And that's a wrap! Yakuke to everyone that participated this weekend @NOLAJAZZFEST! We hope you left informed and inspired to create your own project.

Day three and we are out here at @jazzfest

sharing language at jazz fest

swing by our booth by the Fais Do-Do stage. We are here the entire first weekend

day one @jazzfest was great! Come talk with us tomorrow

We want to invite yall to stop by our language immersion couch the first weekend of @jazzfest. The booth is just a place where people can take part in language immersion lesson, and ask questions about the project. More info/Location in fest: nojazzfest.com/native-americ…

PSA- Uma' is a language reconstruction project based on what we know of the original language. You can read more about it here: docs.google.com/document/u/5…

Uma' Ẽpa' Tcetu Duffahpe' 2023

👀 great reveals are in the works this month!

Excited to announce that @dudeyouguys will be representing us as a laureates in the @nousfoundation accelerator program nous-foundation.org/le-lab 📷Very excited to announce@dudeyouguys

If you reading this and not Lizzo, we want YOU to stop by also! We would love the chance to meet you and share our language work

Regardless if you can make it to our booth or not, we are so glad you are going to fest, and thanks for all that you do!

If you are really feeling it, we've also translated some lyrics into Uma' Blame it on the juice = Anũpayã amuktce' unútceh I'm 100% that bitch = Ufe' dék yamma' seyakẽleh

We would be honored to teach you how to say hello (Aletu) and thank you (Yakuke), as your energy and art has helped us all through the struggles of this work.

This year, we are going to hosting a language immersion couch the entire first weekend of @jazzfest. Every day, our team will inviting everyone to sit on the couch with us, ask any questions, and learn how to greet each other in our language.

This work is more than language - its a lifelong effort of a group of passionate Indigenous activists to bring the Houma people together for dialogue and consensus building by using language reclamation as a method for positive cultural participation.

Since 2013, volunteer tribal citizens and linguists of the @houmalanguage have worked to restore the Indigenous Houma language of South LA with projects for community archiving, language reconstruction and community celebration. houmalanguageproject.org/abo…

Aletu @lizzo! (thats hello in the Uma' language) Did you know there are Indigenous communities thriving and celebrating language in South Louisiana? It would mean so much if you could stop by our language immersion booth when you are at @jazzfest 🧵 nojazzfest.com/native-americ…

We helped Louisiana Division of Archaeology with a poster, and now its representing LA in the #SAA2023 national poster competition! saa.org/education-outreach/p… We trust Louisiana Division of Archaeology will recognize the value and work of our partnership with any prize 👀

If you are going to Jazz Fest, come see us! We will be running a language immersion couch the first weekend in the Native American Village nojazzfest.com/native-americ…