Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the
Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way provides a comprehensive
textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak
and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. Mark
Awakuni-Swetland, Vida Woodhull Stabler, Aubrey Streit Krug, Loren
Frerichs, and Rory Larson have collaborated with elder speakers,
including Alberta Grant Canby, Emmaline Walker Sanchez, Marcella
Woodhull Cavou, and Donna Morris Parker, to write this book. The
original and creative pedagogical method used in this
textbook-teaching the Omaha language through Omaha culture-consists
of a structured series of lesson plans. It is the result of a
generous collaboration between the Department of Anthropology at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Umo nhon Language and
Culture Center at Umo nhon Nation Public School in Macy, Nebraska.
The method draws on the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of
Awakuni-Swetland to illustrate the Omaha values of balance and
integration. The contents are shaped into two parts, each of which
complements the other-just as the Earth and Sky do. This textbook
features an introduction by Awakuni-Swetland on the history and
phonology of the Omaha language; lessons from the Umo nhon Language
and Culture Center at Macy, with a writing system quick sheet;
situation quick sheets; lessons on games; lessons on spring,
summer, fall, and winter; an Omaha language resource list; and a
glossary in the standard Macy orthography of the Omaha language.
The textbook also includes cultural lessons in the language by
Awakuni-Swetland and lessons from the Omaha language class at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Omaha Language and the Omaha
Way offers a linguistic foundation for tribal members, students,
scholars, and laypersons, featuring Omaha community lessons, the
standard Macy orthography, and UNL orthography all under one cover.
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