At the Euchee Language Project, a partner of Cultural Survival's Endangered Languages Program, second language learners and fluent elder speakers in Sapulpa, Oklahoma are already preparing to resume their fall afterschool programming, after a busy summer of field trips, a well-attended Euchee Knowledge Bowl competition, and daily activities at the Yuchi House, sponsored in part by the Endangered Languages Program.
More than two years had passed since Cultural Survival last visited the Arapaho Language Lodge immersion classrooms in Ethete and Arapahoe, Wyoming, and program manager Jennifer Weston was eager to meet with elder fluent speakers, tribal leaders, educators, and youth on the vast 3.2 million acre reservation in west central Wyoming held in common by the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes.
Cultural Survival’s Endangered Languages Program kicked off June with Makepeace Productions and the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project (WLRP), hosting packed screening and panel discussion of WE STILL LIVE Here: Âs Nutayuneân at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian at the two-day conference, “Language Revitalization in the 21st Century: Going Global, Staying Local,” held at the City University of New York’s Endangered Language Initiative and Auckland University of Technology.
On June 21, 2012 at 3:30pm EST, Cultural Survival's Deputy Executive Director, Mark Camp, will be on CO-OP Radio Vancouver, 102.7 to speak about "Our Voices on the Air: Reaching New Audiences through Indigenous Radio" conference. "Our Voices on the Air" an initiative with the Recovering Voices Initiative at the Smithsonian Institution to facilitate endangered language revitalization by producing a conference on radio programming in Indigenous languages.
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