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We have just finished our first year of working with the Karuk Tribe’s Master/Apprentice program. Julian Lang is a participating master and has been working with Emilio Tripp on several language projects. There are 6 teams and 8 apprentices. Each team will plan and prepare audio and video files to help document the Karuk language…. »
Learn the Karuk Language?2
Keeping the site organized is always a chore. You can lay out a site on paper and then realize that the various pages, features and all interconnect in ways different than they were envisioned originally. Videos are a new problem.
Frank Tuttle suggested that the Karuk language videos be accompanied by a Karuk script or text… »
Learn The Karuk Language?
Banana Movie
And you thought we can only think about Indian things. We are today-people!
And if that doesn’t make you rethink who we are as Indian People well sit back and think about sitting there in the morning, freshly scrubbed up and doing THIS!
Coffee Drinking… »
Araráhih–Karuk Language
I have set aside Tuesday and Wednesday mornings to work with my language apprentices. Today Gabe M called to say he can’t make it. Rather than move on to something else (as I might normally do) I will prepare language materials and upload them. You will find them on the Language Page. I plan to… »
Language To Save The World
I recall attending one of the first major Native language conferences in the late 1970s at the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico. I realized to what extent my own language, the Karuk language, was in danger of vanishing. While I fancied myself a young speaker and expert of my language other attendees at the… »