Language Keepers, Episode 5: Kawaiisu

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Natural Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

For many Indigenous communities, the effort to document and learn from as many last speakers as possible is a race against time. In Episode Five of our “Language Keepers” podcast series we meet Julie Girado Turner, who, for nearly two decades, has been documenting and recording her father and aunt, the last remaining fluent speakers of the Kawaiisu language. Adapted from our award-winning multimedia story, “Language Keepers,” this six-part podcast series explores the struggle for Indigenous language survival in California. In each episode, we meet and learn from dedicated families and communities across the state who are working to revitalize their Native languages and cultures in order to pass them on to the next generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What are we going to do?
0:04.0	I'm going to ask you some questions.
0:05.0	You're going to answer some questions for me.
0:07.0	I'm going to interview you.
0:09.0	And I know, no.
0:11.0	Introduce yourself in the language.
0:13.0	Can you do that for me, please?
0:15.0	No, he did,
0:19.0	koi, you know,
0:20.0	not a niyaggedgut Luther Garado,
0:22.6	and I'm a Qadda,
0:26.6	my name is Luther Garado, one of the elders of the Kauaisu tribe,
0:35.6	and I speak to Kauai Su language fluently,
0:41.1	and I'm the last male speakers of the Kauai Su tribe.
0:46.8	Do you think I'll be fluent one day?
0:49.6	Yeah, you'll get there. I won't be the fluent speaker.
0:57.0	Some of it I just don't get.
0:59.0	I'm just like, I know this.
1:02.0	And it just rattles around in my head.
1:05.0	And I used to have this big dictionary roll around in my head
1:07.0	and didn't know all the pieces to go together.
1:09.0	And I have all the pieces to go together and I can't stick them together because it's still rattling around on my head.
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