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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=CS link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div id=OWAFontStyleDivID><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Re: Jan. Excellent points, I think most of us will agree.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> The issue not only concerns what sort of language one should teach, but </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>also the shape and format of the pedagogical materials. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I recently showed your Lakota children's textbook to a (non-Siouan speaking) </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>language revitalization committee, and one (non-native)</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>colleague (who shall remain unnamed) pointed out: </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>"we cannot do that here, the elders think that such manuals with color </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>pictures are disrespectful to the language, we need to use traditional ways, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>without color pictures". I bit my lip.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Have you heard such objections to your </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>textbooks from Lakota speakers? My view is we do need colorful pictures for children, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>>> other methods for adults. You teach French to children <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>>> with color pictures, but you do not teach Racine and Voltaire to adults with colorful pictures...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Willem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As far as I can tell the color illustrations are welcome as a positive aspect of the teaching materials. I don’t recall hearing criticism of the illustrations from native speakers, on the contrary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But I remember an incident that is very much in line with the experience you describe above: it was during one of the teacher trainings when we were introducing the native teachers to various types of games designed for teaching language in a fun, motivating and age appropriate ways; during the class one of the native speakers said the following: “we cannot use games in language classes because the language is sacred”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This illustrates the level to which some of the heritage language became disassociated from their normal function, which is everyday communication in all contexts and situations. In my opinion this is very much the result of emphasizing the sacredness and describing those languages as something that is associated only with ceremonial and spiritual contexts. It is true that this is the context in which the language is most commonly heard by non-speakers today, but in those are families and communities where Lakota is still spoken for everyday communication, it is indeed used in a number of different contexts as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-- Manage your subscription at <a href="http://listserv.unl.edu" target="_blank">http://listserv.unl.edu</a>. 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