Interview · North Dakota · Charles Moran · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Language & revitalization, Identity & belonging, Education & learning, Culture & continuity, Community & responsibility, Humor & play
Learn About questions
What role do culture and language instructors play in communities?
When do individuals become elders in their communities? What defines an elder?
How does being and elder and knowing the language and culture help others?
Learn From questions
Who is someone in my life who knows about my own culture and background?
How does growing in knowledge about my culture help my identity?
Are there things I know about my own culture, language and history that could be helpful to others?
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NDNAEU 7 "Elders in the Community" with Charles Moran
Watch this interview on YouTubeI am the cultural instructor / language structure and I was really reluctant to do the language part because I’m not a fluent but I’m glad I did because I got to learn a lot more faster you know where if I didn’t want if I had the opportunity to try to learn language it’d probably be a lot slower than what I did so that’s like six hours every day for 178 days of the year and then plus you get to do some of the things in the and the summer time before the school but I’m really glad I did that part there’s I can learn a lot about my language and the purpose for our language the cultural things that I know I got to hang around a lot old people and majority of them are gone the new old people are in their seventies now and the OS a of course I’m little over 50 now so I’m getting into that area now as well so yeah it’s it’s it’s different a lot of people come and ask questions or asking for different kinds of help what to do how to do yeah so that much um you know I’m getting into that kind of stuff know where people are asking me things now and things like that so
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