Uto-aztecan

Wednesday, 09 August 2023

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Indian tacos and fry bread – a delicious history

The Hawk Eye 04 Aug 2023

Standing Bear Council will host an Indian Taco and Fry bread Supper on Saturday, Aug. 5, at the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) building at 1720 Blondeau St.(18th and Blondeau) from 4.30-7 p.m ... The “Desert People” continue to speak a derivative of the Uto-Aztecan language with dialectal differences ... Ave ... Baseline Blvd ... .

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How second- and third-generation Latinos are reclaiming the Spanish language

Hastings Tribune 02 Feb 2023

When Christina Mangurian's abuelita was diagnosed with leukemia, Mangurian and her mother were very involved in the older woman's care ... Mangurian's first language is English, and her abuelita's first language was Spanish ... How language is lost ... Today, Mexico's official languages are Spanish and Nahuatl — an Uto-Aztecan language ... There is a way ... .

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Tamales are more than just a holiday tradition, restaurant owners say

The Galveston Daily News 31 Dec 2022

GALVESTON ... Many people eat black-eyed peas for wealth, good luck and health for the new year ... “We have crews coming in at 4 a.m ... Nahuatl is a group of closely related Uto-Aztecan languages that include the language of several Mesoamerican civilizations of what is now central and southern Mexico and Central America, according to online sources ... ....

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CSUSB student determined to revive and preserve California’s Indigenous languages

Longview News-Journal 16 Nov 2022

IECN. SAN BERNARDINO -- “Hakup ye’aye’a’n taamit ya’ki’ nepuuyum?” says Araujo-Levinson in Serrano. “Beautiful day isn’t it, my friends?”. “Werre’! Haminat!” the students reply in unison. “Yes! Hello!” ... Serrano, a subset of the Uto-Aztecan language, is an Indigenous California language thought to be more than 2,500 years old ... His goal ... I think Mr ... Source.

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Indigenous Language Reclamation Efforts Expand at Harvard

The Harvard Crimson 30 Sep 2022

This summer, Amy E. Chalán Vacacela ’24 opened the course catalog and clicked straight to the Ethnicity, Migration, Rights offerings. When EMR 151 ... The language is already alive.” ... In 2020, she co-founded the Mesoamerican Cultural Table to study Nahuatl, a Uto-Aztecan language, with other Indigenous students and interested community members ... ” ... .

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"Juana Maria", The Mystery Woman Stranded For 18 Years Off The Coast Of California

IFL Science 02 Sep 2022

... relatively unique – modern analyses based on the very few words we do know she used has placed it as living on the Takic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, similar to the Tongva and Tataviam languages that were once widespread across what is now Los Angeles County. .

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House of healing: the Honduran sanctuary for female rights defenders

The Observer 03 Jan 2022

A milky-white and sky-blue stone hangs from a red string around Ethels Correa’s neck, and every so often she rubs it between her fingers ... “I carry it with me all the time.” ... “I look beautiful.” ... La Siguata – which means “the woman” in the Uto-Aztecan Nahuatl language – sits behind high walls in the pine-covered mountains above the capital Tegucigalpa.

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American Indian/Indigenous Languages Seminar extends reach, becomes inclusive forum

Daily Bruin 26 Nov 2021

Linguistics 265A ... Over time, the original group of graduate students graduated and the seminar expanded to include the study of Indigenous languages from throughout the Americas and the world ... League said he primarily focuses on Uto-Aztecan languages and reached out to Munro, an expert on the language group ... The next seminar meeting on Nov ... .

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Incarcerated musicians' album full of trauma, hope

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 10 Oct 2021

Tenneson and his fellow musicians didn't need the space just to blow off steam or jam guitar during recreation hour ... That album — called "Tlaxihuiqui" (pronounced tla-she-wiki), which means "the calling of the spirits" in the Uto-Aztecan language of Nahuatl — was recorded over four days and released by Die Jim Crow Records in August ... Children dyin'.

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Google app aims to give new life to Louisiana Creole, other languages at risk of disappearing

The Advocate 07 May 2021

They are Yugambeh, an aboriginal language from Australia; Yiddish, a High German derived language of the Ashkenazi Jews; Tamazight, spoken in North Africa and the Sahara region; Rapa Nui, spoken on Easter Island; Nawat, an Uto-Aztecan language from southwestern El Salvador; ...

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NEH Announces $24 million for 225 humanities projects nationwide

People's World 15 Apr 2021

... Native Alaskan language, and support an interdisciplinary project at the New York Botanical Garden to create a database and handbook of Wixárika, an endangered Uto-Aztecan language of West-Central Mexico, with a focus on the ethnobotanical knowledge embedded in the language.

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Pedro Chisem’s Mexican adventures | Ross Eric Gibson, Local History

Santa Cruz Sentinel 15 Mar 2021

It was a chance meeting in a far-away place, that would bring Santa Cruz one of its landmarks ... When introduced to Don Pedro B ... However, Chisem had some misgivings ... Pedro B. Chisem. Garrett said, “I’m an anthropologist, studying the history of Mexico before the Spanish, and I study the Uto-Aztecan language family.” ... Sharp ... Bloody times ... .

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Jews and Native Americans: Brothers in the Great Spirit

The Jerusalem Post 14 May 2020

‘Unfortunately, many Jewish communities in the US are surprised to learn that Native American people are still around,” explains co-founder of Indigenous Bridges Ateret Violet Shmuel in an interview with the Magazine from Las Vegas ... She couldn’t understand it ... The endangered Cahuilla language is among the Uto-Aztecan family ... .

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Oscars: Taika Waititi's "First Peoples" Tribute, Chrissy Metz's Mom and More Inside Moments Explained

The Hollywood Reporter 10 Feb 2020

What are the tribes Waititi referenced while presenting the Academy's honorary prizes? ... The tribe is believed to have descended from Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples who originated in what is now Nevada and moved southwest to coastal Southern California 3,500 years ago ... The Tataviam are similarly based in Southern California ... 1, 2020 ... .

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Why Mexico should be on your 2020 travel plan

Gulf News 16 Jan 2020

For your travel plans this 2020, there’s a new picturesque destination you could add to your bucket list — Mexico City ... It has 217 museums, nine archaeological sites, dozens of theatres, galleries and parks ... Ideal for art enthusiasts ... The name Chapultepec came from the Nahuatl Uto-Aztecan language chapoltepēc, which means ‘at the grasshopper’s hill’ ... .