His grandmother was forbidden from speaking Lingít in school. Now, school is helping him reclaim it. “Having the opportunity to learn the language has been so powerful in my journey,” says Dave Ketah. (via AlaskaBeacon)
Eechdaa Dave Ketah, originally from Ketchikan, is a teacher and artist in Portland, Oregon. He’s taking Lingít language classes at the University of Alaska Southeast. “Having the opportunity to learn the language has been so powerful in my journey,” he says.
Ketah is a high school teacher in Portland, Oregon. He’s been taking online Lingít language classes at the University of Alaska Southeast since 2020. He started out as a beginner and is now in advanced Lingít learning the language his family spoke for thousands of years, but that he didn’t grow up speaking.
When it comes to endangered languages, Twitchell said, it’s not equitable to get money out of the population of people who have been oppressed. Éedaa Heather Burge teaches a beginning Lingít class at the University of Alaska Southeast on Sept. 20, 2022. When the two of them were together, “we picked berries, she would feed me traditional foods and speak Lingít to me,” he described. “It would be all of this stuff that was about her youth, where she came from.”“Things would abruptly change. Food would be put away, she’d go back to speaking English, and then there’d be a knock at the door. It didn’t matter who it was. It could be another Lingít person.
The school in Klawock, Ketah said, had a mix of kids who stayed there all the time and kids who had family in the community and went home on the weekends, like his grandmother. Within the past couple of years, as Ketah has embarked in this expanded learning of his culture, he asked his dad, “‘Why didn’t you ever teach me any of this stuff?’”Ketah knows now that by not teaching about their language or their culture, his grandparents were trying to protect their children.‘I can speak my language in my school’
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