2012 OSEU Document
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The Musicality of the Lakota Language

Donald Montileaux
Transcript

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What does it mean to be fluent in a language? How is being fluent different from knowing a language?
  2. In what ways did boarding schools cause students to lose their language?
  3. Where is the Holy Rosary School?
  4. How are Catholic based schools different from public schools?
  5. Where is Ogalala Lakota College? What kinds of thins can be studied there?
  6. What does it mean to have a kinship to land and animals, and why is it hard to express in English?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information)

  1. Do you or your family speak fluently in a language other than English? When is it spoken? Why?
  2. Is there another language that you find to be more musical or beautiful in nature?
  3. Are there parts of your family’s history that have been lost over time or for specific reasons? Why?
  4. Do you experience feelings of kinship for others who aren’t people? Ex: nature, animals.
  5. How have those feelings of kinship developed?