Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Wednesday/title:Code Speaker,chapter 2 Boarding School/min:12,pgs:12-18
The journey to the school was so long that it took about three days. When Kii Yazhi arrived at the school, his uncle, as all the parents or relatives who took the kid to the school had to leave. The last thing Kii's uncle said was to remember, nothing else. He didn't even say goodbye, well maybe because there was no word in Navajo that meant goodbye. Kii walked into the school, he was sad but there were other Navajo kids there. As a tradition, Kii and the other kids stated their names and were they are from, the mother they were born to and the father they were born for. A kid stepped forward Kii and said Yaat'eeh,or hello and that his name was Many Horses and his mother he was born to was the Bitter Water Clan and was born for the Towering House,that he was from west of Chinle below the hills. Kii stated his name and that he was born to the Mud Clan and he was born for the Towering House. A round faced girl walked up and told Kii, Yaa'eeh my cousin, and that she was born also to the Mud Clan and for the Corn Clan and that her names is Dawn Girl. All of a sudden a white man walks up to the group of children and started to scream, but they did not know any English so they just looked down. The man had allot of hair unlike the Navajos, they any had hair on they scalp and they only allowed a little bit on hair on their upper lip and that the man was also the principle. Another man but this guy had dark skin unlike the white man that was red on skin and hair. The kids first thought that he was black, but then the man was actually a Navajo! The man told the children that they couldn't use the Navajo language anymore and that really bummed out the kids. The only word that the man told them was what the word hello meant and taught them how to say it.
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