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Navajo Code Talkers

There were 35 US American Indian Tribal Nations who were Code Talkers, in addition to the Navajo. Plus the Cree Nation in Canada who served under US Command.

They include for WWI: tribal members from the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek, Meskwaki, Mohawk, Osage, Pawnee, Ponca & Sioux (Yankton, Cheyenne River, Crow Creek, Santee, Standing Rock).

For WWII they include: Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Tribes, Cherokee Nation, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Choctaw Nation, Comanche Nation, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Crow Tribe, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, Ho-Chunk Nation (Wisconsin), Hopi Tribe, Kiowa Tribe, Laguna Pueblo, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Menominee Nation, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, Muscogee Nation, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Oneida Nation (Wisconsin), Osage Nation, Pawnee Nation, Ponca Tribe (Oklahoma), Pueblo of Acoma, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Sac and Fox Tribe (Iowa), Santee Sioux Tribe, Seminole Nation (Oklahoma), Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Tonto Apache Tribe, White Mountain Apache Tribe, and Yankton Sioux Tribe.

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bundle bag, Meskwaki or Potawatomi

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Bird Names in Meskwaki | BirdNote

A poet helps new generations learn his first language.

The poet Ray Young Bear writes in both English and Meskwaki, his first language. He says that the task of passing on Indigenous languages feels especially urgent now as linguistic scholars predict the loss of languages.

The Meskwaki language is rich with bird names, like Tti Tti Ka Kwa Ha, the name for the robin, which emulates the bird’s song, he says. After decades of creating poems, novels, and songs, Ray Young Bear has dedicated himself to preserving and teaching his language and culture.

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Bird Names in Meskwaki

Written by Conor Gearin

This is BirdNote.

The poet Ray Young Bear writes in both English and Meskwaki, his first language. He says that the task of passing on Indigenous languages feels especially urgent now.

Ray Young Bear: It's been predicted by scholars that we're on the edge of linguistic atrophy, that we will lose languages. It's whittling down fast.

He says the Meskwaki language is rich with bird names.

Ray Young Bear: You know, it's very important to teach young people the words that we have for these birds. And some of the Meskwaki words tend to emulate the sounds made by the animals. And so for the robin it's Tti Tti Ka Kwa Ha. It almost sounds pattern wise like songs that the robin sings.

Ray Young Bear: It almost starts off with Tti, Tti, Tti, like that.

[American Robin song]

Ray Young Bear: And so I thought, well, you know, that's probably how they started making the word for the robin.

[American Robin song]

After decades of creating poems, novels, and songs, Ray Young Bear has dedicated himself to preserving and teaching his language and culture.

Ray Young Bear: To bring up the Meskwaki language, to make songs, and to leave that with the hope that young Meskwaki will be able to learn the Meskwaki language as I did, to make songs and to continue. And if I did that, if I help one single Meskwaki kid — hey, that's what it's all about. I guess that's — I will leave Earth with that thought.

   [American Robin song]

Learn more about Ray Young Bear’s writing and music on our website, BirdNote dot ORG. I’m Ariana Remmel.

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Weaving Reed Mat, Charles Pushetonequa, circa 1950

Gouache on paper 12.75 x 17.31 in. (32.4 x 44 cm) Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA

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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day💃

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For those interested in teaching archaeology in your classroom, museum, library, or nature center, Project Archaeology is offering a 10% discount on their online workshop that begins on February 5: e-mail [email protected] to get your discount code and register by January 22! For an additional $42, you can get 2 graduate credits! Visit the link above to learn more.

Recommended for 3rd-6th grade teachers, but adaptable for anyone teaching K-12 students formally or informally, you will use this virtual workshop to practice the basics of scientific inquiry (observation, inference, evidence, and classification) using authentic archaeological data.

Learn firsthand how to help your students apply archaeological concepts as they uncover a shelter from colonial, Native American, frontier, and/or slave life. All while using primary data sources such as maps, artifact illustrations, historic photographs and oral histories. By using this curriculum you will fulfill many Common Core State Standards requirements in social studies, English Language Arts, and math. You can customize your course by choosing which shelter you want to investigate! We highly recommend the, "Investigating a Midwestern Wickiup" shelter, which was developed here at the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, featuring a wickiup from the Bell site in Wisconsin and contemporary perspectives from Meskwaki Tribal Museum staff in Tama, Iowa!

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Meskwaki Women And Girl Near Tama, Iowa - No Date

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The best four days of the year are here. My tribe's Annual Pow Wow. We're livestreaming it, I'll post the link when I find it later, it's probably at that site stated on the poster. Also, that's my Me-do [Meh-Shoo], or Grandfather, on the poster!