Euchee Women of Pickett Chapel

Four Euchee elders discuss their lives and desire to keep their language alive for future generations. "Euchee Women of Pickett Chapel" was produced and shown by the Sam Noble Museum in 2007 as part of the museum's Centennial exhibit "Collecting Oklahoma".

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Euchee
• Euchee language
• Native American
• Native American language

[stammlager5]

It's nice to hear the language of my ancestors. My great-grandmother was Nicey Coonhead. However, she did not pass the language down to her children. I know a few Yuchi words but someday I would like to become a fluent speaker.

[sixdranch516]

My daughter is great grandaughter of Lawatha Mason. Grandaughter of Howard Mason. She is Euchee and she is beautiful beyond normal beauty, inside and out. I would like her to learn Euchee language. I would like her to learn about her culture. I think God made her look so much like her grandfather for a reason.

[Passover2010]

I've rang that church bell ... I was raised in my early years at Pickett Chapel. My grandmother Fannie Simms Walker use to play piano there. I was always moved in my spirit when they sang hymns in Euchee or Creek... I never learned to speak the language but in my spirit the vibration of these women words/song still moves my soul.