#chitimacha

[linguisticdiscovery]

Chitimacha

Chitimacha is a Native American language of Louisiana that was spoken until the death of its last two native speakers, Ben (1934) & Delphine (1940), pictured here.

Thankfully, a linguist named Morris Swadesh (pictured) worked with Ben & Delphine to write down 120 Chitimacha stories and create a basic dictionary before they died.

Today, the Chitimacha tribe is revitalizing their language using those archival materials. They’ve created Rosetta Stone language learning software for Chitimacha, have daily language and culture classes in the tribal school, and have put up bilingual English-Chitimacha signs in many places.

Last week, I visited the Chitimacha reservation to run a workshop for the language teachers. We practiced many different pronunciation and grammar details, but also coined many new words! Here are a few we came up with:

Neymank Waxta ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ (literally ‘people of the land’s day')

gaspam ‘refrigerator’ (literally ‘thing that causes it to be cold’)

pexpa patsi ‘volleyball’ = pexpa ‘cause to fly’ + patsi ‘ball’

huuta qapx kudihn ‘kayak’ (literally ‘boat closed in on itself’)

Chitimacha has a unique spelling system:

⟨b, d, g, dz, j⟩ are ejective consonants /pʼ, tʼ, kʼ, t͡sʼ, t͡ʃʼ/

⟨q⟩ is a glottal stop /ʔ/

⟨x⟩ is the palato-alveolar fricative /ʃ/

You can read more about the Chitimacha language in my forthcoming book chapter, available here:

[bfpnola]

posted this earlier on our instagram so i figured it needed to be shared here as well.

do you know your history?

[paulpingminho]

[bulbanchagworl777]

OC inspired by South Eastern Turtle Island Indigenous mythology and Yoruba Mythology.

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[ed-recoverry]

Shoutout to all Native American LGBTQ+ folks.

It should be well noted hundreds of thousands of Native American tribes exist, much more long lost to time. This post includes the most populated as of now, but know this applies to all.

Also some of these tribes cross over to Mexico and Canada!

Shoutout to all Cherokee LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Navajo LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Sioux LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Chippewa LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Apache LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Shawnee LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Choctaw LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Pueblo LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Mohawk LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Blackfeet LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Creek (Muscogee) LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Seminole LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Inupiat LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Lumbee LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Cayuga LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Onondaga LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Seneca LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Tuscarora LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Chitimacha LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Shoshone LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Nez Perce LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Yakama LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Klickitat LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Palouse LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Wasco–Wishram LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Spokan(e) LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Arapaho LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Cheyenne LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Caddo LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Powhatan LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Waco LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Tawakoni LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Quapaw LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Aleuts LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Comanche LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Chugach LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Assiniboine LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Gros Ventre LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Kiowa LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Lakota LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Lipan Apache LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Plains Apache LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Odawa LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Ojibwe LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Potawatomi LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Hualapai LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Ute LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Pawnee LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Wichita LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Mandan LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Osage LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Yup'ik LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Omaha LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Ponca LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Tlingit LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Taku LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Chinookan LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Hopi LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Zuni LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Crow LGBTQ+ folks.

Take pride in it all. Your culture, your identity, it’s all so beautiful. Celebrate where you are from and who you are. It makes you you, and that is something to be proud of.

Post for Africans, post for Oceanic folks, post for Middle Easterners, post for Latin Americans/Hispanics, post for Pacific Islanders, post for Asians, post for Caribbeans

[mybeingthere]

From "Contemporary Native American Art"

Sarah Sense (Choctaw/Chitimacha) is an artist from Sacramento, California (1980). She received a BFA from California State University Chico (2003), and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design, New York

(2005). Sense was the curator/director of the American Indian Community House Gallery (2005-07) where she catalogued the gallery’s thirty-year history.

Sense has been practicing photo-weaving with

traditional basket techniques from her Chitimacha and Choctaw family since 2004. Early works are based on Chitimacha landscape in Louisiana and Hollywood interpretations of Native North America.

[ultimate-diagnostician-haven]

OC Intro Post!

Dr. Haven Mae Ross House

Birthday July 23, 1985, 27 years old

5 foot 7 inches

Light icy blue eyes

Short light brown-blonde hair in a shaggy cut

Genderfluid, aroace, all pronouns (but uses whatever pronouns go with the bit the best)

Creole, their grandfather was biracial (Black and white) and their grandmother was Native American (Chitimacha)

Her right leg is amputated above the knee, she either uses prosthetic legs or forearm crutches to get around

Newest member of the PPTH diagnostics team, filled the open position on the team after House faked his death (after s8)

Backstory

Haven's mother was a prostitute that House slept with when he was on a trip to New Orleans in his 20s. Haven's mother never expected to have a child, and Haven was raised more by his extended family than he was by his mother. Whenever their mother was trying to take care of them, her rotating door of boyfriends would be there too. Her boyfriends were often verbally, emotionally, and physically abusive towards Haven, and his mother never did anything to stop them. Luckily, Haven spent much more time with his extended family than he ever did with his mother.

He knows Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, ASL, and French. He learned all of these languages while being raised by his extended family. His mother had seven siblings, five of which had children. He has cousins that are part Korean, Chinese, and Hispanic, as well as a Deaf cousin.

Haven's natural accent is very New Orleans/Southern, but she trained herself out of the accent when she was in college due to the concern that people would take her less seriously. Occasionally, when she's mad or just drugged out of her mind, she'll slip back into that New Orleans accent.

Haven's mother and father figures were her aunt Adine Mills(her mother's sister) and her uncle Martin Mills. When they were eight, Martin became ill and was rushed to the hospital. After a few days at the hospital, Martin died of heart issue that none of his doctors had been able to find. After this, Haven swore to themself that they would become the best diagnostician there ever was so people like her Uncle Martin didn't have to die.

Haven was always an extremely intelligent child. She showed signs of this as young as three years old, and started high school at 11. After she finished high school, she was legally emancipated to allow her more easily attend college. She started college with a full-ride scholarship at 15, finishing her biology undergraduate degree in just two years. She also had a full ride scholarship for med school, graduated at 21, and began her specialization training for Internal Medicine.

Haven first met my other OC, Francesca, at college. They were roommates for about a year before Francesca married Marcus and moved out. Haven and Francesca stayed close friends after college, calling each other on a near-daily basis and living together whenever Francesca was in-between marriages.

Just after Haven completed her IM specialization at 23, they went out with some of her friends to celebrate, including Francesca's husband Marcus. Haven was chosen as the designated driver. On the way back from the bar, the car was struck by a drunk driver in a semi-truck. Haven was the only one in the car to survive. The damage done to their leg forced the OR to amputate the leg, and they also suffered burns on a significant portion of their other leg.

Haven suffers from moderate to severe chronic phantom limb pain (PLP), which for him feels like his leg is still being crushed and burned by the car crash. After trying a variety of pain meds, he discovered that opioids were the only thing that could really take away the pain. Haven currently takes oxycodone for his PLP. He also has a marijuana medical license, and occasionally smokes weed when he has trouble falling asleep or the pain meds aren't doing enough to take off the edge.

Often times, wearing their prosthetic leg makes their PLP worse, so Haven uses forearm crutches much more often than their prosthetic leg.

Haven discovered that House was her father at a medical conference that Haven attended at 25. Haven was presenting, giving a speech about how they were the youngest person to ever head a diagnostics department, and had to leave partway through the speech due to a bad flare-up of PLP. House and Wilson followed them up to the roof, where House was fully intending to just verbally fight her. A conversation later, House had managed to steal some of her hair, DNA tested it, and found out that she was his daughter. House didn't want to tell her, but Wilson went behind his back to call Haven and let her know.

Haven had only small amounts of contact with House in the years leading up to his death. Whenever they called, they ended up fighting about chronic pain or religion or diagnostics or whatever stupid thing had pissed either one of them off that time. Haven also hated the bits of their father that they saw in themselves. Haven very reluctantly visited House once when he was in prison to get help on a diagnostics case that was stumping even them. House managed to solve the case in a few minutes, and the two actually ended up having a genuine, heart-to-heart conversation. Haven left actually feeling good about House being their father for the first time in two years.

Just before House faked his death, he left Haven everything that he didn't leave to Wilson. In the will, he included a clause that Haven couldn't get her part of the will unless she took the job that he had left for her in the diagnostics department at PPTH. Haven applied to the job, and was accepted into the position almost immediately following House's death.

Haven inherited Wilson's old loft apartment (House did some trickery so the apartment technically belonged to him), and moves in with Francesca shortly after accepting the PPTH job.

Pictures!

[firowisteria]

DISVENTURE CAMP SEASON 1 ETHNICITY HC

Alec - 1/2 British 1/2 Turkish (canon) Ashley - 3/4 German, 1/4 Irish Dan - Singaporean Drew - 1/2 Canadian, 1/2 French (canon) Ellie - Japanese Fiore - 1/2 Italian, 1/2 Turkish Gabby - Polish (canon) Grett - 1/2 Spanish, 1/2 British (half canon(i think, my memory is trash) Jake - Chinese Lill - Native American (specifically Chitimacha) Miriam - Chilean Nick - Welsh Tom - 3/4 Italian, 1/4 Korean Will - Senegalese

Derek - Indonesian Trevor - Filipino

[rolandsgaard-castle]

Liste de mes cartes et de mes recherches MàJ le : 21/10/2023

Gold : / (Recherche Jewel, Magic, Stella, Hunter et Joker)

Silver : / (Starlight, Bella, Jewel, Twins)

Copper : / (Fiona, Friends forever, Jewel, Safire, Silas et Zargo)

Wise Warrior : Sorel, Raimondo (Cantaro, Djengis, Rubin, Medusa, Calato, Prince, Sun, Yasmin)

First Series : Shadow (Starfighter, Sunny, Bella, Fiona, Jewel)

Second Series : Toute les cartes basiques, toute les promos (Apuni, Sunny)

Northern Light : Balto, Conall, Star, Embarr, Lakehorse, Colour, Bella (Donn, Yasmin, Jewel, Fiona, Froya)

Mythologie/Ancient Light : Toutes (sauf Yasmin, Apollo, Balto, Bello, Fiona 68, An.Light Promo Serenity, Mirth, Generosity, Dreamer)

Lueurs Boréales : Toutes (sauf Bella, Chumash, Lakota, Chitimacha, Isleta, Miccosukee, Muscogee, Pauma, P1 à P11 et PS1)

Amis Magiques : Toutes (sauf Ceratos, Chitra, Cindra, Cioccola, Cordelia, Fiona, Giasa, Lillova, Madeja, Merowyn, Ondine, Petri, Savros, Thunder, Zephan P1, P2, P3, P4)

Baby Bella : Aegis, Amor/Venus, Apollo/Athena, Delight, Farfalla, Helia, Iceking/Nyx, Iceprince, Khrysor, Leonardo/Sarah, Mira, Moonbeam, Moonphantom, Moonsprite, Bellerophon, Pythia, Sunbeam, Addis, Bella, Bello/Bella, Beran/Rosebriar, Chromasia, Chryso/Sasha, Cirra, Embarr/Freja, Flame/Nike, Jewel, Mistral, Pavonne, Pegasus/Roxy, Summit, Wodan, Rimfaxe/Aurora (recherche toute les autres)

Trésors Fabuleux : Toutes (Sauf Sophie, Thunder, Starstone, P2 Lily)

Familles Royales : Toutes (Sauf Alina, Gracie, Spottie, Zephyros, P2 River)

Bal de Bella : Toutes les basiques, toutes les promos.

Sunflowers : Toutes les basiques et toutes les promos (Bella/Sara McDonald)

Moonfairies : Toutes les basiques et P1 Twilight (Sauf Anthea, P2 Woodlock)

Starlights : Toutes les basiques, P1 Daybreak (sauf P2 Odyssey)

Carnaval de Printemps : Toutes (sauf La Fanfare, P1 Honora, P2 Kona)

Summer Camp : Monument Bello & Bella, Monument Jewel, Monument Fiona, Esprit Volcan endormis, Esprit Volcan éveillé, Lightning, Ruskin, Ivenna/Myrfor, Esprits de l'été, Bella et Sara, Emma, Addis, Histoire feu de camps, Shamal, Ponderosa, Wildflower, Farah (recherche tout le reste + les promos)

Winter Festival : Elemyn, Frostfire, Gracie, Noel, Sleetmane, Starunna, Tinsel, Mistletoe et Holly, Silver, Esprit du Fjord, Jewel, Fiona, Chocolat des fées, Tannenbaum, Snowhorse (recherche tout + les promos)

Best of Bella Sara : Toutes (sauf P1 Cordelia et P2 Faxon)

Chibis Magiques : Toutes (recherche Ivenna, Myrfor, Pantheon, Mireldis, Snowdreamer et Starlight FR)

Herds of North of North : Ivenna et Myrfor, Styginmoor Castle, Colour, Feywind Castle, Parthamane Castle, Petalhome Castle, Valeryk Castle, Wildscape Castle, Mustang, Shanti, Fiona, Saturna, Starlight, Pantheon (recherche tout + promos P1, P2)

Promos des jeux, puzzle, peluches : / (recherche les 12)

Peluches, jouets, chibis bracelets : Fiona et Coral chibis (recherche peluche Fiona et Jewel, jouets divers Nyx et Iceprince, Fiona, Osage, Jewel, Mireldis et Moonphantom, Uranus, Valkrist, les poulains Moonbeam et Sunbeam chibis Pantheon et Jewel)

Mini figurines : Inupiat, Phoenix, Athena, Anemone, Misla, Fiona, Potawatomi, Kallista (recherche Seraphia, Walter, Amor, Colour, Apollo, Wasco, Rosebriar, Obrylin, Jewel, Osage, Pink Lady, Blossom, Venus, Chromasia)

[howrsememequeen]

Bella Sara Card Dump Pt. 7

The last Northern Light card + the start of the Native Lights set.

Top Left: Fylgie, Northern Lights, 2007, Common

Top Right: Wasco, Native Lights, 2008, Common

Middle Left: Chiricahua, Native Lights, 2008, Common

Middle Right: Chitimacha, Native Lights, 2008, Promo

Bottom Left: Absaroke, Native Lights, 2008, Common

Bottom Right: Blackfeet, Native Lights, 2008, Rare

[scholarlyhobbit]

I dream of a creole cottage or a shotgun house with an old fireplace and wooden floors, full of light and lazily spinning ceiling fans, the smell of incense and coffee in the morning air, everything open and airy, plants thriving in corners and crystals gleaming in corners, where I bring coffee to my beloved at our dining table, listening to music and planning what we'll create today.

I dream of a desk tucked under a window where I can look out on our street as I pause, thinking of how to put the pieces of research together or what colour comes next in a painting, the dappled light sending shivering shadows across the floor for the kitten to chase, and for Jellybean to sun herself in as queen cat of her realm, a candle burning to focus inspiration and my attention as I look at it in its glass holder, shining by photos of my family and art I've collected, my books lined up like soldiers by my inkwell and pen rest.

I dream of a bedroom permeated with the scent of perfumed oil and lush flowers, pointe shoes draped on a hook on the wall, mosquito netting hanging around the bed, linen sheets smooth against our skin, listening to cicadas and windchimes and music in the night breeze, the whispers of trees and the hum and chatter and rattle of the city, our familiar ghosts creaking the floorboards as they patrol the house, keeping watch as they learn the rhythms of the ghosts of this house, generations of people meeting in the small hours, speaking French and Spanish and English and Kreyol and Wolof and Igbo and Fon and Bambara and Ede and Kabiye and German and Chitimacha and Choctaw and Houma, all sacred, all respected, all welcome.

[linguisticdiscovery]

Yes, I’m a linguist. And before you ask, the answer is 5.

[bfpnola]

Hey! This is @reaux07 and I just wanted to re-introduce our org! I am the current executive director of Better Future Program (BFP), a 501(c)(3) youth-run nonprofit headquartered in Bulbancha on Chahta Yakni and Chitimacha land. We envision a future in which youth are not only empowered to challenge oppressive hierarchies each day, but to create new, innovative, and inclusive frameworks of community care and intersectional justice.

Since 2016, our team has been dedicated to educating the masses on various academic subjects, mental health, and most importantly, social injustices that affect today's youth. We even offer over 3,000 free novels, movies, podcasts, and more just to fulfill this goal.

Here's the catch though! Since BFP is youth-run, many of our volunteers are students. During both the holidays and the start of each semester, we always experience a dramatic drop in participation, often meaning our workshops go from being run by 65 people to just 3 or 4. Currently, this is unsustainable for both our organization and our individual mental health. That's where YOU come in.

We need more volunteers! We'd like to not only fill up all of our leadership roles but have more than enough participants to allow each person's responsibilities to be greatly lessened. This would mean we could continue serving marginalized communities, uninterrupted, internationally, while still allowing volunteers to take breaks! We are only human. And even more so, many of us are only teens or children! We need your help.

And guess what? We have a $5,000 grant as gifted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana as well as nearly $600 in donations, all to go towards commissioning marginalized artists, mutual aid networks, and so on. Help us develop these plans further so we can service YOUR community today (e.g. we are currently sponsoring a chest binder drive for a local high school).

If you are interested in filling a leadership role, applying as a general volunteer (no specific responsibilities), or are simply interested in learning why we use a committee-based, horizontal organizational structure, tap here. There is something for everyone, promise!

And if you are interested in interacting with our community, our Discord server is linked here and our Linktr.ee below:

Please share to help support a Black-, woman-, queer-, disabled-, and youth-run organization!

[paulpingminho]

[sins-of-the-sea]

((All right, you twerps, if you don't like turkey, then what part of the traditional American Thanksgiving meal do you like?))

“Hey, turkey is great! Just because rich people eat it more than poor people do doesn't mean we ca’tn get our hands on it our way: stealing it!"

"Or just hunting it ourselves. Ruixiong and I actually had a grand time going out for some game."

"As for traditional American thanksgiving meal…. I don’t think the indigenous people are that willing to share what they have. Or are you talking the English?"

"I'd imagine the mishmash of English with the various native tribes of North America, given how they were kind enough to help earliest settlers with how to survive the harsh winters of the land when they realize how shit out of luck they were in initially."

"There is also French, Spanish, and other early settlers. New France had the Choctaw and Chitimacha."

"I think it’s worth an experience to go to the land and try out their celebratory harvest for the upcoming winter, but, uh….

"Big landmass there."

[folksaintsindex]

St. Delphine Ducloux, healer & terminal speaker of Chitimacha