Across The Strait Is A Race To Preserve The Good Of The People & Adapted Traditions In The Modern Times

Across the strait is a race to preserve the good of the people & adapted traditions in the modern times against the increasing poison in the waters. Энэ видеог үзээрэй, гуйж байна.

(Watch this video, please.)

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.

With their large range in area & occupation over the centuries, these have even spread over the areas of the closely related Evens, the Amur Tonci, & others even including in my home country, especially over by the Selenge Valley & the northeastern aimags (provinces) as Khamnigan. As can be seen in the 3 main countries settled among them, the occupations even extend over to the according cultural ways of the neighbours, & even small groups moved over to Etok Nuca. Even with that, poverty & alcoholism are still major problems for them similar to many native Siberians.

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I wish there were more who know of the Ainu mythology & the creatures, but here’s some beings worth considering for your stories as well. Ekambi naa kamuy yukaraha cikoykip an=ro, yan.

(Let’s study more divine story [mythology] animals, please.)

This flag is the unofficial flag of our main people here, designed in 1973 by the famous figure of Bikki Sunazawa in the ratio of 2:3. As strange as the white here looks (even rather like a squid), it symbolizes snow, the red the arrow & aconite poison used in hunting, & the blue the sea & sky. All this under the traditional Yaunsir (now Aynu Mosir in Sisamsir, Karapto wa Kurir sin rit in Nucasir), it is used mainly in Aynu Mosir in certain settings.

Is there a link between climate change and diabetes? | Loop Vanuatu

Scientists have long warned that rising global temperatures may impact public health in a devastating way because climate change is associated with deadly weather events, the spread of infectious diseases and even food shortages.

After hearing a little more about diabetes from a Filipino classmate today, it got me thinking about the rising temperatures & health problems. This seems to particularly affect the Polynesians & Melanesians even more than it does for most of us, or even West Asians--who are particularly vulnerable to it--and their famously strong sweet tooth. In any case, a few weeks in the cold should do wonderfully if this is true.