Kiowa Language Lessons from our Elders Bernadine Rhoades

[@leannansylvana8271]

I wish I could up vote this a million times. I don't think anyone in my family tree spoke the language since my great grandma. I've often wished I could learn Kiowa.

[@butterflyintherain9851]

Just came here after watching "The News of the World". What a good movie

[@deeramini1892]

Me too

[@leetravers7768]

Reading the book - really good -

[@zamkwagala9807]

Omg me too.

[@yasminesierra-rizvi9176]

Me too! Just finished the movie

[@prodigalson9189]

Likewise

[@leslipackhorse2046]

You are truly a blessing. You remind me of our grandmother Birdie Tointigh.

[@md.shamadulislam8762]

Just came here after watching "The News of the World".

[@francescrittendon3742]

This Lady Is Such A Sweet Spirit, God-Bless Her Heart!! Seriously! Hope We can Keep Up With Our Native Languages, & Others Its Important, in Order To Understand, History's, & In Order to Communicate-Respectfully! You Know, Those Are My Thoughts, God-Bless This Woman!

[@martinbruce6651]

Love it. I'm learning. Kiowa.

[@Mudada91]

You are very rare if you keep it up.

[@mummy959]

im english but my dad named me kiowa and its left me with admiration and fascination about this beautiful tribe and culture

[@cranerishh]

Wow I never knew someone named Kiowa aside from my brother!

[@HenryMPerez]

@@cranerishh I had a girlfriend that named her horse “Kiowa”. This was done about two moths before we met. I’m Kiowa, born at Lawton. Raised in Carnegie...

[@torrawel]

Hallo from the Netherlands! I hope you are all doing well. The Netherlands (better known as "Holland", though that is the wrong name) is a small country in northwestern Europe. I'm sure most of you know. I'm also from Brittany (as it is called in English). It is an even smaller part of the world, a region in France. In Bretagne (Breizh) we have our own language (not French!), which is, just like Kiowa and other native languages of the Americas, under threat. In the Netherlands, we also have our own language (Dutch), which is not under threat but, which nowadays suffers here and there due to the influence of English. I heard Mrs Rhoades saying (minute 1 of this video) that it is hard to teach both Kiowa and English. I would like to say this: please focus on the Kiowa!! People will learn anyhow. We see that here in Europe as well. In my hometown of Amsterdam (the capital of The Netherlands), English is becoming more and more of a factor (understatement). It is an important language but not our mother tongue. The same goes for French in Brittany (France). Children will learn to speak French anyway. It is everywhere around them. But Breton (Brezhoneg) is our native language and just as you, we don't want to lose that. So that's what I wanted to say. Focus on the mother tongue. We cannot let them die out. Speaking multiple languages is a great thing, good for your brain, your personal development, your relations with other people. Most people in Europe (unlike in North America) speak at least 2, 3 or 4 languages because we are all (relatively) small nations. But the big languages are easier to learn because there are more native speakers, there is more learning material, and (unfortunately) more money. That is why we, speakers of small languages, have to do everything we can to save these. For ourselves, our families, our friends, humanity as a whole, and for the generations to come. So... keep on doing the good work!! Hou de Kiowa-taal in leven! (Dutch: Keep the Kiowa language alive), Red é deomp komz ha saveteiñ hon yezhoù! (Breton: We have to speak and save our languages!) Warm greetings from the other side of the ocean, Lennert

[@thedeadscientist]

Prettig kerstfeest! Nedeleg laouenn!

[@torrawel]

@@thedeadscientist Dank u wel! Mersi bras doc'h! :) And the same to you!

[@thedeadscientist]

@@torrawel Mersi bras d'och!

[@Mudada91]

We adopted a German/Dutch boy into our tribe. Even made him one of our war chiefs. Kiowa Dutch is what we called him. He loved his first buffalo hunt as he described it. 😁😊 we might have stolen him but he Loved it from what he said.

[@switchbackimage5966]

I am an enrolled Kiowa member, my daughter isn't but she desperately wants to know and speak the language. When we get the books we can start and I am greatly appreciative of these videos.

[@misterguitarraman]

Where did you get the books?

[@donaldduck9865]

I'm a silverhorn I'm glad to hear about my tribe

[@zainoms1070]

Satanta is the spirit that guides me in my life. I was able to hear it twice, where it was communicated in the language of his people, and could only be understood because the spirit of the great eagle was passing by and stopped to translate. I've been tattooing on my body well before I knew it. well afterwards I was informed by another spiritual guide that my tattoo was about him, where it made me do it unconsciously. I have a deep admiration for your story. I was one of you in another life. thankful!

[@karlihaunemidau92]

Hacho em toya cousin? Hows it going. My family has connections to silverhorn family as well. Guoladdle/Whitehorse/Bosin family

[@reclark13]

I love your language. Ituquachimanistala (Thank you). I am Qibiro ano. We are Timucua language speakers. Our language is the native language of what is called Southern Georgia, Northeast Florida, and Central Florida by the dominant culture. We are a very guarded peoples. You make me miss my iso(mother), isayache(grandmother), and nibira (great-grandmother). My nibira instructed me to learn English, and I now have a degree in it because it is the dominant language, but my soul is at home in Timucua. In fact, I would rather listen to native languages in general at times rather than English.

[@robertogiovanelli1709]

Timucua language Is not extinct? That 's awesome....

[@reclark13]

@@robertogiovanelli1709 Yes. Sorry, I made a mistake when typing this comment. Isayache means great-grandmother and Nibira means grandmother.

[@reclark13]

There are resources online like a language site and dictionary.

[@robertogiovanelli1709]

@@reclark13 👌👍

[@justimagine2403]

Fascinating! That hard K in the middle of the word God. Amazing!

[@GallonMilkProductions]

Thise pics from the 70s are so gorgeous!

[@martinbruce6651]

Thank you for preserving this maam.

[@dennistallman1601]

Awesome 👌 we learn our language from our parents and grandparents so we should teach our little ones but we don't for some reason I learned my native language at home & Learn English at school proud of my Dine' language

[@teemusavikurki1285]

Beautiful.

[@TrxmpBrownNosersBgone]

North American Indian languages should be taught in the mainstream IMO. I think that would send a great message to any oppressor of the future that they don't get to decide who anyone is. Speaking something other than just the language of the conquerors would make us something other than just their product.

[@LiveLocalTexasMusic]

A:[ho talee Bernadine Rhoades for the lesson and fostering a critically endangered language. Shandè à [gáui:T’àu:yà!

[@totallynotdelinquent5933]

I am a descendant of Parker Mckenzie, creator of the Kiowa alphabet, and I'm incredibly glad that my people's language is still alive despite all the attempts to stomp it out. I feel ashamed that I haven't learned it myself, but the resources for it are so difficult to access.

[@brenguiden5521]

Fantastic person

[@dustincribbs5501]

Thank you, I will try to learn for my children.

[@houseofdiasporichealing]

Thank you so much for keeping our culture and language alive. How would I say and spell God's gift in Cáuijògyà?

[@rileybrooks8144]

I don’t but I know how to say god is with you in spirit. It’s aun èm be gya tay do

[@SpectreNDN]

thank u a lot

[@silentstarthenightwing1220]

I want to learn my grandma native language.

[@sr166]

Excellent of almost a lost language amongst new generations

[@DavidTsatoke-w1m]

Hawwww 😊

[@Tartsah]

Hi my name is Ethan Tartsah and I am part of the Kiowa Tribe. I don’t know if the last name Tartsah, is a kiowa tribe name or if it’s popular in the Kiowa community. I would like to know my tribe Language if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it

[@hunterdorsey8342]

I don't know much of the language but my best friends dad who adopted me gave me the name (forgive the spelling if it's wrong) algule tsatoke which I believe means something close to big red hunting horse.

[@adultButterfly88]

I know it's really none of my business... but I just wanted to say that this was really wonderful to read! How did your best friend's dad adopt you?! Forgive my ignorance, but is it like when you become so close to that friend and their family, that they in turn become like your 2nd family?!

[@ashmic6897]

Our Kiowa people are very known to adopt & make people we care for as family. Like we see them & treat that they are blood. We have a story about the red headed kiowa that's well known about our people adopting a white child a long long time ago & he was a red head...so now in our children we have full blood babies that have red hair haha ☺

[@robertogiovanelli1709]

Tsatoke = antelope Tsatoke in yanka (running antelope) chief hunkpapa

[@mikelipke9404]

news of the world movie with tom hanks , a young girl raised by the Kiowa uses the language in the movie .

[@ItzNiyuhhh]

Aho

[@martinbruce6651]

How would you say hides from bears..I'm kiowa and met up with a man the great great grandson of Joseph. He said it would come to me in a dream and it did. I have been curious for years now.

[@christyhammel6417]

My paternal Aunts say our bloodline includes Kiowa Indian. Grew up in the Midwest.

[@rayne8643]

I was adopted. I later found out that I am 1\4 Kiowa. I honestly think that all should know the Native language from all regions. After all.. Native Americans spoke the first languages in the new world. And now.. It's unfortunately disappearing.

[@benmedrano7514]

What about Pahbee

[@tommyvizzle]

I wonder if the clicking sound is unique to the Kiowa, or if any other North American tribes have it?

[@ashmic6897]

It really is pretty unique to our language. You have to really watch how you say & pronounce a word or you will be saying something totally different haha it's such a beautiful language💕 Aho Dawkee🥰

[@xwtek3505]

1. It's actually an ejective consonant. An actual clicking consonant only appears in Africa and one in Australia (Damin) 2. It's a common feature in many (but not all) Native American languages. It also appears in Navajo and Lakhota, but not in Cherokee and Ojibwe.

[@kristinaahrens9612]

Can anybody tell me the translation for „peace“ & „hello friend“ in kiowa? And does anybody know if there are hand signs for this?

[@molliewhite-evans473]

I'm Kiowa & I'm loosing it. My Mother taught me, she died in 2002. Now I'm forgetting it, but just know very little. Can you tell me how to say & spell Buffalo, please.

[@samlloydmusic8687]

Mollie White-Evans my dad taught me, “ongapinga. Pronounced like onh-guh-ping-gah

[@ZelbeQahi]

Buffalo is simply 'Pau, whereas Ohn'gyah pheen'gyah means "our food" (peenh'gyah is food) Since Kiowa is an oral tradition, there is no set dictionary. Kiowa speakers spell Kiowa words by pronunciation. My grandmother was fluent Kiowa and english was her second language. I was blessed to have Kiowa language classes with them when I was about 10 years old!

[@molliewhite-evans473]

@@samlloydmusic8687 , thank you.

[@molliewhite-evans473]

@@ZelbeQahi , Thank you.

[@ZelbeQahi]

@@molliewhite-evans473 Thank you for helping keep the language alive and in no way am I saying that you were told wrong and that I am some expert still. "Ohn'gyah peenh'gyah is also correct. I just broke it down!

[@billygunz1382]

Kiowa Apache or Kiowa language its eazy if you aint pretended who you are and say you are indian and have proof there shouldn't be a problem. My 2nd great grand father is from British Columbia Canada because he british and part irish. He might not own Kiowa Apache but his dna they can track back then. He own Saskatchwan/ Idaho Nez perce.

[@totallynotdelinquent5933]

What?

[@ZelbeQahi]

You make absolutely no sense at all sir. It would be more appropriate to comment with respect to another's culture. The Kiowa people's roots are northern and this is where they allied with a smaller Canadian band anthropologist wrongly penned "Kiowa Apache" simply cause they joined the larger Kiowa people. They have language close to the Sar'cee people. I don't know why you think people "pretend" or have to "prove" their indigenous culture to you. That is the very Euro-centric ignorance that Anglo people cannot grasp because their brains malfunction at the thought of intelligent non whites!

[@Canis_Lupus17]

How do it say wolf in Kiowa?

[@robertogiovanelli1709]

Gui

[@jeffvalliere2185]

❤️❤️✊🏽🙏🏽

[@utej.k.bemsel4777]

Great, so this native languages sound....not this "umpa-wumpa"-stuff they do in the old movies or books! Stay safe and strong in this difficult times!

[@RadkeMaiden]

I swear every language about a not widely spoken language is just people speaking in English about the language, not actually speaking the language. This serves to not let people actually know what the language sounds like naturally.