Language & Identity

Jace DeCory

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What is the Lakota language? How is it different from Dakota and Nakota?
  2. How does knowing the language help Lakota people with their identify?
  3. How does knowing another language change the way people see the world?
  4. How does the family help the language to stay alive?
  5. In what ways does music help language acquisition and understanding?
  6. How are culture, identity and language related?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information

  1. What are my experiences with learning other languages?
  2. In what ways does knowing even individual words in another language help me?
  3. How might I engage differently in the world by knowing more than one language?
  4. In what ways do I engage with music?
  5. What does music mean to me? How does it help me?
  6. In what ways do I develop my identity through language and music?