write an essay 130
4 -5 pages About 1500 words
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Essay Instructions
The documentary film We Still Live Here recounts the amazing story of the revitalization of the Wampanoag language and explains how that revitalization has played a crucial role in preserving Wampanoag cultural identity for future generations. For this assignment, I would like you to consider the following questions: What role does language revitalization play in the preservation of a culture? Do you think language revitalization projects are worthwhile? Why or why not?
To answer this set of questions, you should do some online research. It might be helpful to look into revitalization efforts undertaken by tribes such as the Ojibwe and Cherokee. You might also find it helpful to review this National Geographic essay (Links to an external site.) and this essay from The Week. (Links to an external site.) Your response must include at least 4 outside sources (the video counts as a source), and follow the structural guidelines detailed below. You MAY NOT USE FIRST PERSON!
Structure:
Your essay should include an introduction that introduces the topic and ends with a clearly worded, 1-2 sentence thesis statement Each supporting paragraph (there should be at least 3) should begin with a strong topic sentenceand should incorporate evidence, including direct quotations from the short stories as needed to support your argument. Direct quotations should be incorporated using the quotation sandwich method and proper MLA in-text citations. The post should also contain a strong conclusion. The final page of the document should consist of a Works Cited page. Tips for formatting electronic sources can be found here
Reading and video
http://theweek.com/articles/541609/why-fight-hard-…
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2009/11/15/pre…
Video
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3h1myn
We Still Live Here
This week, in preparation for our discussions of Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, both of which address the struggle of Native communities to retain their tribal cultures, we will view the documentary We Still Live Here– Âs Nutayuneân, which tells the story of the revitalization of the Wampanoag language and explains how a language with no native speakers has been revived in the United States. The Wampanoag’s ancestors ensured the survival of the Pilgrims in New England, and lived to regret it. Nevertheless, through resilience and courage they kept their identity alive and remained on their ancestral lands. Now a cultural revival is taking place.
The story begins in 1994 when Jessie Little Doe, an intrepid, 30-something Wampanoag social worker, began having recurring dreams: familiar-looking people from another time addressing her in an incomprehensible language. Jessie was perplexed and a little annoyed — why couldn’t they speak English? Later, she realized they were speaking Wampanoag, a language no one had used for more than a century.
These events sent her and members of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag communities on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in their ancestral language, lead Jessie to a earn herself a masters degree in linguistics at MIT, and result in something that had never been done before – bringing a language alive again in an American Indian community after many generations with no native speakers. With commitment, study groups, classes, and communitywide effort, many are approaching fluency. Jessie’s young daughter Mae is the first native speaker in more than a hundred years.
The Filmmaker
Anne Makepeace
Anne Makepeace has been a writer, producer, and director of award-winning independent films for more than 20 years. Her films include We Still Live Here – Âs Nutayuneân which won the Full Frame Inspiration Award and the Moving Mountains Prize at Telluride MountainFilm; I.M. Pei: Building China Modern, (PBS/American Masters 2010); Rain in a Dry Land (lead show on P.O.V. 2007) winner of the Full Frame Working Films Award, Emmy nomination; Robert Capa in Love and War, (PBS/American Masters 2003), national Prime Time Emmy Award; Coming to Light (PBS/American Masters 2003), short-listed for an Oscar and winner of many prizes; and Baby It’s You (lead show on P.O.V. 1998), Whitney Biennial 2000. Makepeace also wrote the screenplay for Thousand Pieces of Gold and the American Experience documentary Ishi, the Last Yahi.
