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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.
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.
After the Omaha Nation was officially granted its reservation land
in northeastern Nebraska in 1854, Omaha culture appeared to succumb
to a Euro-American standard of living under the combined onslaught
of federal Indian policies, governmental officials, and missionary
zealots. At the same time, however, new circular wooden structures
appeared on some Omaha homesteads. Blending into the architectural
environment of the mainstream culture, these lodges provided the
ritual space in which dances and ceremonies could be conducted at a
time when such practices were coercively suppressed. Drawing on the
oral histories of forty Omaha elders collected in 1992, "Dance
Lodges of the Omaha People" provides insights into how these lodges
shaped Omaha cultural identity and illustrates the adaptive
abilities of the modern Omaha tribe. The lodges replaced the
diminished prereservation tribal institutions as maintainers of
tribal cohesion and unity and at the same time provided an arena
for selective acculturation of outside ideas and behaviors. A new
afterword by the author highlights advances in research on these
unique structures since 1992 and speculates on the connection
between these lodges and the spread of the Omaha Hethushka dance
across the Great Plains.
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