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Front page news from recent Todd County Tribune:
Don Moccasin’s Lakota documentaries project has been honored by a Native Voices grant from the Endangered Language fund at the Yale University. The award funds a Mentor-Apprentice Lakota language and translation training program, which features a mother and son team, Lavina Milk and Gary Antoine, working together on transcriptions and translations of Lakota interviews.
The grant proposal centered on Antoine’s Lakota language studies using contemporary recordings/text assisted by his mother, Lavina, who is a fluent speaker of Lakota and Dakota.
The Native Voices endowment was created for the revitalization and perpetuation of the languages of the Native American tribes and Nations who encountered the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Each year, grants of $2,500- 10,000 are awarded to support projects, programs and individuals dedicated to the study, documentation and instruction of Native American languages.
The Lakota documentaries project is housed in the Great Plains Art Institute of Sinte Gleska University.
It is the largest collection of the 21st century Lakota language recordings made over a ten year period and includes personal interviews, conferences and public events.
Currently the collection is being digitized and translated into English.
In the past, the project received prestigious awards from the American Philosophical Society and Whatcom Museum Society.
In the same edition of the paper was an open forum letter entitled:
Goodbye to the Rosebud:
Dear Friends,
In consultation with Bishop Tarrant, I am writing to announce my retirement plans, which have been developing during the past several months.
Effective December 1, 2010, I am resigning as the Priest in Charge of the Rosebud Episcopal Mission.
After much prayer and discernment, I have chosen to take advantage of the Church Pension Fund retirement option for clergy who are 60 years old. I have made this decision for health reasons. As most of you know, I have had several health problems during the last 10 years, some of which require ongoing medical care.
I have served in the ordained ministry of the Episcopal Church since 1980.
Serving our Lord Jesus Christ among the Lakota people has been a rich blessing.
I have seen Jesus in your faces and your hearts in many ways during the past 13 years, in times of joy and in times of sorrow.
Mother Judy, Lydia and I will be moving to the Roanoke, Virginia area of Southwestern Virginia. Surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, it is an area where we have visited friends for many years. It is an area that we have often considered for retirement so, for us, it is a dream come true.
Please keep us in your prayers as you will remain in our prayers.
and last but certainly not least - a picture of Rosebud Tribal Police...see anyone YOU know?
Don Moccasin’s Lakota documentaries project has been honored by a Native Voices grant from the Endangered Language fund at the Yale University. The award funds a Mentor-Apprentice Lakota language and translation training program, which features a mother and son team, Lavina Milk and Gary Antoine, working together on transcriptions and translations of Lakota interviews.
The grant proposal centered on Antoine’s Lakota language studies using contemporary recordings/text assisted by his mother, Lavina, who is a fluent speaker of Lakota and Dakota.
The Native Voices endowment was created for the revitalization and perpetuation of the languages of the Native American tribes and Nations who encountered the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Each year, grants of $2,500- 10,000 are awarded to support projects, programs and individuals dedicated to the study, documentation and instruction of Native American languages.
The Lakota documentaries project is housed in the Great Plains Art Institute of Sinte Gleska University.
It is the largest collection of the 21st century Lakota language recordings made over a ten year period and includes personal interviews, conferences and public events.
Currently the collection is being digitized and translated into English.
In the past, the project received prestigious awards from the American Philosophical Society and Whatcom Museum Society.
In the same edition of the paper was an open forum letter entitled:
Goodbye to the Rosebud:
Dear Friends,
In consultation with Bishop Tarrant, I am writing to announce my retirement plans, which have been developing during the past several months.
Effective December 1, 2010, I am resigning as the Priest in Charge of the Rosebud Episcopal Mission.
After much prayer and discernment, I have chosen to take advantage of the Church Pension Fund retirement option for clergy who are 60 years old. I have made this decision for health reasons. As most of you know, I have had several health problems during the last 10 years, some of which require ongoing medical care.
I have served in the ordained ministry of the Episcopal Church since 1980.
I accepted the call to serve on the Rosebud Episcopal Mission and began my ministry here on December 21, 1997.
When you called me as your new Priest, I promised that I would serve, with Gods help, until retirement.
I have kept that promise.
Serving our Lord Jesus Christ among the Lakota people has been a rich blessing.
I have seen Jesus in your faces and your hearts in many ways during the past 13 years, in times of joy and in times of sorrow.
It will be hard for Mother Judy and I to leave here, but we will go with special memories, and in the knowledge that, in the Lakota way, there isn’t good bye but the promise of seeing you again.
Mother Judy, Lydia and I will be moving to the Roanoke, Virginia area of Southwestern Virginia. Surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, it is an area where we have visited friends for many years. It is an area that we have often considered for retirement so, for us, it is a dream come true.
Please keep us in your prayers as you will remain in our prayers.
Faithfully yours,
The Very Rev. John H. Spruhan
The Very Rev. John H. Spruhan
and last but certainly not least - a picture of Rosebud Tribal Police...see anyone YOU know?
(Hint, she's second from the right!)
Must say, I'm loving the Tribune for keeping us in the loop!
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