Dude, I thought it was called a schwing!
Posted on 12/11/2022 3:03:52 AM PST by fluorescence
Vancouver’s Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary School has a new name. It’s now called wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm, which in English means “the sun rising over the horizon.”
The name is written in the Musqueam language hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, which uses the North American phonetic alphabet instead of the Latin alphabet used for English.
It was selected in collaboration with the Musqueam language and culture department in recognition of Vancouver’s Hastings Sunrise neighbourhood where the school is located, according to a news release Friday from the Vancouver school board.
As for the pronunciation of the new school name, the Musqueam Nation prefers not to provide an English pronunciation guide, and asks people to listen to it instead. People can listen to Musqeuam elder Larry Grant pronounce wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm on YouTube.
A shortened version of the name, wək̓ʷan̓əs Elementary, is grammatically correct and considered a respectful interpretation, according to school board. That word translates to “sun rising.”
The board and Musqueam nation held a renaming ceremony Friday for the school, at 3150 Kitchener St. in Vancouver. They also celebrated the completion of the new seismically safe school.
As part of the province’s seismic mitigation program, B.C. spent $22.4 million to replace the school. The original school was constructed 100 years ago.
“Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ is the language our ancestors spoke for thousands of years, which was systematically taken from us to the point that there are no longer any fluent hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speakers in Musqueam,” said Chief yəχʷyaχʷələq (Wayne Sparrow) in a statement provided from the school board. Article content
“Being asked to share our language with partners, and provide hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ names to replace names associated with colonization, is an important step toward rights recognition, reconciliation and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ revitalization. Musqueam looks forward to continuing to strengthen our relationship with VSB and schools throughout our territory,” he added.
Board superintendent Helen McGregor said asking Musqueam to give the school a hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ name is one way for the school district to show its commitment to reconciliation.
“It increases the knowledge, awareness, appreciation of and respect for Musqueam history, language, tradition, culture and contributions,” she said.
The MLA for Vancouver—Hastings, Niki Sharma, said the collaboration between the Musqueam and the school district’s Indigenous education department on selecting the new name is an important example of reconciliation in schools.
“I’m looking forward to seeing how the new facility and name will support families and shape the wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm school community in the years to come,” said Sharma, in a statement.
According to the board, the new, seismically safe school was built with Canadian mass timber, a new type of engineered wood that reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Begbie was B.C.’s first chief justice and a controversial figure known as the hanging judge after Tsilhqot’in chiefs, who thought they were attending peace negotiations, were seized and put on trial for murder in the 1800s.
During the Chilcotin War of 1864, several members of the Tsilhqot’in Nation killed workers constructing a road through their territory, according to the B.C. government. The attack and several other small skirmishes between this group and settlers in the area resulted in the deaths of 21 people. Article content
A colonial militia was formed and, soon after, several Tsilhqot’in members agreed to come to the militia camp for peace talks, according to the B.C. government. Instead, the peace party was seized and put on trial for murder. The trial was presided over by Begbie, who sentenced them to hang.
A sixth chief was later captured and hanged in New Westminster.
In 2014, premier Christy Clark apologized to the Tsilhqot’in people. In 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exonerated the chiefs and offered an apology to six of the current Tsilhqot’in Chiefs on the floor of the House of Commons.
Please see 18 above. This is not some random one-off. This is part of a global “divide and conquer” strategy.
So-called native or indigenous kids will be brainwashed to hate their “colonial oppressor tongue.”
Schools will be forced to teach entire new local alphabets.
It’s a “Tower of Babel” by design.
I would have thought those were a set of symbols identifying newly discovered genders.
Please see 18. It’s a deliberate, global push.
Whether it takes hold is another question, but it is a strategy.
I can’t find the upside down e on my phone. How do I text someone to meet me at the school?
As soon as I don’t use the upside down e, they’ll say I’m showing disrespect.
Should have changed the name to Åǿȼ""œ†£♥•Üß&/ê(! School.
Principal d'Q%z-h&!*ää-h$, is a 250-lbs. ex-Marine whose pronouns are z§e and h´#`r. And with tattoos out the wazoo.
Regards,
> This is a deliberate attempt at a divide and conquer strategy. <
That’s certainty a component in all this. But I think cowardice plays a part too.
By that I mean folks in power are afraid to speak up against woke ideas for fear of being called a racist. So maybe one nut on a school board wants to rename a school. Everyone else on the board thinks it’s a crazy idea. But everyone votes for the renaming anyway, to avoid being called a racist.
Cowardice.
I would claim that I was actually of Etruscan descent.
Regards,
ЯÅȼ阮!
Regards,
It's called a schwa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa
Regards,
So I should just speak Celtic half the time, Norwegian 25% of the time, and English 25% of the time.
˙,,ǝ,, uʍop ǝpᴉsdn uɐ ʇǝƃ oʇ ʎɐʍ ɐ sᴉ ǝɹǝɥ┴
/ɯoɔ˙ʇxǝʇuʍopǝpᴉsdn˙ʍʍʍ//:sdʇʇɥ
Looks like Uranus to me.
Better listen to youtube then
Dude, I thought it was called a schwing!
Perhaps it’s time to go to war against their tribe to eliminate the language, once and for all.
A modern Tower of Babel.
Sounds like Klingon to me.
I doubt it’s satire. This is what the lefties in our gov’t did for our Squaw Butte in my little town:
“The name change includes 71 geographic features in Idaho, and 650 across America. One of the changes is “Squaw Butte” in Emmet, which is being renamed to Sehewoki’l Newenee’an Katete. A nearby creek is becoming Chief Eagle Eye Creek.”
No one is going to use that name.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
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