Tag: Mountain Maidu
Weye Edis (Language Persists)
January 22, 2013
FacebookTwitteremailShare…Susanville Indian Rancheria Project: Language restoration and perpetuation Each time we lose a language, we lose the perspective and ideas inherent in it and part of the core of what it means to be a human being. We lose an idea that has been developed through time. A way of interaction and all that is contained […]
Meadow Restoration
March 19, 2012
FacebookTwitteremailShare…Pulum Koyo: Year 1800 and 2011; Future To be Determined (Pulum Koyo means Grinding Rock Meadow in the Maidu language) Late Summer 1800; Pulum Koyo. Singing softly, a woman, ceanothus and redbud pack basket beside her, uses her mahogany digging stick to pry the papam tubers from the ground. Later she will string them and […]
