Tan Oak Girl Story provides a glimpse of Pikvahahirak, the Time Before Humans. A short creation story it provides us with a good lesson on creation stories, and to what they are capable. The story says there is a before-time Read more…
The sound track for many American Indian tribal people dedicating their lives to restoring their traditional language is often in the Minor keys. In the melancholic tones. Nowadays when native people convene to discuss and chart out their plans to Read more…
The inevitable has happened! News is circulating hereabouts about the availability of handbooks that will teach a person the local Yurok language. This is no small feat as the Yurok language possesses, when spoken, many, many subtle and unique linguistic Read more…
Mack High school, First class of the year. Audio Recording is included here for you to follow along using the text below. Naa man ___ Akáay uum? Vooman Nikki, Vooman Neil, ect. Pronouns Naa, I Íim, You Úum, He/She/it Áraar Read more…
Ayukîi Koovúra! Hello All! Francisca (Frankie) Tripp was hired this past Winter (February) by the Karuk Tribe to coordinate tribal language activities. She is charged with the objectives to establish a pool of teachers who will teach the Karuk language Read more…
Northern California’s Tori McConnell Crowned Miss Indian World 2023 Tori McConnell, Yurok tribal member and Karuk tribal descendant, won the title of Miss Indian World 2023 at the Gathering of Nations Pow-wow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a Karuk Read more…
Helping Native Communities Create New Speakers The Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (aka AICLS) was established as a statewide organization with the mission of convening individual fluent speakers with an apprentice. This process called the Master-Apprentice Program (https://aicls.org/programs/https-aicls-org-wp-content-uploads-2020-01-aicls-master-apprentice-program-invoice-2020-pdf/) has Read more…
Maymi Preston Donahue completed 400 hours of Karuk language immersion. She completed the 300 hours of immersion recommended by the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. She completed an additional 100 hours because “she was on the verge of breaking Read more…