Native American Culture - Language: the Key to Everything | Ron (Muqsahkwat) Corn, Jr. | TEDxOshkosh
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2019
- One of the most significant losses to the Native American culture is the loss of the indigenous language. This talk addresses the need to revitalize the Menominee Native American language.
NOTE: The opening and closing moments of this talk are spoken in the endangered Menominee language, currently understood by only a few dozen people worldwide. English subtitles have been provided, and should appear soon after the video is posted. English translations of those segments follow:
----------Opening----------
My fellow Menominee, all my relations and everyone who is present here. Thank you I say to all of you for gathering here. Now I will speak a little...
I am from the land of the Menominee and I am Bear clan. My grandmother comes from Keshena, Enae:mae:hku:kiw is my mother, Ne:powew-awae:hsaeh is my father, Mahwae:hsaeh is my brother, Ne:pen-a:nakwatu:kiw is my sister. My wife is Awae:hse:saeh and we have 5 children. First born is Omiyosokwewo-opimohtet, then my daughter Waqseci:wan, my son Ci:na:nakwat and also my daughter Nani:maqowiakiw. My last born is Maeqnakwahku:kiw I also have one grandson: he is Powehkaneh.
----------Closing----------
When I think about what it means to be Menominee I know that learning our language did a lot for me. As we continue into the future we must remember our ancestors, our fellow living beings, and those still to come in the future. All my relations, that is it.
Ron (Muqsahkwat) Corn, Jr. is a member of the Menominee Nation, a nation with a history in what is now called Wisconsin, that goes back farther than any other modern group of people.
Ron takes pride in being called a language warrior, and over the course of his life he has fought to maintain, preserve and now revitalize the unique dialect of Algonquin language. As groups continue to grow, it only matters if traditional culture and heritage teachings are honored and it has been Ron's great struggle to innovate and develop these skills to pass on to other members of the proud nation of the Menominee people. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
save indigenous languages
Um I'm pretty sure every tribe teaches their own language in schools or colleges. I'm Northern Cheyenne and we teach our language in our schools and our college or online .
Sooo we got this dude
@@idontsmokeanymorejhs Ok, but do you teach the language separately or do you use it all he time in school and in life? If you learn the language but acuatly don't speaks it, what's the point ?
@@idontsmokeanymorejhs I think they mean that these languages aren't acknowledged or supported by the rest of America, and only kept to their tribes. That's exactly how language dies, when the world moves past it, they need to be more integrated into society
Nah
“It is you I love” instead of “I love you.” Wow. So simple yet so powerful.
I had to replay it till i could say it the best i could, its crazy how deeply rooted some languages are and what they represent
I’m from Somalia and we say the same .it is you i love.means i love you
To be fair, that's the case in most languages.
Te quiero
T'aime
Ti amo
Se agapao
Though crucially,
Liebe dich
, like English, since Germanic languages are SVO
You are correct in your understanding of this language.
The way natives are treated makes my soul cry.
Such a beautiful culture and language. After taking my Native American Literature class, I have found no language more beautiful sounding.
Rescreat en Pax, Latinium
do you have any book reccomendations?
@@addis2n571 I really enjoyed the authors N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko. House Made of Dawn can be a little difficult to read at first if you are used to traditional works on non-fiction, such as reports. But it carries a wonderful message that allows you to reflect back on the book once you are through with it.
Nah
Glad to see the revitalization of our native languages. I'm trying to learn Kickapoo, my tribal language. Its not easy but it's worth it.
I hope you've already learnt much... do you use it daily now?
@@dimitriweij5181 still learning man. I've got nobody to speak with so it's hard to maintain progress with so little input.
@@TheJesusNerd40 never give up!
@@TheJesusNerd40 you could start to teach the language to others, then you would have others to speak it with. I have actually heard of this happening with different languages 💖
My grandmother comes from Kickapoo blood. Right on the border. I’ve always wanted to learn as well
Náhuatl: NITZLAZOTLA MIEC! TLAZOCAMATI NOTLAYI
(English: I love this a lot thank you uncle)
Boozhoo indizhinikaaz Miskobenaise. Thanks for highlighting our people. As we say in the Midwest lake superior, Minnesota territory Ojibwe Land, Anishinabe (The Original People/One Nation) we are glad to see a OshKosh Ogichidaag up here showing these people an allowing your story to do the Educating. As all elders an warriors do, we all have similar stories. Luckily for me I grew up on the rez an moved to Minneapolis. So many people say "Where are you from? Omg your handsome you resemble a Bruno Mars type of guy." Mind you I'm 235lbs 6'1 like many of our people on the rez. We literally have to explain ourselves to some people who grew up prejudice an thinking because they have not seen a native so therefore, they treat us like history books an icons/Mascots... I had so many people an women come around me because of the stuff our elders taught us, stories told to us make us literally interesting to other people who didn't grow up seeing or hearing of traditional native Americans. The city natives even made fun of me for being "Rezzed out"... but all there girlfriends an mommas saying I was so respectful an helping. I now hear the word simp. Because I still treat women how I would want my mother treated... some of our values literally got to be taught from the day we Start learning an talking. I knew the words bizaan an maagon (be quiet an Go then) ...
So incredibly moving. Muqsahkwat is bursting with pride and joy in sharing his language. and we should celebrate this in all speakers of endangered languages. I have been a student of languages all my life and I really appreciate the urgency in the need to protect his language and the soul of the Menominee people. 🙏🏼
In my JR High Native American "Studies" classes, our teacher was Ms. Kiyanii. We always used to tease each other. And come to find out She was a classmate and friend ov my father. So then that made even more sweeter to teaser. R.I.P. MS. KIYANII. And to my other Native relatives, young or old, it's never too late to learn your langauge. It's like the ABCs. I'm still learning myself.
save them, native Americans are precious
Nah, boring
@@klplex9722 I bet you're just a teenager who doesn't know anything about history. you better show some attitudes bro.
What a powerful, moving, inspiring talk. Magnificent. He is a very impressive person; it was wonderful to hear him speak in his language, to hear his story, to see his pride, and amazing to see him wearing indigenous-designed clothing.
Wow, idk how i ended up here but that language sounds so soothing and calming.
I would love to learn all types of Native American language
Wow,absolutely LOVE your Ribbon-shirt here Ron!!! LOVE this video and all that is said within it!!! Well done Sir!!! :)
Nepaeqtaenesem neköqsemahsaeh Mūqsahkwat. Kēs-kēkētow anom kāēc-onaet wēhcekanan. tahnāēnoh kēsekat kocēqtah kīketinon māēnawac omāêqnomenēw wēhcekanan.
ahpāēnenew enes netāēheh Mùqsahkwat ,ketāpanen .
Kemēh
Yes, I agree
Great job Ronco! I knew I was alwayz proud to be Menominee but this video makes me hold my head a bit higher
Be VERY PROUD, ALWAYS. Native Americans and Natives across the world are some of the most truly UNIQUE people of this Earth. Supreme Being, protect, hold, and uplift your Indigenous Ppl ALL over the Earth, FOREVER. I give thanks and praise.
I am currently learning about cultures from around the world...I'm doing a personal art project where I will create drawings for every culture and tradition, in order to celebrate the many aspects of our people on earth. But I want to learn because I don't just want to contribute to stereotypes. What I want is to bring honor to people.
So beautiful ❤ , I’m from Mexico and I’m still searching who can teach me my native language. My grandfather new how to sing he died at 23 before he could teach any of his kids.. so we lost it.
We got to keep this language life it’s beautiful
67... it is you who i give thanks good teacher .....
This is amazing, can’t say enough how much I salute the efforts.
st'at'imc nation from BC Canada. our language also uses gender neutral words. pretty much use they and them. I am on my way of learning our language and I hope when I'm older, to teach the rest of my community. it's kinda my dream to have our communities to fluently speak our language for every day use. I might not become a fluent speaker, but I hope to at least be a fluent writer of my language.
kukwstumckacw. (thank you in Ucwalmicwts[the name of our language])
I’d be happy to help in anyway I can
In Turkic languages gender neutral nouns exist as well.
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Ya you go uncle!💗💗💗
It is up to us parents to teach our young ones but we don't do that not good at talking to them in their language it's always English i speak dine' language fluently & English is my sec language proud to speak Dine' as my first language
I'm sure there are young ones who will sit at your feet to learn. I pray they will find you.
Thank you from Ireland. Really enjoyed learning your story.
Tlazohkamati /Grasias/ Thank you.
Awesome video uncle it means a lot.
Beautiful medicine brother. Aho ❣️😘✌️
Siyo -
Osda (good/ well done) ale wado (& thank you)
Ilove the flow of indigenous language - I'm taking (beginning!) Cherokee - in online dideloquasdi (school/ classes/ education) - with first Language speaker Ed Fields -
Similar to Menomonie, in Cherokee verb options are for myself, you, he/she and they (more than one) without gender designations.
And as Bob mentions - we aquire a mountain ⛰ of words ... and gradually begin to understand depth, context, deeper meanings ...
a lifelong learning project!
Wado
this is what I am searching to know. I asked myself, English = England. why did the Americans speaks English?
This is the answer. Please do preserve, prescribe and utilize it.
I'm a white European descendant and I feel so ashamed of what my ancestors did to the native Americans and their tribes it's absolutely awful makes me sick to my stomach 😠😡
That is why it is so important for us white folx to use our privilege to elevate the voices of the Native Peoples now. Also, to speak up when we hear or see something. Silence is violence. Much love 💖
we dont want you to feel ashamed it had nothing to do with you. it can be a better future
Beautiful. Thank you for speaking Ron Muqsahkwat Corn Jr
Powerful speech Hoka hey!
So much love.
As a white American born in America I feel deep in my soul that I need to learn some of these indigenous languages.
That was a fantastic talk, every second worth listening.
Im am crying !!!
Very moving TED Talk.
Plz i advise you to develope a system how to write your native languages , so that it may be preserved forever.
I am First Nation -
Native American Indigenous
My father is
HUALAPAI TRIBE & 🇺🇸
JICARILA APACHE TRIBE🇺🇸
& my mother
PASQUA YAQUI TRIBE🇺🇸
I am SAN CARLOS APACHE TRIBAL member🇺🇸
I'm part native American and it's a beautiful language
Me too and it sure is
My grandfather was part native american
This is so incredibility interesting. Ooo i wish I had someone to teach me things like that. Even if im not apart of a tribe and im just some white woman. Native American cultures are just so intricate and interesting and its just so different. I absolutely love it.
Sounds like you disrespect your own heritage and culture.
@@wilsontexas exactly bro, we have to learn old english, latin, greek not native american leave that to them
@@BreninCyhyr the Navajo have offered us to learn their language so we can rekindle our understanding of how to work with the land. If we don't extend ourselves to understand indigenous people and what they are saying, the more they have to speak the colonial language which contributes to misinformation between people's, and their decline. It's not inappropriate to learn any language.
The symphony Do Re Mi
Born speaking Mama Dada triple that vibration. Taught MAn woMAn , the vibration is Ma and Ma. A quarter vibration of Mama and Dada.
Their new language is tHEy and tHEm, he and he. Ma and Ma is he and he in the Ma-Trix about to lose all vibration. The wall is about to come down!
What a heartfelt video! I really enjoyed it!!❤
Great Spirit is one of the best song ever..
this is very important. And it goes for the rest of the world. Kinda weird that this is taking place on the internet, which probably has been the biggest reason for moving towards a few globally accepted languages..
I like this guy. :)
😍 my step brother is from the Menominee tribe.
The shirt looks so familiar to Ukrainian Vyshyvanka.
Aunty, for sure.
Much Love & Peace Brother✊🏾🌎
subscribed 😀
It is a beautiful ribbon shirt.
Have a look at Glossika's Viva program, you can create courses in all these languages for other people to learn!
love this!
My family grew up in Tiosa Indiana
Awesome!
can someone spell out the correct phrase he said "it is you I love" ...so beautiful!
Ketapānen
I love this!
i will listen. tell me more
You post translate in both languages so that way los nativos puedo entender la mayoría de ellos no hablaba inglés Te lo dedico por experiencia
Hello dear
I want to be friend with a American Indian
Please guide me
thank you your kindness
Sounds similar to our Cree language.
Your word for sit is almost the same for us in Cree. We say apey. Pretty cool.
Tansi, bro. In case you're interested why, it's because both of our languages descend from the same language from thousands of years ago. It's called Proto-Algonquin. Pretty interesting.
I live ky letcher an half german half native american my grandmother always said never say indian she never liked it she spoke navajo cherokee and chickasaw
i m very sorry from all nations to native americans brothers for there bloodbath by europeans
that is our history ,,,,our brother lost 15000 year from us when we found them in 15th century we finished them ,sham on us
Shame on THEM we didn't do this . 😕
But by not doing anything now, we perpetuate what they had done. We sit in relative comfort with our privilege. It is still shame on us, definitely on a spectrum-some are worse than others, but we still have a lot of work to do.
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too bad we don't see all the transcript! !
I thought the same thing.
It's hard to be merciful to people who have done everything to abolish an entire nation, but please have mercy on us who are just born with hateful ancestorory. were all lost in the universe together.
The man!
I really want to speak my tribes language but my grandparents where sent to white boarding school and couldn't speak their native tongue :(
I understand that there are different programs to help you in your pursuits. You should be able to get in contact to language teachers through your Tribe’s website. If they don’t have their own website, you could get in contact with some of the larger groups. Native Governance Center is one that may be able to help get you in the right direction at least. Best wishes to you! 💖💖💖
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Im originally from Europe my x wife she was Neativ,cheepua beautifol culture when she give birth to our Son hes nick name supostu be wolf but me ashole i change it becouse i bolive in life the kids will joke whit hem but im proud he is neativ litlle chepua
Natives should have more Rights than colonisers.
He speaks American and English..
@Biracial Boy American Indian language?🤔
Aaniin (Hello)
How do I pronounce it?
Tansi///
I am 100% stunned that, to this day, people refer to Natives as if they were one culture . It is a perpetuated myth. By the way NOT ONE of the tribes or Native Nations called themselves "American". Native American is a feel good term with no basis of documented history.
Manamana lol because of Heshe people's. A class to themselves.
This!
GERONIMO on RUSHMORE!!!
Lol, I created a drawing for a school project for my daughter dealing with exactly tht. Her class had to create their OWN Rushmores, & I put Geronimo, Bob Marley(even though he was Jamaican), Malcolm X..can't remember the 4th, but someone iconic, no doubt. Turned out pretty good! I was surprised, yet proud of myself!
Waewaenen
Nya:weh
Nyóh
Waewaenon
As far as repatriation remains, how can anyone talk for someone who has been dead so long?
Do you know their religion? How? Assumption? Thousands of cultures dig up their ancestors and would be offended if you didn't allow them.
I would love it if someone dug me up in 500 years to learn about me, which is totally contrary to my sister's opinion. My sister should not have the right to speak for me.
I would make things difficult for the US government:
-all Indian associations must REQUIRE BILINGUAL EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
-to bring to the INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, the breach by the US Government of the treaties with Mexico
3-threaten the US with the pursuit of independence in international courts
yes:
-they do not invest money there
-they do not reserve a place in political organizations for Indians
Take it to international courts
You would have to re write the foundation of our constitution.
@@dreamwalkerleah NOT NECESSARILY
Not necessarily, but maybe it is necessary…? “Prudence indeed hath shewn… that men are more prone to suffer where evils are sufferable than to right themselves the wrongs that have been committed by abolishing the forms to which they’ve become accustomed.” The U.S. Declaration of Independence.
You don't live in the TP la mayoría de los nativos vivían en el jocón Sí sabes qué es un Goku como un asador de tierra mezclada con water and mug
There are under 9,000 Menominee people living today, so while it would be nice to preserve the language, you would also only be able to communicate with a relative handful of Native American people with it. To communicate with the remainder, you would have to learn apx. 175 other languages. Sad though it is, languages have died and been subsumed by other languages throughout human history. English is nothing like the languages spoken by the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles. It is not even that close to the original English language. Languages are in fact subject to alteration and decay like everything else in life. If one's identity depended on one's language, the entire world would be in a perpetual state of identity crises. The tendency seems to be away from multiplicity of languages and toward language unification, the de-babelization of language. I am not knocking learning more obscure or native languages. People still delight in learning Old English, even though it is completely impractical in terms of its utility for day to day communication. I can totally understand why someone would want to learn the original language of his or her ancestors, even if its practical utility was limited. And I understand the nostalgic sadness that accompanies the passing of any vital cultural inheritance, but particularly something as central to our humanity as our language, our means of communication. It is not unlike that feeling that accompanies the passing of a distinct animal or plant species that will never rise again. At the same time, the importance of language preservation can be overstated. Languages have had varying histories and lifespans throughout time and there is indeed great benefits to be derived from language commonality that I think is sometimes overlooked.
Clearly you do not understand language vitality and historical or cultural preservation as it pertains to sovereignty and federal recognition.
Nice try... your passive aggressive opinion is unresearched and unnecessary.
Lol' ,...the language ,..not language's,..the old one's spoke in sentence(s) and/or paragraph(s)and hand sign's ,..none of the individual tribe's has their own mathematics/physics ,..they all refur through the one - ten # ,...all culture's worldwide have their own math ,...not us,..ask any one who has a major in English,..where's our scales,..they should all be different
tipi (american indian house) = jibi (집이 Korea language) Your ancestors are Korean. You're Korean.
Koreans are descendants of bears.
michigan (us) ---> mishigamaa (american indian) ----> 미치가마나(mi chi ga mana) Korean language (물고기가 많은 곳A place with a lot of fish..)
Hello Miranda, how are you doing today, how’s everything going over there 👉 hope everything went well Miranda?
I understand that with genetic testing, this correlates as well. Humans have travelled far and wide.
Try thinking without using your language.
MAGA....then give it back to us!!!!
philámayayapi
it sounds like a midwestern accent. ive been trying to understand where these accents in america come from.
Chicano?
He looks Hispanic 😁 like me lol
Well Hispanic people are half native
He looks Native... "Latin" America was colonized by Spain that is why alot of quote on quote "Latinos' and "Hispanics" are actually varying from very little to Predominantly Native American. They are really Indigenous people this is actually basic history
We're all Raza my Brother✊🏾
Yea cause natives have Hispanic accent
Sounds like Scottish gaelic another language that getting lost Alec from Scotland 🏴
Hooki Pooki mi like to poopi
It sounds like Sims talking
he certaintly have english accent. their language cannot sound like english
Or do Americans speak with a Native American accent specific to the region they live in? I know English doesn’t sound the same in England as it does in America and English doesn’t sound the same in the Midwest as it does in the Deep South.
With a heavily presented accent he learned from John Wayne movies he decided to pretend not to be a cholo and covered the check shirt with a Chinese garment from Walmart but decided to keep the Levi’s and Jordan’s.
🙄 okay.
That language weird asl