Using Qʷi·qʷi·diččaq ‘Makah’ in our community: A dialogue approach for adult learners

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dc.contributor.authorPascua, Maria Hita·ʔa·ʔoƛ
dc.contributor.supervisorLukaniec, Megan
dc.contributor.supervisorUrbanczyk, Suzanne
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T23:20:45Z
dc.date.available2020-06-22T23:20:45Z
dc.date.copyright2020en_US
dc.date.issued2020-06-22
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Indigenous Educationen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Education M.Ed.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Makah Tribe in Neah Bay, Washington, began the Makah Language Program (MLP) in 1978 as Qʷi·qʷi·diččaq 'speaking Makah' (or the 'Makah language'), which is an endangered language. Most of the MLP efforts focus on school age students although there are adult materials available and periodic adult classes offered. The goal of this project was to provide additional support for adult learners by creating Qʷi·qʷi·diččaq dialogues that occur in common places in the community, involve typical activities, and include Makah cultural views and traditional teachings. The Makah concept hi·dasubač or 'traditional preparation,' a Makah perspective of learning and practicing in order to accomplish an objective, was used as the methodology for this project; hi·dasubač involves mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of preparation, and advice on its application is included at the beginning of each of the 10 dialogues. Besides focusing on local context and activities, including cultural information, the dialogues were designed to sustain back and forth conversation and provide ways to extend the dialogue through word replacement. It is hoped that the dialogue template and design principles created in this project can be helpful in other contexts of Indigenous Language Revitalization, especially those which need additional support for adult language learners.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11875
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectlanguage revitalizationen_US
dc.subjectMakah languageen_US
dc.subjectcultural viewsen_US
dc.subjecttraditional teachingsen_US
dc.subjecthi·dasubačen_US
dc.titleUsing Qʷi·qʷi·diččaq ‘Makah’ in our community: A dialogue approach for adult learnersen_US
dc.typeprojecten_US

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