<BR>> grandparents and start learning words."<BR>><BR>><BR>>
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