Aiy-yu-kwee' Nee-kee-chue!
(Hello Everyone!)
The Teacher Institute Program
The Yurok Tribe Language Program held their first Yurok Language Teacher-Institute training in July of 2007. Annelia Norris, Bessie Shorty, Dale Webster, Georgiana Myers, Kathleen Vigil, Leo Canez, Robert R. Kinney and Tammi Cairns were the participants who completed the 3-week long training. The language institute offered information regarding hands on language activities, lesson planning and grammar lessons. The training was a success thanks to Language Program Staff Carole Lewis, Barbara McQuillen, Victoria Carlson, Wendy Rojas and James Gensaw.
The language institute was also honored to have 93-year-old Yurok tribal elder and master speaker Jimmie James available as a language and cultural resource person. Participants were put into groups of two and given the opportunity to hold a one-on-one interview with elder Jimmie James.
Yurok Language Community Class Schedule
Weitchpec Tribal Office Monday 4pm-5pm Advanced
Weitchpec Tribal Office Monday 5pm-6pm Beginners
Klamath Tribal Office Tuesday 5pm-7pm
Eureka Cutten Tribal Office Monday 5pm-7pm
Announcements
Georgiana Trull's Conversation Book
UC Berkeley - Yurok Language Project
The Yurok Language Project combines fieldwork with Yurok elders (recording texts, words, and grammatical information) and philological analysis of earlier fieldnotes and recordings. We bring new and older work on Yurok together into a single digital archive, incorporating material from as early as 1850 to the present day.
