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Native Greetings
We are working to put more resources and information online for students and teachers.
I get asked all the time by school children, how do you say hello. I thought that would be a fun page to put together--a list of different tribe's greetings. So how do you say hello in your tribe's language? Or how do you greet others? Thanks!
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Choctaw Keith
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Halito - Choctaw
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Osiyo - Cherokee
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Boozhoo - Ojibwe/Chippewa
Aaniin - Ojibwe/Chippewa
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Hersci - Creek
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Thanks, keep'em coming!
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Lakota Wicas'a
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Hau - Lakota
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Sg̱aaga g̱uu hla.
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Paul, not to rain on your parade but many languages do not have a phrase to simply say hello. Perhaps you might want to change the title of the thread to Greetings.
In my languages, depending on who it is I'm addressing the phrase will alter in context and meaning. I would never ask a seemingly well person, "How are you?" for fear that they might think I see something unhealthy about them. Social context is everything when speaking a greeting. The word Hello, wasn't even part of the English language until approximately 1833 when it appeared in (Anonymous) The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833. p. 144 The word resurfaced in 1877 where it won out over the word "Ahoy" for use with the telephone. Our greetings are much older than that.
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Greetings and Salutations - English
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Well, I grew up with a lot of Pima boys, and where I don't know their language, I do know their greeting was a combonation of thing, First was the throwing back of the head with a quick "Shh" and an almost un-understandable, "SupDu", (which was a combination of "What's Up Dude") and again followed by another quick "shh". No really, this is how I was greeted everyday from the boys.
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were home
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Kway Abenaki
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Well, it's not my language, but up on the Crow reservation people greeted me with ka-hay (sp?).
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Haaah (with a nasal ending) - Shoshone
Ha Ba (hello friend, male/male) - Arapaho Dos Ba (hello friend, female/female or female/male) - Arapaho
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3 down and 1 to go! lol
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No body said "How" yet like Tonto? What is this? hahahahahahaaaa.
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Wow. now I'm gonna be using "Ahoy"... thanks
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