Documentary Follows Native Students Learning and Preserving Tewa Language (fwd link)

[Troike, Rudolph C - (rtroike)]

An interesting shift in community attitudes here -- some years ago, someone I knew went to one
of the Tewa pueblos to teach in the school there. When she heard the children speaking Tewa
among themselves, she thought that it would help them relate to her as a co-learner if they would
teach her a few words. When the parents learned about this, they told the students not to use
their language in the hearing of the teacher, as they did not want any outsider to learn it.

    Rudy

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Documentary Follows Native Students Learning and Preserving Tewa Language

By Vincent Schilling August 14, 2012
US

In November 2009, Santa Fe Preparatory School in Santa Fe, New Mexico sent out a newsletter announcing a self-study curriculum in which Native teenagers would study the Tewa language with the help of a mentor. When producer/director Aimée Broustra heard about it she decided to make a documentary.

“I knew this would be a story of inspiration and hope and it was a story that needed to be told,” Broustra said during a radio interview on Talk 1260 KTRC.

“The teenagers in The Young Ancestors are motivated and enthusiastic about learning because they understand the symbiotic relationship between language and culture; that one cannot survive for too long without the other,” Broustra says on the documentary’s website, TheYoungAncestors.com. “In a broader context the documentary explores the burgeoning movement by Native Americans to revitalize their native languages in tribes throughout America.”

Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/14/documentary-follows-native-students-learning-and-preserving-tewa-language-128634

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