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Week Two: Summer Language Immersion Camp
Week two of the Potawatomi Summer Language Immersion Camp is scheduled to kick off on Monday, July 12th – and will wrap up activities on Friday, July 16th. The location for immersion throughout the second week will be at the Hannahville Potawatomi Heritage Center. Lunch and dinner will be served at the cooking pavillion nearby in the Woodland Park Gathering Grounds. Free camping is also available at the Gathering Grounds, including electricity, showers and facilities. Motel rooms are available through a block of reserved rooms (LIST) at the Evergreen Inn in Bark River, MI. Please call the motel to confirm your room as soon as possible.
We look forward to seeing the many participants from week one, along with the new faces who will be joining us during this second week of language immersion. Click HERE to download the schedule for Week Two.
Summer Language Immersion Camp
Learn it. Speak it. Teach it.
This is the focus of Project Ewikkendaswat Ekenomagewat (They Will Learn to Teach), a three-year language revitalization project funded by the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) and the Hannahville Indian Community. The project is designed to provide language instructor skills training, grammar instruction, and immersive language experiences to increase language proficiency for training participants. These are individuals who have accepted the responsibility to actively teach the Potawatomi language. Training participants will also be joined this summer by members from other Potawatomi bands – and together their goal is to assure that the Potawatomi language will live long into the future.
During the summer months of each project year, three one-week summer language immersion camps are planned for training participants and others to absorb, learn and speak the language with fluent speakers/elders. Mornings will be spent with the speakers, while afternoons will be filled with activities to practice and speak language learned during the morning sessions. Many of the afternoon activities will be facilitated by language specialists. Hannahville community members are encouraged to attend the week-long language immersion sessions.
The summer immersion camps will be held at the Hannahville Gathering Grounds. If weather is inclement, sessions will be transferred to the Potawatomi Heritage Center. Free camping is available at the Gathering Grounds, with electricity and showers on site. Hotels are available nearby. Please contact us for additional information by calling 906-723-2272. Click here to download the schedule for the first week of summer immersion.
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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
