Rose Cottage

  What a lovely week with lots of tsalagi sprinkles!  On Saturday, our Willamette TsaLaGi and the Mount Hood groups hosted folks from the Cherokee Nation for a feast and gathering in Salem, Oregon!  Principal Chief Chuck Hoskins Jr   Guests included Principal Chief Hoskins, Storyteller Robert Lewis, at large council members, and several others - plus 2 ASL interpreters! My friend ᎵᏒ (Li-sv) helped send food and volunteered at the Willamette TsaLaGi booth. When I met Chief Hoskins, I mentioned taking Cherokee online with Ed Fields, and he, in turn, mentioned that during his 'state of the nation' talk! I'm in Ed's first Cherokee ᏅᎩ (nv-gi /Four) class, and we're learning verb tenses. It's fun for all of us (Ed included!) to work with new sentences and 'Word pictures.' This week I also joined the hybrid language study group which meets at the Longhouse at Lane CC. This is where our language classes have been held - and is open for use by indigenous groups. ...

 Today I began cutting up some old magnetic business cards to create CWY Syllabary fridge magnets! I used a gluestick and calligraphy paper on the cards - each tag is 1 × 3/4". Business card magnets I got 8 tags from each card, plus a 2 x 1/4" strip. I'll likely make more for symbols like di and ss,  which may occur several times in a word or sentence.  Worked on this whilst attending an excellent (zoom) presentation offered by the Smithsonian, on ways the 'California' gold rush affected the indigenous residents .... which group was 'uncivilized?' A - e - i - o - u - v (Top down) After cutting them apart, I calligraphed the symbols, and will add a coat of mod podge. Now they're on the side of my fridge, ready to go!  Syllabary magnets What should the first words be?  yunaduliha yanadeloqua  'if they want to, they will learn.'