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Yuchi Language Project
The Yuchi Language Project is dedicated to keeping alive the rich heritage of the Yuchi people by creating new young speakers through immersion methods with fluent Elders and children. As a sustainable language community, the Yuchi Language Project is working to restore the vitality of the Yuchi language where the fullness of the Yuchi worldview can thrive for future generations. An outdoor language curriculum based on the natural environment, heritage crops, traditional sports, and Yuchi circle of life provide a basis for the work of the Yuchi Language Project, as well as returning to traditional agriculture and raising Native heritage animals. As a testament of the success of the Yuchi Language Project, Yuchi children are once again speaking Yuchi as a first language for the first time in a century.
“When we speak our own language, we embody our Indigenous culture and worldview like our ancestors.”
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Yuchi Language Project Building a New Generation of Yuchi Speakers
The mission of the Yuchi Language Project is “to keep alive the rich heritage of the Yuchi people by creating new young speakers of the unique language through breath-to-breath immersion methods with fluent elders and children.”
gOnE Enû O’wAdAnA: A New Generation of Yuchi Speakers
For the first time in nearly a century, a new group of children are speaking Yuchi as a mother tongue.
Yuchi Language Project seeks to revitalize Indigenous identity through common tongue
Thousands of Indigenous languages are in danger of disappearing before the end of the century, including most of those spoken in North America, according to a report from UNESCO. This is part one of a two-part series of discussions with Native American language preservationists and their efforts to revive their ancestral tongues.