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Words for the City + The History of the City of Saint Paul · At the Learning of Irish

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: The Adib Acharja Is Fata in Law Olach may live.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: That might seem strange for me to say that it's been a long time since we spoke because I've been coming out with new episodes every week.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: But to this point, every episode you've heard I recorded while I was living in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I had set the episodes to auto-release every week while I was moving and completing training in my new job, which I've done.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: So Alnish Tame Imakhoni Imalge Niv Paul.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm in my new home here in the city of St.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: Paul, Minnesota, and I'm gonna tell you about it in Irish, and we're gonna learn some new city words while we do it.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty sure that I have been promising to go over the copula for a lot of episodes now, and I have started writing it, and I swear I'll get to it uh maybe next time.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: But at any so V May Mahoni I draw Virginia Ach will sit around drauntalm What do you recognize from that sentence?
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: I know we haven't gone over on Amshaka the past tense, which uh the V May is coming from, but certainly you'll recognise Imoholni.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I was living in Virginia Beach place that is situated on the beautiful beach there, and Shinfir, the beach is beautiful in Virginia Beach, so much that we named our whole city after it.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: Fourme postnua buyachas legia, I guess vogme um Virginia Gedi Minnesota.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Again, Geb Malesh Gail, there's more Am Shakacha on in there.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: But I got a new job, thanks be to God, because I'm telling you the job market is not easy right now in the United States, and it's taking people a long time to find employment.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I moved from Virginia to Minnesota unish Tomei Mohone Emol Niv Polisota Ta Bolya Niv Pol In Akaya Le Minneapolis So again Tomi we recognise that Sitcha situated Galanta it's beautiful Bolya its town and Priv is a compound word meaning capital city and Acul is near.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: So now I am living in the city of Saint Paul.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: Saint Paul is the capital of Minnesota, and the city of Saint Paul is very close to Minneapolis.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's why we call this area the Twin Cities because it's two major cities very close to each other, and a lot of suburbs surrounding them.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: Cain size on a chiensa atoll anshaw What kind of amusements are here?
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: We have Kyo Harden, it is a feminine noun meaning concert.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: Irsmalong is also feminine, it means museum, and just a notab, a little note that if a noun ends in L A N, that denotes a place and it is always feminine, as far as I know, always feminine.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Similarly we have Don Long Feminine because it does end in L A N N, and that's an art gallery.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: On the show, we have Onad Culture Cultural Centers.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: And you'll find many cultural centers in Saint Paul belonging to or founded by various waves of immigrants that have come to the city.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: So we have cultural centers and skullna changa, which is plural for language schools, for on Yermanish, German, Untulanish, Swedish, Unspalnish Spanish, Unrilga in a place called Celtic Junction, and Enronkish in Minneapolis there, as well as tons of cultural centers for other peoples who live in the city, like Hmong people and Somali people.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: Here, because the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers converge in the Twin Cities, we have a lot of Kol Shli Tev Nahawan, Mississippi.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: Kol Shli Feminine for footpath.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: What other things are in a city?
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: Any city many cities we have Shl Feminine Street We have Bolher Masculine which is road related to bull, which is cow we have bunk masculine a bank.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: There are many shots choppa masculine Kianter District or neighborhood it is masculine.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: We have a lot of Lauerlina.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: Lialin is feminine, remember the L A N and it means library in Mol Ta Laurlina in Kianter.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: So here in Saint Paul there are libraries in almost every neighborhood.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: Here we have an Arglish, a cathedral to Saint Paul.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: It is one of our city's defining buildings.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: Ta Artaglish Er on Gnok Cathedral of Saint Paul Antanum Ata Erhi Zahenter Sho Tati Morahom The Cathedral is Er On Gnok.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: From Knok Hill, it's on the hill.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Cathedral of Saint Paul Antanum Ata Erhi It's the name that is on her, the cathedral, which is feminine.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: Sechanter show in this remember Kiantar neighborhood district tall tiha moor koma and tiha is plural for houses.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: We remember from the adjective episode that adjectives have to match their nouns, and since tiha is plural, we're gonna add an A to Moor.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: There are big houses also Koma as well.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: We also have a fair number of bridges.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Bridge is Drochid Masculine Ta Drochid Moor Belanta Ansho Smith Avenue Bridge Nu High Bridge Drochid Ard Ta Oork Braguin Norota Mwij Agor on Drochid So there is a beautiful view from the Smith Avenue Bridge overlooking downtown Saint Paul is Fager Lin Lorne Kar So we can see Lorne Kar, the centre of the city Tave here theun, Mississippi beside the Mississippi River Paul Fibonacci from Fib Feminine Problem so there are problems just like you would find in many big cities Le Drogi masculine plural for drugs I guess curminine for crime but on Quidges Mudanam most of the time most of us are just fine.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: But I will say Ta and Gevra on Ur Winter is really, really cold here Dagnaw.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's it for the Guelga portion of this episode.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: But in talking about my city, I'd like to talk about the history of my city.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: But it's gonna be Asperla in English, so if you have no interest to hear the history of the city of St.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Paul in English, feel free to Lonari, carry on, and we'll catch you in the next episode.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: But if you do, here we go.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul has been home to successive waves of immigration for over 200 years, one of the first of which were Irish immigrants from Connemara, who settled along the river in a place they called Connemara Patch.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: They were joined by German, French, Swedish, Polish, Italian, and Mexican peoples.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Today, we welcome Somali, Hmong, and Ethiopian people, among many others.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: The metro area in Minnesota, comprising our fair capital and Minneapolis, as well as many suburbs, holds inside its embrace nearly four million souls, and we are, no matter what one may have heard, happy to be here with our neighbors, whatever their tongue or background.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: We weren't the first.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: Before European and then worldwide colonization, indigenous people lived and still live here.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: There is evidence of habitation from two thousand years ago.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: Eventually the Dakota people relocated here, moving down from their home in Malachs, which of course would not have been called Malax at the time.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: Here, the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers is the sacred birthplace of their people, so the tales go.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: Pregnant women would wade into the holy waters to give birth, according to scholar Dr.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: Anton Troyer.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: This place they called Bodote.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: It was later turned into their prison.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: Fort Snelling was built on this island as a strategic military outpost.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: Over the course of one harsh winter, Dakota people were imprisoned here without adequate food, shelter, or care.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: Many died as a direct result.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: Over the years of European incursion, many more died.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: Disease sometimes, but famine and violence most times.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: People were forced off their lands, often into strange new places.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: The Trail of Tears was a death march of sixty thousand people from their ancestral lands in the southeast to a territory in the west.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: Thousands died.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: It was a genocide.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: Later, children were forced into state schools, taken from their families, these schools were often run by the church.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: The children were stripped of their language and culture, on threat and delivery of punishment.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: To save the man, kill the Indian, it was often said.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: What happened, aside from attempted cultural erasure, was murder and sexual abuse.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: There are infants buried in our sewers too.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Land stolen, language stolen, ancestral ways stolen, and today on this sacred site is a state park that we all may visit, while many indigenous people sleep on the streets.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: This happened, happens all over the United States, as well as Canada.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: America is a land of immigrants.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: We would do well to remember it and welcome our new neighbors while remembering who was here first and making right the wrongs of the past.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: I would urge any American, Canadian, or Australian listener to locate and donate to an Indigenous charity or group of their choosing regularly as a way to pay reparations.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: I've included some interesting links in the show notes.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: One channel which I have really enjoyed is the aforementioned Dr.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: Anton Troyer, uh, who lives in Bemidji, Minnesota, who has a um YouTube channel that teaches the Ojibwe language called Ojibwe Word of the Day.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: And he also releases a lot of videos based on topics that are interesting and pertinent to the world of today.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: I find his topics very interesting, very informative, uh also of interest, he himself is the child of a um indigenous woman in Minnesota, but also his father uh fled the Holocaust in Europe.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: So he has a really interesting perspective.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um I've loved his stuff, I would recommend him.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: And uh well, Shanay.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think I said what I intended to say.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I will see y'all all next time.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we'll talk about the copula finally, or maybe I'll find some other tangent to go off of.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: But every knows, have a great day, and I will see you next time.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: Bye bye.