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We are pleased to announce that Living Tongues Institute is part of a research team that received a grant from The Endangered Language Fund’s “Native Voices Endowment” to support the creation of the first-ever Tutelo-Saponi Monacan Living Dictionary. Led by indigenous historian and language activist Dr. Marvin Richardson, the goal of the project is to provide enrolled members of the Monacan Indian Nation, as well as other indigenous people of Tutelo, Saponi and Monacan descent, with a comprehensive mobile-friendly digital language resource.
By the end of 2023, the Tutelo-Saponi Monacan Living Dictionary will house over 3,000 words and phrases alongside accurate audio recordings paired with engaging and culturally relevant images and videos. It will serve as a basis for language revitalization in the Monacan Indian Nation in Virginia as well as the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, and Sappony Tribe in North Carolina, as well as the Ohio Band of Saponi.
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The Living Dictionary site: https://livingdictionaries.app/tutelo-saponi/about
Living Dictionary Tutelo-Saponi Monacan words: https://livingdictionaries.app/tutelo-saponi/entries/list
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Tutelo-Saponi is a branch of Siouan once spoken by American Indians in central and eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia. As a trade language, Tutelo-Saponi was spoken by many tribes in the region including the Occaneechi around what is now Hillsborough, and the Haliwa-Saponi tribe in Halifax and Warren Counties.
Dr. Marvin “Marty” Richardson, project director for the Haliwa-Saponi Historic Legacy Project, said documents show that the Haliwa-Saponi tribe has been in the area since at least the 1720s. It now has about 4,000 enrolled members, mostly living around Hollister, NC. They’re descended from the Nansemond, Saponi and Tuscarora tribes, which came together for safety from disease and warfare after the beginning of colonization.
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/rebuilding-the-tutelo-saponi-language-for-tribes-next-generation
HOLLISTER, North Carolina — How do you create a word for a toaster? For a filing cabinet? How do you rebuild a language that has been largely lost, while simultaneously updating it with words that never existed in the first place?
These questions drive Dr. Marvin “Marty” Richardson, project director for the Haliwa-Saponi Historic Legacy Project. The Haliwa-Saponi tribe is part of a nationwide movement to resurrect nearly dead languages such as Tutelo-Saponi, which Richardson teaches to a small group of tribal members in Hollister on Thursday nights.
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