akuɛnkʹ nɛp namitk ntɛuʹ giriuyat xiʹiὺyat kjuɛnt ruʹ ganuʹbat (I’m Going to Tell You About What Happened to Me Yesterday: Four Pames Share About Their Days). The 447-page book is a collection of journal entries chronicling daily life from the different perspectives of several members of the community.
Pame is an Oto-Pamean language spoken in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. There are three variants of the language—Southern Pame is now considered extinct, but a combined total of about eight thousand people continue to speak Central Pame and Northern Pame. The authors who contributed to this new book are speakers of Northern Pame.
The idea for the book began in 2009 as Pame linguist and translator Félix Baltazar Hernández and SIL linguist Scott Berthiaume* discussed ide
When Jeffersonian Americans sought "cultural independence" they meant that they wanted the freedom and "space" to live life the way they wished, without having to conform to the norms and customs of immigrant and other groups.
