This can be seen in the following two examples: In addition there is a specific word order found in Piipaash where the verb is always found last in a sentence. This happens with basic commands/discipline words (example 1) as well as with basic sentences that only have subjects (example 2). Piipaash is a language where it is possible to use one word to express a complete thought. In addition she shared some of what she has learned from her study of Piipaash chuukwer. Professor Gordon continued working on documenting and recording the Pee Posh language until the mid-1980s and has been working up to the present on compiling a dictionary of Pee Posh to fulfill the request made to her by the D7 Community when she started working.ĭuring the workshop Professor Gordon shared with the Community her samples of her notes, parts of her audio recordings and a draft copy of her dictionary. Second, that she create a dictionary to preserve her documentation of the language for the Community. The first request was that she include two other speakers in her documentation work, the late Ralph Cameron and the late Jasper Donahue. The Community at that time approved her request but made two requests for her. As she shared during her evening presentation to the D7 Community she worked with Pollyanna for a short time before they both came to the D7 Community to present their work and to request permission to continue her work documenting the language. Her first teacher was the late Pollyanna Heath, a Community member and fluent Piipaash speaker who was living in the Los Angeles area. Professor Gordon started her study of the Pee Posh language in the late 1970s while she was a graduate student in the Linguistics Department at UCLA. This past month, the HHC Language Program along with the D7 Service Center and the Salt River O’odham-Piipaash Language Program organized a series of workshops and presentations by Professor Lynn Gordon from Washington State University on Piipaash chuukwer. The Huhugam Heritage Center Language Program has been very fortunate to work with a group of dedicated elders and Community members from District 7 who are committed towards preserving their language for future generations. Today there are only a small number of fluent speakers of Piipaash chuukwer (Pee Posh language). There are Community members who still remember a time not too long ago when it was common for people to know and speak both languages, especially on the Westend where families would be intermarried with one another. In 1699 when Father Eusebio Kino traveled upstream along the Gila River from Yuma he noted villages near the bend of the Gila that had both Akimel O’otham and Pee Posh living together. ![]() It is important for us to keep in mind that our Community consists of two tribal nations who have lived side by side on the Gila River since time immemorial.
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