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Language Lab Open House Well Attended
More than 160 Hannahville community members, employees and special guests visited the Potawatomi Heritage Center and its new Community Language Lab during the April Open House. In addition to the Language Lab, visitors were treated to a variety of viewing options. Displays of language education material were examined along one wall of the Heritage Center's main exhibition area, while another wall featured a large screen TV playing a language learning DVD. Periodically throughout the two-day open house, visitors took seats in the central room to watch a slide presentation about the history of Hannahville. And of course, a growing collection of artifacts and historical photos throughout the rooms and hallways of the new center were viewed by all.
In the Language Lab, visitors discovered what language classes and other learning resources are available - and that they can choose a study pace and learning approach to fit their own personal needs. Some visitors signed up for Monday language classes right away, while many other visitors took the opportunity to sit down at a computer to experiment and explore the online lab resources, play language games, or to sign up for an online language course. Others checked out the large screen videoconferencing monitor for scheduling long distance language classes between Hannahville Indian Community and the Forest County Potawatomi located in northern Wisconsin. Open House visitors received a Language Learning Center tote bag filled with a nine chapter Potawatomi Language Workbook and companion DVD, along with other language resources.
Click Here for Language Lab Brochure
Storybook is an interesting and fun online resource that contains fully translated Potawatomi stories with rich understandable language concepts for Potawatomi students.
This language resource includes video lectures, a word-clickable feature that allows users to click on any word to find out what that word means, and vocabulary games to practice words.
Check it out now!...
Welcome to the Future
This may not be exactly what our Elders had in mind when they said that it is our responsibility to orally hand down to the next generation the things that we learn so that those coming behind us would have what we have and more.
We were always reminded to think ahead for seven generations remembering that what we do and how we live will serve as a foundation for those yet to come. As we pick up those things that were left for us and use them to the best of our ability, it is our intent through the electronic world to preserve and pass it on to all future generations. More...
— Earl Meshigaud, Hannahville
