Cherokee 1: Lesson 6

[@Shannon-c4i]

Wade does an excellent job I'm very proud of him

[@tysonl.taylor-gerstner1558]

It is important to teach the words that have been created for these countries. I was actually one of the original participants in naming some of them. Not the continents but actual countries. Also, that was a Masai man (ᎠᎹᏌᏱ/ᎠᎹᏍᏌᏱ), they are concentrated to a specific part of Africa (ᎬᎿᎦᏍᏛ) in the countries of Kenya (ᎨᏂᏯ) and Tanzania (ᏖᏂᏏᏂᏯ)... Too often we forget that Africa is not a country. And we overlook the fact that Ethnic groups are VERY distinctive. if for nothing else, for their traditional dress. But Phyiscal features too... this is harder in areas where the groups live in big cities and wear "European" clothes, especially when you consider intermarriage. I love Cherokee, it is one of my ancestral languages. I live in Europe and have not been around a Cherokee speaker or followed a course in YEEEEEEARS but I am so happy I still understand so far most of what I hear in this course... I did look at some of the later videos as I was saving them to my personal playlist, though. I have a some work to do LOL

[@sonyamarable2665]

Great lessons

[@gregfoust203]

Excellent

[@shannonstamper1581]

Working on lessons one through ten now and I'll do those for a year then move on

[@shannonstamper1581]

Just starting this lesson

[@Marebearsthere]

Peggy!!!! I Love you

[@vonnagalejohnson2921]

Are they any way that you can have certain words like water, food, main words that you would use in a sentence spoken, and Cherokee

[@JoseMartinez-xc6qs]

Cool

[@shannon8666]

Portsmouth Ohio

[@shannon8666]

I am jalagi k

[@Dahnawa_Agvhnage]

Great lesson overall - but we shouldn’t say “Na asgaya tla ajalgi yigi” followed by the reasoning of him being “agvhnage”. There are now and always have been so-called “black" Cherokee people - myself being one of them (and no I don’t mean mixed African slaves). We’re all over the Spanish colonial records, etc. Connotative linguistics and European racial constructs are the very thing that disbanded our people and language in the first place, and we need to be more aware at this point in history. Especially when formally educating ourselves and others.

[@Pherrora]

Wado!

[@mightymite3958]

Well yoneg usually = all of NDN history with aniyonega , who wants to be calles a white boy lol or who wants to be accused of acting white lol