Omaha Basic vs Hoit'e Woiperes

Omaha Nation Public Schools (UNPS), the Omaha Language Cultural Center (ULCC) & Title VII Department are resources to our children, schools and community. We promote the daily use of spoken Omaha language and participation in our Omaha culture. Omaha Nation Public Schools asked Thornton Media, Inc. to help publish this free app. We hope this app will help the public to appreciate and learn about the culture and language of the Omaha people. Thank you!

Hoit'e Woiperes, which translates to “Knower of the Language” in Hoocąk, is an online language learning portal devoted entirely to the Hoocąk language. Hoit'e Woiperes provides Hoocąk speaking and learning communities with a powerful tool for revitalizing and learning the Hoocąk language. Hoit'e Woiperes was envisioned as a way for all interested Hoocąk learners to learn the vocabulary and fundamental sentence construction as an important supplement to conventional language education. Based on leading online language learning practices, Hoit'e Woiperes gives learners the power to bring language learning anywhere they go. At its core, Hoit'e Woiperes reshapes the possibilities for indigenous language learning and revitalization. By pairing the historic Hoocąk language with the most current, effective, adaptive, and accessible learning technologies available, Hoit'e Woiperes will give thousands of Hoocąk a way to learn their ancestral language. Hoit'e Woiperes offers interactive learning units that incorporate reading, writing, and eventually speaking systems; and standard achievement tracking, gamification, and rewards. Hoit'e Woiperes not only helps individual users improve their language skills, it brings the language to life in daily lessons, builds community language capacity, and shows that Hoocąk can be learned with regular practice and use.