Kiowa Language Community Session #2 Fall 2022 - October 23 2022
Channel: Learn Kiowa
Date: 17/01/2023

This Kiowa Language Community Session, held on Sunday, October 23, 2022, provides an opportunity to hear spoken Kiowa language and to learn Kiowa from fluent Kiowa speakers and focuses on listening and hearing the interpretation of each speaker in the Kiowa Culture Program (KCP) recording tape #38 - Use of Nature (started at 16:46 into the recording out of a total of 19:41 minutes), and KCP #126 - Brush Dance (stopped at 18:37 into the recording), where each Elder gave their translation of what each speaker shared during the recording; reflections from Elders on the Brush Dance and their memories of the Kiowa Sun Dance and related songs, over the years; questions from participants, etc. 

Kiowa Language Community Sessions are held weekly on Zoom on Sunday afternoons beginning October 16 through December 18 (excluding holidays) for the Fall of 2022. These community-based sessions provide participants with an opportunity to ask Kiowa Elders and fluent Kiowa speakers for translations as well as will focus on hearing the Kiowa Culture Program tape recordings, translations of various Kiowa songs, traditional and contemporary, such as learning various Kiowa Hymns and when they are appropriate to sing, listening to Kiowa songs in the Indians for Indians Radio archives, and listening to Kiowa song recordings in the Hanks Collection archive. 

LearnKiowa.org is a community-based, grassroots website launched by the Post Family and led by Dr. Redbird-Post with the goal of providing Kiowa language learners, interested Kiowa parents, and teachers of Kiowa children and students of all ages with an online archive of Kiowa language teaching and learning materials arranged by age group. Made possible by the First Nations Development Institute and the 2022 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship.