Indigenous Language

Wednesday,

August 13, 2025

3:37PM

From page 14:

“The Lakota Warrior and Holy Man Black Elk also spoke of Seven Generations.”

“...an Anishinaabe Ojibwe perspective is separate from all other indigenous tribes, such as Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, or Haudenoshaunee Iroquois. The language of each of these peoples are as different from one another,, comparatively speaking, as Somali, German, and Mandarin Chinese.”

From page 15: local thought: Wednesday, August 13, 2025

3:37PM

From page 14:

“The Lakota Warrior and Holy Man Black Elk also spoke of Seven Generations.”

“...an Anishinaabe Ojibwe perspective is separate from all other indigenous tribes, such as Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, or Haudenoshaunee Iroquois. The language of each of these peoples are as different from one another,, comparatively speaking, as Somali, German, and Mandarin Chinese.”

From page 15:

“The present generation is: Niin (I, me, myself)”

The preceding generations is: Noos (my father) and Ninga (my mother)

And before that is: Nimishoomis (my grandfather) and Nookomis (my grandmother)

“The present generation is: Niin (I, me, myself)”

The preceding generations is: Noos (my father) and Ninga (my mother)

And before that is: Nimishoomis (my grandfather) and Nookomis (my grandmother)

August 6, 2025, 3:36 PM

From page 14: “Throughout the world, ancient, indigenous languages are disappearing as quickly as old-growth forests...of the three to six thousand (3000-6000) languages spoken in the world today (2003), eighty to ninety percent (80%-90%) are spoken by indigenous people.”

August 6, 2025, 3:34 PM

From page 14: “No matter what methodology the researcher uses, the transmission of ideas from one culture to another is always limited by his or her language. There is an element of fiction when a foreign culture is translated into an English narrative.”