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Chetco Upland Takelma D Klamath Tolowa aku Yapa-tika — Atway Tekips (Dan Motanic) be te de Agai-tika Shasta Modo c Gidi-tika MAJOR NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES OF OREGON UTO-AZTECAN Northern Paiute Gwi-nidi-ba Wa-dihtchi-tiki, Hu-nipwi-tika, Patihichi-tika, Walpapi, Wada-tika, Agai-tika, Yapa-tika, Gidi-tika (Gidu-Tikadu), Gwi-nidi-ba HOKAN Shasta ATHABASCAN Clatckanie, Tututni Yukichetunne, Tututni, Mikonotunne, Chemetunne, Chetleshin, Kwaishtunnetunne, Taitushtuntede (Galice), Kwatami, Upper Coquille, Upper Umpqua, Shasta Costa, Chetco, Tolowa, Dakubetede SALISHAN Tillamook PENUTIAN COOSAN Hanis, Miluk CHINOOKAN Lower Chinookan Clatsop, Cathlamet Kiksht (Upper Chinookan) Multnomah, Clackamas, Cascades, Wasco TAKELMAN-KALAPUYAN Tualatan, Kalapooia, Yoncalla, Takelma, Upland Takelma, Cow Creek PLATEAU PENUTIAN NE Sahaptin, NW Sahaptin, Columbia River Sahaptin Nez Perce Molalla Klamath/Modoc CAYUSE Cayuse OTHERS Alsea Siuslaw Experience OREGON Grades 3–5 Unit Pre-Visit Lesson Three This curriculum may be successfully used with or without a museum visit. Developed by Sarah Anderson and David Martinez in consultation with OHS staff and advisory board. Oregon Historical Society Experience Oregon Curriculum • Grades 3–5 • Page 1 Pre-Visit Lesson Three Overview: Students learn about chinuk wawa and other Indigenous languages. Geography and They consider the relationship among languages, people groups, and Language Groups geography. Tribal History, › chinuk wawa, 4th grade ELA lesson Shared History › Language Revitalization, 4th grade health lesson › Geography and Mapping Traditional Lands, 4th grade social science lesson Essential Question(s) › What people groups lived in Oregon since time immemorial, and where did they live? › How does geography help create culture? Delivery Time Two 30-minute class periods. May need more or less time depending on grade level and students’ prior knowledge. Academic Terms that teachers may have already defined with their students, Vocabulary and are not necessarily specific to historical studies. › Language Family Content Specific Terms that are explicitly defined and may be unique to this unit or Vocabulary not common in other areas of study. › Chinuk Wawa: An intertribal hybrid language indigenous to the Pacific Northwest. (Source: Tribal History, Shared History) › Lingua Franca: A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different. (source: Tribal History, Shared History) › Pre-contact: The historical time period before Europeans made contact with Native peoples in the Americas. › Territory: The geographic regions where a Tribe traditionally lived, fished, hunted, and conducted the seasonal rounds. › Tribe: Refers to a group of Indigenous people that share similar cultural, social, political, and/or economic characteristics. In this pre- contact context, this is not limited to federally recognized Tribes. (Adapted from the Grand Ronde 4th grade curriculum). According to the National Congress of American Indians, the term Tribe is today used interchangeably with tribal nations, nations, bands, pueblos, communities, and Native villages. Oregon Historical Society Experience Oregon Curriculum • Grades 3–5 • Page 2 Background Educator background information to read before lesson: Information for › American Indian Languages of Western Oregon, Lane Community Educator College (2 pgs) › Chinuk Wawa, The Oregon Encyclopedia › Intro to Native Lands website, Native-Lands.ca Chinuk wawa was developed by Native people along the Columbia River to communicate with traders, explorers, and settlers. For a time the language was the most common language of communication between all of the peoples in the region — Tribes, settlers, explorers, and fur traders. (Adapted from the Grand Ronde 4th grade curriculum). Materials Needed › Chinuk Wawa app, The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, downloaded onto a device, with amplification if necessary › Video: Tony Johnson interview on the chinuk wawa language (01:48 mins), Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal › Native Lands website (interactive territories, treaties, and language maps) › Copies of Native American Tribes and Language Groups and the Oregon Ecoregions map. Or you can project the maps with these slides. › Projector or individual computers or shared/individual devices (tablets or laptops) › Base maps that students have already started › Pencils and colored pencils Step by Step PART ONE Instructions Step One We started this unit with the Molalla story of Coyote and Grizzly. Now we are going to hear it again. Play the audio “Coyote and Grizzly in chinuk” for the class (found on the Chinuk Wawa app, under “Culture Notes,” and “Audio”). Play about one minute of the three-minute recording. Clearly, students will recognize that it is in a different language. Ask if anyone knows this language. If no one guesses, tell them that the language is known as chinuk wawa, and it originated with the Chinookan people. Go back and play the audio “Coyote and Grizzly in English” (2:36 mins). See if students notice any differences between this telling and the one they heard in lesson one. Oregon Historical Society Experience Oregon Curriculum • Grades 3–5 • Page 3 Step by Step Step Two Instructions Go back into the Chinook Wawa app, and teach a few chinuk wawa (continued) words using the “Language” section. You could learn greetings, family members, animals, or words from many other categories. Tell students that they will see an old dictionary of chinuk wawa when they visit the Oregon Historical Society. Traders and early immigrants used it to translate chinuk wawa into English and vice versa. Step Three Chinuk wawa can tell us a lot about the various people who lived in the Oregon region since time immemorial. Watch the Tony Johnson video on the chinuk wawa language. After the video, review with students the description that Tony gives of chinuk wawa being a “pre-contact pidgin language” by defining the termspre-contact and “pidgin language.” Explain that “pidgin language is another way of saying lingua franca, the term used in Tribal History, Shared History. PART TWO Step One Explain that the reason chinuk wawa was developed was because there were so many people living in this area who spoke many different languages. Some of the languages had similarities and were considered part of the same language family. But other languages were as different from each other as English is from Japanese! There are very few places in the world where so many languages were spoken in such a small area. In fact, in the western region of Oregon, from the Pacific Ocean to the Cascades, as many as 17 different languages were spoken. Chinuk wawa developed as a second language for many bands of Native people. The shared language was learned by the different bands so that they could readily communicate with each other as they traveled into each other’s lands to trade, visit relatives, gather, and/or hunt food. Step Two Language is an important aspect of each person’s culture and life, and the many different Oregon Tribes spoke different languages. Do you know what language was primarily spoken in this area aside from possibly chinuk wawa? Let’s look. Project the Native Lands website map, with settings set on “languages.” You can use the search bar to locate your city or town. What language is associated with your area? Oregon Historical Society Experience Oregon Curriculum • Grades 3–5 • Page 4 Step by Step Step Three Instructions Now switch the setting on the Native Lands map from “languages” to (continued) “territories.” Note the Native peoples from your area and then zoom out a bit to get a bigger picture so students can see how territories overlap with each other. Ask students why there might be overlaps in the “boundaries and territories” (have them compare it to a map of the United States, with clear state borders). Have students share out with a partner and then the whole group. Explain to students that, although different Tribes had established some “territorial boundaries,” they also shared some of these lands for various purposes. For some, their use of land was seasonal as opposed to year-round. This is why we see overlaps in territories. Making a map of Native peoples’ territories is complex because there was often not a clear line between where one territory ended and another began. It is increasingly complex in those areas where multiple Tribes shared the same land or resource. Step Four Keeping the information from step five in mind, project the Native American Tribes and Language Groups map from the Oregon Student Atlas. Then show them the map showing Oregon Ecoregions. Give students a few minutes to study the maps, going back and forth.