music and language

Wed Nov 21 07:50:15 UTC 2012

Thank you for the affirmation of my idea Chun Huang. To this day, I meet the
now parents and grandparents of those 'teacher' times in their community.
One of the comments by a now PhD holder was, in paraphrase, I don't know
what you did to us Rolland, your students were the first ones to go to
College and University. I reflected hard on his comment as we visited our
recollections in a restaurant so far from his home community and, obviously,
long after we departed. I had no idea 46 years ago how those songs and music
would determine their future. They do thank me but I am not sure about that.
I have to wonder how many generations they will remain 'educated'
anishinabeh before their descendants become merely 'educated'. 

wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Huang,Chun
Sent: November-17-12 7:44 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] music and language

I have no intention to redirect the topic. But Uncle Rolland's words
reminded me of an inglorious past that I'd like to share. This happened more
than 25 years ago, when I was of the elementary school age in Taiwan
learning English. I, and many other kids in my generation growing up at that
time, learned English by counting "little Indians" through the infamous
nursery rhymes (the preferred variety in Taiwan is American English). The
learning was certainly effective, as the song is still stuck in my head
almost three decades later...

Chun (Jimmy) Huang

UOG

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:57:49 -0500, Rolland Nadjiwon wrote:

Berni SantaMaria...thank you so much for your words...your reference is to a
very interesting and worthy exchange of ideas and thoughts...megwetch
everyone. I can use a lot of those discussions. I used music and poetry in a
non-English first nation community in 1966 to learn English. It worked very
well...maybe too well in retrospect.

wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
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Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." 
~Charlie Brown

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