Volume II Issue 10, Spring 2012 Langscape Breaking the Language Barrier: a Biocultural Approach to Documenting Oral Literature Terralingua unity in biocultural diversity Table of Contents For the Grandmothers: A note from the Editor Ortixia Dilts, Terralingua Guest Editorial: The Nature and Function of Oral Literature Dr. George Appell, Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research Part I Voices of the Earth Articles, Perspectives and Stories from Africa, the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada and the Pacific. Part 2 Documenting Oral Literature: Theory and Methods Dr. George Appell Fellowships for the Collection of Oral Literature and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Join Terralingua Support Terralingua Share the Knowledge: Take Part in the Langscape Movement About Terralingua Excerpt from SXIÁM TŦE SPÁ,ET I TŦE SQTO (The Bear and the Raven). Page 30. Langscape is a Terralingua publication To learn more about Terralingua please visit our website at: www.terralingua.org Edited by Ortixia Dilts, Creative Designer, Terralingua,
[email protected] Cover: Tony Dold Umsobomvu (the rosy face of the morning), Banner credits: Langscape II,10 contributors | 3 A for th e grandmoth ers... When the soldiers came with their guns, the grandmothers sat on stumps and hid the children and the sacred medicine bundles beneath their big skirts. When they were shot, they just sat there, up strong, with their arms crossed, never budging. They were dead, and still they sat up strong. And in that way the children and medicines were saved. his teaching was given to me by a friend and As the diversity of the world’s languages is lost, T elder on why the women wear dresses in the so is the treasure of knowledge and teachings sweat lodge.