Mohawk language goes country (fwd link)

[Earl Otchingwanigan]

Re: [ILAT] Mohawk language goes country (fwd link)Greetings Richard:  Appreciate your confirming comments and extending the point as to what others have contributed to the music side of learning and revitalizing/retaining language ---- I'm sure there are many other unsung [pardon the pun], native peoples out there contributing to this almost under-rated way of learning; kudos to them all.  Cheers, Earl Otchingwanigan 
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  tižamęh Earl

  i agree totally 
  "Kashtin" is one of my favorite groups,(not sure they are still together,though.)
   blending contemporary instruments/universal themes yet expressed in indigenous language.

  Using music to teach kids language just can't be underemphasized either.
  I have a bag full of fun and silly songs I've composed in the Wyandot language
  that i use for teaching pronunciation, grammar, numbers, animals, etc...
  all original tunes but sung with traditional waterdrum and handshakers.

  Songs enter and somehow bi-pass alot of "dangerous intersections" of the mind
  Wish more teachers understood this...it would have helped me alot as a youth

  -Richard 
  Wyandotte, Oklahoma



  On 5/27/08 10:57 AM, "Earl Otchingwanigan" <wiigwaas at MSN.COM> wrote:


    Appreciate the good post ----a great and exciting idea as it may help inspire young people to further invest interest in their language using music whether traditional or via loan music and non-traditional instruments, besides it's just plain fun stuff to do ---- but it should be noted though, various native people have been doing this very same thing for sometime, including myself ---- I have for some 25 or 30 years now, been using my native language in jazz and pop genre performing with a non-traditional musical instrument.  Cheers, Earl Otchingwanigan


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      Mohawk language goes country

      Ontario, CA
      Posted By  Michael Peeling

      The Mohawk language is making its mark on country  music.

      Margaret Peters, a language curriculum specialist with the  Ahkwesahsne Mohawk
      Board of Education, has taken her efforts to keep the  Mohawk language alive to
      another level by directing her students through  the process of creating a music
      video.

      The choice of song, "Jackson"  by Johnny and June Carter-Cash, was inspired by
      Teddy Peters', Margaret's  husband, and his hobby of translating country songs
      into  Mohawk.

      Access full article below:
      http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1045097<http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1045097>




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