US: Theater performs plays in the Creek Language

[Francis Hult]

Native American Times

 

Theater performs plays in the Creek Language

 

Billy Chalakee remembers growing up as a young Muscogee (Creek) boy listening to his grandparents and parents talk in their Native language. 



Even the family's church sermons were delivered in Creek. But Chalakee, 72, never really caught on to the language.



"I never did pick it up," he said. "No one ever stopped to teach me. I knew some of the words when they asked me a question or talked to me, and I could understand what they said. But as for getting into conversation, I couldn't pick it up."

 

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http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3804:theater-performs-plays-in-the-creek-language&catid=43&Itemid=19

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