{"id":16337,"date":"2019-12-22T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=16337"},"modified":"2020-01-31T01:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T06:10:43","slug":"revitalizing-the-cheyenne-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2019\/12\/22\/revitalizing-the-cheyenne-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Revitalizing the Cheyenne language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tommy Orange: Revitalizing the Cheyenne language, having tribal and non-tribal members learn the language, become fluent, is not an obscure hobby, is not like the learning of a past-time, like something that can\u2019t be used or will not be useful. \u2018Use\u2019 itself depends on language and context, \u2018use\u2019 according whom? To understand the Cheyenne way of life, as Cheyenne people, as anyone interested in understanding Cheyenne people, language is the most direct route. There are ideas and worldviews embedded in the language. From what little I know to be true about any language, there is much to be learned.

Native people lived on this land for thousands and thousands of years. This country, American culture\u2014which is in and of itself made of so many other cultures\u2014has only existed for around three hundred years at most. There are relationships to this world, to the land, to each other to be learned from Native languages. There are ways to be we might need in a world such as this, one bent on destroying itself, one out of touch with what it means to consider our environment and our relationship to it. To have and embody respect, kindness, love, generosity. My dad told me the Cheyenne language has these qualities embedded in it. He said it\u2019s a holy language.”

We grew up hearing our dad speak Cheyenne in phrases. Words for bread, or salt, or fart. Phrases like come sit down, come sit down for dinner. We didn\u2019t grow up thinking we should or should not be learning our language. We didn\u2019t know then how important a language is to keep, how it holds within\u2026 More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tommy Orange: Revitalizing the Cheyenne language, having tribal and non-tribal members learn the language, become fluent, is not an obscure hobby, is not like the learning of a past-time, like something that can\u2019t be used or will not be useful. \u2018Use\u2019 itself depends on language and context, \u2018use\u2019 according whom? To understand the Cheyenne way … Continue reading Revitalizing the Cheyenne language<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16338,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337\/revisions\/16338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}