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The Omaha Language And The Omaha Way: An Introduction To Omaha Language And Culture,Used
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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThe Omaha Language and the Omaha Way provides a comprehensive textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. Mark AwakuniSwetland, Vida Woodhull Stabler, Aubrey Streit Krug, Loren Frerichs, and Rory Larson have collaborated with elder speakers, including Alberta Grant Canby, Emmaline Walker Sanchez, Marcella Woodhull Cavou, and Donna Morris Parker, to write this book.The original and creative pedagogical method used in this textbookteaching the Omaha language through Omaha cultureconsists of a structured series of lesson plans. It is the result of a generous collaboration between the Department of Anthropology at the University of NebraskaLincoln and the Umonhon Language and Culture Center at Umonhon Nation Public School in Macy, Nebraska. The method draws on the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of AwakuniSwetland to illustrate the Omaha values of balance and integration. The contents are shaped into two parts, each of which complements the otherjust as the Earth and Sky do.This textbook features an introduction by AwakuniSwetland on the history and phonology of the Omaha language; lessons from the Umonhon Language and Culture Center at Macy, with a writing system quick sheet; situation quick sheets; lessons on games; lessons on spring, summer, fall, and winter; an Omaha language resource list; and a glossary in the standard Macy orthography of the Omaha language. The textbook also includes cultural lessons in the language by AwakuniSwetland and lessons from the Omaha language class at the University of NebraskaLincoln.The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way offers a linguistic foundation for tribal members, students, scholars, and laypersons, featuring Omaha community lessons, the standard Macy orthography, and UNL orthography all under one cover.
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