i miss tumblr, it was a nice outlet and time waster...
but, i feel like i don’t know anyone anymore so logging on is exhausting because there is so much content going by and i’m trying to make sense of it and who posted it...
Forty-six million white adults today can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1862. This bill gave away valuable acres of land for free to white families, but expressly precluded participation by Blacks.
#i saw this circulating yesterday#it felt like a goodbye then#turns out it was#we should all have such lovely final words to the world#but it feels appropriate leonard nimoy got them
It’s such a gentle, kind way to say goodbye to all of us, too. I’m sure he knew he was facing the end of his life, and with all the emotions that must have stirred up, he still thought about how all his fans and admirers would feel, and left us with this sweet thought.
i was teaching my grandma to use computer so we can talk on skype and such but today she went kinda mad at me because “i didnt show her the knitting programme” and i was like what
and it comes out she accidentally opened ms excel and found out its a great way to create knitting patterns
BACKGROUND
The Lakȟól’iyapi Wahóȟpi is an Lakota Language Immersion school located on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Reservation in North Dakota.
The Lakȟól’iyapi Wahóȟpi preschool opened its doors in September 2012 to the first cohort of seven 3 year olds. Since that time, four more students have entered and the students from the initial cohort are now in their third year of the immersion program. The children in this immersion school are 100% immersed in the Lakota language for 8 hours a day, 4 days a week! All instruction is conducted in Lakota with lessons mixing traditional Lakota seasonal and cultural knowledge with best practices in early childhood education.
FUNDING NEED
We need your help to expand the Lakȟól’iyapi Wahóȟpi program and to keep its doors open! Student tuition is not enough to help expand the program and to keep the progress that has already been made in the language, moving forward.
Parents, teachers, and community members are looking at expanding the immersion school into kindergarten and 1st grade for the 2015-2016 school year. The students are not only learning the Lakota Language and helping to save the language and culture, they are also learning early childhood concepts and studying the same concepts are students in other schools, just in a different language. Research from other immersion schools across the world, show that students who attend immersion schools often test better than their peers on standardized assessments that are given in English.
Please donate to the program to help the children of the Standing Rock nation and to help preserve the Lakota language for generations to come.
LAKOTA LANGUAGE LOSS
" In the United States, only 165 out of more than 300 Native American languages are still spoken. The majority of these are on the brink of extinction. Seventy-four are almost extinct, with only a handful of elderly speakers. Fifty-eight have fewer than 1,000 speakers. Lakota falls in the top 5% of the surviving languages, as one of only 8 Native American languages with over 5,000 speakers. Lakota can and must be preserved." - Understanding the Issue, Why Save Lakota? (Lakhota.org)
In 2010, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe went door-to-door and survey the community members living in all disctrics on the Standing Rock Reservation in order to asses the current state of the Lakota/Dakota languages on Standing Rock. 990 surveys were collected and results revealed that, at that time, the vast majority of known speakers on the reservation were at least 50 years old or older, with only 242 people identifying themselves as fluent speakers on the reservation in total! There were only two 1st language speakers of Lakota under the age of 30, and very few second language learners, with only three considereing themselves fluent.
In 2010, on the Standing Rock Reservation, there were no fluent children speakers of the Lakota language. Now, in 2015, due to the tremendous efforts of the Lakȟól’iyapi Wahóȟpi teachers, parents and supporters, there are 10 conversationally fluent 3, 4, 5, and 6 year olds! The Lakȟól’iyapi Wahóȟpi is only our first step in our dream to one day have Pre-School through Higher Education immersion program!
"Let’s put our minds together to improve our schools — because our children deserve a world-class education, too, that prepares them for college and careers. And that means returning control of Indian education to tribal nations with additional resources and support so that you can direct your children’s education and reform schools here in Indian Country. And even as they prepare for a global economy, we want children, like these wonderful young children here, learning about their language and learning about their culture, just like the boys and girls do at Lakota Language Nest here at Standing Rock. We want to make sure that continues and we build on that success." - President Obama, referencing the chidren of the Lakȟól’iyapi Wahóȟpi, who had the honor of singing the Lakota Flag Song to the President and First Lady during their visit to the Standing Rock Reservation in June, 2014.
LAKȞÓL’IYAPI WAHÓȞPI IN THE NEWS
ND Humanities Council on the Lakȟól’iyapi Wahóȟpi at Sitting Bull College
ND Humanities Council Blog - Racing To Save A Language
Last Real Indians - Lakota Language Immersion Nest by Thipiziwin Young (Instructor in the Nest)
Tribal Colleges Strengthen Family Engagement Through Early Childhood Education - Lakȟól’iyapi Hoȟpí (Lakota Language Nest)
We have only four months until our doors shut and our students will have to go into the mainstream school systems on Standing Rock (where some schools provide students with less than 45 hours of Lakota language and cultural studies a YEAR!)
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