Learning More was a Challenge
A little homework doesn’t hurt if we’re tasked with having to remember, its right in there with repetition.
Singing the Songs Apparently was Not Enough
I thought that ‘in order to become a better ‘helper’ I needed to learn more songs’.
I began to seek understandings as to what we do, why we do, when we do, where we do, etc.
The Beginning of a Long Road
“When the seasons came, we followed them and their resources, into the mountains, onto the plains, down to the rivers and lakes. We didn’t learn it all because we always did only part of the work while elders and adults did the rest of the bundling, scrapping, poking, drying, grinding, etc., whatever it was we were doing.”
One language dies every 14 days
One language dies every 14 days
The Pacific Northwest had hundreds of indigenous languages, today only five remain. The Ichishkín language of Warm Springs, Oregon, today has 20 speakers of its dialect, 95% are over the age of 65. In a recent assessment done by the CRÍID Foundation, the keepers of our language and culture may be gone by the year 2025.