🗣️ Calling all language revitalization allies!

We're launching a community-led effort to reclaim and rebuild the Brothertown language—grounded in Proto-SNEA and guided by expert linguists. Volunteers welcome!

🔗 https://michael-conrad.com/blog/brothertown-community-language-initiative/

#Brothertown #LanguageRevitalization #Algonquian #SNEA #CommunityLanguage #IndigenousLanguages #Linguistics #LanguageReclamation #indigenous

Per our AI overlords: Our Mohegan/Pequot/Narragansett languages are no longer continuous, but their closest living relative is Passamaquoddy‑Maliseet (Wolastoqey). Its grammar and vocabulary run nearly parallel to our heritage tongue, and free online resources with fluent speakers make it a strong path for reconnection.

🔗 https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/resource/passamaquoddy-maliseet-language-portal

#NativeAmerican #Brothertown #Passamaquoddy #LanguageRevitalization #Algonquian #LivingLanguages #IndigenousSovereignty #MoheganHeritage

#politics #greed #reagan #oligarchs #Algonquian

…The Algonquin people had a word for this mental illness…Wétiko” ..“greed.”  ... Dante, Shakespeare, Gogol, Balzac, and Dickens, all wrote of wealthy characters who disrupted society because of their own Hoarding Disorders…America was not only on the path to becoming a “we society”: we were more than halfway there…But then came Ronald Reagan with his neoliberal “me society” sales pitch that “greed is good”…

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/me-vs-we-the-battle-for-americas-295?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios

canine colonisation news now…

Ancient DNA reveals Indigenous dog lineages at Jamestown, Virginia [html/pdf 19pp] #IndigenousDogs #Tsenacomoco #Algonquian #DogBurials https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/dogs-of-tsenacomoco-ancient-dna-reveals-the-presence-of-local-dogs-at-jamestown-colony-in-the-early-seventeenth-century/960B1D0EC96B492E0AFDA088CEB949E0

How does this look for a starting vocabulary?

A•quy ni•tôp. Hello my friend.

Po•so ni•tôp. Hello my friend.

A•quy ni•tô•pák. Hello my friends.

Wi•qô•mun ni•tô•pák. Welcome my friends.

Wi•qá•hsun. Good morning.

Wi•kun kisk. Good day.

Wi•kun qát•qáw. Good afternoon.

Wi•kun wuy•ôk•suw. Good evening.

Wi•kun tup•kuw. Good night.

Tá•put ni. Thank you.

Mu•tu wu•tô•pu•naw•ôk. It's not a problem.

#indigenous #mohegan #LanguageLearning #languages #algonquian

Explore D.C.'s Native American History 📜

📅 Date: Monday, Nov 13
🕖 Time: 7-8 PM EST
📍 MLK Library

Join the D.C. #Library for #NativeAmericanHistoryMonth as they chat with Dr. Armand Lione about his book on D.C.'s #NativeAmerican #history .
#histodon #Indigenous #Anacostan #Nacotchtank #Algonquian #WashingtonDC
Register 👉🏽 https://bit.ly/464ed4b

https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/9493966

Top of the pops on my website this week is my accidental growing of the massively poisonous and hallucinogen Datura stramonium or devil’s snare! A fascinating plant in #mythology and #folklore the world over but not one to have with a family around.

https://www.mandycanudigit.com/2021/07/20/hallucinogenic-devils-snare-or-datura-stramonium/

#gardening #poisonous #hallucinogenic #witches #voodoo #zombies #sadhus #Algonquian #Navajo #Cherokee #Luiseno #thornapple #Haiti #werewolves

The #Mexican #Kikapú people ( #Kickapoo in #English) hail originally from Michigan but migrated to the State of #Coahuila (North #Mexico) in 1850. Their name stems from the word „kikaapoa“, which means „those who roam the land“.  The 500 Kikapús speak the only (and endangered) #Algonquian language in Mexico and are related to the Kickapoo tribes in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

#indigenouspeople