Dine Adoonee for Android APK

Description

Clans are one of the most important things in Dine culture. Clans establish who you are as a Dine person and is the foundation of kinship between Dine people. Knowing your clans and how to express kinship to one other is an essential part of the Dine identity. Many times when speaking to people, you are expected to say your clans first so that they know who you are and how you are related. Learning who you are related to can help you connect with each other and is a way to incorporate Dine values back into the lives of contemporary Dine people. It is useful and important for Dine people to know how they are related to one another and to know what to call each other.

Dine Bizaad is not practiced as much these days, therefore younger Dine people (like me) typically have trouble understanding how they are related when hearing the clans of another person. While they know their clans, they do not know how their clans relate to other people's clans. I created this app to address that issue. This app tells you how you are related and tells you how to express kinship to another Dine person. This app was created as a technological tool to help revitalize and practice clan kinship for the Dine people. In this way, I am indigenizing technology and hope that this aspect of our culture is strengthened, valued and practiced more among the younger generations of Dine.

Here is how it works:

-Input your clans

-Input another persons clans

-Scroll through how you are related and see what to call each other based on both of your clans.

Cool huh?:)

Its also a nice way of checking if you are related to your significant other, so you can tell Masani when she asks. You know shes going to

Created by Corey Ashley, Oliver Bear Dont Walk IV, and Gracie Young