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maya lopez is more than an echo (ashtawawidiwin) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2017-11-24 07:13:00

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!network post, bruce banner / hulk (mcu), maya lopez / echo (616), violet parr

Good morning!

Funny to think this hotel room is bigger than the entire house where we lived when we weren't in the city when I was a child. It's even got more furniture.

Maggie says hello too.

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	bannerbgood 2017-11-26 05:19 am UTC (link)
	How did you end up studying without teachers? You're obviously well educated. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-11-26 05:36 am UTC (link)
	I am now. My father and the old Chief used to tell me stories. Some lipreading in English, some lipreading in Cheyenne, a lot of Plains Indian sign language. I went to school when I was eleven and had tutors and translators to get me caught up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bannerbgood 2017-11-28 02:37 am UTC (link)
	So your people had their own version of sign language? Was it very different from ASL? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-11-28 03:54 am UTC (link)
	Completely different. It was in use before white people ever came here so any commonalities between signs are most of the similarities are from people coincidentally picking the same way to represent an action or object. There's supposed to still be a concentration of speakers in Navajo and Blackfoot territory but otherwise there's not that many left. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bannerbgood 2017-11-28 03:55 am UTC (link)
	Fascinating. It's good you can carry on it's meaning. What language do you use now when you communicate? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-11-28 03:58 am UTC (link)
	Usually English. ASL when people know it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bannerbgood 2017-11-28 03:59 am UTC (link)
	You don't have a way to practice your native tongue and signs? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-11-28 04:07 am UTC (link)
	Back home I occasionally go back to the rez. Chief died a couple of years ago but there are some other Cheyenne around. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bannerbgood 2017-11-28 04:19 am UTC (link)
	It's good you can do that. I'm sorry to hear that about your Chief. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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