Halito!
I'm half Choctaw, my dad is full choctaw but half from the mississippi band and half from the band of choctaws that walked the trail of tears to oklahoma. the other half of me is serbian, my mom came here as a refugee from the former yugoslavia.
is anyone else here Choctaw? does anyone speak their native language (not necessarily choctaw)?
Yokoke. Peace.
D ago Te. I've posted on here before that I do have American Indian blood (1/4 Apache) and I speak some words in the White Mountain region's language.
"'Hey," my father said as we passed by an old indian man. "That was Jimmy Shi t Pants.'"
chingys bubu, I'm posting this in the off-chance that you might actually read it. I learned a Western Apache phrase over the weekend and I wanted to share it with someone, except you're the only Apache I know of. So, whether you want it or not, here it is: t’iis bitl’ ah tu 'olii'. It means (are you ready for this) "water flows inward underneath a cottonwood tree." Profound isn't it? I'm just not sure what that means.
You are the Spalding Gray of crap.
Oh hey girl what's up? Yeah I've heard that saying from my grandparents. It's pretty isn't it. Thanks for sharing that with me. Where or how did you learn that? It's a little bit hard to understand because even though the different regions of Apache have similar words, they're spelled different.
"'Hey," my father said as we passed by an old indian man. "That was Jimmy Shi t Pants.'"
I met an American who grew up in San Carlos on the Apache res in Arizona. He was teaching me some Western Apache phrases and trying to flirt with me at the same time, I didn't go for it. I also remember k'ad means "now" and godiyaana means "in the beginning." Some of the letters have accents over or thru them, but when I try to use them they don't translate in the imdb system.
He told me that there are 3 main Apache language groups: Western Apache (or San Carlos), Tonto Apache, and White Mountain. That's when everything I learned in my Native American Languages class that I took in college started to come back to me. I had to read a book about the Western Apache by Keith Basso. I think that saying I told you in the previous post is also in the book, so I guess it is a popular phrase.
You are the Spalding Gray of crap.
Really? That's great! I didn't know you studied our language? Thanks for helping to keep our tounge alive!!
I'm White Mountain Apache, maybe that's where some of the confusion comes from. One second I think I have a website that shows the difference between the different region's language...http://www.native-languages.org/apache_words.htm
See how there's kinda a difference between the spelling of the Jicarilla spelling and Western spelling? Anyhoo, for ya'll indians who want to learn some more words and re-connect with their native words, that's a good website!!
"'Hey," my father said as we passed by an old indian man. "That was Jimmy Shi t Pants.'"
Thanks for the website.
I thought I'd add my own ancestral language as well:
http://www.native-languages.org/chumash_words.htm
You are the Spalding Gray of crap.
Glad to share I wonder in Wolf will find this thread again and teach us some words in Chippewa! Woot Woot!!
"'Hey," my father said as we passed by an old indian man. "That was Jimmy Shi t Pants.'"
We should pm it to him or just ask him to teach us some more Chippewa. I just realized that Wolfn looks a little like Val Kilmer. Do you see it?
You are the Spalding Gray of crap.
Yeah I do... especially that pose he has for his IMDB picture.
"'Hey," my father said as we passed by an old indian man. "That was Jimmy Shi t Pants.'"
Me.
Ask Gallus how old he is.
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I have Blackfoot, Apache, Navajo, and Comanche. Lots of Southwestern and Midwestern tribes.
shareCherokee from Dad's side and Creeks from Mom's side. I consider myself black, though.
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