Learning Dakota Language with Oliver Gourd

Dharma cotta I am Dakota knee Dakota you were Dakota we are Dakota then I have many work hard a karate then on the bottom I have Spirit Lake tribe nobody know format they’re all in a bilingual format I am the quote you or Dakota we had a kata and about 15 years ago when I first started teaching I acid students how many Sioux Indians in here see and it most of the rays ahead and unless I tell them about well that’s an whenever called herself soon hey that’s somebody a ski was that name when Dakotas and so now I got my students pretty much chain any Susan here and nobody’ll erases a hand in what area weren’t Dakotas and then if I look at our own language you know I said the Russians have the language and Japanese and Spanish y’all have to link Navajo crow Cheyenne they all have your language we have our language - there’s a dictionaries right here so that’s all good learning language mm-hm so they kind of transcribe and I teach them that and to us you know I have a hard time teaching them to read in Dakota reason syllables and [Music] and the alphabet different sounds of the words and about three years ago I tried something was it this kids like candy so mmm my friend Robert he was doing that such well I’m gonna try that you know I said that they do good Easter so I’ve got some candy and I said well if you guys can read these sentences I got a candy for everyone that can do that but you gotta earn it you can earn it we can’t do you know get no candy gradually the dependent that candy I don’t know I love candy different kind you know talk whatever it is wrap any they like a sweet and sour now that’s our stuff then I go no that’s what they like now but the changes as we go so a little treat it kind of motivated him to learn the language they’re reading they could read they can read if I had this and the cotton he had read that and now I’m surprised they cook because this one named Wendy get done reading and I’ll kill my treat if it’s really hard when I give them two treats and so it was longer I give him more treats and don’t just sit and do it and always like that support either so candy gonna say well language well anyway yeah so it’s helping and I told my wife that I said you know I said when we started that candy stuff long time ago yeah T said I could do a lesson plan I can give Channel next even ten sentences well I tell me what time we’re done passing on their already reading it on their own on your own before I had to say everybody said to say this over and over and over okay like how do we begin say when I the current language and once I took his kid dad the courier here I’m P topic I will say that over and over and then they would say it Rizza syllables they will go out and next sentence and under sentence and so now as I given those sentences someone have already started no reason and because the ones volunteer I cover extra Street now Muslims guys are volunteering so no why not watch the candy I just bought some today at two bags of candy in there are those sweets are ones doctor I think that goes in one day but I got myself into something or not but it’s working and I said how does it work whatever works I’m gonna do it but that’s what it takes and I noticed the one that they couldn’t hardly do that now they’re they’re giving 100% before they weren’t now they’re they’re really trying hard reason syllables and the words and so uh now given I’m giving quizzes to make sure you remembered never what you learn I got all those quizzes I mean benefit years so but then again the sad thing about that is uh it’s not reinforced their prior parents are we don’t talk to language maybe some of their grandparents do they don’t hear it every day and they would ask me a question they said mr.Gordy huh how come how come the tribal continents and to not talk in their language so they didn’t they see that this is like oh why should we you know mmm if our leaders on that I said well yeah they never got a chance so but do you have a chance now to talk to language teach them do you forgot to be the teachers so when they say those sentences I put him on the radio like that twice a week look at kibou don’t read I’m gonna read one page and they don’t read next page when our student will say in English man get more say in the hotel then and the next one they’ll say the same English the same Lakota so there they’re saying them in bilingual format I do that Kabul and every - every Tuesday and Thursdays in the nine o’clock quarter to 9:00 in the morning then I have my drum group they sing once in a while but yeah I put him on radio and then they give him a treat when you’re done you get a treat hey there isn’t one they wanna go on radio so somehow that treat is surprises resist make do wonders