Interview · North Dakota · Kenneth Jerome Hill
Themes: Language & revitalization, Kinship & family, Education & learning, Healing & resilience, Economy & livelihoods, Children & young people, Intergenerational learning
New transcript-based questions created with AI assistance using Scott Simpson’s Learn About and Learn From guide.
Learn About questions
1. How does Kenneth Jerome Hill describe learning Dakota at home?
2. What concern does he express about the number of people with whom he can speak Dakota?
3. How does he respond to the idea that language learning matters only if it leads to a job?
Learn From questions
1. What knowledge do I value for reasons beyond employment?
2. How would my experience of a language change if few people around me could speak it?
3. What role could my household play in supporting a language or tradition?
Transcripts
Introduction with Kenneth Jerome Hill
Watch this interview on YouTubeMy name is Kenneth Jerome Hill the only son left or delayed Ephraim Hill senior and Mary Hill have five sisters I am from originally born here in Devil’s Lake raised on the race here but my father is from sistent area so I have family and Sisseton and here and I am one of the very few Dakota that are here that are actually fluent in the Dakota language I’m stunned about the youngest elder director but I’m lonely I just turned 60 treatment but a week ago a couple weeks ago but I was born we raised amongst the old people were Dakota language was the domit language so that’s how I picked it up I didn’t go to no school anywhere to learn my language or back home because it was the domit language and that’s where I picked it up so nowadays you know the only people that I can really talk Dakota to nowadays is not very many of them did like Dimas is one of them that I could my uncle saw Sherman just very few that really understand it so it is dying out and it is kind of sad to see it I know I taught language you know for when school there for a couple years but you know back then you know there were kids you know that were some more interested in it others you know they would say well we’re where am I gonna get a job talking this language so why do I have to learn it you know it to me I think it really starts at home to learn your language because you nowadays that’s the attitude of the younger ones they don’t really wanna know my name Oh Maxine agonic our teacher what each character can Oh Timmy talky parks you know you know me Tokyo is a potato curry it’s a mere muchacha ki revoke your optional machia economy talky Acharya H Kaka heat Okazaki Jesus Jackie aw heck she had yeah Imahara I know it should you know Oh taco key and I had on our kitchen she won’t you hey Jordan on Turkey Day on the code ERP mas Vega and me addicted where be a chip - naked Hunnam stud wash me at the time it’s tiata or kick it o tong qianjin only the core doctor back in my younger days as my dad his name was hill boy my mom is sacred night woman my Indian name we woke eoq Sheena he’ll helping boy to name that was given to me by one of my one of my great relatives I can’t remember his name cuz I was just a little boy when I got it
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