Lee Longhorn
Part II: “Mom, how do you say that?”
By Lee Longhorn
A word that my mom cannot pronounce is the word for knife in the Creek language. I can’t even write it. My mom, if you recall, is where I get the bulk of my tribes. As a kid and even a young adult, my mom would not only teach me what Creek she knew, but also Shawnee. It was nothing big, but just words, mostly animals, that she remembered from when she was a part of that side of the family.
Part I: Kil anumpuli! "Let's talk!"
By Lee Longhorn
Halito! Chim Achukma? Vm achukma yakoke! Sv hohchifo yvt Lee. Bixby vtta li. Chi pisa la chike. (Hello! How are you? I’m fine, thank you. My name is Lee. I live in Bixby. I’ll see you later.)
No, dear friends, this is not a repeat of the introduction from my first blog entry, although they are written in the same language family.
By Lee Longhorn
I’m going to be straight up with you and tell you that I’m not the most athletic person. Ok, for almost 10 years, I was in marching band. Granted, while I do tend to think that I have strong legs, the rest of my body just isn’t with it. I’m working on it though, but we’ll talk about that later.
By Lee Longhorn
“Under the direction of Mr. Brian Britt, Director of the Pride of Oklahoma and assisted by Mr. Jeff Jahnke. The University of Oklahoma proudly presents the 2006 PrrrrrRRRRIIIIIIIDDDDEEEEE of Oklahoma!”
By Lee Longhorn
“You should say you’re multicultural.”
“I like saying I’m biracial.”
I worked with American Indian middle school students my final year of college. I enjoyed every minute of it. If you haven’t worked with middle school students, I suggest you give it a shot. They’re worth it. Most of my students were multicultural. For the purposes of being politically correct, I prefer the term multicultural instead of mixed or biracial. That comes from my training in my undergraduate career.
By Lee Longhorn
Hensci. Estonko? Lee cvhocefket os.
By Lee Longhorn
I once had a complex that use to drive me nuts in high school. In college, I got rid of it because a new one came into my life. I’ll talk about the latter in another entry, but the complex I had in high school was about skin color and being an identifiable American Indian. I used to think that you had to be a certain degree of tan to actually look Indian.
The smaller the quantum and darker the skin gets you more noticeable?
By Lee Longhorn
Howdy. I think it’s time that I explore some language issues and how being multi-tribal can have its ups and downs.
I have spent most of my life growing up in suburban America. It had its own perks at times. There were times when I realized that my own accent was more “white,” proper and not filled with slang. But, just because you’re “Indian” doesn’t mean that you sound and act like someone else who is American Indian.
“Why don’t you sound Indian?”
By Lee Longhorn
BIXBY, Okla. — Growing up in Oklahoma has its ups and downs. If you head in either direction from one of the largest cities in the state, you’ll find yourself in the country. The state is very beautiful. My fondest memories are walking the woods around my grandparent’s house in the small community of Little Axe, Okla. The one thing that always sticks in my mind when I do visit is “How many creatures are really out there in the woods?”
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