Fw: Fw: [NativeNews] Norman students hope film helps rescuenative tongues

[shokooh Ingham]

Nice video
Bruce


--- On Fri, 16/1/09, Jimm GoodTracks <jgoodtracks at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jimm GoodTracks <jgoodtracks at gmail.com>
> Subject: Fw: Fw: [NativeNews] Norman students hope film helps rescuenative tongues
> To: "siouan at lists.colorado.ed" <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
> Date: Friday, 16 January, 2009, 3:01 PM
> Catherine:   Right Here!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ozbolt, Ivan C."
> <ivan.ozbolt at ou.edu>
> To: <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:30 AM
> Subject: RE: Fw: [NativeNews] Norman students hope film
> helps rescuenative tongues
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This is the film you are talking about. It is possible to
> watch it online:
> 
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2301063736330495553
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Ivan Ozbolt
> 
> ________________________________________
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> [owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU] On Behalf Of Jimm
> GoodTracks [jgoodtracks at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:18 AM
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> Subject: Re: Fw: [NativeNews] Norman students hope film
> helps rescuenative tongues
> 
> Good Question, Catherine.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine Rudin" <carudin1 at wsc.edu>
> To: <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: [NativeNews] Norman students hope film
> helps rescuenative
> tongues
> 
> 
> > Is it possible to get a copy of this film?
> > Catherine
> >
> >>>> "Jimm GoodTracks"
> <jgoodtracks at gmail.com> 01/14/09 8:33 PM >>>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Pat Benabe
> > To: Jimm Goodtracks
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:46 PM
> > Subject: Fw: [NativeNews] Norman students hope film
> helps rescue native
> > tongues
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Robert Schmidt
> > To: Native News
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:19 PM
> > Subject: [NativeNews] Norman students hope film helps
> rescue native
> > tongues
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.newsok.com/norman-students-hope-film-helps-rescue-native-tongues
> > /article/3337198
> >
> > Norman students hope film helps rescue native tongues
> > Norman club interviewed tribal elders for
> award-winning language
> > documentary
> >
> > BY JENNIFER GRISWOLD
> > Published: January 12, 2009
> >
> > NORMAN - A documentary about the dying languages of
> American Indian tribes
> > has received state honors for a group of Norman
> students, and is being
> > used
> > in classrooms as a teaching tool.
> >
> > Students in Norman High School's Native American
> Club were recognized
> > recently by state Education Department officials for
> their documentary,
> > titled "When It's Gone, It's Gone."
> >
> > The students interviewed tribal elders representing
> American Indian tribes
> > in Oklahoma and asked them about their native
> languages and the struggle
> > to
> > keep their languages and cultures alive.
> >
> > Most of the elders on the video are in their 80s and
> have witnessed the
> > languages of their tribes dying out as the younger
> generations were raised
> > in an English-speaking society.
> >
> > Oklahoma has 39 federally recognized tribes, and many
> are losing their
> > languages with few fluent speakers left, said Desa
> Dawson, director of
> > world languages for the state Education Department.
> >
> > Mosiah Bluecloud, a former Norman High School student,
> said working on the
> > documentary changed his life.
> >
> > "I felt sad as I listened to them talk about
> their children. It kind of
> > made me feel helpless," he said.
> >
> > Bluecloud, a Kickapoo, decided to change his major at
> the University of
> > Oklahoma to linguistics, and he wants to become fluent
> in his native
> > language.
> >
> > Dawson said she's received comments from high
> school and college language
> > teachers across the state who've shown the video
> in their classes and used
> > it to start discussions about the cultural importance
> of language.
> >
> > The video has struck a chord with people, Dawson said.
> >
> > "You express your culture through your language,
> and without that
> > language,
> > it makes it that much more difficult to maintain your
> culture," Dawson
> > said.
> >
> > The 13 students who worked on the documentary and
> spoke to the elders
> > learned a lot through the project, said Judith Blake,
> club sponsor.
> >
> > Bluecloud said he's surprised word about the film
> spread like it did.
> >
> > "I hope it does something," Bluecloud said.
> "I hope kids go to their
> > grandparents and start learning words."
> >
> >
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