Learning the Seneca Indian Language
A website introducing visitors to the Seneca Indian language.
by Francisco Delgado
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LearningSeneca is a website that chronicles my ongoing studies of the Seneca language, or Onöndowa’ga:’ Gawë:no׳. It began with my desire to learn the Seneca language, my Indigenous language from my mother’s side, beyond the couple of phrases I had picked up. The project was proposed as a way to teach conversational Seneca to individuals, both on and off Seneca reservations in western New York.
About this Fellow
Francisco Delgado is Chamorro and a member of the Tonawanda Band of Seneca (Wolf Clan). He works as an Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), where he teaches introductory courses on writing, literary analysis, and upper-division courses on American literature and Native American/Indigenous literatures. His scholarship can be found in The CEA Critic, Teaching American Literature: Theory and Practice, American Studies, and elsewhere.
Hero image: The Hiawatha Belt. The shapes correspond to the five original nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. They are, from left to right: the Seneca, the Cayuga, the Onondaga, the Oneida, and the Mohawk. Courtesy of Kristen Delgado.
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