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Sahaptin
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 307 Words Sahaptin see Nez Percé .
INCLINED TO SPEAK IN NATIVE TONGUE.(City/Region)(A Yakama elder teaches UO students an American Indian language that only 200 people (soon to be more) can use)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); Feb 9, 2009; 700+ Words ...It's true. Viles is taking Yakama Sahaptin, one of a family of American Indian...affair for Viles. His brother is in the Sahaptin class and also studies Chinook Wawa...literally wrote the book about Yakama Sahaptin: the Yakima Language Practical Dictionary...
Sk'in: the other side of the river.
Oregon Historical Quarterly; Dec 22, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...derivation, whether traced in the indigenous Sahaptin language of the people who had lived...phonological manipulation from "Tenino," a Sahaptin village downstream, immediately opposite...by no means certain. The recognized Sahaptin name for the Celilo Village site is Wayam...
education parent
Yakima Herald-Republic; May 12, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...three languages -- English, Spanish and Sahaptin, It may sound simple, but it's not...there's no direct translation in Sahaptin, the indigenous tongue of the Columbia...house." Also, publicly displaying a Sahaptin message requires the blessing of a Yakama...
VANDALS RUIN TRIBAL HOPES FOR LANGUAGE TO ENDURE.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); Aug 11, 1997; 700+ Words ...central Oregon. The three languages are Sahaptin, Wasco and Paiute. Wewa, who is Northern...Northern Paiute and perhaps 25 to 50 Sahaptin speakers who descend from the Warm Springs...they will continue with plans to offer Sahaptin lessons for kindergartners at Warm Springs...
Yakamas, educators kick off program on traditional language
Yakima Herald-Republic; Jan 22, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...and elders about the Yakama language, Sahaptin, and culture, said project director...at Heritage University for the first Sahaptin Language Teachers Conference. There...Lavina Wilkins, a counselor and former Sahaptin language teacher with the Yakama tribal...
Toppenish school volunteer avoids spotlight
Yakima Herald-Republic; May 12, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...three languages -- English, Spanish and Sahaptin, It may sound simple, but it's not...there's no direct translation in Sahaptin, the indigenous tongue of the Columbia...house." Also, publicly displaying a Sahaptin message requires the blessing of a Yakama...
Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors. Melville Jacobs on Northwest Indian Myths and Tales
Western Folklore; Jul 1, 2000; ; 700+ Words ...Yorker, went west in 1926 to work with Sahaptin, then little studied. From this came his dissertation, a grammar of Klikitat Sahaptin, and a rich body of texts, some still...s "Sun and his Daughter" (Klikitat Sahaptin) is a likely source for a remarkable...
Yakamas Lose Link to Past With Death of Walter Speedis
Yakima Herald-Republic; Jan 6, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...voting-age members from the Yakama Sahaptin language into English for the growing...native tongue. He also translated into Sahaptin any government documents written in English...rapid decline he saw in the use of the Sahaptin language or what he felt was a creeping...
Nez Percé
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 675 Words ...nose], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Sahaptin-Chinook branch of the Penutian linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). Also called the Sahaptin, or Shahaptin, they were given the name "Nez Percé...
Camp Chaparral keeps traditions alive
Yakima Herald-Republic; Aug 13, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...Campers learn ancient dances and songs and words in the native Sahaptin language. They're taught the importance of nature and preserving...been taught how to say "bear," "horse" and "deer" in Sahaptin. He's even written "wau," the word for ram, on his hand...
Tribe is 'reaching out with cultural teachings'
Yakima Herald-Republic; Dec 1, 2006; ; 700+ Words ...Queahpama, a cultural specialist and Levina Wilkins, who teaches Sahaptin, the traditional Yakama language, at Heritage University...Wolftail's performance since he was once her student, learning Sahaptin in classes at the Yakama Nation Tribal School in Toppenish...
"Boils swell & whorl pools": the historical landscape of The Dalles-Celilo reach of the Columbia River.
Oregon Historical Quarterly; Dec 22, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...The Dalles-Celilo reach was Celilo Falls, known to local Sahaptin-speaking Indians as Wyam and to Lewis and Clark as the Falls...Woody (Navajo/Yakama-Warm Springs) has translated the Sahaptin place-name Wyam as "echo of falling water." (8) In early...
Telling the history of a shattered culture: an interview with George W. Aguilar, Sr.(Oregon Voices)
Oregon Historical Quarterly; Jun 22, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...the traditional ways of his people, including the Klickitat Sahaptin language. Through her experience and knowledge, including...accustomed. Gradually, Aguilar lost his knowledge of Klikitat Sahaptin. At school, he met other boys who knew their native languages...
Monday Sequel -- Yakama Nation Radio Station Makes Gains in Popularity
Yakima Herald-Republic; Nov 12, 2001; ; 654 Words ...list of goals includes expanding opportunities to teach the Yakama language, Sahaptin. The station already features occasional announcements in both English and Sahaptin. Tribal officials eventually would like to move the station and its transmission...
Heart in Yakama Culture, Mind on College/Graduate Adelle Barnhart says small school prepares her for rigors of world beyond
Yakima Herald-Republic; May 31, 2000; ; 581 Words ...uses among Yakamas, she said. The school also teaches the Sahaptin language spoken by the Yakamas. "The Native American people...Barnhart had her graduation announcements printed with English and Sahaptin. In fact, languages are one of the interests Barnhart plans...
Toppenish Powwow and Rodeo -- Celebrating Culture, Diversity -- Remembering The Old Ways -- Elsie Pistolhead
Yakima Herald-Republic; Jun 24, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...interpreting for her mother, who these days speaks only in her native Sahaptin tongue. Pistolhead is frail now, a resident of Emerald Circle...looking into her mother's eyes as Pistolhead speaks in rapid Sahaptin, punctuating the air with a forefinger as she speaks. "She...
VANDALS DESTROY IRREPLACEABLE ARCHIVES OF DYING WARM SPRINGS INDIANLANUAGES
The Columbian; Aug 10, 1997; ; 554 Words ...acre reservation in central Oregon. The three languages are Sahaptin, Wasco and Paiute.Wewa, who is Northern Paiute, said fewer...language speakers, three Northern Paiute and perhaps 25 to 50 Sahaptin speakers who descend from the Warm Springs tribe.Tribal members...
Yakima
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary; 158 Words ...1. -mas or -ma a member of a North American Indian people of the Sahaptin group living in the State of Washington 2. the language of this people, a dialect of Sahaptin Yak|i|ma (yak' mo, - m) city in SC Wash.: pop. 55,000 Copyright...
FOREST ACTIVISTS MOURN, CELEBRATE
The Columbian; Apr 21, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...Reservation's language department are scrambling to save the Sahaptin dialects of Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes before they are...No one younger than 30 can speak with ease. The majority of Sahaptin speakers are in their 70s and even the most fluent admit they...
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