To Clarify, The Posts I Put Up Here Involving The Culture And/or The Language Usage Never Come Without

To clarify, the posts I put up here involving the culture and/or the language usage never come without a purpose or translations below (especially in the latter case). I may use the tongue in occasional posts & even in the hashtags combined with other elements, but it remains in conscious efforts to help others learn about the culture & history as well hopefully to reach out to the titular people & others regardless to better understand the cultures through time & space. Any hashtags you see here in the language will of course include a translation in similar hopes of reaching out. Iyayraykere.

Outsiders are not not saving a language by learning it.

While I’m personally grateful services like Tribalingual exist, creating some academic access to Indigenous languages, particularly for Indigenous diaspora (if they can afford it), I’m extremely dubious of the notion that a outsiders learning an Indigenous language is somehow “saving” it. There was a testimonial from some white American girl learning Ainu itak, and she spoke of it as if she were collecting some rare Pokemon card before it went out of print or something, framing it in typical dying Native rhetoric. What is she going to do with Ainu itak, except as some obscure lingual trophy?

If you want to save a language, save the people.

Language means nothing without history and culture breathing life into it, and in turn we are disconnected from our history and ancestors without it. Support Indigenous quality of life, ACCESS to quality education, quality health services (mental and physical), land and subsistence rights, CLEAN DRINKING WATER, advocate against police brutality and state violence, DEMAND ACTION FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN.

Damn, if you really want to “save the language” pay for an Indigenous person’s classes for them to reconnect to their mother tongues. I’m not saying outsiders shouldn’t learn languages they’re invited to learn, but don’t pretend like you learning conversational Ainu itak is saving it from extinction.

I have recently come across this Chukchi & Inuit group called Ergyron, & after hearing this song, it got me thinking about how distances can bring us closer together. My editor showed me this song, & now am listening to more of their songs (subtitled). Hiyo’oy.

Having read about this at the recommendation of my editor & the apparent contribution to him from someone here, I started to think that chiengora (dog wool) might be a good use for the excess during the warm months, especially when the lean seasons come. Sometimes, I wonder the Ainu, Orok, & Tonchi hadn’t used these in certain ceremonial clothes. After all, both use fishskin clothes along with other animal & plant materials (especially from the Karahto [Sakhalin] Ainu). Not to worry, this dog isn’t the only breed in which dog fur can be made into clothes without the need to kill. I would like to show a little more on chiengora soon for a little more depth on some of the other breeds usable for cloth materials for your next knitting & crocheting.

A Guide to Tsugaru Peninsula, Aomori

West of the road were a series of lakes, ponds, marshes and wetlands between you and the sea. To the east was the Iwaki River, farm villages and the southern end of the Tsugaru Mountains, the northernmost mountains of the Ou chain.

An amazing region, & I’m glad to go to university in here. Even more surprising is the culture beneath it of the Ainu inside. It’s not as well known as the Hokkaido counterpart, but it’s another layer to the scenic guide shown here that should definitely be added. Paye tan sir yan. Tan not siretok sonno ne. (Come to this land, please. This peninsula is very beautiful.)

Haida Gwaii: Mist enshrouded isles & vibrant Haida resurgence - Canadian Roadstories

The Haida First Nation comes from the wild coast of northern British Columbia south of Alaska in an archipelago of more than 200 islands called Haida Gwaii.

If I were go to Canada or Alaska, I'll be sure to check these places out soon after arrival.

10 Monstrosities From Korean Folklore

http://pinktentacle.com/images/10/monster_scroll_18_large.jpg In the West, Korean folklore isn’t as well known as either Chinese ...

Rayosi kamuy yukar sonno katupirka ne.

(Korean mythology is very cool.) These are only some of the beings from within this mythology & the pantheon carries much more.