Bozho Jayek (Hello everyone) Welcome to the 2015 Citizen Potawatomi Nation Family Reunion Festival! We have some exciting news to share with you about the language this year! We have been working hard developing an online course in the Potawatomi language. Housed online at language.potawatomi.org, the course will be open to the public in August Read More »
The University of Oklahoma’s Native American Youth Language Fair has come and gone. The kids did an awesome job. This year the three, four, and five year old students from the CPN Child Development Center competed. Here’s a video of their preparations. The kids sang five songs in Potawatomi, including a hello song, “Mary had Read More »
Bozho Jayek, It’s an exciting time in the language department. We are working hard on a self-paced online language course. The idea behind the course is that a person will be able to access the course anywhere in the world at any time they want to learn Potawatomi. As part of the class there are Read More »
We have many upcoming events in the language department to talk about as we push towards spring after a cold Oklahoma winter. First off, the development of our self-paced language online class is coming along well. We are still anticipating a summer 2015 opening. The class will have 40 topics organized with 10 lessons in Read More »
It’s been a busy year for the language department. Our three year grant that helps fund our development of self-paced language classes is coming along nicely. The classes will have four units with 10 topics in each unit. Each topic will be taught in five to eight lessons, depending on the subject. The classes are Read More »
Millions of Americans ring in the New Year with resolutions to improve their lives. According to statistics from www.usa.gov, some of the more common resolutions include saving money, finding a better job, losing weight and even making an effort to stop smoking. The Hownikan sampled Tribal employees on their resolutions for the next year. Read More »
Bozho Jayek (Hello everyone) There are a lot of exciting things happening in the language department. We recently received an ANA grant to develop a self-paced online class. We are using the Moodle format, an open-source learning platform that is the next generation of blackboard. We are making beginner, intermediate and advanced courses, each with Read More »
Festival is right around the corner and by the time you receive this edition it will be here. First I would like to share some of the exciting accomplishments of the CPN Child Development Center children who are taught by the Language Instructor Randy Schlachtun. We are very proud of Randy and the kids’ accomplishments Read More »
Bozho Jayek (Hello everyone), As of the week of March 10, 2014, we will begin offering two language tracks, with a beginner class and an intermediate/ conversational class. The Beginner class will be Tuesday from 1:30-2:30 p.m. CST and Thursdays 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CST. To join this class, go to www.instantpresenter.com/potawatomi4 a few minutes before Read More »
Will you tell them you stood idly by while our language and way of life disappeared? There are less than 10 first language speakers of Potawatomi anywhere in the world with an average age of 79. We have little time to change the future. What are you going to do? We have onsite classes in Read More »