Cynthia Owens reviewed flashcards with her kindergarten class. She held up an image of a crocodile. Caiman, she said, using the word for crocodile spoken by Indigenous tribes in the region. Caiman, her nine students repeated. Then: Crocodile, she said, using the French term.
A lot of our words are attached to this place, said Patty Ferguson-Bonhee, a Pointe-au-Chien tribe member, the community's legal counsel and director of the Indian legal clinic at Arizona State University.
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