WE STILL LIVE HERE: Âs Nutayuneân (trailer)

Âs Nutayuneân
tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. Their ancestors ensured the survival of the first English settlers in America, and lived to regret it. Now they are bringing their language home again.

The story begins in 1994 when Jessie Little-Doe, an intrepid, thirty-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 Wampanaog communities on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in their language, lead Jessie to a Masters 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.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• documentary
• trailer
• wampanoag
• nativeamerican
• language

[SOULTAKIFY]

@azqrlaf first off YOU CAN LEARN OUR CULTURE IF YOU CHOOSE TOO. im a 18 yr old at a native school we ALL aren't racist. if anything i find it good that u want to learn our culture. it's just some of us aren't always so welcoming.

[TopplueVotterSkjerf]

@azqrlaf Please have patience for a people trying to grow stronger and to grow stronger together - it is their FAMILY. If you feel you want to know more about someone or something deeper, befriend a native person. I am sure they would love to share with you. Or look into published resources and study a little on your own, as Jessie Little Doe did.

[azqrlaf]

Apparently this language is now only taught to households that include a member of this tribe. As for the rest of us, we are not welcome to learn it. Thus these Indians have become as racist as the people who oppressed them. I hope that none of our tax money has been used for this paranoid, exclusionary project.

[erbsir]

when I repeated the word for welcome at the end of this video, I begin to openly sob, and the only reason i can come up with is that somehow my spirit is connected to it. I am not sure what the next step should be for me . I call myself American . I am of mixed European and native descent ,( things were kept secret in fine english families in the past) Very few things in my life have elicitated such a strong emotional response

[bullfrogfilms]

@whitewampum1 You can order a Home Video copy directly from Makepeace Productions's website.

[CrazyNative4]

cool

[lostpeoplefilms]

This is a beautiful, heart-rending, deeply inspiring film. Anyone who wants to understand the real history of this continent and how some of its wounds might still be healed should see it.

[MrComment999]

I'm trying to learn some basic wapanoag, any suggestions?

[whitewampum1]

could you please give some purchasing info on this film?