Saving the Lakota Language through Immersion Education | Peter Hill | TEDxBrookings
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2015
- The Lakota language is a Native American language that is near extinction. In this audacious talk, Peter Hill shares his journey of saving the Lakota language through Lakota Immersion Childcare, also known as Iyápi Glukínipi.
Peter Hill was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, but has been living and working on the Pine Ridge Reservation for nearly 15 years. He became fluent in the Lakota language during his time on the reservation, and eventually became a Lakota language teacher
In the fall of 2012, Peter started Lakota Immersion Childcare, also known as Iyápi Glukínipi. The program has begun creating and disseminating large quantities of Lakota language children’s books and multimedia materials.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
being Lakota myself, I admire this guy for this very reason. Here is a non native, who sounds pretty fluent, trying to save our language and he truly cares for it. He's making a big impact on our children more than we know, and its a positive one at that.
Wow I've never really heard the local language, sounds so beautiful. I am Navajo, our native name is Dine'. I truly admire this person he is an inspiration and I pray there are more people like him.
/i agree and hope , there are more people like him.
I'm Lakota/Hispanic and was adopted by a white family, I knew nothing of my heritage till a few years ago, I've dedicated a lot of my life to learning this culture and and am now in the process of studying the language, I would like to become fluent someday, I don't have a whole lot of native speakers around where I live, But am hoping to make friends out side my state and attend some learning programs in the near future.
Dallin, iyúškiŋyaŋ waŋčhíyaŋke! I know how hard it is to try to learn on your own far away from any other speakers, fluent or otherwise. The New Lakota Dictionary is an amazing resource, and there is an online forum for it at lakotadictionary.org and now they have an app for android phones too
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lingea.handylex.lkenh1&hl=en&referrer=Dgoogle%26Dorganic%26Dgoogle+play+new+lakota+dictionary&pcampaignid=APPU_1_SeaXVrzsFseyjwOq35aoDQ
Seriously these changed my life, that and all the amazing people I met through them. Definitely check out the Lakota Summer Institute! Held every year in early summer. Tókša akhé!
Jessica, Pilamaya! I have the dictionary on my laptop, trying to conjugate things correctly is another story!! I watch those Berenstain Bears go at it in lakota a lot, I'm going to join the lakota learning page in facebook soon also, I appreciate the help! hopefully I can pass on the favor down the road! thanks again!!
Toksa!
I am simply human. Not ethnically a part any of the beautiful Native American cultures whose land I get to live in. But I stumbled upon through an encounter with an inspiring Lakota soul. She taught me about some of the wonders of the culture and I am thrilled at anyone who makes an effort of keeping that beauty alive. For all of humanity. It enriches us.
I am part Onondaga. There are only fifty speakers of Onondaga left, and it is used chiefly for ceremonial purposes. I don't want to see the same thing happen to Lakota, so I am studying the language and donate regularly to the LLC.
Im 1 of 15
@@whitehorseducharme4428 Mate, have a look at Glossika's Viva program. You can create recordings to teach other people. All the best to you, regards from Wales
Do not donate to the llc. They are profiteering off of our language. They are a non Lakota organization. They have taken our language, our data, and are now selling it back to us.
Please learn and hold onto your language. There are less than 10 speakers of bungi (a language of the Metis ppl) a language I would love to learn. Unfortunately none of the remaining speakers seem to want to release their secrets due to the shame that residential schools instilled in them. It's an absolute shame when a language is in ruins and nearly extinct.
Wopila tanka for your priceless efforts.
I'm oglala Lakota, I was raised mostly in rapid city here in South dakota and attended mostly mainstream schools. I'd never was taught about my own culture or language, or received an indigenous education at all while growing up as a youth throughout my teen years. Even on the pine ridge reservation, I am seen as an outsider because I am an urban native and don't know anybody on the rez. I can speak Lakota but not at a experience or on a advance level of some sort. I would like to speak more lakota again and become more experience at it. I may not be a rez native becuase I wasn't culturally raised like most rez natives are, but I'll always be an urban native with a open mind. Some of us are really ashamed for not being raised around the culture of our ancestral lands.
I know no Lakota, but you've got this gal!!! You can do it!
Peter Hill : Hou mitakuyape . Hello my relative. After seeing this video I had 2 respond by saying , philamayye , thank you 4 all you do in the emergence of and keeping the Lakota language alive and passed on 2 our children and future generations! We are indebted 2 ones like you ! I love you brother. May Wakang Tanka , Great Spirit, Creator of Life, Almighty God, Yahweh bless you and yours and keeping the Lakota language alive!
I'm proud of this wasicu brother good thanks for helping the language
As a Seneca I applaud your efforts to keep the Lakota words alive. Your work is important. Thank you for your efforts, truly.
Reason1717 My friend and family are from canandagua . We're all whites but I have always been pro Native and have studied Lakota for a long time. My friends always talk about the Seneca and the island in the lake there where the people would put the women when they were under attack from the enemy.
Very cool to hear from a Seneca. Toksa.
Peter Hill wopila tanka ecici ye! Thank you very much for helping saving our language!
Wow!We need to save and uses our native tongues and speakers.Thank You,Mr.Hill for coming out to speak up.I'm Navajo/Lakota/Cherokee/Ute
\0/ I had the wonderful privilege of spending time with him & his family while I was on Pine Ridge! It was incredibly awesome to hear the Lakota Language spoken so fluently! Knowing a Lakota Language Immersion Childcare exists in Oglala, gives me hope knowing more speakers of our sacred language will continue to grow for generations to come! 💯#Str8N8v4LYF Style ✨💗🙏😊💝🔥😃❤
This is more important today than ever. Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.
wopila tanka !!
I am trying 2 learn the language...i am not lakota...but I think this language is very...very important and has 2 be kept alive... If I can learn it I would LOVE 2 help ppl learn it especially Lakota ppl themselves. I do not live in an area where I have anyone I can speak the language with...but I am trying.
Noble and beautiful.
Thank you. Blessings on this wonderful work.
Keep up the good work bro. There are so many things in common between the native American population and the native Māori population in NZ. Here in NZ, there has been a pleasing increase in adults enrolling in Māori language classes over the last 5 years. The classes are literally full. We still have a long way though to get the language out of the 'endangered' state.
Saving native american lanquage is very important i absolutely think it should be preserved and kept alive and well in books and in real life!!!
Im lakota and I wish I was taught the language
Please create a Lakota language course on Duolingo.
Excellent. A life’s work that has only begun. Thank you.
very important part of history.
i wish someday my kids will know at least one of native American (orginal American language ). it is essential for a true American.
Thanks for saving the language! 🌼❤️
Indigenous languages are very important. You will start learning the minute you are born. Keep your own language.
We need many languages. I am from Kentucky. இலங்கை
* Crazy Horses' last prophecy spoke about the "young white ones" coming to learn something from the wise Lakota; with this man, I believe, something of that prophecy has been manifested!... for the wise Lakota have taught the young white one on how to help the Lakota gain back their very language!!
wow, such a beautiful language xx
Wonderful! Your work is vital!
It is always worth remembering the bigger picture when analysing these matters of culture, skin colour, and language. The first step is to recognise the great laws of Creation, profferred by the Great Spirit, which include thou must reap what thy hath sown, likes attract likes, and of gravity and motion, all of them interwining within the spiritual development of all peoples in the world, past, current, and future, through the wheel of reincarnation.
And language will always be an extension of the nature and degree/type of development of a people, reflecting their spiritual ways and character, or lack of it! I am unwell at the moment, and my intellect is not good, so I need time to reflect upon and analyse these aspects of the language. However, my initial prognosis is that Lakota sounds very rhythmical, natural, noble and beautiful, almost like the wind flowing and rustling through the trees and across the prairies.
A book I read some years ago spoke of the need to advance every aspect of our life through an intuitive sense of beauty, which then gives something real power, and brings blessings upon he who lives this way. Indeed, when looking at the scriptures, one of the first and most important statements is that God is the Word, and the Word is with God, proving the spiritual essence and importance of the language, for it is an expression of one's inherent value system. And in this light, when one glances at colonialism, it is easy to see the devastating impacts this had upon native languages and cultures, which adversely affected their spiritual advancement. For example, even the basic sounds of old tribes lived more harmoniously within the Holy Word of God and the Spirit, than do many modern languages with all their sophestications, for they were natural, pure and simple.
I really do sense that to be natural is our greatest ally in these dark days of the 'white man's ways', who are far too intellectual, but lack heart, spirit and genuine beauty! And finally, may I add that I am white of skin now, but in my past lives I traversed the American continent as a native in 3-4 lives, including the First Nations, and Oglala Lakota at the time of Little Big Horn. Although the law of motion ensures that races and people will evolve over time, as will their culture and language, to abruptly destroy a people of such richness and beauty of culture and language is a travesty. Now the people who follow the 'ways of the white man' will be eliminated as unwanten guests in Creation, so that those who aspire to a genuine way of spiritual living can complete their wheels of reincarnation, and return to Paradise.
And if the return of the Lakota language helps some people attain to this goal, then hallelujah! I for one am considering its use, although I shall have to check with my spirit guides, for it is important now to be sure that your every breath and word flows in harmony with the Word of the Great Spirit, for there is little time for all of us to change our habits into ones that are acceptable to our Creator. Hopefully, the Lakota language fulfils this need, and if so, may its further use be truly blessed!
My Great grandmother, Josephine McCarthy Waggoner, spent her years (after returning from Virginia Institute) journaling everything on Standing Rock, from Sitting Bull the ghost dance and his murder, until her own death in 1948. Her book, published posthumously by my Grandmother Daphne Quay and editor Emily Levine, has our Hunkpapa phonology and pronunciation. I have been diligently practicing my true ancestral language so my family will know and continue to pass on. Edit: Book-Witness: A Hunkpapha Historian’s Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas.
Interesting
I remember him from being a Lakota Language Bowl Judge
Does this initiative still exist? How does it work and how can we help?
I really want to learn the language and love seeeieng others wwanting to save the language to
Maybe a white guy with a Lakota heart? It is going to take a lot to bring back Pine Ridge. It can be done, one person or one child at a time...it is there. 7th generation with the right help to preserve that which is sacred. Blessings to All
Rick Thomas, former Chairman of the Santee Sioux, speaks Dakota which, of course, is quite similar, also speaks his native tongue. I have heard dozens of Lakota speak their own language, in the Inipi (sweat lodge), when they prayed & just as many while @ numerous Sun Dances (Wawan Wacipi). Sorry, I think I misspelled Sun Dance. So, have I just been around too much of a select group?
+John L Cannon Yes. You have been part of a select group. The language is in real trouble. Great thanks to Peter Hill, who has dedicated his life to helping a new generation how to speak this beautiful language. Wopila!
Lakota people should love their language.
I wonder if the presenter cud send me a personal response or if he cud answer it to this page? I used 2 go up 2 up 2 the Rosebud rez w/ some frequency & i tried 2 learn what is called "the sacred dialect" (as opposed to the feminine or male one) from Pete Catches, Jr. Of course, i was then well into my fifties & languages r harder to learn the older one gets. Regardless, I have heard a number of Medicine People over the yrs speaking what I presumed to b 'good Lakota.' Examples: Chief Crow Dog, the late Earl Swifthawk, Norbert (Elmer) Running, Harold Whiteforse Thompson, & a few others whose names have left me @ the moment. Pls advise. John
Where are the Lakota subtitles...?:-)
MANNY EAGLE CARE ABOUT IT,PRESERVE OUR TRADITIONS AND NEVER FORGEOT AMEN.
Yuha Máni, wičhaša wašte heničha,
Philamayaye lo.
Pilamaya
Lila wasicuya woglaka ca nata mayazan. lol
Why save a language? Because when a language dies, worlds die.
Factssss
It´s rather sad that it was left to a white man to do this, and actually surprising that they would accept his input. Is their spirit really so completely broken?
Obviously, you haven't spent time on Pine Ridge! He is a respected & necessary member of our Community! He stepped up to the plate to do this, as a true Iyeska, which IF you paid attention to his introduction, you would know not much of them exist anymore! He's doing more good in loving service to our Nation/Tribes and for the next generations coming up than your unnecessary comment did, that's for sure!!! 💯#Str8N8v4LYF Style ✨💗🙏😊💝🔥😃❤
My comment was a lament not an insult. The situation where a group needs outsiders (linguists etc.) to help them revitalise their heritage is unfortunately all too common these days. I was simply shocked to learn that such a great and renown people as the Lakota would find themselves in this sad position. It´s one thing to relearn your own language, quite another to regain the self-respect needed to speak it openly and proudly.
0/ Spend some time with the Lakota on dis particular Rez~You would be surprised how many white people suit up & show up for them where the opportunity was given to the people first, with little to no support. It seems once its implemented by someone so qualified, as Peter is, that's when there is a community support for it. It's progress for the benefit of the peoples it directly impacts. ALL for the greater good of all, Respectfully! 💯 In a Sacred, Holy & Good Way #Str8N8v4LYF Style ✨💗🙏😊💝🔥😃❤
Traditionalists around here don’t accept innovation. Modern natives have to force it into existence.
Why is it "sad"? A man is a man. He shouldered this burden. Those who help him to carry it are a blessing to the people.
euro fake
Maybe he just loves the Lakota language. And people. He's who he is and is filling a need that others have neglected. What are You doing to fill a need of your people?
So sad hearing Lakota talking about a religion brought and practiced by those who destroyed their way of life .
Must be nice to grow up with every advantage, move somewhere else and take a job from a native, and then teach natives their own language.
From what I heard. He created his job and several others. Racism is your cue. Once you get past that. You may understand if you want to. What's sad is:
One who is not your own had taken it upon himself to help a people who is not his.
He sounds very understanding and informed. He is teaching the kids. Not being savage. Not wasting life gaming. Maybe you could learn something. If you listened to his words. Not judged him by HIS skin color.
If you could. I would like your take on this. Not just racism. What could you do to change this? If it bothers you. How could you manipulate his idea to make it better? What would you do different? Why? If you don't reply. I understand. Either way. Best regards and good day to you.
@@jonanderson4474 well said