[nevergore]

It’s nice they can preserve a now useless language.....

[EEGator]

"Navajo!"

[Vermont Lt]

It took us 120 years to get them to use contractions. Now this guy goes and screws it up.

[Responsibility2nd]

 

"We translated (the Pledge of Allegiance),

"To the Sacredness of Our Flag. From the land of the 50 United States of America. We pledge our allegiance to God and our flag. It stands for hope and compassion. We stand united as People of all cultures on our beloved land. We are preserved by the power of peace and harmony."

and now we say it for the United States flag, and also for the Navajo Nation flag," said Clayton Long, the bilingual education director for this sprawling school district, located partially within the Navajo Nation reservation.

 

Ugh. Translate it back. Spout that all you want for your Navajo flag. But NOT for the United States flag.

[fishtank]

[Inyo-Mono]

I think this is great. There are teachers on the Rez near me teaching students their native Paiute language.

[Prolixus]

I live in Massachusetts. Not only were the Massachusetts a tribe, there is a Massachusetts Language. Alas, the statist teachers in public school ignored our native language and, instead, forced Spanish upon us.

[FrankR]

Why...would America want to learn Navajo?

[dainbramaged]

My 8th grade Washington State History teacher (1965) taught us to converse in Chinook Jargon and it was fun to learn.
From an article: Chinook Jargon is the most accessible of all the Native American languages. With a small utilitarian vocabulary and straightforward syntax, it was the lingua franca of the Northwest for most of the 1800s. One hundred thousand Native Americans, settlers and immigrants were using it in 1875.

[higgmeister]

How One Man Is Teaching America to Speak Navajo

Cherokee I could understand because they go back to our founding but why Navajo?

[Redmen4ever]

I’m o.k. with Native Americans saying the pledge in their language. They became part of us by treaty, not losing their heritage, but adding to it.

BUT, the words must be of the same pledge all Americans make; not something some social justice warrior thinks up. Our country (and flag) stands for liberty and justice for all, not compassion or those other things, no matter that some people thinks those values are superior.

If Native Americans have a tribal flag that stands for compassion and various other things not in the U.S. pledge, that’s o.k. by me. Charity should start at home. Part of Trump’s America First agenda is that we take care of our working class families, who have been forgotten for about fifty years now. It’s not that we hate Central Americans or anybody. It’s that we take care of our own first. Native American tribes, being a much smaller social unit than a giant country, should be especially anxious for the welfare of its members.

As for immigrants, in choosing to come here, they choose to join us. They should say the pledge in the common language of this country.

[Songcraft]

Lizzie Warren could teach them a few Indian words, like this one...

       

[mabarker1]

Bkm

[hadrian]

According to Wikipedia (the font of all knowledge) there are 150,000 speakers of Navajo. On several trips through the reservation we have listened to the local radio and heard the Dine [accent mark over the e] news and programming; it’s fascinating.

[trebb]

Hi ya ya-ya...hi ya ya-ya...

Not so tough....