A friendly take on language and culture
Hi friends! This is a Native lifestyle empowerment business. Research topics include the Yakama War, women's rights, traditional knowledge, resource management, fishing rights, and food sovereignty.
Welcome!
Wapīititum tł’āax̱w-x̱aaslūma. Kw’ała. Our resources help all-stars inspire conversations to raise families and communities. Sometimes, we wonder how to approach intense topics like the Yakama War. Sharing history and language can be done in a meaningful way. My name is Emily and I cover Language + Lifestyle topics.
Featured collection
Wedding, Wapato & War
Yakama Tribal member and scholar, Emily Washines talks about the intrinsic link between culture and food and heartbreaking consequences when those links to the past are broken. Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at noon at the Yakama Nation Cultural Center. Read the news article by Yakima-Herald Republic. "
"She has tailored each talk to its location. For the Yakama Nation presentation, she was purposeful in connecting the three topics in the title: wedding, wapato and war."
“We have ceremonies, we have stories of working together for the resources and we have times when we didn’t get along,” Emily Washines said.
Language
In order to share our language, we must have ways to showcase it. Imagine more native language conversations that share words between generations. Here are Language Resources to help you.
Poems
Poems help center our souls. It also helps with questions or hopes for myself, family, our community and tribes.
They Sang a Warrior Song for Her, is a poem I wrote as a result of doing so much Yakama War research, including the women that were in the war, and why the war was started, which was violations against Native Women and children. This is about a promise to never forget our history.
Here is a selection of my poems, including the one It's Never Too Late: A Life Story. I read this poem for a talent for both Miss Yakama Nation and Miss National Congress of American Indians, titles I carried from 1999-2000.