I'm German and just stumbled on this. It is a joy to hear you speak. Whatever it is about, I adore your language. Great Video seeing your sister slip into perfect American English. Everybody who can record a conversation about anything....we never heard the way you converse. Argue. There is value in your way of speaking and in hearing it, All Omaho people keep lots of records these decades.
Please preserve this language for future generations!! Make many recordings like this with translations, and teach classes to anyone willing to learn. Continue speaking your language. It is the only way it can survive. Aho!
I enjoy watching this video and listening to the differences and similarities to the Osage language, enjoyed the story they talked about when they talked with Osages. Precious Umonhon ladies
According to history of the Osage people by Louis if Burns he’s stating that the Shellmound culture is where the Qual Paul the Ponca the Omaha the Osage and the Kansas. They we’re all together at Indian Noel so this is why the Ponca and the Omaha sound a lot alike because at one time on the Ohio river system we were all one people. but when we reach the Mississippi we divided into three tribes the upriver people were the Ponca the Kansas and the Omaha the downriver were the Quapaw and the Osage is for the children of the middle waters.
It is a Siouan Language. And there are many Siouan peoples who were eastern tribes before being pushed out into the plains area. The Omaha, Ponca, Osage, and others were pushed out of the Ohio River Valley by the Iroquois tribes. Even the Great Plains Sioux that we call Dakota, used to be eastern woodland tribes and were pushed out into the plains by other eastern tribes such as the Chippewa/Ojibwe peoples who were more numerous and powerful due to having made contact with the whites first and therefore obtaining firearms.
Carl Love you are right this is a Siouan language spoken by numerous tribes from the Ohio valley. The Catawba, Taensa, Tutelo, Quapaw, even as far south as Mobile Alabama. There are so many more tribes who spoke this language.
... I mean you two are only correct in saying that our languages for classification purposed come from the same "language family". They however aren't each mutually intelligible. This isn't one language that everyone spoke. They aren't even all dialects of each other. Many are actual separate classified languages. We cannot all understand each others language unless we learn it, we do share several words that are pronounced differently and when slowed down can be understood. The old people would learn different dialects and also different languages to communicate with ally Nations. When that failed they used hands signs to communicate. Also, the Anishinaabe push began ages before any European appearance or interference.
By looking at the age of these women, they are almost gone so look fast. I met a 60 something year old man who claimed to speak Ponca who spoke it for me (also said he spoke Pawnee), but seeing I don't know any of the language, I can't be sure of that.
The death of Native languages began long before any disinterest in speaking. It began with colonialism, forced assimilation and destruction of whole cultures and families and laws preventing the passing down of cultures and languages. The slow death of Native languages is the targeted result of policies enforced on our Nations. The disinterest is the result of boarding schools which caused generational trauma, disfunction and shame. Plus you need to have the language everywhere, especially for kids. Cartoons, tv shows comics, books, games, friends, parents, adults. It has to be present. Many are just getting a hold on immersing kids in their language. Laws preventing speaking and teaching of Native languages only lifted in the late 70s. It wasn't 'til the 90s when many were legally allowed to teach their languages in schools. You can only get so far speaking in secret. Compound all this with families where boarding schools succeeded in wiping their own languages from their tongues. In the 1980s Native kids were still being punished for speaking their languages in public schools on their own lands because teachers were not Native. It for sure isn't simply disinterest.
Made me shed tears. I haven't heard my language for a long time. Thank you for sharing. Wakonda bless you Grandma's.
I'm German and just stumbled on this. It is a joy to hear you speak. Whatever it is about, I adore your language. Great Video seeing your sister slip into perfect American English.
Everybody who can record a conversation about anything....we never heard the way you converse. Argue. There is value in your way of speaking and in hearing it,
All Omaho people keep lots of records these decades.
Please preserve this language for future generations!! Make many recordings like this with translations, and teach classes to anyone willing to learn. Continue speaking your language. It is the only way it can survive. Aho!
The world is a poorer place when a language disappears through disuse.
Thanks for sharing your culture beautiful and language of Omaha
This is my language
I enjoy watching this video and listening to the differences and similarities to the Osage language, enjoyed the story they talked about when they talked with Osages. Precious Umonhon ladies
it's ata to hear my language
I love to hear the language of my people! Wibthao'n for sharing!
dude, this is so cool
According to history of the Osage people by Louis if Burns he’s stating that the Shellmound culture is where the Qual Paul the Ponca the Omaha the Osage and the Kansas. They we’re all together at Indian Noel so this is why the Ponca and the Omaha sound a lot alike because at one time on the Ohio river system we were all one people. but when we reach the Mississippi we divided into three tribes the upriver people were the Ponca the Kansas and the Omaha the downriver were the Quapaw and the Osage is for the children of the middle waters.
thats said that Omahas don't want to speak their language
Sounds a bit like Lakhota.
It is a Siouan Language. And there are many Siouan peoples who were eastern tribes before being pushed out into the plains area. The Omaha, Ponca, Osage, and others were pushed out of the Ohio River Valley by the Iroquois tribes. Even the Great Plains Sioux that we call Dakota, used to be eastern woodland tribes and were pushed out into the plains by other eastern tribes such as the Chippewa/Ojibwe peoples who were more numerous and powerful due to having made contact with the whites first and therefore obtaining firearms.
Carl Love you are right this is a Siouan language spoken by numerous tribes from the Ohio valley. The Catawba, Taensa, Tutelo, Quapaw, even as far south as Mobile Alabama. There are so many more tribes who spoke this language.
... I mean you two are only correct in saying that our languages for classification purposed come from the same "language family".
They however aren't each mutually intelligible.
This isn't one language that everyone spoke.
They aren't even all dialects of each other.
Many are actual separate classified languages.
We cannot all understand each others language unless we learn it, we do share several words that are pronounced differently and when slowed down can be understood.
The old people would learn different dialects and also different languages to communicate with ally Nations. When that failed they used hands signs to communicate.
Also, the Anishinaabe push began ages before any European appearance or interference.
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No. None here anyway.
hi, i am looking for Omaha speakers... any help?
By looking at the age of these women, they are almost gone so look fast. I met a 60 something year old man who claimed to speak Ponca who spoke it for me (also said he spoke Pawnee), but seeing I don't know any of the language, I can't be sure of that.
Shawn Reed yea the woman on the left is my grandmother and she passed away a little while ago. So I give you luck Dani Do Vale to find someone
The reason this language will die is because no one cares to learn it. People don’t care about their languages anymore. That’s the sad reality.
The death of Native languages began long before any disinterest in speaking. It began with colonialism, forced assimilation and destruction of whole cultures and families and laws preventing the passing down of cultures and languages.
The slow death of Native languages is the targeted result of policies enforced on our Nations. The disinterest is the result of boarding schools which caused generational trauma, disfunction and shame.
Plus you need to have the language everywhere, especially for kids. Cartoons, tv shows comics, books, games, friends, parents, adults. It has to be present.
Many are just getting a hold on immersing kids in their language. Laws preventing speaking and teaching of Native languages only lifted in the late 70s. It wasn't 'til the 90s when many were legally allowed to teach their languages in schools. You can only get so far speaking in secret. Compound all this with families where boarding schools succeeded in wiping their own languages from their tongues.
In the 1980s Native kids were still being punished for speaking their languages in public schools on their own lands because teachers were not Native.
It for sure isn't simply disinterest.
@@KahwahShutseh but our people know all of that, and still they don’t care. They don’t want to learn about it.