Names, Identity, Language & Hollywood Discussion with Kathryn Froelich

Nobody knows that we called ourselves honest and just like the Danai people dinnae and navajo dinnae means the people sauna SH means the people it’s the same thing so as i think i read him like this is that a river road was a name given attributed to the sauna SH by someone else right like like sooo right yeah right I was I was just trying to learn about that more it’s you know when you’re speaking with people if we know that saanich is the word they want to call themself right is that yeah and that is that is the word that is the word to use is sana sh and it and it’s good for that clarification gonna have to add that is there anything derogatory in any way by using a rigger oh no well there’s another term re and if you’ve seen the revet uses a record Andrey they say Ricker e they say a recovery because even in history books I think sometimes it has a ee at the end but in the revet it says a Ricker II and it’s esri but those were both names given like you said I was going to ask you if there was because I knew I know that your people were at the center of that story but i wonder how is the response been to revet and all that is that you know I think I enjoyed it just because I was looking at the language in it and I was so pleased because white shell took their whole high school to mine up to go to that movie and all I could think about was that’s I think what dances with wolves did for the Lakota people it brought front and center the fact that here’s a language that is valued you know and so I think the revet I’m my hope is that the revet will motivate our young people to want to learn it yeah it has to serve a purpose and even if it’s in a movie it’s preserving some purpose in the beginning you know so but what I said take my mom to it no and the reason why it was so graphic I said you know it was so grab it and they did a wonderful job with it and of course it all centers around Hugh glass you know and all of that but well and that’s that’s the challenges it’s the same with this with Wolves it seems like you’ve always got to have the white guy yes you know so at some point we’ll get out of that I know yeah I know that I my brother-in-law is working with a gentleman in nine dear who is Northern Cheyenne I know that he just got a call from Hollywood they are putting together a huge movie that the screenplay was done by smoke signals he wrote smoke signals oh yeah Sherman Alexie no not Sherman Alexie aside young man well he’s not young well he is young probably but anyway he’s maybe but but they are going way out of their way to make sure that the language in the film is Northern Cheyenne of the of the appropriate time so a couple of speakers have been working with them oh good the language exactly right and so I maybe this is a new trend that really is going to bring light to the language what about the other moment need the wall oh they’re turning that into a no balding wonderful at age 97 he is really so that was just premiered no we oversee was really wonderful I have it but I’m gonna look I’m gonna look okay xiety way that’s great for some really positive things that maybe you’re up so media has not always been a friend of native people and yeah I’m hoping that maybe Hollywood’s kidding yeah well thinking about humor I’m gonna go back jump back there because my brain works that way no but thinking about into human her she ended humor diary of a part-time indian sherman alexis is a prime example of indian humor I love that I we mrec we purchased several copies for the Standing Rock middle school and one day when I was there I was in one of the science classrooms and they were supposed to be listening to the science lecture but I happen to be walking behind and one of the girls was sitting there with her a book in front of her on the in front and I looked down and went oh Sherman Alexie and he she said yeah I said I love that book diarrhea part time ended she said yeah she said I’ve read this 17 times I said wow you really like that one and I could tell because the pages work were tattered and you know so yeah and I couldn’t you know my job and when I go into the schools is not to discipline or evaluate or you know we go in to support and be objective about you know so anyway but yeah I couldn’t I could not you know say you’re supposed to be listening to the lecture because I was just happy that she’s happy with the book she was reading