Post by blackcrowheart on Feb 11, 2006 12:17:32 GMT -5
Yup'ik trash talk
Nelson Island group tells how it's cleaning up the Bush
By ALEX deMARBAN, Anchorage Daily News
Published: February 9, 2006
Encroaching rivers and melting permafrost are threatening
the villages around Nelson Island, but one thing the people
won't lose is their language, culture and traditions, said
Andrew George of Nightmute.
"If we lose this, we lose our way of life," George, 79,
told a crowded room of Yup'ik speakers from Western Alaska
on Wednesday.
He spoke confidently -- without a microphone -- in the lyrical
tones of his own language. During his talk at the Egan Center,
a handful of English-speakers, as if suddenly transported
to a foreign country, wore headsets and followed an interpreter.
You can read the full story online at:
www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7431884p-7342767c.html
Nelson Island group tells how it's cleaning up the Bush
By ALEX deMARBAN, Anchorage Daily News
Published: February 9, 2006
Encroaching rivers and melting permafrost are threatening
the villages around Nelson Island, but one thing the people
won't lose is their language, culture and traditions, said
Andrew George of Nightmute.
"If we lose this, we lose our way of life," George, 79,
told a crowded room of Yup'ik speakers from Western Alaska
on Wednesday.
He spoke confidently -- without a microphone -- in the lyrical
tones of his own language. During his talk at the Egan Center,
a handful of English-speakers, as if suddenly transported
to a foreign country, wore headsets and followed an interpreter.
You can read the full story online at:
www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7431884p-7342767c.html