Congrats to Richard Zane Smith on the Community Spirit Award

[Heather Souter]

Taanshi, Richard!

Congratulations!

It is always delightful to hear about how you are using ways to teach
language that allows learners to discover the grammar for themselves!  This
is a wonderful approach for all learners/emerging speakers and not just
those in an early education setting.   I have composed a little song to help
teach the different verbs for eat (Animate intransitive, Transitive
Inanimate and Transitive Animate) in our language Michif.  The people who
have learned it start to intuitively understand the differences....  I just
wish I was a better singer and songwriter, LOL!  Any tips?!

Eekoshi pitamaa.  That is it for now.
Heather

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Richard Zane Smith <rzs at wildblue.net>wrote:

> kweh Mona,
> tizhamëh! (thanks!) yes! i am planning to come! it should be fun!
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> after teaching pre-schoolers this morning  practicing their "arm song"
> I'm introducing them to "incorporating *verbs*" for the parts of the arm.
> I-my-arm-*grab!*
> I-my-arm-*shake!*
> *they love it! and don't even realize they are *
> *getting a technical lesson in basic-wendat/iroquoian linguistics*
> *which of course should be the whole point in early education,anyway...*
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> too fun listening to them laugh and shaking or grabbing their little arms!
>
> ske:noh
> Richard
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> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Mona Smith <mona at alliesmediaart.com>wrote:
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>> "First Peoples Fund is honored to announce this year's recipients of the
>> Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Award. This flagship program of the Fund
>> honors artists who embody Collective Spirit, that which manifests
>> self-awareness and a sense of responsibility, to sustain the cultural fabric
>> of a community.  " It is that which moves each one of us to stand up and
>> make a difference, to pass on the ancestral knowledge or simply extend a
>> hand of grnerosity", says Lori Pourier (Oglala Lakota),President"
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>> Among the winners;
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>> *Richard Smith, Wyandot - Oklahoma City, Clay, Storytelling, Wyandot
>> songs for children.*
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>> Congratulations. Nina waste'.
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>> Will you come to Minneapolis for the award ceremony?
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>>     _______________________
>> Mona M. Smith
>> media artist/producer/director
>> *Allies, LLC *
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>> *Minneapolis, MN 55406*
>> *763-219-1696*
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>> *Martin Case, Director*
>> *5001 1/2 34th Ave. South*
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