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Ornament and Identity: Language Reclamation of the Native American RECEIVED: 31.01.2016 PUBLISHED ONLINE: 31.05.2019 ORNAMENT AND IDENTITY LANGUAGE RECLAMATION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN GROUPS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES1 BARTOSZ HLEBOWICZ With very few exceptions, Native American languages along the Eastern Coast stopped being used between 1750 and 1850. Almost all of them are presently classified on the last levels of the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale: from “Shifting” to “Extinct”. The article presents the state of language disruption among the various Native American groups that originate from the Eastern Coast. It also reviews the efforts of its reclamation, as well as discusses the functions language reclamation may fulfil in situation when speech communities that would provide natural contexts for the language transmission no longer exist. keywords: Native American languages, Eastern tribes, endangered languages, language reclamation, speech community focus on1 the languages of the Native nations by the U.S. federal government, some American peoples who inhabit or once of their non­Indian neighbors and sometimes inhabited the Atlantic Seaboard of the even by other Indian tribes. Thus, what may be AUnited States and Canada reveals their today’s called ethnic revival and community rebuild­ challenges. These begin with a lengthy period ing among the Native Americans in the East is of contact with immigrating Europeans and par alleled by political struggle and cultural re­ then their descendants that produced destruc­ vival. Language reclamation is part of this larger tion of many native communities, pushing in­ process. habitants out of their homelands, and often amalgamating survivors with other peoples, including members of other tribes, as well as present situation on the white and black people, to the extent that to­ eastern coast day their connection with their historical native groups sometimes is untraceable. This in turn The Eastern Coast at the time of contact with confuses their sense of identity and makes ex­ the Europeans was inhabited by the people tremely difficult their search for their heritage speaking languages belonging to several lin­ language. This is also a political issue as some guistic families: Algonquian (covering the lar­ of those tribes are not recognized as Indian gest part of the coast: from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in Canada along the Atlantic Seaboard southward to North Carolina), 1 This is an extended version of the essay that was published in 2015 in the American Indian Culture: From Counting Iroquoian (present New York State and North Coup to Wampum, (2 volumes), edited by Bruce E. Carolina), and Siouan­Catawba (North and Johansen, ABC­CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA – Denver, CO. South Carolinas). Also, further south, there INDIGENA 6 2019 55 ORNAMENT AND IDENTITY were numerous, usually small groups speaking spoken by the Micmacs who live in several languages belonging to at least ten other fam­ communities in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, ilies (e.g. extinct Timucuan in Georgia and Prince Edward Island, Quebec in Canada Florida) and possibly many other which due and in Maine as well as in the city of Boston. to their scarce documentation cannot be as­ According to the 2011 Census of Canada (great cribed to any family with any certainty, which majority of Micmac speakers live in Canada) is especially a case of the vast areas of Southeast over 8,000 people, which is less than half of the (Goddard 2005). population, know Micmac, and 80% of them With very few exceptions, languages along speak it at home. Ethnologue, the website doc­ the Eastern Coast stopped being used be­ umenting the state of language loss all over the tween 1750 and 1850 (Rees­Miller 1998, 540; world, in 2019 gives even smaller number of Rudes 2011: 190). Again, with very few ex­ fluent speakers: 6,900 (Eberhard et al. 2019, s.v. ceptions, the languages of the Eastern Coast Mi’kmaq). However, children learn some of it are presently classified on the last levels of the only in very few communities, and there are EGIDS scale: from “Shifting” to “Extinct”. communities in which it is no longer spoken EGIDS (Expanded Graded Intergenerational at all (Aboriginal languages in Canada: Table 1, Disruption Scale) is a 0­10 scale that measures Figure 2; Golla 2008: 62). the level of “disruption to the intergenera t ional Much more vibrant are Central Algonquian transmission of the language” (Eberhard et al. languages of Subarctic Attikameks (three 2019: s.v. Language Status). Level 0, la belled communities in south­central Quebec), “International,” means the “The language is Montagnais and Naskapi (eastern Quebec widely used between nations in trade, knowl­ and Labrador). For example in the same 2011 edge exchange, and international policy,” and Census 5,100 Attikameks declared speaking level 10, labelled “Extinct,” means “The lan­ their language (over 97% said they were using it guage is no longer used and no one retains at home), but these 5,100 composed almost the a sense of ethnic identity associated with the total population of Attikameks. Since it is used language” (Eberhard et al. 2019: s.v. Language by all generations and by almost all the mem­ Status). The level 7, labelled “Shifting,” means bers of Attikamek communities, its transmis­ “The child­bearing generation can use the lan­ sion seems secure (Ethnologue; Aboriginal lan- guage among themselves, but it is not being guages in Canada: Figure 2; First Nation Profiles: transmitted to children.” “Extinct” is the Atikamekw Sipi). Montagnais is spoken in sev­ last, tenth level, and means “The language is eral (but not all) communities by the majority no longer used and no one retains a sense of of the population. Naskapi and Attikamek yet ethnic identity associated with the language” few years ago were classified as “developing” (Eberhard et al. 2019: s.v. Language Status). (level 5 on the EGIDS scale: “The language is in Those few exceptions among the languages of vigorous use, with literature in a standardized the Eastern Coast are the languages, which, form being used by some though this is not although having high percentage of fluent yet widespread or sustainable”, Eberhard et al. speakers in each generation, are losing speak­ 2019, s.v. Atikamekw), but recently Naskapi was ers. They are labeled “Threatened” (level 6b): reclassified and put on a higher, fourth level “The language is used for face­to­face commu­ – “Educational” (“The language is in vigorous nication within all generations, but it is lo­ use, with standardization and literature being sing users” (Eberhard et al. 2019: s.v. Language sustained through a widespread system of in­ Status). Micmac, the northernmost langu­ stitutionally supported education”) (Eberhard age among Eastern Algonquian languages, is et al. 2019, s.v. Naskapi, Language Status). 56 INDIGENA 6 2019 BARTOSZ HLEBOWICZ Montagnais is considered a “threatened” lan­ Seneca reservations in western New York State; guage (level 6b on the EGIDS scale) (Eberhard Oneida: perhaps only about 60 Oneida speakers et al. 2019, s.v. Montagnais; Golla 2008: 64­65). in the reserve in southern Ontario, and probably The other language of the region with a large no fluent speaker left in Wisconsin and upstate percentage of Native American mother­tongue New York Oneida communities (Eberhard speakers (but still labeled “threatened”), and et al. 2019, s.v. Nottoway, Oneida, Onondaga, the only one of the Iroquoian family, is that Tuscarora, Wyandot; Dubinski 2012; Hlebowicz of the Mohawks (Northern Iroquoian branch) et al. 2004). Further south the Cherokee, who live on several reservations and reserves a Southern Iroquoian language, has survived in the United States and Canada, in upstate and is spoken by some of the Cherokee de­ New York, Ontario and Quebec. There are scendants in their homelands in western North probably more than 3,000 Mohawk speakers, Carolina and the descendants of the Cherokees most of whom come from Akwesasne (St. moved to Indian Territory / Oklahoma in the Regis) community that spreads over the Saint nineteenth century. Lawrence River on both sides of Canadian­ Other Eastern Coast languages still in use ­American border. Mohawk is being taught are Mikasuki and Muskogee (Creek) in Florida, at immersion primary schools (including pre­ spoken by Miccosukee and Seminole people ­kindergarten programs) in the communities (in four of five Florida Seminole communities of Kahnawake (Kahnawake Survival School) Mikasuki is spoken, in the fifth one Muskogee). and Akwesasne (Freedom School), both started Muskogee is also spoken by between 4,000 and in 1979­1980, as well as at immersion schools 6,000 Creeks and Seminoles in Oklahoma. on other Mohawk reservations. There are also Muskogee is considered a “shifting” language other schools on the reservations (e.g. Mohawk whereas Mikasuki – “threatened” (Eberhard et Board of Education of Akwesasne runs Mohawk al. 2019, s.v. Mikasuki, Muskogee; Golla 2008: immersion classrooms in the Skahwatsi:ra 43, 63). Program) on and off the reservation. In Akwe­ Passamaquoddy­Maliseet, an Eastern Algon­ sasne, traditional teaching classes have been or­ quian language of the people living in New ganized for the students who complete pri­ Brunswick and Maine, is the only other Native mary schools. Various programs are organized American language on the Eastern Coast that to teach the language to the adults (e.g. on the can be still heard in spoken form. Out of be­ Six Nations reserve, Ontario) or to the tribal tween 3,000 and 4,000 Passamaquoddy and staff (Akwesasne)
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