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    âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

    I want to talk about reclaiming your traditional language, not the how, but rather the things that come up during the journey. It starts with the hard question, "Why don't you speak your language?"

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      2. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        For a lot of folks, the answer to that question is fraught with a lot of history and violence. But before that, is the feeling of shame, or even of guilt, for not being fluent in spite of all that history. After all, aren't things "better now?" Should that history matter?

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      3. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        It's very common for people to simply internalize all this, to think of it as a personal failing. That has to change. The transmission of language is not an individual choice, it requires a community. Were you surrounded by your language, fluency wouldn't be a choice.

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      4. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        Nonetheless a lot of us really buy into this "if I wanted it, I'd do it" mentality and then constantly beat ourselves up for not becoming amazingly fluent all on our own. That's where a historical/social analysis can help a bit. But oh, if you think it clears up the feelings...

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      5. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        Nevermind. Start with that first question, "Why don't you speak your language?" Is it because you're lazy and don't value it? NO. Again, if you were raised in a natural, fluent environment, you'd come out, if not totally amazingly fluent, at least some level of fluent.

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      6. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        A lot of families make a deliberate choice to not pass on language because of hostile sociopolitical factors wherever they are living. There is a common belief that children of migrants in particular, will find more success with the dominant language, and it's true!

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      7. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        It's true because the society people find themselves in often makes it true, punishing and marginalizing "outsiders," particularly when they don't "speak right." Those forces are SO POWERFUL. More powerful than your individual desire to reclaim your language!

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      8. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        Add to that a history of violent repression of your language and culture, something so many peoples have experienced, and at some point you need to release yourself from the burden of responsibility for why you don't speak your traditional language.

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      9. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        As you're thinking about this though, that history of violence and repression is so awful, and damaging. It changes language reclamation from a fun thing you can choose to do, into a sacred responsibility. A burden. That can really make things difficult as well.

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      10. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        If your language is "endangered" especially. But let's be clear, your language is endangered because it's been slowly killed off, deliberately, it didn't happen because your language is somehow less viable, less able to survive!

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      11. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        Feeling like you MUST reclaim your language before it dies is a really intense burden. So there are all these really negative feelings, before you even start to look for a way to learn your language! Shame, guilt, inadequacy, horror at the history of all of this, etc.

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      12. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        People need to understand that this is a common experience for many Indigenous peoples, and many people of colour. It impacts the ability to learn, and if it's ignored, folks often just give up.

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      13. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        So you've got all that going on, and you start looking for opportunities to learn your language. If your language has many speakers around the world, you might have some more opportunities. If yours is an Indigenous language, it's almost certain the access is limited.

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      14. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        You can attend community conversations classes, which are often drop-in, and so rarely get beyond the basics. You probably have to take a university course, and in most cases, there's only one Indigenous language represented. So you might not even have that opportunity.

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      15. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        Okay well imagine that you somehow manage to get access to the University class. And it's full of people from outside your culture who are having a grand, fun time learning.

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      16. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        But you go home crying sometimes, because you can't seem to learn as fast as you wanted, and you're struggling. The course is all about grammar and memorization and the accent of the instructor is different than what you're used to.

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      17. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        Maybe you find out that the bits of the language you do know, mixed in with English, aren't "proper." Maybe classmates "helpfully" correct your grammar and pronunciation. Maybe there are stars in the class who seem to learn so easily, who speak a bunch of languages.

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      18. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        Maybe you do well! But you find you can't speak the language, just read it and write it. Folks back home make fun of your stilted language use, or laugh when you make mistakes. You stop trying. You feel more shame. You feel like you failed.

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      19. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        If we don't talk about all of this, all the impediments to learning your traditional language, we all but guarantee that students will keep having these common experiences, never knowing that they ARE common. They will blame themselves. They will find themselves lacking.

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      20. âpihtawikosisân (on hiatus)‏Verified account @apihtawikosisan 27 May 2020

        When we divorce learning from the learner, and pretend that we do not have to address these things as instructors, we perpetuate and make larger the impediments that violently de-tongued people in the first place.

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