#Wukchumni

[chainsawpunk]

Mary Dick Topino (aka Mrs. Britches), Wukchumni Yokuts, (c. 1863/68-1923), a polychrome basket of deep bowl form designed with a line of male and figures holding hands below the rim, with a concentric diamond band below, height 9 1/4in, diameter 21in

[pwlanier]

Wukchumni Yokuts Friendship Basket, attributed to Mary

Dick Topino (1863 or 1868-1923), known as "Mrs Britches"

Sotheby’s

[folksaintsindex]

St. Marie Wilcox, linguist & terminal speaker of Wukchumni

[coe-aildi]

This weekend, check out language stories by community members themselves!

Less than 200 years ago, 90 Native languages and as many as 300 dialects were spoken in California. Today, only half are spoken but ambitious projects are revitalizing them. 

Join us in listening to Emergence Magazine's Webby Award winning Language Keepers podcast on the stories of Wukchumni, Karuk, Kawaiisu, & Tolowa Dee-ni'.

 https://emergencemagazine.org/story/language-keepers

[zhaleys]

Queer and Native Identities

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[thatwritererinoriordan]

Wanna see something pure and good? Check out this project to enrich some of California’s indigenous languages. 

[jillianleedy]

This short documentary tells the story of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the dictionary she created in an effort to keep her language alive.

So cool!!

[samteague-blog]

Marie's Dictionary

[smugrocknation]

Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language from Extinction, Dies at 87

The subject of a Times Op-Doc, she was the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni and spent 20 years producing the first complete dictionary of its vocabulary.

[whileiamdying]

What is it like to see the universe in a way no one ever has before? In “Earthrise,” this week’s new Op-Doc, the astronauts of Apollo 8 tell the tale of humanity’s first journey beyond Earth’s orbit. Director Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee — who previously directed the Op-Docs “Sanctuaries of Silence,” “Vanishing Island” and “Who Speaks Wukchumni?” — masterfully weaves archival NASA footage and candid interviews with the astronauts themselves to explore what deep space means for the human spirit. More from The New York Times Video: Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n Watch all of our videos here: https://ift.tt/PUhKdt Facebook: https://ift.tt/1V5Qsm6 Twitter: https://twitter.com/nytvideo ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.

[wanderlustbuddy]

Fewer than 200 remaining tribe members know the Wukchumni language—here is how one woman hopes to keep the dying language alive https://t.co/Qb8G8YNBrz https://t.co/OM2cWf7Rlq

Fewer than 200 remaining tribe members know the Wukchumni language—here is how one woman hopes to keep the dying language alive https://t.co/Qb8G8YNBrz http://pic.twitter.com/OM2cWf7Rlq

— Happy Wanderlust (@wanderlustbuddy) December 9, 2017

Fewer than 200 remaining tribe members know the Wukchumni language—here is how one woman hopes to keep the dying language alive https://t.co/Qb8G8YNBrz https://t.co/OM2cWf7Rlq

[academicxindigenous-blog]

The Triggering

You know that awkward moment when you’re in a lecture hall crying because you get high key triggered by imagery presented in your lecture? No, just me? Ok… Well, this seems to be a recurring theme for me this quarter.

The First Time: I walk into my intro to NAS class and the professor puts on a youtube video. It’s Taboo’s song he did for Standing Rock. I think to myself “This should be interesting. I’ve heard so much about this song and video, but never heard it”. Next thing I know damn near 30 seconds into the video I start seeing all the imagery of police at Standing Rock and the tears begin. A little back story: Last year around this time I was at Oceti Sakowin. Myself and a group of people headed off to ND from the Bay Area for the week of Thanksgiving. It was a time I’ll never forget. It was also a time I never really processed (my current realization). We arrived into camp on the night that the militarized police sprayed water protectors with water cannons in sub-freezing temperatures. I remember vividly sitting in the car around an hour outside of camp when everyone's phones started blowing up with FB live videos of the brutality occurring at Camp. We stopped and gathered as a caravan. Our spiritual leader and the elder that was traveling with us was a Wailaki man named Coyote. He told us “We came here to a job and we will do it. I know it’s scary but it's our duty”. As we arrived at camp we were traveling with an Army vet who is a trained medic. When we asked where we should send him to help we were told to “drive until we see the chaos”. I remember standing on Backwater Bridge just after the spraying stopped and having the realization that I could be shot with a foam tipped bullet or hit with a concussion grenade for just standing there. In that moment in class I had this resurgence of fear and pain and was suffering in silence.

The Second Time: In that same class the next week we were discussing the genocide of California Natives. As a California Native (Wukchumni Yokuts, Shoutout to nim inyana yokitsa) it was extremely traumatizing to cover the genocide of your ancestors in brutally graphic detail. When I say detail, I mean extremely explicit details of the fucked up shit that settlers were doing.

I’m still in the process of discovering ways to handle/Navigate this stuff...so DM me with the tips if you got them.

-Q

[georgianlit]

Who Speaks Wukchumni?