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3 thoughts on “Sauk Language Revitalization 1”
Thanks for the breather. This sounds like a once in a lifetime opportunity.
… we need to start the year with a fairly short … statement to kids and parents about how they are being graded in a way that completely aligns with the ACTFL proficiency guidelines … and that requires them to show up … . Then we all have much better years. At least that is what I am trying to define as the goal. Robert does that reflect your own thoughts about the product we want from this thread?
Yes, Ben that reflects very well what I’m trying to do. After reading Alfie Kohn and reflecting I abandoned “traditional homework” completely and started working toward Standards-Based Grading. As I indicated in an earlier comment, the issue I have is that the traditional skills-based model leaves out some very important elements of language acquisition. That’s why I like the focus on the modes of communication. They include elements that are behavioral but neither citizenship nor work habits. Quite frankly, I can foresee a student getting Advanced on interpretive communication but only Satisfactory on work habits or citizenship. While these tend to be interrelated, they are not identical, nor do they have a 1:1 correspondence.
I too attended the Inter-Tribal conference in Durant. I have made it a point to find money somehow from somewhere to be there the last three years. The first year I heard with my heart the passion of Jacob and Josh and another that wasn’t there this year Cedric. Each works to establish some kind of fluency in their tribal language before The Elders are gone. Their work has been inspirational to my own quest to immerse myself in the language of my nation. Imagine my surprise when they told me that my beloved Elder (the last speaker in my community and the one who had written copious amounts of literature to revive our language in N. Florida) had inspired them.
The Elders and a few of their children are all that are left in most nations to speak with fluency. My own community has only one Elder left whose first language was Mvskoke (though in Okla. and S. Fl. there are still several whose first language is Mvskoke). Some nations have no Elders with a tribal first language. Some have reconstructed their language through linguistic work and tribal documents from generations gone by.
One of my Elders who has gone on described the language as her identity. This is a strong cord in Native communities. Without the language there is not an identity–a connection to our ancestors and the path to our future. Knowing your language provides you connection and strength to continue moving your nation forward.