Bears

Tue Sep 20 00:02:28 UTC 2011

I rarely interact on this listserv but occasionally read things that come
through. I just wanted to share with you what we at the Center for American
Indian Languages at the University of Utah have done. I work on the Wick R.
Miller Collection Shoshoni Project under the direction of Dr. Marianna Di
Paolo. A fellow grad student a few years ago developed a program called
SYLAP (The Shoshoni-Goshute Youth Language Apprenticeship Program). The
program is funded by the Barrick Gold Corporation and gives Shoshoni and
Goshute high school youth the opportunity to come to the University of Utah
to work as interns on the project for six weeks as well as take a Shoshoni
language course. We just finished the third summer of SYLAP. The Wick R.
Miller collection contains recordings of the Shoshoni and Goshute language
from around the past 50 years. There are many recordings that are narratives
and tales from the Shoshoni and Goshute cultures.

The project has made two claymation videos. One of the videos, that I know
for sure, was made by the SYLAP high school interns. We have also developed
story books from the recorded narratives and children learning books during
the three years of SYLAP. We work closely with Shoshoni and Goshute speaking
elders to help translate and narrate the stories. The claymation videos were
narrated by elders as well. One of the videos uses the original Wick R.
Miller recordings and has several different elders telling the same story
throughout.

I wasn't involved in the making of these videos as I just joined the team
this past year.  If you would like to know more about making the animated
claymation videos or about how we are going about making the story books and
getting them published by the University of Utah Press, you can e-mail the
following people:

Dr. Marianna Di Paolo- dipaolo at hum.utah.edu
Katherine Matsumoto-Gray (developed SYLAP) - kmatsumotogray at gmail.com

You can also contact me directly and I'll pass your question on to the
appropriate people!

Thanks, I hope this wasn't too off topic but I couldn't find the original
post!

Derron Borders
M.A. Candidate
University of Utah
Department of Linguistics &
Center for American Indian Languages
Derron.Borders at utah.edu

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Just saw the video link...nice "live" animated storytelling for sure.
> Thanks.
>
> It reminds me of a "live" play storytelling I saw at the native
> sponsored Great Basin Languages conf some years ago.  The play was
> called "The Trial of Coyote."  It was produced by a cast of all fluent
> speaking paiute elders.  It depicted a modernized version of a Coyote
> story where Coyote was put on trial for "molesting" some young girls.
> But as Coyote stories go, he was acquited due to traditional myth
> legend plot and set free.  Anyway, the play storytelling occured all
> in Paiute and was simultaneously captioned thru large story cards in
> English.  The cast included Coyote the main character, the young
> girls, a judge, an all Paiute elder jury, and an elder band consisting
> of a tub player and a washboard player.  Whenever a line was spoken in
> Paiute a caption cue card in English was raised up for the rapt
> audience.  Pretty funny and quite dramatic.  When Coyote was acquited,
> we the audience joined in with Coyote in a large circle dance to
> celebrate.
>
> So just to echo the idea of working with stories...traditional
> narratives have a particular narrative structure/plot that are well
> suited for animation.  That is, they have all the ingredients of great
> plot making which are rich in content.  When my class of native
> language teachers created storyboards for a media-based narrative or
> story, they all found how easy it was to divide up the story into
> coherent sequences.
>
> Julian is right in that there are a wide range of digital tools
> available to create animated stories, some quite effective yet
> low-tech.  Many are easy to use in creating digital stories.  The
> funnest part, I believe, is actually creating the digital stories.
>
> Probably the newest form of media genre to emerge is called transmedia
> storytelling. One, in which I wish to explore in particular, is a
> software called:
>
> Inanimate Alice
> http://www.inanimatealice.com/
>
> later,
> Phil
>
> ps: am back from Quito!
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca>
> wrote:
> > Excellent suggestions Jimmy. The mind wanders to many possibilities. I
> kind
> > of like it special since 'turtle' is my clan.
> >
> > -------
> > wahjen
> > rolland nadjiwon
> > ___________________________________________
> > You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it....
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:
> ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
> > On Behalf Of Richard Zane Smith
> > Sent: September-19-11 5:30 PM
> > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [ILAT] Bears
> >
> > great to hear form you too Jimmy!
> > and a great example of indigenous thought communicated in story.
> > -richard-
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Huang,Chun <huangc20 at ufl.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> just to share a nicely done, and inexpensive, "animation" that helps
> share
> >> traditional knowledge:
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2gvsL4tsQ
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> If you're also interested in the content, originally in Tagalog by Joey
> >> Ayala, below is a rough "translation" (can't get all the spirits right,
> but
> >> helps understanding), courtesy of Dr. Machel Malay:
> >>
> >> in the song, the singer talks to the sea turtle, saying, 'sea turtle,
> the
> >> old one, you carry your home around with you, don't you have anywhere to
> put
> >> it, in the land you grew up in? With the slapping of the waves, and the
> >> currents of centuries, you still continue to crawl in the mud. And yet
> in
> >> the deep ocean you glimpse your freedom, bobbing and diving into the
> deeps.
> >> O sea turtle the old one, could you please teach me the way to make the
> >> heavy [load] lighter?'.... then he compares the sea turtle's situation
> to
> >> his own, asking 'sea turtle the old one, could we actually be kin? For
> even
> >> though I have a home, I have no place to put it. The land I once knew is
> >> full of fences, made even stronger by land titles and documents. O sea
> >> turtle the old one, I do not understand, the land I came from is now a
> >> property'...
> >>
> >> And I also do much-much appreciate the original thread where this one
> >> branched out of. Good to hear from Richard, Dr. Hardman, and Uncle
> Rolland.
> >>
> >> Jimmy
> >>
> >> now at DLSU-Manila
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:07:01 -0700, Julian Lang wrote:
> >>
> >> There are several types of animation. And there is a wide range of
> digital
> >> animation tools. So there are many questions to be answered initially.
> How
> >> do you folks want the animated story to look like exactly? Animated
> still
> >> images, cell animation, stop-frame? What I've discovered about animation
> as
> >> a Native language person and as an animator is that animation is
> incredibly
> >> labor intensive. And it can easily be pricey, If you asked to animate
> all of
> >> the stories, it can easily cost you 60K. Perhaps 1 at a time?
> >> Julian Lang
> >> California
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Claire Bowern
> >> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> >> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 7:04 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [ILAT] Bears
> >>
> >> Hi Tammy,
> >> Bardi people at One Arm Point have had success with children's stories
> for
> >> the local school by having the children dress up and play the parts of
> the
> >> characters. The older ones get involved as narrators and scene design
> and
> >> the younger ones play the characters. They've acted out the stories at
> >> school assemblies and videoed, and photos are taken which are then made
> into
> >> books. It's certainly not the same as animation but everyone got really
> into
> >> it, and it was lovely for the elders to see the stories come alive with
> the
> >> kids. They were so pleased to see it.
> >> Claire
> >>
> >> On Sep 15, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Tammy DeCoteau wrote:
> >>
> >> > Mitakuyapi (My relatives),
> >> >
> >> > We have discussed this topic in our office and we have mixed feelings
> >> > about it.
> >> >
> >> > In the drawer of my desk we have ten stories our Treasured Elders
> made.
> >> > Each story teaches a different value (show respect, help others, etc.)
> and
> >> > they feature a Turtle and a Dragonfly.  These are meant to be
> animated.  Who
> >> > knows, though, how long those stories are going to sit in my desk
> drawer.
> >> > Once I talked with an animation company and do to a few minutes it was
> >> > $60,000.00.
> >> >
> >> > We have always felt that anything in the language is beneficial.
> >> > Perhaps it will create the spark in someone to become passionate about
> their
> >> > language.
> >> >
> >> > Tammy DeCoteau
> >> > AAIA Native Language Program
> >> >
> >>
> >> Claire
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > "this language of mine,of yours,is who we are and who we have been.It is
> > where we find our stories,our lives,our ancestors;and it should be where
> we
> > find our future too"   Simon Anaviapik ... Inuit
> > richardzanesmith.wordpress.com
> > ________________________________
> >
> > No virus found in this message.
> > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> > Version: 10.0.1410 / Virus Database: 1520/3906 - Release Date: 09/19/11
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ilat/attachments/20110919/c9918732/attachment.htm>