Potawatomi News, Updates, and Language!
The following links will bring you to recent articles posted in our language blog. This blog gives us a good way to present Potawatomi language and news updates. It also allows you to have a voice and comment on our articles!
Hannahville Community Shi Shi Be in August
Community families, singles and elders are invited to join us for Shi Shi Be on Sunday, August 29th from 12:00 noon to 4:00 PM. The Community Center doors will be open early for you to fill out your cards before the games get under way. This is a great way to socialize with community members – and to learn the Potawatomi language too!
Click HERE to download, print and study the August vocabulary list. And click HERE to LISTEN to the audio for pronunciation.
Week Three: Summer Language Immersion Camp
Week three of the Potawatomi Summer Language Immersion Camp will kick off on Monday, August 16th. This final week for the 2010 summer immersion schedule will wrap up activities on Friday, August 20th. The Hannahville Potawatomi Heritage Center is the location for this event. Lunch and dinner will be served at the 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 (906-466-4000). Please call the motel to confirm your room by Tuesday, August 10th. The Escanaba/Bark River area has a number of popular events also scheduled during this time period - with tourists and travelers looking for rooms. So please grab your room now!
We look forward to seeing the many participants from the first two weeks. It was exciting for the Hannahville community to share language with so many participants from the other Potawatomi bands from Michigan and other states. Even more new faces are anticipated for the Week 3 Immersion Camp. Click HERE to download the schedule for Week Three.
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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
