3/16/2024 0 Comments Comanche language extinction![]() ![]() You can bet that I would have taken Osage Language as a World Language credit if I had the option. “I did not have this opportunity when I was in high school ten years ago. Satepauhoodle also teaches Osage II at Skiatook High School. When the opportunity came for her to become a certified Osage Language teacher, she took it. Prior to her job with the ONLD she worked at the Nation’s Wahzhazhe Early Learning Academies, speaking Osage to infants and toddlers. ![]() It’s Satepauhoodle’s first year to teach at the high school level. SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News Osage language teacher Cherylyn Satepauhoodle watches as her students write Osage words on the dry erase board on Sept. SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News Hominy High School students race to the board to write Osage words in the orthography in their Osage II class on Sept. Osage II class at Hominy High School on Sept. It was fun watching the students as they excitedly yelled out sounds to help their teammates with the orthography and they jumped up and down when they were winning, or when they were losing. They ran back to hand off the dry erase marker and it was a relay – which team could spell the Osage word the fastest. The teams formed two lines and as Satepauhoodle called out the Osage word, the first two students ran to the board to write the first letter of the word in the Osage orthography. It’s obvious they’ve played the game before because there was some significant bartering over Ryan Shadlow. ![]() They jumped up from their chairs and began excitedly picking teams. But then, Satepauhoodle announced they were going to play a game and the students’ eyes lit up. One by one the students wrote the phrases, and it was business as usual. 27 at Hominy High School, Cherylyn Satepauhoodle, Hominy District, instructed her students to write Osage phrases on the dry erase board. High schools that currently include Osage I and Osage II as World Language credits for graduation are Woodland, Pawhuska, Hominy High School, Skiatook High School and now Bartlesville High School. The students were Norris Allred, Christen Ballard, Charlsie Cunningham, Josephine Horsechief, Jessica Hutson, Joseph Pratt, Trey Rulo, Jeremie Tuller, Michaela White, Dora Williams, Jamison Cass and Robynn Rulo. The PHS Assistant Principal at the time, Martin Parks, dedicated a plaque with the names of the first 12 students in commemoration. The first high school on the reservation to offer an Osage language class was Pawhuska High School and it was taught by Osage Minerals Councilman Talee Redcorn. They base their curriculum on the World Language Standards set by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. The ONLD has been teaching Osage language classes in area high schools on the reservation since 2009. Andy Dossett/Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise Osage language teacher Corey Maker teaches Osage at Bartlesville High School. However, the ONLD has a program to certify teachers in the Osage language and Maker achieved that certification to teach at Bartlesville. Maker is Osage, Hominy District, and interned with the Osage Nation Language Department (ONLD) in 2018 but is not currently employed by the ONLD. Bartlesville is outside the Osage reservation boundaries and the course will be taught by Corey Maker. ![]() Last month, headlines were made when Bartlesville High School announced it would offer the Osage language as a world language credit for the first time. When asked why they wanted to take the Osage language for their World Language credit instead of languages like Spanish or French, Aaron Watts said, “Because it’s our Osage culture and we want to carry it on.” Watts is a junior and from the Grayhorse District.īowman and Watts are just two of many students on the reservation taking Osage language courses at their high schools to graduate. Translation: Hello, how are you, I’m Chase. One by one, they each stand and state their name, district, Osage name and clan.Ĭhase Bowman, a junior, went first: “□□□□ □□□□ Chase. Moore, Grayhorse District, asks the students to stand and introduce themselves. 26, the students are listening to their language teacher Tracey Moore as she teaches them the names of the positions of the Inlonshka, foods and greetings. Osage language students at Woodland High School are learning Inlonshka terms ahead of the Pawhuska dances, which take place in October this year. ![]()
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