Fw: [ASNJ] New Tower of Babel?

Wed Aug 13 13:27:48 UTC 2008

forwarding this article about the Native people I am related to...member New Jersey Archaeological Society and Society California Archaeology...
This is from the list serve...

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From: "Becker, Marshall" <mbecker at wcupa.edu>
To: Anvilbangr <anvilbangr at aol.com>
Cc: ASNJ at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:36:08 AM
Subject: RE: [ASNJ] New Tower of Babel?

Seems that the various natives speaking their traditional languages met on saturday, when I could join them. The claimant "Lenape" group from Penna (ask Jim Rementer about them) met on sunday, a date for which I had a previous commitment. From what I have been told, none of the people in this claimant group have any document relationship with any native peoples, although the claims vary. They do have a website.

Best to all - MArshall

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From: ASNJ at yahoogroups. com on behalf of Anvilbangr
Sent: Mon 8/11/2008 10:42 AM
To: asnj at yahoogroups. com
Subject: [ASNJ] New Tower of Babel?

Reporting on a recent "Native Language Crisis Conference", an August 11th item in 'News From Indian Country' informs us:

"Language workers from the Miccosukke, Chichti Pueblo, Lakota, Miami, Sac and Fox, Apache/Chicana, Yuchi, Euchee, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Snqwiiqwo Salish, Maliseet, Shawnee, Kashaya, Navajo, Munda, Kallawaya, Maori, Sami, Hnahno, Turkic and LENAPE/DELAWARE (emphasis mine) languages came together to talk of the urgency of revitalization, best practices, new technologies and recognizing the roles of linguists and non-Native educators." 

(My question: wonder what language they used to speak to one another  as they "came together to talk" of all these portentuous affairs? H-m-m-m-m... .)

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NJ Lenape "buffs" and others may enjoy further some au courant beliefs and activities of the Native Person participants:

" ....The Lenape’s homeland spanned thousands of acres across New Jersey and Pennsylvania for more than 10,000 years. They were pushed from their homelands to Wisconsin and Kansas, southwest to Oklahoma and northward to Canada. 
The English called them Delaware, likely because the people centered around the Lenape Sipu which became called the Delaware River. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, about 16,000 people across America say they are descendants of the Lenape.... "
"....People of the Lenape came from the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma, the Moravian Band Delaware Nation in Ontario, the Delaware Nation in Thamesville, Ontario, the Stockbridge- Munsee Band of Mohicans in Wisconsin and the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Anadarko, Oklahoma.... "
"...The Lenape presenters are discussing how to provide Lenape language curriculum to schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey...." 
Kawliga

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